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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25

THE SHOWER OF. FLESH IN KEN
TUCKY.-In regard to the shower of flesh
in Bath county KY, Professor J. Law
renee Smith, the scientist, says in his
analysis of specimens examined: "Inmy
mind this matter gives every indication
of being the dried spawn of the Betrach-
ian reptiles, doubtless that of the frog.
They have been transported from the
ponds and swampy grounds by currents
of winds, and have ultimately fallen on
the spot where they were found. This is
no isolated occurrence of the kind, 1
having come across the mention of sew
eral in the course of my reading. The
only one whose date can now fix is that
recorded by Muschenbroek as occurring
in 1875. The matter is described by him
as being gelatinous and fatty, which sof-
ted an unpleasant smell when exposed to
the action of fire. The oUum or egg of
the Batrachian reptiles is a round mass
of nutritive jelly, in the center of which
appears small black globule. In the
present case the passage through the air
would have dried up more or less of these
gelatinous masses, so that the exterior
would become hard, and the interior, as
1 found it, still soft and gelatinous. l
have desired more of the matter to be
sent to me, when, if there be any modifi-
cation of these views, ] will make them
known"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25
JOHN R1NDOIPH IN 1914.

In the recently published reminis-
cences of the late George Ticknor, we
find the following on John Randolph, to
whom Mr.. Ticknor paid visit in 1914
The instant 1 entered the room my eyes
rested on his lean and sallow physiogno-
my. He was sitting, and seemed hardly
larger or taller than boy of fifteen. He
rose to receive me as was presented and
lowered half a foot above my own
height. This disproportion arises from
the singular deformity of his person. His
head is small and until you approach
him near enough to observe the prema-
ture and unhealthy wrinkles that have
furrowed his face, you would say that it
was boyish. Bnt as your eye turns to-
wards his extremities everything seems
to be unnaturally stretched out and pro-
tracted. To his short and meagre body
are attached long legs, which, instead of
diminishing, grow larger as they ap-
proach the floor. until they end in pair
of feet, broad and large, giving his whole
person the appearance of a sort of pyra-
mid. His arms are the counterparts of
his legs; they rise from small shoulders,
which seem hardly equal to the burden,
are drawn out to disProportionate
length above the elbow, and to a still
greater length below, and at last are ter
minated by hand heavy enough to
have given the supernatural blow to
William of Deloraine, and by fingers
which might have served as models for
those of the goblin page. In his physi-
ognomy there is little to please or satisfy,
except an eye which glances on all but
rests on none. You observe, however, a
mixture Of the white man and the In
dian, marks of both being apparent. His
long straight hair is parted on the top,
and portion hangs down on each side,
while the rest is carelessly tied up behind
and flows down his back. His voice is
shrill and effeminate, and occasionally
broken by those tones which you some
times hear from dwarfs and deformed
people. He spoke to me of the hospital
ity he had found in Philadelphia, and of
the prospect of returning to comfort
less home, with a feeling that brought
me nearer to him for the moment; and
of the illness of his nephew Tudor, and
the hopes that it had blasted, with ten
derness and melancholy which made me
think better of his heart than had be-
fore. At table he talked little, but ate
and smoked great deal.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25

ARE THEY IsRAEL's LOST TRIBE p
Kund Leems, the French traveller, Reg
nard, who journeyed through Sweden,
Norway, and Lapland in 1861, and Ba-
yard Taylor, whose journey was made in
1856, all observe a certain similitude be
tween the Laplanders and Israelites. In
the color of the hair, in the features of
the face, in stature. and in some idola-
trous customs the resemblance is marked.
The LaplanGic language also possesses
peculiarities in common with the He
brew. The Jews, by divine precept, af
fixed to the extremities of their gar
ments phylacteries the Laplanders sew
to the borders of theirs certain bandages
as fillets. Saturday, the Jews Sabbath,
the Laplanders, by horrid superstitions,
formerly kept holy in solemn rituals.
The tunes to which the Jews chanted
psalms in their synagogues differ little
from the modulations of the Laplanders.
The sacrificial ceremonies of the two
peoples were similar. 1t WAS impious
among the Jews to raise up affairs of
hewn stones the stones which the Lap
landers consecrated with religious wor-
ship were fashioned by no workmanship.
Men performed the offices of cooking
among the Jews; the same custom OBJ
tanned among the Laplanders. Yet
these writers do not seem prepared to
assert that the Laplandcrs owe to the
Jews their origin.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25
Emmett L. Ross & Co., Proprietors
VOLUME XII.
MY ANGEL CHILD.

