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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
SALARIES or CfRCU.

James Robinson, who is generally be-
lieved, says the New York Sun, to be the
most dashing and finished bareback
rider now in the ring, has six finely
trained horses, and Charles Fish, who
ranks next to him in this line, has four
or five. The Melville brothers, three Of
them, have six horses for their several
acts. Frank is very fine pad and
George bareback rider. So the list
might be extended almost indefinitely.
In one respect there is a gain to the
general excellence of the profession, as
it enables performers ! OF only to bring
their horses into higher training for their
special lines of business, but into more
thorough accord and understanding with
themselves, an element the importance
of which is fully understood by all eques-
TRANS. But the performers themselves
grumble that their salaries have not in
creased in proportion with the added ex=
pense to them and the tightening of the
burdens of the manager. They are only
Gil iOyCu lCoS Ii@h Hall tAC yCtu VII du
average, but during all the other portion
must maintain their horses and keep
them in training at their own cost.
Still they get very comfortable pay.
James Robinson gets two hundred dollars
per week himself alone, and last season
got four hundred and fifty dollars for
himself and two boys. Charles Fish gets
about one hundred and fifty dollars the
Melville brothers, three hundred and
fifty dollars; Dockrell and wife, three
hundred dollars. These are, of course,
the largest salaries for equestrians, who
are the best paid persons about circus
below the grade of proprietor, but it may
be said that the general pay of pad riders
runs from eighty to one hundred dollars
per week each, and of bareback riders from
one hundred to two hundred dollars, &C
,ording to their individual excellence
and popularity and the necessities of the
The pad riders generally accepted as
The best in the country at the present
time are, in addition to those mentioned,
Oh. F. Reed, VIM. button, Romeo,
Bob Stickney, Mile. Viola
,Rivers), Mrs. Burdeau, Mrs. Cook,
Nine. De Berg and Mollie Brown. The
latter is daughter of Nine. Tournaire.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

ture might possibly be, peepled his vigil
Of danger till it became a nightmare.
Slowly, very slowly the darkness broke
away, and Jack, sickened with long sus-
pense, cautiouly turned his head. There,
close to him, stretched out in an attitude
of repose, lay full-grcwn panther.
Carefully and silently he drew his rifle
forward little more. What if the cap
should not explode? What if the rifle
were not properly loaded ? He raised his
right arm gradually, until the muzzle
was within an inch Of the panther's ear.
He pressed the trigger, and at the instant
of the discharge he was on his feet, with
his hunting-knife in his hand, ready to
fight for his life
But there was no need of the knife
now. The bullet had crashed through
the brain of the PROSTATE beast, killing
him on the spot. Jacks danger was
over. But even now, whenever he tells
the story, he says he can feel the cold
sweat gather on his flesh as it did that
terrible morning in the Adirondack
woods when he lay in bed with the
Youths Companion.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
WHAT Il FALL .

A minister of the gospel told me enc of
the most thrilling incidents l have heard
in my life. A member of his congrega
ton came home for the first time in his
life intoxicated, and his boy met him
upon the doorstep, clapping his hands
and exclaiming: "Papa's come home !"
He seized that boy by the shoulder,
swung him around, staggered and fell in
the hall. That minister said to me q
could give you his name, if necessary):
81 spent the night in that house. Invent
out and barred my brow that the nigh air
might tall upon it and cool it; walked
out and down the hill. There was his
child-dead There was his wife in
strong commissions, and he asleep! A man
but thirty years asleep, with dead child
in the house, having a blue mark upon
the temple where the corner of the mar
BILE steps had come in contact with the
head as he swung him around, and a wife
upon the brink of the grave! Mr..
Cough" said my friend, :" cursed the
drink. He had told me that must re-
main till he awoke, and did. When he
woke, he passed his hand over his face
and exclaimed: What is the matter ?
where am i? where is my boy?' You
cannot see him. Stand out of my way
will see my boy To prevent confu-
sion, took him to the child's bed, and
as | turned the sheet down and showed
him the corpse he uttered a wild Shrek
'Oh, my childu" That minister said to
me further: One year after that he Wa.
brought from lunatic asylum to lie side
bv side with his wife in one grave, and
attended the funeral The minister OF
| the gospel who told me that fact, is to-
| day a drunken hostler in a stable i'm Bos
| ton, Now tell me what rum will do, II
will debase, degrade, imbrute, ana dam,
everything that is noble, bright, glorious
and God-like in human being. Their,
is nothing drink will not do that is vile
dastardly, cowardly, sneaking, or helIish
We are united, brethren, are we not, t,
fight till the day of our death II 3
G0ugh.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
CANTON, MISSISSIPPI APRIL 10, 1876.

