The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22

meeting at South San Francisco, on,
speaker said an organization existed il
the city 10000 strong, and pledged, i
the present attempt to remedy the
Chinese evil by legal means failed, to
take the law into their own hands and
root out the evil with fire and steel. The
legislature has adopted a bill authorizing
committee to represent the matter to
congress.
BURGLARY is no longer an art which re-
quires darkness for its successful prac-
tice. A firm of six burglars entered a
iewelry store in New York Wednesday,
in broad daylight, and after knocking the
proprietor senseless and tying and gag
ging him proceeded to pack up the stock
in bags and escaped without attracting
any attention. By the time the alarm
was given the burglars were beyond the
reach of such pursuit as the New York
police is likely to institute.
In Boston they have this plan of aid
ing the poor: A man goes through one
or more streets and informs the house.
keepers that there will be a collection of
bread two days hence. On the day ap-
pointed q wagon is sent over the route,
and the collections are usually over two
hundred loaves. The next day there is a
collection in another street, and so on
during the week. The bread is taken to
the police stations, where a daily distri-
button is made.
The necessities which cabinet minis
tiers and their families are under of dress
ing so as to suitably impress the repre-
sentatives of the old world can be better
appreciated when it is stated that the |
children of Baron de Lesseps, of Suez |
canal fame, go about the streets bare
footed. The mother doesn't half like it,
but the baron does and boasts that the
youngsters are never ill. Yet the baron
could buy half dozen cabinet ministers
unless they rated themselves higher than
Belknap.
DR. HENRY NJ. FIELD, of New York,
who writes, at the latest advices, from
India, is of the opinion that the exuber-
ant hospitality shown to the Prince of
Wales by the native Indian rulers is no
indication either of an increase of their
loyalty or of relaxation of their preju-
dice against Christianity. He observes
cry pertinently that these same rajahs
Tho have built palaces wherein to re-
Give the prince, and have spread before
i'm sumptuous banquets, "still do not
themselves sit down at the table; they
ill not eat even with their royal guest,
nd count his touch OF food, and even
is shadow falling upon it, pollution.'
ACCORDING to letters from an Ameri-
n who is travelling in China, the masses .
the people of that country are very
,or. The average wages Of mechanics
ID common laborers are from ten to r
'enty cents day, but. skilled Chinese
echanics are paid by foreigners from 3
enty-five to seventy five cents a day. q
lie cost of living to the poor Chinese s
es not average more than six cents a !
y; even a wealthy Chinaman does not
pend more than five or six dollars a +.
nth for food. He is more fond of =
arding his wealth than of spending it.
.nere is great deal of restitution, suf-
fering, begging, and crime among the !;
masses. r
RECENT attempts at forgery by the
alteration Of the dates and amounts of e
written checks and drafts have resulted a
in investigation as to how erased writ Il
ing may be rendered visible Various c.
processes, more or less efica-
cious, have been suggested, but the b
simplest process yet devised, says the W
Scientific American, is the photograph al
ing of the suspected paper. This is u
on the fact that feebly colored
substances, while very slightly affecting as
The eye, act powerfully upon the SEN m
.itive film in the camera. 1t is only /.
necessary, therefore, to photograph the N
paper to bring out in the dl
proof the effaced writing in an entirely d,
egible condition. q
The monster 81-ton gun, which is be-
ng enlarged from 144 inch diameter to /.
I6 inches, half an inch at time, has :.
with favorable results at the -
l5-inch diameter. The problem the COM +.
nittee has to answer was submitted by =
he British admiralty, in 1873, namely, n,
@ make gun which can penetrate 20 =,
inches of solid iron, strongly backed, at a =,
distance of 1000 yards. Mai. Noble, ~
he great arsenal authority, has calcu- :,
ated that this gun, when widened TO a :.
6-inch bore, will throw a shot of 1 800 -
'Ounds with such velocity as to pene- "
rate, at 900 yards range, an iron-clad ~,
hip protected with .27 inches of solid @.
rmor.
AMONG the remarkable contributions tr
o the Centennial exhibition are couple es
# volumes of Bowditch's Navigator in ce
he japanese language, sent by the Rev. ne
DR.. Damon, of Honolulu, Sandwich
Stands. The work is one of twenty SCI
ears ago. The translation was made BY
young Japanese, who was blown off yo
o sea in 1889 in a fishing junk and ST.
wrecked on an uninhabited island, from yo
which he was rescued by Capt. Whitfield, d
II the American ship John Rowland,
md brought to the United States, where H
he received an ordinary education of a m
New Bedford boy, giving especial attcn-
ion to navigation. As the time of the dr.
California gold excitement young Mung be
lrifted out with the argonauts, but be- er
anne disguised and sailed for the Ha- W
vaiian Islands. He was sent back to his
wn country by way of the Leo Choo Ie
stands, and being kept in sort of hon. yc
rable confinement for over two years by
he government, busted himself with the CO
,rn III a hIo task of trapaIot;n,x po-J:..I,