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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12

IHE NEWSPAPER AS AN EDUCATOR.
A school-teacher, who has been en-
gagged a long time in his profession, and
witnessed the influence of newspapers on
the minds of a family of children, writes
as follows:
/ have found it to be Il universal fact,
without explanation, that those scholars
of both sexes, and of all ages, who have
had access to newspapers at home, when
compared with those Woo have not are
better readers, excelIing in pronunciation,
and consequently read more understand
ingly. They are better spoilers, and de-
fine words with ease and accuracy
They obtain Il practical knowledge Of
geography in almost half the time it
requires others, Us the newspaper has
made them familiar with the location of
the most important places, nations, their
governments and doings on the globe.
They are better grammarians: for llav-
ing become so familiar with every variety
of the newspaper, from the common
place advertisement to the finished and
classical Grafton of the statesman, they
more readily comprehend the meaning
of his text, and consequently analyze its
construction with accuracy.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12
VOLUME XII.
WHIT MY LOVER SAID.

By The merest chance in the twilight gloom.
In the orchard path he met met me-
In the tall, wet grass, With its faint perfume
And tried TO pass, but he made no room;
Oh. tried but he would not let me;
80 stood and bllIshed till the grass grew rcd
With my face bent down above IT,
While he took my hand rs he whispering sal,
How the clover lifted each pink. sweet hca.i,
To listen TO all that my lover said
oh the clover in bloom-l love il y
In the high. wet grass went the path to hide,
And the low, wet leaves hung over;
But could not pass uIon either side,
For l found myself when vainly tried
In the arms of my steadfast lover.
And he held me there and he raised my head
While he closed the path before me;
And he looked down into nv ewes and s1id--
How the leave. bent down from the boush DER.
head,
To listen to all thai my lover said:
oh, the leaves hangirg lowly DER riey
Had he move, aside a lit,Ie wav
could surely then have passed him:
And would not have heard what he had 10 say.
Could only aside have him
u WAS almost dark, and the moments sped,
And the searching night-winds found us;
tInt he drew me nearer and softly said
How the pure, sweet wind grew still, instead,
To listen TO all that my lover said;
On, the whispering wind around us9
am sure he knew when he held me fast,
Thai must be all unwilling;
For tried to 90, and would have passed.
As the night WI. coming with its dew at last
And the sky with stars was filling;
But he clasped me close when would have fed,
And he made me hear his story,
And his soul came out from his lips and said
How the stars crept out where the white moon led,
To listen TO all that my lover said;
Oh, the moon and stars in gloryD
know tia; the grass and the leaves will not tell
And TIM sure that the wind-precious rover
Will carry his secret 50 safely and well
That no being shall ever discover
One word OF the many that rapidly fell
From the eager lips of my lover.
Shall never reveal what a fair y-like spell
They wove round about that night in the dell,
1u the path through the dew-laden clover;
Nor echo the whispers that made my heart swell
As they fell from the lips OF my lover.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12
.fHERIC-fN P.fTENTS.

The Cincinnati Gazette publishes a
table, from the forthcoming report of the
commissioner of patents, which presents
some interesting faces bearing upon the
distribution of the inventive genius of
the country. The table gives the num-
Der of patents issued to residents of the
different states and territories for the
wear 1879 While in Connecticut there
was one patent issued to every 761 in
habitants, in the state of Arkansas the
issues were hut one to A 900 inhabitants:
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12
TON, MISSISSIPPI, FEBRUARY II, 1876

them, (Which led him To ask me- says
Col. Perkins, ''if | had ever observed the
reptile swallow a freely. Upon my an
swering in the negative, he told me that
he had, and that from the thinness of
the skin of the toad he had seen the light
of the FREELY after it had been swallowed.
This was Il new and to me a surprising
fact in natural history"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12
BEfUTIFUL SENTIMENT.

