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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22

that blind race could soon be formed,
crib-biting, jibbing, and ill-temper-arc
all plainly hereditary Youatt sums
up by saying that there is scarcely a
malady to which the horse is subject
that is not hereditary" and Mr.. Hugard
adds that the doctrine "that there
is scarcely disease that does not run
in the stock" is gaining new advocates
every day. may add to these facts,
established by such weight of concur
rent testimony, which | have before
remarked in general, namely, that it is
not the actual ailments, such as con-
tracted feet, ring bones, curbs, splints,
and spavins, but the predisposing causes
that are transmitted. The disposition
of parts, the imperfect shape and size
or the faulty texture of any tendon,
bone or muscle most favorable to a
particular disease, are transmitted from
father to son. The same may be said
of those disorders that affect the inter
nal organs of the whole body. The
abnormal condition of the blood, and
not the scrofulous symptoms it pro-
duces, is hereditary The weakness in
some of the muscles of the larynx that
causes roaring, has a hereditary ten
dency. The narrow loins and fiat
sides that give proneness to at
tacks of diarrhea and colo, belongs
to a certain lineage. This constant
tendency of morbid condition or defec-
tive organs to reappear in the line,
shows how important it is that horses
selected for breeding should be sound
in wind, limb, and condition.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22
Boston Cooking School.

The Boston cooking school is a CAPT
tai affair. 1t is under the management
of a company of ladies who hire the
rooms and see that the cook teacher is
competent. Then lessons of two hours
each are given to classes of two, three
and four, or to single pupil, as the
learners prefer. The terms are SIS for
ten lessons. The pupils do the cooking
themselves under the direction of the
teacher, and may, if they like. eat what
they cook. Many of the classes are
composed of middle-aged ladies who
are excellent housekeepers, but go to
the cooking school to learn to make
certain delicious or ornamental dishes,
in which the teacher excels. The
school has no publicity, and its classes
are formed and waiting long before
they have an opportunity to go. The
results are excellent, and every city
would find such school would be well
supported.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22

ScHENcK's PuLMoNIc SYRUP, SEA WEED Toxic,
AND MANDRAKE PILLs.-These deservetlly cele-
brated and popular medicines have effected a revo-
luton in the healing art, and proved the faacy of
several maxinls which have for many years OBJ
structed the progress of medical science The false
supposition that Consumption is incurabie" de-
TERED phi sicans from attempting TO find remedies
for that disease and patients afflicted with
ciled themselves to death without making effort
to escape from a doom which they supposed to he
unavoidable. 1t is now proved however, that Con-
sumption can be cured and that it has been cured in
very great number of cases tsome of them
desperate ones) by Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup
alone; and i'm other cases by the medicine in
connection with Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic and
Mandrake Pills, both, according to the re-
qurements of the case.
DIR. Schenck himself, who enjoyed uninterrupted
good health for more than forty years, supposed
time to be at the very gate of death. his ply
sieians having pronounced his case hopeless. and
abandoned him to his fate He cured by the
aforesaid medicines, and, since his recovery, many
thousands similarly affected have used Dr. Schencks
preparations with the same remarkable success.
Full directions accompany each, making it not
absolutely necessary to personally DIR. Schenek
unless patients wish their lungs examined and for
this purpose he is professionally at his principal
office, Corner Sixth and Arch Streets Philadelphia
every Monday, where all letters for advice must be
addressed. Schencks medicines sold by all
druggists.
E.J.HART& CO., Nos. 3D. %, and II Tchoupitoulas
Street. New Orleans Wholesale Agents.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22
Mission of the Hebrew Race.