Into my life came gently down
A beautiful angel without her crown
And knew her not for she wore no crown
But dreamed that she was an earth-born thing.
Nor Needed the sound of her angel wing,
Though she spoke in the tones that the angels sing
And my heart was replete
With n surfeit sweet,
OF her dark blue eyes and her golden hair,
OF her smile 20 pure and her face 80 fair.
With the love and devotion beaIaing theic,
OF her willing hands and feet.
Into my life she brought light
That flooded my path with glory bright
With a light that was more than an earthly light
And she fingered awhile in the chambers deep
OF my heart, where fondest memories sleep,
That awaken only to make me weep,
With sortewing meet
For her life so fleet.
For her dark blue eyes and her golden hair,
For her smile pure and her face so fair,
With the love and devotion beamins there,
vi her willing hands and feet.
she fingered so long thought her part
~ the sorrowing thing call my heart
With all her beauty part of my heart
But wave of sorrow has over me rolled.
A nd the knell of my hopes has sadly TOLD,
She has flown to her home in the Heavenly fold.
Oh! TO sorrow is meet
For a life so fleet,
For her dark blue eyes and her golden hair,
For her smile pure and her face so fair,
With the love and devotion beaming there,
OF her willing hands and feet.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25

tonishment, when your vessel hove in
sight she corresponded exactly to his de-
scription of her. We had not thought
much of what he had said, yet still we
hoped there might be something in it.,
for drowning men, you know, will catch
at straws. As it has turned out, I can
not doubt that it was all arranged, in
some incomprehensible way, by an over
ruling Providence, SO that We might be
saved"
az got the impression that the barkI
saw in my dream was going to rescue
u.s." said the passenger, "but how that
impression came 1 cannot tell. Every
thing here on board seems to me quite
familiar yet I am very sure that l was
never in your vessel before. 1t is all a
puzzle to me-"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25
FISHING EARLY LOTE.

A letter to the Richmond Enquirer
says: AS there seems to be some doubt
as to which of the Misses Cary belongs
the honor of having refused the hand OF
George Washington, permit me to refer
you to an extract from Bishop Mcade's
book on cold Churches and Families of
Virginia." page los, vol. l.: The elder
sister of Miss Mary Cary had married
George William Fairfax, at whose house
he was on visit, when she captivated
a young man, who had paid her his adj
dresses. His affection, however, was not
returned, and the offer of his hand was
rejected by Miss Cary. This young man
was afterwards known to the world as
General George Washington, the first
president of the United States of Amer
lea. Young Washington asked permits
sion of old Mr.. Cary to address his daugh-
ter before he ventured to speak to her
self The reply of the old gentleman was,
" If that is your business here, sir, l wish
you to leave the house, for my daughter
has been accustomed to ride in her own
coach" 1t has subsequently been said
that this answer ofMr. Cary to the strip
ling Washington produced the indepen-
dence of the United States and laid the
foundation Of the future fame of the first
of heroes and the best of men-our i'm
mortal Washington-as it was more than
probable that, had he obtained possession
of the large fortune which it was known
Miss Cary would carry to the altar with
her, he would have passed the remainder
of his life in inglorious ease. 1t was an
anecdote of the day that this lady, many
years after she had become the wife of
Edward Amber, happened to be in Will
liamsburg when General Washington
passed through that city at the head of
the American army, crowned with nev
er-fading laurels and adored by hisco
trymen. Having distinguished her
among the crowd, his sword waved to-
wards her military salute, whereupon
she is said to have tainted. But this
wants confirmation, for her whole life
tended to show that she never for mo-
ment regretted the choice she had made.
1t may be added, as curious fact, that
the lady General Washington afterwards
married resembled Miss Cary as much as
one twin sister ever did another.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25
OPENING CEREMONIES.
The Centennial E-rhibffion-O Opening Da,
july 4H.

