The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-05-13
THE WEEK PAST.

THE WEEK PAST.
IT is becoming more and more evident,
the New York World tells us, that who.
ever carries the presidential election in
November must carry the state of New
York. 1t is this which gives Tilden his
great prominence as a candidate in the
democratic party, and which will prob
ably give him the nomination.
A FIRM of bell-founders in Baltimore
is going to exhibit in Philadelphia this
summer chime of thirteen bells, which
will be placed in the northeastern tower
of machinery hall, seventy-eight feet
from the ground. The bells are fash
toned to represent the original thirteen
states; the largest weighs $500 pounds
and the smallest $50 pounds, and the
thirteen together 2l,0Oo pounds. Pro-
fessor widows, a musician of Baltimore,
has been engaged to ring the chimes at
Philadelphia daily at sunrise, noon and
sunset, as long as the exhibition con-
tinues open.
ONE of the finest churches in the world
is that which they are not going to build
in Cuba. A lady of that ever-faithful
isle made a will not long ago in which
she directed that $4,000 of her money
should be invested in lottery tickets, and
that 4 magnificent church should be
built with the proceeds. The money
was invested accordingly, butt as she
might have known. if building materials
for churches had been selling at fifteen
cents per church the prizes drawn
wouldn't have bought the shadow of
% single. There are immense fortunes
I'm lottery tickets-for the men who sell
them.
Mr.. THOMAS CARLYLE has been heard
from on the subject of vivisection. He
says that ever since he was n boy, when
he read the accounts Of Majendie's atroc-
tiles, he has never thought of the prac-
tice of vivisecting animals but with
horror. He believes the report about the
good results said to be obtained from the |
practice of vivisection to be immensely |
exaggerated. Even supposing the good
results to be much greater than Mr.. Car !
lyle believes they are, and apart too from
the shocking pain inflicted on helpless |
animals, he would still think the prac-
tice SO brutalizing to the operator that he |
would earnestly wish the law on the
subject to be altered SO as to make vivi-
section, when practiced by private indi-
viduals, an indictable ofense. Bergh
believes substantially the same.
THAT mysterious relation which is
said to exist between an amputated
limb and its parent body receives fresh
illustration in the case of young Palmer,
of Connecticut, who suffered the loss of
a leg recently. After the operation the
removed member was deposited in a box
and buried by direction of the family.
The patient complained severity of pain
and sense of cramping in the lost foot,
and suffered so acutely that at the sug-
gestion of some one the box was taken
up and examined. 1t was found that
the box was too short for the limb, and
that the foot and toes were twisted into
strained and unnatural position. A
larger case was prepared and the men,
Der placed in it in an easy position and
reburied, since which time the patient
has rested quiet.
The number of plans for completing i,
the Washington monument has been in !,
creased by plan suggested by Mr..
Robert c. Winthrop, president of the
association. The design Ia to g
abandon that part of the original plan
which calls for a temple or pantheon, 6
and to erect a simple shaft three hundred
feet high. The purpose of surrendering i
the charter or allowing the monument
TO remain unfinished or to be taken
down, is to be abandoned, and subscrip- +
time until the monument is completed. S
The association has approved the plan, O
and the centennial grounds will proba- b
bly, be ornamented with boxes similar to
those which greet the visitor to the !;
patent Office and other public buildings i
in Washington. a
Nor long ago a little son of J. G.
Philpot, who resides four miles west of q
Lebanon, Tenn, went to the barn to v
Iced one of his mules. When he entered v
The stable the usually docile animal i,
rushed at him and seized him, crushing
his arm between his iron jaws. With /
great difficulty the terrified youth made a
his escape from the internal brute e
When the mule found that his intended g
victim had escaped, he became frantic,
and began breaking down the stalls next {
MS own, using mouth and heels until v
he succeeded in making his way cut of h
The stable. When he found himself at a
liberty he trotted off about twenty yards o
when suddenly wheeling he dashed full v
Tilt at the barn, striking it with tremen- F
dous force. He then commenced tear O.
ing the flesh from his body, and did not A
desist until he became so weak that he
could not lsnger stand. He suffered for 4
hours, and finally died in great agony. &c
This is perhaps the first mule suicide ~
Upon record.
Some months ago an account of a
brilliant wedding in Brazil was printed o
n journal in this country and widely !"
copied. 1t was apparentlv a verac;ous