The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-03
THE WEEK PAST.

THE WEEK PAST.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER says there
Is no doubt that the German government
spreads abroad reports unfavorable to
America, with view to stopping emf
I grafton.
"TKRRIBLE az an army with bananas
is the way the New York Tribune's
Philadelphia correspondent puts it, writ
ing of the guide book sellers, peanut, ap-
pie, orange, banana, black-your-boots
and patent hot-sausage men and boys
which infest all the approaches to the
exhibition ground.
THE Brooklyn Argus likes Dom Pedro.
"Aside from the honor due to him as the
most liberal and enlightened monarch OF
his times, he will always be remembered
As the first foreign potentate visiting
these shores who gave the American peo-
: pie q severe but needed lesson in the
noble art of how not to make asses of
themselves.
A FIGURE in basalt of the goddess
Thoueris has just been added to the col
lection of Egyptian antiquities in the
Boulak museum. 1t has the head and
body of hippopotamus, with the paws
of heness, which rest upon the key of
life, the symbol of the victory of good
over evil. The stature is thirty-nine
inches in height, and for its perfect
finish, and as a monument to the pa
thence of the sculptor, has been pro-
s nounced worthy place by the side of
the unique figures of Osiris, Isis and
Hathor.
ACCORDING to New York correspond
emit, Fifth avenue is passing the way Of
other glories of the earth. All the
churches below Twenty-.hird street are
/, suffering BY the removal of families and
the introduction of trade. The grand
residences are clearinghouse, milliners,
dresmakers, painters, restaurants and
drinking places are breaking out like an
eruption. Candy stores, fashionable res
tazrants and family hotels have already
gone mp beyond DR.. Springs church on
Thirty-seventh street. A few years ago
leading merchant bought magnificent
residence 80 far up town that people
wondered that he didn't go up to Har-
lem. Yet that magnificent residence has
just been turned into hotel.
AVN horo rov.ou he Lei
woman in Paris-Cora Pearl-old, faded,
haggard-looking, faultlessly. dressed in
quiet toilet of silyer-gray foulard, with
her dyed yellow hair pulled low on her
forehead, rs though to shade her hollow
eyes. Last year she used to drive out in
a landau drawn by two magnificent
horses that stunning equipage has been
replaced by plain victoria, with one or
binary looking steed. She is on the
downward track, that il very evident.
She is said to be over head and ears in
debt, her hotel on the Rue de Chailot is
mortgaged for its full value, and some
day At no very distant period there will
be = sale at the hotel Dronot, and then q
final disappearance Of this detestable,
vicisos creature.-Lucy Hooper.
THE centennial collection of revolu-
tionary relics has Just been enriched BY
tho addition to its treasures of the actual
miniature nortrait of Washington worn
by his wife up to the time of her death.
ne medallion is an oval, about eixht
inches in circumference, faithfully
painted and plainly mounted in heavy
gold. Tie face bears q striking resem-
blance to Stuart's portraits of Washing-
ton. The reverse of the miniature con-
taina,a liberal lock of hair LIGHT Known.
freely sprinkled with gray, taken from
the head of j" the father of his countrvn
The portrait was evidently taken while
washington sccupied the presidential
chair. On the death of LADY Washing
tou. this medallion. by request. went to
Nm Tob;.s lear. her niece. whose bu.-
h.rd nc. w.,b;nsto,,a f.vor;t. rr;v.te
secret.rv n il now owned NV Mu
william Eyre. of Nevnort Rhode
Island, formerly of philadelphia. who ia
a granddaughter of Mrs. Lear.
A PAPL.kMENTARY return of the
religious persuasions of the royal navy,
and aIso of the royal marines" states
that of the seamen, twenty-five thousand
eight hundred and sixteen belong to the
church of England, one thousand one