| The Centennial Erhibffion-Oi,eni,gD Day
July 4M.
The ceremonies at the opening of the
Centennial exhibition are pretty nearly
| determined upon. The president of the
United States, attended by the heads OF
departments, distinguished guests, repre-
sentatives of foreign governments, judges
of the supreme court, members of the
senate and the house of representatives.,
representatives of the several states and
territories, the Centennial commissioners
and foreign commissioners-all these will
participate.
But the most stupendous "time will
be had on the Fourth of July. Accord
ing to the written assurance of a gentle
man concerned in the preparations, the
ceremonies on that day "will be of a
grander, more imposing character than
those which have attended any event of
modern times, either in Europe or Amer
ica." They will consist in part of mu-
steal performance, the assemblage of the
military and civic organizations of the
country and the unwilling of appropriate
statues.
The morning will be announced from
the old state house by the great bell of
peace, the gift of citizen of Philadel-
phia for the occasion. The bell, now
casting, will weigh 1900 pounds, and is
inscribed with the words: Proclaim
liberty throughout all the land, and to
the inhabitants thereof. Glory to God
in the highest! Peace on earth, and
good will to men,"
The musical performance will be di-
rected by Theodore Thomas. The mill
tary display will be superintendent by
high officer of the general government.
The Philadelphia park commission has
furnished free camping ground for por-
ton of the volunteers to be assembled
from different sections of the Union.
Barracks will be erected, furnishing cheap
and comfortable Judgment for soldiers
Already official notification has been re-
ceived of the attendance of more than
$4,000 equipped men.
VIM. IN. Evarts will deliver the
Fourth of July Grafton, and the Decla-
ration of Independence will be read by
Richard Henry Lee.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25

The AMERICAN MANIA FOR TITLES
Secretary Bristow, as described in a
floating item, has lately set an example
which full-chested persons who button
their coats about the waists may profit
by. He does not want to be called gen.
eral. 81 earned the title of colonel, !
trust, in defending my country" he said
recently, "but 1 never was a general,
and l can't see why my friends, whs
know me better, persist in calling me
general" When it was suggested that
the general followed from his former
office of solicitor-general, he replied, "If
that argument holds, then we must be
careful to accost as general every general
freight agent or general manager of a
Giro us in the country" And the secre-
tary has added to the obligations under
which he has heretofore placed the com
munity, by marking out the course of
any man with selfrespect. so long As
colonies and generals adorn every street
corner and have their names on the states
of every saloon which isn't doing bust
ness on strictly cash basis, there is most
honor in the plain Mr." Opera bouf fife,
as permanent thing, is only fit for the
galleries.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25

ORIGINALITY.-Iti is only the shallow
critic who mistakes the meaning of the
phrase original, and is forever detecting
quotation or plagiarism. There are
more parallel passages, and there is less
plagiarism in the world than most per-
sons dream of. The simple fact is, that
all truth is one; whoever has the genius
to break through the shells of things and
make his way into their very center and
heart, brings back the same report as his
deep-seeing neighbor. The character of
the report varies with the individual
but sometimes it happens to vary little
or not at all from his neighsor's story,
and then comes the unwise critic with
his charge of larceny.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25
THE WEEK PAST.

WOOD is more durable than iron. In
1868 an anger was dropped in the bay at
Belfast, Victoria, by one of the workmen
employed on the jetty. Last Christmas
the tool was picked up on the beach
near the mouth of the Moyne. The
iron auger was incrusted with rust, sand,
ETC., and the iron partly destroyed. but
the wooden handle (blackwooG) was
perfectly sound
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25

In Indiana is a public singer whose
name is Jane .Juliette Isalina Araminta
Musadora Peeks. How that name will
look on tombstone And how would
any poet laureate celebrate the demise
of those five English children, of whom
the first WAS lmprimus, the second FINS,
and The Others Appendix, Addendun,
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25

UP in Canada, at least in the older
provinces. the wild red Indian has dis
continued his scalping frclics and has
settled down into a bloated bondholder.
In Onta-' Quebec, Nova Scotia, Prince
Edv Island and New Brunswick,
tue-e are thirty thousand of him, mis-
aggregate real and personal property
amounting to the very respectable sum
of 81 122 9I2
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25
SAM Cox moves that a committee