Life bears us on like stream OF
mighty river. Our boat at first glides
down the narrow channel-through the
playful murmurings of the little brook
and the winding of its grassy borders.
The trees shed their blossoms over our
young heads, the flowers seem to offer
themselves to the young hands; we are
happy in hope, and we grasp eagerly at
the beauty around us,-but the str"am
hurries on, and still our hands are empty.
o. ....-.. i'm ..a,,ti. and- rnanhand -i--
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12

The real sherry district occupies very
small spot in the southwest corner of
Spain, lying for the most part between
Guadalquiver and and Guadalette. The
small triangle in which the choicest
Wines are produced Is scarcely mere than
twenty miles broad at its base.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12
SEEKING INEORMITYON.

Running over Ralph Waldo Emerson's
new book recently, we came upon the
following passage:
Courage to ask questions courage to
expose our ignorance. The great gain is,
not to shine, not to conquer your COM
panion-then you learn nothing but con-
ceit-but to find companion who knows
what you do not; to tilt with him and be
overthrown, horse and foot, with utter
destruction of all your logic and learn
ing. There is defeat that is useful"
We resolved to act upon the above ut
once. We called in our landlord and
asked him what the rent of our room
would be the coming month. He told
us. That was fair start. We had ex-
posed our ignorance and mentally praised
ourself for courage. Then we proceeded
to multiply questions. We asked him
where he lived before he came to Nevada.
He informed us that he was by birth a
near neighbor of the late respected
Daniel Webster. That increased, our
respect for him. (For the landlord,
not for Webster) We then asked
him how much lumber was worth in
abe Granite State. He answered
promptly promptness is character
istic OF our landlord. Then we got
the price of brick in New Hampshire,
the value of mechanics labor, the prob
able cost of bed, carpet, washstand and
the rate of interest on money in the land
of the White Mountains We said to
ourself, emerson would be delighted
could he but hear this" At last we ven
tured to ask our host if he belonged to
any religious denomination. He in
formed us that he was baptized i'll a mill
pond on the Mcrrimack, and had tried to
live becoming a Christian and Close
Communion Baptists. We then asked
him how he could reconcile his con-
science to charge us more rent for room
than it would cost to build house in
New Hampshire, and an interest on an
investment here which is more per month
than the state of New Hampshire per-
mits landlords to take by the year. He
eyed us moment over his spectacles and
then said: "That's what you are driv-
ing at, is it? Let me tell you that man
who mikes religion with rents in Vir-
ginia City, will not last long, and,
further, that if you do not like this room
there are plenty outside who would.
The rate l spoke of is only for this
month; next month it will be more"
We had followed Emerson's advice to
the letter, gained good deal of informal
ton, but somehow we didn't feel any
better. 1t must be that Emerson is not
so great man as we thought he was.-
Virginia Ner.) Chronicle.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12
THE TEACHER IND DRUNKENNEss.

Drunkenness is vice at which school
training should level its heaviest blows
There are at present fearful odds against
the teachers hand here, particularly in
the midst of the poverty-stricken dis
tricts of our large cities, blighted by the
baneful influence of strong drink. But
if the teacher be observant as to oppor-
tunities, persistent in his plan, hearty in
his utterances, and judicious in the avoid
ance of sidicule, he can do much in fixing
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12

IA COLLISION occurred on the Great
Northern Railway, England, near Hunt
ington, Saturday. Before the wreck
could be cleared away the express from
London dashed into the debris. Eleven
persons were killed by the collision,
which took place during q binding snow
Sto-m
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12

ANEcDoTE OF WAsHINGToN.-Gcn
Washington, now and then, took notice
Of singular facts in natural history. Two
wears before hi death old Col. Perkins,
of Boston, then Young gentleman. via
tied him at Mount Vernon. y lac v.ts
sitting with Young Perkins, CA the We
ran,a. which overlooked the Potomac, u
toad h"ppcd along ON the ground near
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12

The Duke of Cambridge, in the course
of Il speech the other day, said that the
cost of the eighty-one ton gun would be
about el5,OoO, and every sho. fired from
it would cost f25.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12
THE WEEK P4ST.