the sexes ought to lead only to the most
harmonious results; yet the reverse in
the fact. 1t is strange, too, what real
liberty of choice is exercised by those
who marry according to what is thought
their own inclinations. The receptions
which the two sexes play off upon each
other bring as many ill-assorted couples
into the bonds of hymen as ever could
be done by the arbitrary pairings of
legal matchmaker. Many AMMAN thinks
he marries by choice who only marries
by accident In this respect men have
less the advantage than is generally
supposed.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

PROFESSOR TYNDALL has discovered
that air can be rendered OFFICIALLY pure
by merely leaving it undisturbed three
or four days in a close chamber. All the
floating matter subsidies, and the confined
air will not transmit light. Solutions
placed therein remain unaltered, though
left for months, while similar solutions
open to the ordinary air swarm with
bacteria in twenty-four hours or two
days.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
VOLUME XII.
BIFROST. THE RAINBOW BRIDGE.
A MORSE LEGEND.

EY LAURA WINTHROP JOHNSON.
When the Immortas stood in light
First on the archway of the skiesf
The home of sevenfod glory bright,
All thrilling with sweet surprise,
They triumphed in that shining place
balder the beautiful, and Frey,
And all of Asgard's stately race,
Newborn, and radiant from on high
But their strong brother, who had gone
Perforce, through storm and cloud, and wrath,
Before them, walked the bridge alone,
And proved his way the quicker path.
Thus there are those who lightly tread
Untired upon the rainbow bridge;
While airs of heaven MAY found the head
Serene they mount its fairy ridge.
Others there are who, lost and blind,
strug1e in mist, and maze, and dark :;
And al they love and long for. find,
Without path or guiding spark,
Yet sooner reach the cleaning goal
Than they who freely mount aloft,
Where color warns the happy soul
In rays concentric, pulses soft.
Take courage, then, We sons OF strength,
Who fsin must struggle night and day!
Conquering, We gain your peace at length;
The dark way is the shorter way.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

Ex-PREsIDEST THEIRS, speaking to
some members of the Left, recently
gave his opizion of the political situa-
ton in France in the following terse
language: & Be very careful henceforth
what you do. The third republic is
the last that France will see. 1t will
he de6nitive, if you act wisely; but if
you upset it by your rashness or i'm
prudence there will be no chance for
another
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
Archbishop Sancrott once sal

Archbishop Sancrot 0nce saIu I"
Mr.. Betterton: pray, can you inform
me why you actors on the stage, speak
ing of things imaginary, affect your
audience as if they were real, while we
in the church speak of things real. which
our congregations receive only as II they
were Imaginary" ''Why, really, my
lord" answered Betterton, Il don't
know, unless it is that we actors speak of
things imaginary as if they were real,
while you in the pulpit speak of things
real as if they were imaginary"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
THE WEEK PAST.

The Jewish Messenger calls attention
to the fact that Rubenstein is the only
Jew convicted of murder in the United
States. while Presbyterians, Methodists,
Catholics and other Christians have had
their hands in all sorts of wickedness
from the beginning of their existence.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

An officer of the regular army
laughed at a timid woman because she
was alarmed at the noise of a cannon
when a salute was fired He subsequently
married that timid woman, and six
months aftcrward he took of his boots
IN tic bali when he came home late at
night.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
OFF THE ST-fGE.

There never was greater iavorite be-
hind the scenes of any theater than Lolita.
From the highest to the humblest men,
Der of each company she has the same
pleasant smile, an equally kindly greet
ing. | have been behind the scenes of
theaters from one end of the country to
the other, and never heard harsh crit
icism of Lolita. No matter if her pieces
90 wrong by reason of the shortcomings
of the performers she is always ipdulgent
and gentle; never petulant nor over
bearing. Like the good little girl whose
correct behavior we are always lauding
to those inmates of the nursery whom we
know, she says "please" and thank
you" to everybody and for everything
The "supes" (the very nethermost pie
beians of the social community of the
STACEY of a certain large theater where
she was playing were so charmed by her
kindness and affability, which formed
such contrast to the conduct of the
generality of successful stars, that they
presented her on the last night of her
engagement with floral banjo, one OF
| the most beautiful of all her gifts that
night Lolita obtained the names of these
men and on the following Christmas sent
to each individual a pretty souvenir with
her regards. In her following engage
ment the supes, moved to still greater
effort, offered the lady a real banIo-an
object of cost, being gold-mounted and
pearl inlaid. Who knows the depriva-
tons these poor fellows had endured
throughout the year in order to DE able
to Law at the feet of the kind Lolita some
thing of permanent value, and which was
at the same time a tangible evidence of
her own gentleness and amiability?
Lotta's fun is not simulated; it is all
real. The same spirit of mischief which
in Zip sets her to shaking hands with her
friend, leaving crab which she has just
caught from the ocean in his fingers,
moved her to write in lady's album
under the Shakespearian quotation:
4 moor pinyer''
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
"A good banjo player"