The Hebrew race are supposed to
number 5000, 900 to 1000, 900, and
the Hebrew Leader tells us that: "The
Jews were ever great race from the
time they first became a nation, and it
is as impossible to compute or approx
innate their numbers, looking back into
Israers antiquity when Terah and
Abraham journeyed southwark from
Mesopotamia, as it is now. If, how
ever, we bear in mind the old prophecy
that the descendants of Abraham shall
become as numerous as the stars of the
heaven and the sands of the sea, we
opine the dimensions of Palestine would
be found rather too limited, and hardly
answering all requirements, but we
doubt whether that land will ever be-
come the home of Israel, despite ira
dition, for the very reason that they
have strengthened in dispersion, and
grown under the favorable auspices of
civilization to become one of the most
important and formidable people on
the face of tn. globe, preserving a dis
tinctive individuality, held together
under the most trying and adverse
circumstances, by faith firmer than
Sinai's Mount from which it was pro-
mulgated."
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22
Conflict between Whale and a Sea-
Serpent.

The Zanzibar correspondent of the
Western Morning News, writing under
date October 20, says ''The bark Pau
line has arrived at Zanzibar with coal
for her Majesty's ship. When off Cape
St. Rogue, South America, sight was
presented that made the crew aghast-
nothing less than the great sea serpent
engaged in conflict with a whale.
1t had wound itself twice around
the whale, and was twirling it with
tremendous velocity, lashing the water
with foam. The noise could be dis
tinctly heard on board our vessel, and
after battling for some ii ne both dis
appeared. The serpent's length can
be imagined. It had two coils around
a full sized sperm whale, with thirty
feet clear at each end. Its diameter
was from three to four feet. They saw
it twice afterward. Once it came very
close to the vessel, and raised itself
about sixty feet out of water, as if about
to attack them. l have questioned
men and officers, trying to find out any
discrepancy between their statements,
but am con 7ert to the belief that it
was seem" Another naval officer
writes to the Western Morning News to
precisely the same effect; and the Off
GERS of her Majesty's ships on the station
are said to be convinced of the truth of
the story.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22
SEVRES CHINA.
A VISIT TO THE PLACE WHERE 1T IS
MANUFACTURED.

A VISIT TO THE PLACE WHERE IT IS
MANUFACTURED.
We made little visit to the porce-
lain works, where we met Champ
feurp, the Conservation Of the Ceramic
Museum. He lives in porcelain and
faience as other Swans do in books.
You might break everything to pieces
In France-governmen windows and
gaslights, and he would look on philo-
sophically without interfering; but
break historic dish in his presence
and he woull faint. He was terribly
nervous wherever Jules Sandeau
picked up one of the curiosities of the
museum. 1t is fashionable to call
them now the "Chineseries of the
age of Louis XIV. And in fact, if it
had not been for the Revolution, we
were going straight into the morals of
the fans and fire-screens. We were be-
coming tributary to the Chinese. l
allow to the chemists that the pate of
Sevres was more vitrifiable than that
of China or Japan. We must add in
justice to the artists that it possessed
elegance of form, regularity of draw
ing, vivacity of coloring; three con-
ventional epithets which are the three
graces of criticism. Vincennes had
witnessed in 1740 the building of the
first porcelain works, the embryonic
manufacture of the Dubois brothers.
The Minister of Finance, Orry de Full
w, patronized this artistic and indus
trial enterprise. Madame de Pompa-
dour, Minister Of all the Ministries, and
friend of all the artists, took especial
pleasure, as an amateur and pretty
woman, in the porcelain manufacture
In 1856 they raised the little factory
into great establishment, and the
royal manufactory of Sevres was
founded for the confusion of Cinnamon
and Saxons, for the benefit of the
French, for the pleasure of the king
and the honor of the marquis.
The old Sevres was not that "tender
porcelain which is now made. There
was no clay in it. Its chemical compo-
sition resembled glass more than porce-
lain. The glazing was of lead and very
ftlsible. Such porcelain manufactured
III Il INV temperature Cdlletl IOF the Ut
most skill of the decorator. The paint
ers ranged themselves of the orders of
the MARQUIS ; those painters, SO marked
by originality, in an age so marked by
wit. With the designs and the models
of the Pompadour artists, the vases
and the statuettes of the old Sevres
have acquired value equal to that of
the most precious work of art. In
spite of the artistic debaucheries of the
Revolution and the Empire people still
fight for them as in the last century.
At the sale of San Donate treasures,
the ashes of the Pompadour must have
kindled anew when her service of Sew
res was run up to 100000 francs.
What queen had ever such relics? st.
Victor said, "the Chinese have god
dess of porcelain; if we had mythol-
ogy Madame de Pompadour would be
the divinity of old Sevres. 1t was she
who founded that workshop of fragile
wonders. Paris Correspondence n. Y
Tribune.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22