IL the month of December forty-eight
vessels were wiped out of existence.
Their total value, exclusive of cargoes, is
estimated ut S945, 900.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12
To the six New England States


To the six New England States
were issued 3, 1873 patents, beln" o.
every 1,O94 inhabitants; to the
Middle States, including Della
Maryland and West Virginia. ,994
to every 1928 inhabitants; To tho
Western States, including Nilsson
O7G--one TO every $500 inhabitan
the twelve Southern States, SlI-o-
every 1870 inhabitants to the
Pacific States, 437--one to every
Inhabitants; to the District OF Colu
2l4-one to every Oh population
nine territories, G9-one to every !
inhabitants.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12

THE British are beginning to regard
the American overland route to Austria
liza with exceptional favor. Instead of
going to that continent by way of the
Suex canal, it is deemed pleasanter and
healthier to cross the Atlantic to this
port, and 60 hence by railroad to San
Francisco, where first-class steamers will
convey the traveller to Australian ports.
1t is claimed that the passage to Auck-
land is twelve days, and TO Sydney five
days shorter by the American route than
by way of Suez.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12

A New York dry goods dealer thus
explains how it is done: "Of course we
lose money on every piece of these goods;
but, my dear madam, we sell sucl, enor-
nous uuautitie; of them.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12

IT is said that Fall river lost 81, OO0,-
Coo through the protracted strikes of the
mill operatives last fall, and that the
heavy failure of Eston x Milne, private
bankers, was caused by their inability to
negotiate Fall River paper through the
enormous depreciation Of mill stock and
real estate precipitated by labor disputes
The nominal share capital of the forty
two mills in Fall River is $4,000, 900,
much of which is shrunk in value fifty
cents on the dollar.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12

In the line OF "how to bring mp
parents" Is the speeeh Of little hoy,
who snid, " Father, think you should
give up swearing or family prayers
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12

The widest bandit on the Me -
border !, Guy LOPEZ, of whom IT i rr-
lated that he was once Il pensive peanut
wander nr San Francisco, and went 10
he bad because every policeman or M
ii"nairc that passed his stand stole Il nut
with an air of abstraction
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12

his arncysncs He had a great amount
of business 10 transact. Besides looking
after his bank, he was a difctor OF the
Havre railway and had a great deal to do
with Italian railways He was not for
tunate in love nor i'll law. Separated
from his wife in 1854, he was condemned
10 pay ncr pension of 81 40, the pen
sion being guaranteed by lien upon
sum Of s2S, 500, and he had to give her
daughters. He had many lawsuits, one
of them in this country, and which re-
suited in his having to pay 10000,
after having spent 100000 on the law
yers whom he retained to resist the claim.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12

The London World gives the follow
ing description of the latest thing in
collins: g You are placed in glass box,
to the top of which is affixed a metal
rod. As soon as the earth is filled in,
a battery is connected with the rod, and
an electric shock skaters the coffin into a
thousand pieces, thus allowing the earth
to press upon the dear departed, and
allowing him to return TO dust even
quicker than in one of Mr.. Seymour
IIaden's wicker baskets"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12

4 RECENT visitor TO the Dismal Swamp
describes it, in Forest and Stream, as
having lost none of the characteristics
which gave it its name. Bears are not
50 plenty there as when the region was
rarely penetrated by man: yet they still
afford sport for hunters. Lake Drum
mond. once believed by the ignorant to
lie bottomless is really not in any place
more than fifteen feet deep. Its water,
impregnated with the juices of juniper
and gum leaves, is Of the color of wine,
and is drunk as remedy by consump-
tiyos
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12

CAPTAIN MNALLY, in command of
the Texas state troops, reports to con-
gress that since lie went on duty along
the frontier in April, 1875, from three
thousand to ten thousand cattle month
have been stolen from citizens of Texas
and driven into Mexico. The United
States forces, although nominalIy much
larger, actually consist only of about six
companies of cavalry and one hundred
and twenty-five colored infantry. These
forces have to guard a line between
three thousand and four thousand miles
long, and this, from the character of the
country, is especially difficult to accom-
plish.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12