Lolita is not likely soon to he forgotten
in California The state was the nursery
of her budding genius, and in the beau
tiful fountain which she presented to San
Francisco she framed an expression of her
gratitude for the indulgent kindness she
has always received from the jewellers in
the city of the Golden Gate OHre Lognn
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

Sugar Loaf, Orange count
Rysdyk's death, he selecte'
the old horse was to be bur
in lot, with appropriate h
left a clause in his will, t
circumstances should the
be mutilated after deatl
were made yesterday, on
one of 81, 900, for Hambl
for the purpose of preser
in his natural shape /; but
refused by the Rysdyk
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

A SUMMARY of the party results at
the late election to the French chamber
of deputies shows that 3,673,O00 votes
were given for the republic, 1 ,413, 900 for
the empire, and ], 1894, 900 votes represent
the combined strength of the Bourbon
and Orleanist monarchies. About three
and half million voters abstained from
voting. Of the votes given the re-
publicans cast 49,, 900 more than half, or
a majority OF $780, 900 over both monar-
chies and the empire.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

The irrepressible freshmen still remain
unchecked in some American colleges.
One of them, at Princeton, few days
since placed heavy charge of powder
under the door of the room of one of the
tutors and touched it of with fuse.
The explosion sheok the building, COM
pletely shattered the door and tore out a
window, creating considerable excite
ment. The tutor escaped because he
YVES not in the room at the time.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

GOING Falling in love
is an old fashion and one that will vet
endure Cobbett, good, sound Eng
lishman, says that between fifteen and
twenty-five all people will fall in love. ~
Shakespeare pushes out this season to
the age of forty-fve. Old Burton, writ
ing on love melancholy, gives lis a still
further extension of the case in saying
"there be old fools as well as young
FOOLS" We find in history that the
quaintest, quietest of men, the most out
wardIy sanity, cold beings have had
their moments of intense love-madness.
Luckily love is as Lawful! as eating when
properly INDUCED in. We may all of
us make up our minds not to oppose it,
but to control it. Therefore let us fall
in love, "wisely and we'll" A man who
could teach a nation how to do SO would
deserve statue of gold.
So much happiness depends upon
courtship, that it is really a serious mat
ter Small attentions, Thousand little
niceties preccde the passion. Goblet,
with his plain English sense, gives a list
of eight qualities in a wife which a man
should look out for: First, chastity !;
second, sobriety; third, industry; fourth,
frugaIity; fifth, cleanliness sixth,
| knowledge of domestic affairs; seventh,
good temper; eighth, beauty.
During courtship there should be no
roughness, no rude assertion of property.
1T should consist" said Sterne, Gin a
number of quiet attentions, not so
pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as to
be misunderstood" Love, desire, faith,
esteem and all the anticipations of hope
should be on our side, that if after the
sweet pastime of courtship the day
should be stormy and the gusts OF mis-
fortune arise. Il sweet remembrance will
cheer us through all.
DEATH or DE\rE : SIRE-The New
York sun saws: Rvsdyk's world removed
stallion, Hamblztonian, died at Chester
Orange county, March 2Sth. The
horse was about thirty years of age. He
was the sire of Mr. Bonners king of the
turf, Dexter, and of many other noted
truttinm horses of the country. The in
come from Hambletonian WAS over so,
600 a wear II il said that at one time
Sloo, OGo WAS offered for the horse. He
was bought about twenty seven year
ago Tor $50, from the Seeley family, a
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

ABOUT 100000 tons of coal are
(gnined yearly in Pennsylvania. In the
dimes, unwfought, it is worth fifty cents
avon, or SIC, OOO, 900; mined and brought
to Y he surface, it is worth s1.5O a ton,
or $50, OOO, 900; giound, broken and placed
on the cars, it is worth $3.50 ton, or
$4,000, 900 ; delivered at the boundaries
of the state or on ship-board, it is worth
on an average $3.50, or s110, ZOO, 900,
which is the sum annually paid to Penn
sylvania for coal.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

TIRE sultan of Zanzibar has, OF his own
motion and without any compensation,
done what no Christian, much less
Moslem state, has hitherto done for the
suppression of slavery. He has issued a
proclamation to all his subjects in Kis-
mayo, Brawa, Marco and Warsheik, Or
dering them to free their slaves, and will
no longer permit the passage of slaves
through his dominions. The British
consul-general, John Kirk, will see the
decree carried out faithfully.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

marry by all means yet | am convinced
the greater part of marriages are I'M
happy and this is not an opinion | give
as coming from myself; it is that of a
very excellent, agreeable and sensible
lady who married the man of her choice,
and has not encountered Ostensibly any
extraordinary misfortune, as loss of
health, riches, children, etc. She told
me this unrcservedIy, and never had
any reason to doubt her sincerity. For
all this am convinced man can not
he truly happy without n wife. 1t IS a
strange state of things we live in; ten
dency so natural rs that of the union of
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

