The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08
VARIOUS TOPICS.

..The lower house OF the CallfOrnl,
legislature has followed up its repeal o
the compulsory educational law b.
voting to annul the act making womei
eligible to the Office of SCHOOL super in
| tendent.
| Again has the art of photographins
colors been discovered, and this time, i
is affirmed, successfully. Aphotograph
err in Lyons, France, is the fortunate
discoverer, and if he can make his per
Torrance equal his promise, his fortune
is made and his fame assured.
Whatever else may be said of Susar
B. Anthony, she has exhibited one virtue
in which many of her masculine de
tractors are deficient. She has applied
the ten thousand dollars which she made
in lecturing to the payment of her debts
incurred by the bankruptcy of her paper,
the Revolution. .s
london gossip says that the idea Of
making Queen Victoria Empress OF
India originated with Princess Beatrice,
who wants to be, like her Russian sister
in-law, cher royal and imperial high
ness" 1t is said that this would settle
troublesome questions of precedence in
favor of the English side of the amiable
family. i.-f
:. Lake Ponchartrain, below New
Orleans, is fast filling up by deposits
from the waters of the Mississippi, both
from crevasses, which often let the
waters across to the lake, and from set
Elements by the eddying of the waters as
they flow round from the gulf The
annual filling up of the lake is about five
inches.
Russia has only eighteen thousand
miles of railroad, and proposes to add
thereto by constructing several long
lines, among them one to span tine
empire from east to west, connecting
European Russia with the Pacific by the
way of Central Siberia. This will largely
increase the demand for American loco
motives.
General Merritt has been inter-
viewed in regard to the Black Hills and
thinks they are a stupendous humbpg.
Parties gsing there now, ne says, can
not mine, for months, even if they, are
fortunate to subsist. The snow is deep.
on the ground, the streams are all frozen,
hard, and the only running water at.
present is upon the superficial surface of
the ice. and it won't break till July.
Iowa, too, is a stumbling block in.
the pathway of woman's progress.
Judge Mitchell, of the circuit court in
that state, has decided that women are
ineligible to hold the Office of school
or any other Office in
that state. There are at the present
time twelve or fifteen women holding
this Office of school superintendent in
that state, they having been elected to it
under. the opinion of Attorney General
O'Connor, given several years ago, that
women were eligible to the place.
-. Mineral wool is one; of. the latest
things in manufactures. 1t is produced
from the Stag or refuse which runs from
the furnace where iron ore is melted by
injecting through the stream of heated
slag a powerful current or steam which 4
blows the wool in a fine fleece into the
air. The wool is chemically composed
Of silica. lime, magnesia and alumina,
is entirely incombustible and unaffected
by moisture or dampness. The only
place where it is made, as yet, is at the
iron works, on the Erie rail-
way, and as the demand is very small,
arge quantities are thrown away. 1t is
old for about two cents a pound, that |
quantity measuring about nine inches
'quare by one inch in thickness. I
;. The goods shipped from foreign
countries for exhibition at the Centen-
Nal exposition are arriving rapidly, the |
Attest arrivals comprising five hundred
md two packages from Germany and
,ighty-seven from the Cape of Good
Hope. Among the German goods are
many paintings, principally from Dus-
eldorf, also rare collection of show
.ases, pencils, pens, and stationers' ma
erials from the house of A. w. Faber,
,ear Nurnberg, Bavaria, and glassware,
toys, chemicals, beer, to-
,acco, hardware, and earthenware in an
infinite variety. In the Cape Colony
collection are ostrich feathers, antlers,
WOOL, leopards' and lions skins, and
peciniens of the agricultural and min
raj products of the land. The steamer
leipzig, from Bremen, is expected
hortly with another large consignment
# Centennial goods. /