MICHIGAN, Rhode Island, Wisconsin
and Iowa are the only states which have
totally abolished the gallows Minneso-
II, Illinois and Louisiana forbid capital
punishment unless the jury unanimously
recommend it. New York and Indiana
have two degrees of murder, one punish
able by death, the other by life impris-
onmeDt. Maine, New Hampshire and
Kansas send the convicted murderer to
state prison for one year prior to execu-
ton, after which it is optional witch the
governor whether he will or will not is
sue the death-warrant.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12

STATISTICS forwarded by the vice
president of education of Japan to the
bureau of education at Washington show
Il very gratifying progress in that i'm
portant department. In 1874, according
to the returns, there were 2O.6O8
schools and colleges, and an increase
over the previous year of 1915. The
number of pupils in attendance was
] ,739 1922, and beside the native tcacbers
, there are seventy-eight English teachers.
fifteen American, nineteen German, fifty-
three French, two Dutch, and one each
from Russia, Switzerland and China. As
Japan proposes to he represented at the
centennial, pains will undoubtedly be
taken to make n favorable showing as
possible of her educational progress.
THAT Americans are an inventive race
is shown by the fact that last year H.
69S patents were issued to citizens of the
u intel States, or one for every 2.4I2
inhabitants. Connecticut ranks first in
the list among the states in proportion to
PoPuiathoii' ouldihlHR one patent for
every 761 persons residing within her
borders. The District of Columbia
however, obtained one patent for every
els inhabitants. Michigan WIS fifteenth
in the list in the order of proportion, the
number OF patents granted to Michigan
citizens being 100. or one for every
2,923 inhabitants, on the basis of the
census of 1870. Arkansas was the low.
est on the scale, eleven patents being all
that were obtained by her citizens, or
one for every r., Oh inhabitants. In ac-
tual numbers New York led, with 3.771,
aud then followed, in the order given,
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,, Illinois.
Ohio, Connecticut, New Jersey and
Michigan. The greatest number OF
patents relatively were issued to the New
England states: yt to the middle; then
To the Pacific states; then to the western
states; then Ia the territories, and lastly
To the southern states Great inventive
ernius has apparently been rightly
,iscribed 10 the New England Yankee
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1876-02-11

LITTLE TH1Ncs.-Little villages are
nearer to being atoms Of shattered
paradise than anything we know Of;
and little fortunes bring the most con-
tent, and little hopes the least disap-
|pointments.
Little words are the sweetest to
hear; little charities fly farthest and
stay longest on the wing; little lakes
are stillest, little hearts the fullest,
and little farms the best titled.
Little, books are most read, and lit
tie songs u ost loved. And when ma.
ture would make anything especially
rare and beautiful, she makes it little
little pearls, little diamonds, little
dews.
Everybody" says writer, "calls
that little which they love best on
earth. We once heard good sort Of
a man speak Of his little wife, and we
fancied she must be. a perfect little
bIou of a wife. We saw her and she
weighed two hundred and ten pounds;
we were surprised. But then it was
no joke; the man meant it. He could
put his wife in his heart and have
room for other things beside; and
what was she but precious, and what
was she but little?"
Multum in parvo-mnch in little
is the great beauty in all that we love
best, hope for most, and remember the
longest.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1876-02-11
DLANkS OF ALL KINDS FOB
IL saIe n this efice.
IDAHO CITY BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