Nova SCOTIA is to be well represented
at tine Centennial exposition. The Tor
onto Globe says: The SELECTION made to
represent Nova Scotia at the Philadel-
phia Centennial exposition form a list
far ahead of that made for the Paris ex-
position, and represent pretty fully the
leading industries and resources of the
province. The leading industry, and
that which must eventually prove Nova
Scotia's chief source of wealth-her min
eral wealth-is represented by about
sixty different entries, including gold,
and quartz iron ore in variety, ores OF
Manganese, columns of coal representing
seams from three to twelve feet thick,
building stone, limestone, clays, grind
stones, lime, gypsum. In products
manufactured from these minerals there
are number of specimens of iron and
steel in various conditions, chilled car
made from clay. The shipbuilding in.
terest is represented by no less than
eleven models, a model of improved
reefng gear and patent ships pump
Manufacturers are well represented. Ir
addition to manufactured articles al
ready named, there are wooden goods
boots and shoes, trunks, furs, paper
hardware, cordage, pianos, and organs
steam engines, boilers, and number o
other articles calculated to show wha
the province can do in the line of manu-
featured goods of different kinds Agri
culture and the fisheries, the two grea
food producing industries of the country
are also representative former by ap
pies of the former seasons growth an
apples and other fruits of this season
with a collection of cereals the latter
fish of all descriptions preserved an
cured in various ways.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

DR. LINDERMAN director of the United
States minis, writes letter to an inter-
ested gentleman at Denver, Col. express
ing the opinion that silver cannot decline
much lower, in view of the fact that it is
the money of China, the Indies, Russia,
Austria and several smaller countries.
How soon permanent reaction will set in
depends largely on the course taken by
the United States. He holds there is no
danger of silver ever ceasing to be used
as money, as there is not anything like
enough gold in existence to supply all
nations with a circulation, and he adds
that no other nation can follow the exam
pie OF Germany in making gold the only
monetary standard without increasing the
value of that metal to point which
would produce depression of business
throughout the world.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

The st. Petersburg correspondent Of
the Augsburg Gazette says the report that
the car intends to retire practically,
though not nominally. from the conduct
of public affairs, gains ground rapidly.
1t is also stated that he intends to reside
abroad some length of time, probably
staying temporarily at Malta, whittier
the Duchess of Edinburgh will shortly
proceed. The czarowitch will be ap-
pointed regent during his absence. The
correspondent asserts that statements
from high and well-informed quarters
corroborate this report.
Decorah-posten., 1876-06-29

Warlncn. @sbfommsnoe Geunts
fcmmitie fcreilanr en- lo9ift af SO.
Cos. 900 mere emo at Sulet bcpilaet
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lllm S92 076 Sou. minbre emo fol-
rorriss Nnr. Wen &ommiitecns
6otilas ON at fotbeic Yepiuinserns
I'll Ssoiicercr oe Wanoifabsr fra
s5. $50 900 til $1,000 900 blsu bi.
Tdlbt. gnbbibas bIep eiter en- lana.
paria Nebat Sorilaaet ON at for.
beie Bepillir9eu for uoruitnina Of
Sfibe ira $3.50 900 iii 81 1000
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bOcrimOo gcsiGrin0cn ON SOrbeielie
ira $40 600 iii 900 900 Of llot0I.
linserne Ill StibspGritcr bIsp iorfa.
itet NEE 26 MOB 30 Siemmer.
Decorah-posten., 1876-06-29
YbiIa0cpbia.

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til for at bsie ubiiillinsen. bleu Den
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mrr. iom ban mrNts pao @anen
loo iia lcffe inr / ct bsrp9tct 9us
bpOr Y,nasne irarepeNes BAN. 81
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Decorah-posten., 1876-06-29
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get plnoitli9. San bar 9aaei ben
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ban plnelcIi9 beb on.
@sb Gaiton, Saribault 70.
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Decorah-posten., 1876-06-29
,}ainois.

Sirtnior. SUM 10. Darmsre fla.
se optr. Of oct p~sopnrsnoe Mtanpsil
bar Slort msgsn Sfabs pna Mars
sreotn.
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be 8sonpsir.
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%Iaasooiiom bWrss op paa Sfufoiiet
StraI for SGuaninsen pirsoe ban
noale ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Orb ON.
at Worbet fOraariassoss pso ct Gil.
Decorah-posten., 1876-06-29

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lsibe bonn fra SamIin til ct anoet
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ban pilee bIius tuset no af 5ena.
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lsfono bIiue nbbsIt sl9o,S73.8 80.
Der uoocles Al Gsnts for bpert
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Yrs. Sls Buus Spsrluttelie
"goelens Snitrn" al SOnas gle CT
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