SAM Cox moves that a committee
congress be appointed to ascertain if there
is a science of money No committee
necessary. The science of money has
already been stated in an apothegm :
"Work like the devil and don't spend a
cent" DIicawber had it, too: "An-
nual income, twenty pounds; annual
expenditure, nineteen, nineteen six-re-
suit, happiness. Annual income twenty
pounds, annual expenditure twenty
pounds ought and six-result, misery.
The blossom is blighted, the leaf is with
cred, the god of day is in darkness-in
short, you are foored. As am"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25

AMONG the gifts made by Mr.. James
Lick for public purposes wasone OF $780,
coo for the erection of free public baths
for the city of San Francisco. Accord
ing to the plans which have been recent
ly submitted by the architects, the
building is to be constructed of iron and
glass. The interior will be divided into
three compartments-the middle COM
artment, 100 feet by so, for the use Of
linen; the south compartment, 80 feet by
10, fofoboys; and the north one, 80 feet
by 30, for women. 1t is proposed to
Fupply the baths with water from the
,ay, and to have it warmed by the en-
.oyment of the heat of the suns rays.
70 accomplish this, fine jets will ascend
the roof of the building, and fall in
most imperceptible spray into the tanks,
e suns rays meantime passing through
and warming it before it reaches the
sin. This is the plan adopted at the
bile baths at Liverpool, England.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25

A RECENT London paper says: There
was another consignment of American
meat in the market on Monday morning;
the quantity was not less than 20 tons,
and was sent up from Liverpool Saturday
night. The beef is just as good in every
respect as that previously reported on,
and it is evident that the statesmen in the
market are finding the meat pay, for in
some instances they are careful to ticket
she meat as killed in America" The
cargo included about seventy sheep, which
were all right as to condition and sold
readily, but were scarcely fat enough for
the English market. This fault the con-
signors say they will remedy in the next
los. 1t is reported from Liverpool that
this trade in fresh meat from the United
St,tes is assuming considerable proper
tons
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25

president GIRARDIN, one of the
Fro inch judges, says of divorce: Long
exp erience on the bench has convinced
me that the vast majority of persons
Wild sue for judicial separation were not
ftte "a for welded life. They never fail
to u rye that they were mistaken in their
choi} Pc. and that if they had been Joined
to Anybody else but the person from
WHOM p they seek to be separated they
might have been happy. This may be
true n some few cases, but generally
speaking there is at least one of the par
ties I'd every suit whose temper is wholly
intract table, and do not see what would
be gained by allowing this party to go
and m AIRY again and make a second
home as wretched as he or she has made
the first"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25

The best wine has its lees. All
mems faults are not written on theIr
foreheads, and it's quite rs wel' they are
not. for hats would need wide brims
yet As sure as eggs pc eggs faults OF
some sort nestle pp>cvcry mans bosom.
There's nu-.~r1fng when a man. sins
may ,Low themselves, for hares pop out
of-t ditch Just when you are not looking
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25

IT is estimated, upon reliable data
that the loss by the burning of the
steamer Mary Bell, at Vicksburg, Mis-
|sissippi, viii reach over half a million
|iollars. She had a large number of pas
|Fengers, with valuable baggage. She
vas believed to be the largest boat ever
constructed for navigating the Missis-
ppi, or any other river, her estimated
myth of hull being three hundred and
twenty-five feet, and breadth fifty-six feet.
constructing the boat one million
Pt of water-seasoned oak was used.
e had battery of eight steel boilers.
e cost over one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25

Do you know that the Cuban to
bacconists grind up leather and put it in
their cigars? Patronize your home tan
nerics.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25

ADMIRAL SEMMEs characterizes the
Japanese as the Yankees of Asia. Ger
tainly the notion so generally entertained
few years ago, that they were very
similar to the Chinese, has been dissi-
pated on better acquaintance. While
the celestial resists every advance of
strangers, the children of the tycoon
welcome all innovations. Recently the
government has adopted singular but
effective method for extending knowl-
ledge of the Arabic numerals with their
English names; they are printed in tab
pr form on cloth, which is sold at low
Zee to the peasantrv.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25

THE Prince of Wales has now killed a
tiger in india Taking his stand at an
upper window of a house surrounded by
lofty wall, the prince waited till the
dreadful animal was driven up within
range, when he turned loose both bar
rels of his gun, and the tiger tumbled
over. The frightful dangers to which
the heir to the crown thus exposes HIM
self are enough to make the hair of the
British lion stand up and turn gray.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25
HOW TO FEED HENS.