The city government of Beirut have
taken energetic and efficient sanitary
measures, and the accumulated filth
of ages has been carted out of the
ancient city. l doubt if the city was
ever so clean as it has been during the
last summer. Hospitals were built at
convenient points, and physicians
secured. The hospital of the medical
school of the American college was
open for the reception of cholera
patients, and Professors Post, Van
Dyck, and Wortabet, of the faculty,
remained to attend the sick. At
Damascus the city was divided into
eight districts. with physicians and
hospitals for each district. The
graduates of our American medical
school at Beirut were active and useful
in many places. Since the establish
ment of thorough school of medicine
the cruel and worthless quackery of
ignorant native practitioners is no
longer in repute, and educated
physicians are everywhere asked for.
1t is impossible to collect accurate
statistics of the ravages of the pesti-
lence, but think the following state
ment, which 1 have compiled partly
from official tables and partly from
other sources, approximates the truth:
Total No.
of Deaths
PaschaIic of Aleppo dncluding cities of
Aleppo, Klamath and Humsl ...--...... 2St on
Damascus ..,,.......... 9,4CO
Villages near Damascus 900
other places in syria ..... 2uOO
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22
Energy Expended by the Human Body

/ AS the result of long-continued
course of experiments and observations
Helmholtz has obtained the following
results regarding the relative amounts
of energy expended by the human body
in internal and external work: "About
FIVE times as much energy is used in
the internal work of the body as is ex-
pended in ordinary productive work.
In the case of severe work the proper
ton of internal work to productive
work is still greater. Surprising the
work performed by man to consist of
walking, the most economical rate,
both as regards the amount of food re-
gu red to sustain it and the amount of
potential energy expended on the body
itself, Is about three miles an hour.
Both above and below that speed there
is decrease in the amount of active
work as compared with the non-pro.
ductive energy. A man walking fifteen
or sixteen miles day, or doing an
equivalent amount of work in any other
form. would require 90 ounces of food,
composed a,buminates 4.6 ounces fats
ounces starch, 14.3 ounces, and salts,
IL ounce. This would yield poten-
tlal energy Of 4,430 foot-tons, and 300
foot-tons for productive work. A mere
subsistence diet for man at rest
would be fifteen ounces, but with this
amount man would lose weight
About !, 600 foot-tons day of potential
energy Is the greatest amount which is
possible as permanency. This would
yield 800 foot-tons of productive work.
These calculations apply only to MT n
in health"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22
German Railway Travelling.

The German railways are not in
tended for through travellers. The rail-
way lines laid upon the map look like
lace pattern-there are no straight
lines. You are always going round to
call at some town or another, which is
uninteresting for stranger who has no
friends in the towns Not more than
one express train day seems to go in
any direction, and all the others are as
slow as New England deacon's horse
on Sunday. However, 1 don't mean
to complain of German railways, they
are safe and comfortable; if you want
speed and damages you Americans
know where to 60. A compartment
of the second class, holding eight per-
sons, in German carriage, is snug
place for a winter ride. 1t is so well
upholstered that you can ride on the
seats without fatigue, and sleep at
your ease. The compartment of the
first class is in the same carriage, and
differs only in a little more luxurious
upholstering. For winter travel, when
there is nothing to see, these compart-
ments are very nice; for summer
prefer an American palace-car. But
when the wind raves over a desolate
country there is a feeling of snugness
in these little apartments. The win
dows are all closed, everybody lights
his cigar, the lady, if one happens to
be present, does not ever think of say
ing that she likes smoke-that is taken
for granted-and soon the air is so
thick that you nigh imagine yourself
in beer hall, enjoying yourself to the
utmost. Not that you are obliged to
ride in smoke; on probably all the
trains there are compartments dis
tinctly set apart for the not-smoking,
and generally there is separate COM
partment for ladies.-ChalIes DUDLEY
Warner.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22
A Few Southern Facts.