IDAHO CITY BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
c. s. Kingsley. general merchandise. Main Street.
Wall streets.
G. ". Crafts general merchandise. Main street.
Thomas Barry, general merchandise. CONNER
sial street
Lauer 4 Swim, general merchandise. Main
street.
q. Marie. Tin and hardware. Main street.
D. B. Kimmel, watches and jewelry. Main street.
j. D. Emery, general merchandise. Main street.
Ed. Fulmcr. general merchandise. main street
George DUNCAN, hotel. Main street.
W. Payne. carpenter, Main street.
John kunyAn, painter, corner Commercial ana
DR.. shelter, physician and surgeon. wallula
street.
street. .
Rowe e. McDevitt, meat market, Main street.
A. Strauss. commission and storage business.
Main street
John C,arrecht, meat market Main street.
X. Haug. brewery, Main street.
C. ". Moore Co., First National Bank, Main
street. 49,. 49,. ,gst
q. G. silsby. books and stationery, Montgomery
street. ,l...,
A. q Luuey, hotel. Luna House. corner Mont
comery and Commercial streets. l3
W. ". Black, livery and feed stable Main street.
wul6 Miller, soda factory. Wall street.
Tincher Holland. saloon. Main street.
Matt zspp, saloon, Main street. #E6
Mcfnntock Stewart feed and livery stable.
Montgomery street.
Martin Mellennovfch. restaurant. Wall stre et
william Mautx, boot and shoe shop. Main street
Hav Cowan, blscksmiths, Main street
John Marley. blacksmith, Main street.
Henry Frsidenger, bakery and ffuit store. NAH
slreet.
po,ious. grocery and liquor store. Montgomery
street, {s ss . s.ss Ss1 .ss 80.
oh.s Mauts. boot and shoe shop. Main street.
[ / Har,an Jones. wagon maker. Main siteet
Josiah cave, blacksmith, Msin stssst. Il y /
Thomas Dixon, tailor. Mainstreet. .ss.., !.
stnor I nj. csrpenfsrs, Main street. !
Lester s furgasoD, eaEpsn1ferFs' Aoossoay
b. p.s,n,.es, pl,.ls'an ana dsnss. connlsIi
inSs Ssedboc lkuit1 1ndltle6t stotes vain pt1ss,
d TNi n16A Watchmaker, Main otroee. .. ..g d 81
1.er.1 ~ 1Ssnnn1f 6oHc1o1eftr, montgomery Oeteee
.rs.ss q : ~ nd juet optsi6s o. aown oyned by
n f. - iinI SsygSoe an1 aholhee t~om
= sesp e0nsd n y!lllIs : Ds'ssseell sa;ssel |
:, .I|l - : 's| ;s s'I! as;ss = - - sass
|.ss..,s' - p !, y I I,
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1876-02-11
Notice Of Dissolution.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT .THE
IN partnership heretofore existing between john
Covsn and John Donohue IN the blacksmithing bnsi.
ness. Idaho City, l. T. under the firm raanc Of Cow.
An Dunohue ID this day disAoived by mutual con.
sent, Mr. Donohue withdrawing from tire same.
All accounts against the late hrm will be settled
,intlv by the old Grin, and al debts due are to be
equally divided between them Those knowing them.
selves indebted are requested to come frward and
settle the same without delay.
Dec. Is, 1875.
The business at the old stand will hereafter be con-
Quoted by the who hopes BY strict atten-
tion and the turning Oft of first class work. TO merit
continuance II public patronage.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1876-02-11
OBSTACLES TO MARRIAGE.

Happy Relief for Young Men from the
effects OF Errors aud abuses in early life. Manhood
restored. Impediments TO marriage removed. New
method Of treatment. Few and remarkable RENE.
dies Books and Circulars sent free. in scaled en-.
velopes. Address, HOWARD ASSOCIATION. 4l9
n. Ninth st.. Philadelphia, Pa An Institution hav.
ing high reputation for honorable conduct and
professional skill.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1876-02-11

Notice.

Notice.
THO N. s. PARKER, j P. ORCUTT,
II &c. Hasley. A. Il. Hsreraye. and al whom II
may concern: You, and each Of you. are hereby no.
fi1sd ffas Ne. G. Cunstshs and r. W. Kroeber. have
dons th1 fll amount Of work required By tho law OF
Conorrss o. 1874. and amendments thereto. to'wis;
Two Hundred and irorty. le1lg Dollars
on the Uncle sam quartz ledge discovery cssm OF,
nated n Boise county, T.. Banner District Said
claim osnsisting Of twelve hundred feet along tne
~ nav m al assessments against ron on the same,
aud fsr the publcsslop q t6e notice within ninsty
io0l dsys from the dste hsfeof Or forfeit q yo0.
Ant title, interest and claim IN 70 ana apon maa
sO..Ssesd go G. CONSTAN6.
4. W. KROEBER
ra.ho cstv- Tan. 1st. 1876, janl4.3m