The Danbury News has a pleasant par.
agraph on this, absorbing subject: In
our last issue we republished from a agri
cultural journal an article on feed for
hens. We would like to say here that
it is the duty of journals to publish all
such information, however pertinent it
may or may not be. That's the reason
we printed the piece in question. We
don't know whether the writer knew what
he was about when he brought forth the
article, and we don't care. There was no
choice with us. We submissively appro-
priated it Just as We do all those matters
which pertain to the house and farm de-
partment. But what we started out to
do was to protest against recipes for
making hens lay more eggs than nature
designed they should. Not day passes
but somebody comes forward with a sys-
tenn or diet which he has tested to his
entire satisfaction, and which is adapted
to every breed and temper of hen in ex-
istence. One man gives his fowls oats
alone, and finds that they lay fourth
more eggs than they did when he fed them
exclusively on corn. This statement
fires up somebody to explain that he
didn't know what laying hen really
was until he got to feeding his flock corn
alone: Heretofore he had dosed them
with oats. Here's decided fix, appar-
emily: but the next week the owner of a
couple of hens in Kalamazoo modestly
states in card that years of careful ex-
perimenting has demonstrated beyond
all cavil that oats and corn equally
mixed will fire the ambition of any hen
on the face of the earth. So they go on
in the matter of food. Then there is
the man who advises lime and oyster
shells to prevent the hens from laying
soft shelled eggs. As a hen lays about
two such eggs in the course of year, a
couple dollars worth of lime judiciously
fed to her will prevent the loss, and be
money we'll expended. Then there is
the man who advocates better ventila-
ton. Hens are mighty sore on the sub
ject of ventilation, as you may have
noticed. Another recommends an air.
tight roosting-place, and still another adj
vises shutting up the fowls all the time,
and is Immediately confronted by
a poulterer who says if they are not al
lowed to run loose you can't get eggs
out of them any way. These things are
what give agricultural journals their
wonderful variety. But we protest
against them. If any one understands a
hens business better than the hen itself
we are prepared to listen to him, but
until such a phenomenon appears we
refuse to republish hen
recipes A hens stomach is an appalling
mystery. Men who can translate the |
elegies of the most barbarous of ancient |
nations and give you the weight to an
ounce of square mile of atmosphere pre-
,ipitately back down from the analysis
If hens stomach. An animal that |
IAN take down whole dishcloth at one |
,ulp and regret it wasn't roll of stair
carpet is not to told what it shall eat.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25

HEREAFTER. when princes. lords and
the like come to this free country to hunt
the wild buffalo, they must get congress
sional permit. The house has passed a
bill prohibiting the killing of female
buA;,loes at all, and of males except for
market or Immediate use. Thousands
of these animals are killed annually Just
for fun, and there is danger of the breed
becoming extinct. The clause imposing
a penalty reads: "Any white man who
SHALL" etc. 1t is affirmed that the In
Gians, to whom the buffaloes naturally
belong, never wantonlv destroy them.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-12
Another Galloway Wonde

Another Galloway Wonder,
Mrs. frankie Mcdaniel. a coIored
woman residing near Moore's Mil
has presented us with o sweet pota.
10 that measures s feet, 10 IL inch
es. Tue Io'a'o is not large, ou,
that is the exact length of it. Who
can beat it Fulton Telegraph.
Who can beat what? That story?
No, Bro. Williams, that's ot a large
potato at al',aud we fear you meas.
ured vine and all. There ia a color
ed woman north of Mexico who says
she has some potatoes 80 large that
she can put one end in the fire, and
she, 4 children and the old man can
all sit on the potato, and the other
end is so big that she can't get it 10
the house. What do you think Of