Alabama and Tennessee manufac
ture more iron than any of the south
ern states east of the Mississippi
Tennessee has about LOO miles of wa
ter navigation, land about 1 800 miles OF
railway transportation. Tennessee has
more extensive coal fields than any
state in the Union, Pennsylvania ex.
cepted. Tennessee produces proftably
greater variety of crops than any
state in the Union. Georgia, Ala
bama or Tennessee have more extern
sive deposits and beds of iron ore than
any of the states of the American
Union. None excepted. Tennessee has
more extensive beds of marble of great
er variety of color than any other state
in the Union. The copper deposits in
Tennessee are more extensive and val
liable than those of any other section in
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Industries.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22
Some Words About Watches.

"Watch" is from a Saxon word
signifying to wake. At first the
watch was as large as saucer; it had
weights, and was used as a pocket
clock" The earliest known use of the
modern name occurs in a record of
1852, which mentions that Edward vi.
had zone larum or watch of iron, the
case being likewise of iron gilt, with
two plummets of lead" The first
great Improvement, the substitution of
the spring for weights, was in 1850.
The earliest springs were not coiled,
but only straight pieces Of steel.
Early watches had only one hand, and
required winding twice day. The
dials were of silver or brass; the cases
had no crystals, but opened at the back
and front, and were four or i've inches
in diameter. A plain watch cost the
equivalent of 81 800 in our currency,
and after one was ordered it took a
year to make it. There is watch
in Swiss museum only three-six-
teenths of an inch in diameter, inserted
in the top of pencil case. Its little
dial indicates not only hours, minutes
and seconds, but also days of the
month. 1t is relic of old times, when
watches were inserted in saddles, snuff
boxes, shirt studs, breast pins, bracelets
and finger rings. Some were fantastic
oval. octangular, cruciform, or in the
shape of pearl, nelson's, tulips or cof
fins.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22
Diseases of the Horse.

Darwin sums up the result Of his
researches on this subject in the follow
ing paragraphs: Even if no single
fact has been known with respect to
the Inheritance of diseases and NAL
formations by man, the evidence would
have been complete in the case of the
horse this might have been expected,
as horses breed quicker than man, arc
matched with care and are highly
valued l have consulted many works,
and the unauimity of belief by veteri-
narians Of all nations, in the transmits
sion of various morbid tendencies is
surprising Authors who have had
wide experience give in detail many
singular cases, and assert that con-
tracted feet, with the numerous con-
tingent evils Of ring bones, curhs,
splints, SPAWN, founder, and weakness
Of the front legs, broken and thick
wind. melano>is, specific opthalma, and
blindness. (the great French veteri-
marian, Hueati, going o far a. +, -.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22
S.ff

We do not in the least feel like blaming
Macbeth for THE expression of disgust; in
deed, we are rather inclined TO sympathize
with him. Even nowadays most of the
cathartics offered to the public are great,
repulsive-looking pills, the very appearance
of which is sufficient to turn ones stomach"
Had Macbeth ever taken DIR. Pierce's Pleas
ant Purgative Pellets he would not have
uttered those words of contempt. 1t is really
encouraging when one is i'll, to find that a
little, sugar-coated Pellet, no larger than a
grain of mustard, will as promptly produce
the desired effect as dose of great, nauseat-
ing pills. These little Pellets, unlike other
cathartics, are really natures physic. They
do not debilitate, but tone and invigorate
the system. No family should be without
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgatiye Pellets.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22

FRETTING.-One fretter can destroy
the peace of a family, can disturb the
harmony of neighborhood, can I'M
settle the councils of cities and hinder
the legislation of nations. He who
frcts is never the one who mends, who
heals, who repairs evil; more, he dis
cournges, entecbles, and too often dis
ables those around him, who, but for
the gloom and depression of his com
pany, would do good work and keep
up brave cheer. The effect upon a
sensitive person of the mere neighbor-
hood of a fretter is indescribable. IT
is to the soul what cold, icy mist is to
the body-more chilling than the bit
terest storm. And when the fretter is
one who is beloved, whose nearness OF
relation to us makes his fretting at the
weather seem like personal reproach
to US, then the misery of it becomes
indeed insupportable Most men call
fretting a minor fault--a foible, and
not a vice. There is no vie except
which can so utterly de-
stroy the peace, the happiness of Il
home
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22
Ravages of Cholera in Syria.

The last summer has been one OF
pestilence and panic in Syria. Early
in the season some Turkish troops from
Arabia were removed to Aleppo, and
brought with them the cholera con-
tagion. The most criminal and inhu-
man carelessness OH the part of the
military authorities brought the dis
ease to Damascus, whittier some of the
infected troops were marched, without
regard to the health of the populace,
and without suitable quarantine.
From about the middle of June until
the middle of October the scourge pre-
vailed with more or less violence in
Aleppo, Klamath, HUNS, and Damas-
Gus, and in most of the villages near
these centers. 1t seems to have been
confined chiefly to the inland cities,
while the coast towns have escaped with
fur less than the usual share of cases.
The total number of deaths in Beirut
has not exceeded hundred and fifty,
while in Damascus the number of
deaths is not far from ten thousand.
Upon the appearance Of the disease III
Damascus, the panic in Beirut was ex-
IRENE. Families fled TO the LebaIons
i'll great numbers, leaving their homes
and closing their shops, taking with
them only the bare necessities of
summers sojourn on the mountains.
1t is estimated that about forty thou
sand people fled the city in few days.
1t i, an i'll wind that blows nobody any
good. The mountaineers have reapcd
golden harvest, charging and easily
obtaining enormous rents for their
houses All the long summer they
have made money out of the terror
stricken refugees, while the exiles
themselves boxed down on the we'll
nigh deserted city, and sighed over the
stngnafion Of bu.iucss and the Sudden
. uttlng If Of Iheir .Mn reznuran-.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22
That Gutta-P ercha Steak.

A genius with his castor knowingly
cooked on, one side of his bullet head,
a leer in his eye, and devil-may-care
contour generally, came into cheap
eating house down town the other day
and bawled out:
"Sa-a-y, look a-here."
Whatu you have, sir?' quoth a
white-aproned chap, rushing at the Gus
toner.
"What We got?"
"Most everything, sir-ham, eggs,
Goldfish, chicken, goose, turkey, roast
beef, and"
"Well, look a-here, old teller"
"Sir?"
"Look a-herc, you got any pork
steak and fried taters!"
Eyes, sir"
"Fried oysters and lobster salad?"
eyes, sir.
Roast goose and apple sass?"
Yes, sir"
"Well, look a-here; how bout the
steaks, eh?'
"Good beefsteaks, sir"
"Good?
"First-rate
"Well, look a-here, old Teller, you
jiss go bring that steak had here last
week-rale gutta percha; broke two
teeth on it first bite: but Eve got my
molars all steel-set and sharpened now,
and Pm just going to walk into that
old steak like sawmill. Fetch it on
now, why don't yer, sa-a-y?"
How it came out we didn't stop to
see But that steak was one of EN-
so was the customer.-Ne,o Orleans
Picay,s,e.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22

"DITsoN q Co., our constant adver-
tisers, commence the new year with large
accession of valuable music They have pur-
chased the entire stock of Lee Il Walker in
Philadelphia, and will continue the business
there under new title. The stock thus pur-
chased comprises quarter of mile 100000
pieces) of sheet music, 10000 Music Book
Plates, belonging to $50 different books, 125
pianos and organs, ETC., etc. As the original
stock of o. d. & Co. includes about twice
the quantity above named, it will he seen
that they have literally music for the mil
lion.'" See advertisement.