The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
BECAUSE THE WAY Is SHORT. /"

| To muse upon eternitys constraint
| Round our aspirant souls. But since the scope
Must widen early, it is well to droop
For few days consumed in loss and faint
| o puslianimous Heart, be comforted-
And like cheerless traveller. take the road,
| Singing beside the hedge. What IL the bread
Be bitter in thine inn, and hon un-hod
| To meet the fiints ?-At least it may be SAID,
because the way is short, thank thee. Ged'
CHOW let us talk about your business
AFFAIRS" said sharp Connecticut girl to
young fellow, after he had proposed
marriage to her in long address filed
with expressions of passionate love.
THAT was funny Indictment which
arraigned woman in Milwaukee, the
other dav, for disturbing a religion
meeting by riotously eating nuts -
noisily champing the same with
teeth. The woman was acquitted
EIGHTY SEVEN persons in Stowe, Mas-
sachusetts, every one of whom is over
70 years of age, have cut loose from the
Youngsters of so and 60, and have formed
themse yes into a club. The most an
cient member is an exclusive old lady of
100 years.
MISS ANNIE GRAY, young Australian
beauty, wore no diadem but youth at
one of Queen Victoria's recent draw
ing rooms, but outshone every lady
present. She is blonde with a mass
of curling hair, and eyes of the true
blue.
In 1920 the average individual con-
sumption of wine in France was 81
quarts in 1853 "a quarts, and in 1869
100 quarts. In, Paris the average has
more than doubled: each Partisan
drinks on an average pit quarts OF wine
annually. w
A SCHOOL MASTER, who had at
crate habit of talking to hj@s!, nos
asked what motive he coHid have in
doing so. He replied that ba had two
good and substantial rgesons In the
first place he liked t6faIk 10 q sensible
man IN the nextrblace, he liked to hear
sensible ms9fa talk.
A RoVS6 sHourpEREp, inquisitive
man licked what he thought was an
:. Mmental dog lying on step to see II
1t was hollow. It wasn't an ornamental
dog, and it wasn't hollow, but was there
on business, and the inquisitive man is
now frustrating with his aunt till his
leg gets well.
CHANGE OF SEASONS
All seasons we may come to seek
Where thou. my dear one, art
Warm summer on the little cheek,
Cold winter in the heart.
But all things change; and 3d. my love,
These seasons shall depart;
The winter to thy cheek shall move;
The summer, to thy heart
ATHLETIC sports do not flourish in
France, and the Pail Mall Gazette as
signes as reasons, first, the Frenchmen
have too much vanity to enter into con-
tests in which they run the risk of be-
ing beaten, and, second, that athletic
sports interfere with that devotion to
the female sex which is a Ffenchman's
chief amusement. Frenchmen will not
play cricket or football lest their eyes
should be BACKED and their shins
wounded. They do not like boating
because they connot take out ladies in
racing shells, and they dislike any game
in which one side is exposed to the ig-
nominy of a public defeat. All OF
which is very probably true, but it is
not SO clear that the Frenchmen are
therefore, less sensible in their conduct
Than are the Englishmen.
How TO MAKE BREAD.-
Jolly farmer, the question is, "How to make
bread?"
And YOU think it a light and dry one.
A slice, we will own 1t is easy to spread, a.
Yet the loaf to prepare, should you try IN IT'S
Then to eat it, though much it had bothered
your head,
A face you'd make, surely, wry one.
How to fashion life's staff is a question of
weight,
Though woman may care not for questions
of State,
The state matrimonial she will berate,
4 her care in the kitchen shall come all too
And the heavy loaf lead to confusion.
supply, by your care, from the crush of the
The brand which is purest and sweetest;
With water that flows from the spring on the
hill,
md hops from the yard that the trailing vines
fill,
md few Early Roses to be mashed with a
will,
Leave the rest to your wife, the discreetest.
Fon the destruction of the cockroach
Ir, Harris, the late eminent entomol-
gist, recommends a table spoonful of
ed lead, the same amount of Indian
neal, with molasses enough to make
hick batter. Set this on plate at
ieht in places frequented by the in
cots. and all that eat of it will be poi
oned. Another preparation is composed
one tea spoonful of powdered arsenic,
nth tablespoonful of mashed potato.
rumble this every night at bedtime
here the insects will find it, and it is
aid to be an effectual poison. Great
are should be exercised in the use of
UGH dangerous agents. An innocent
,ethod of destroying cockIoaches is to
lace a bowl or basin containing a little
lolasses on the floor at night. bit of
God, resting one end on the floor and
ne other on the edge Of the vessel,
erves as bridge to conduct the insects
, the sweet deposit. Once in the trap
nd its slippery sides prevent retreat,
nd thus cockroach es may be caught by
le thous and Various insect powders
Did at tb e druggists may be used TOR
leir determination.
How THE BRIGANDs SERVE THEIR
RArToRs. The Visalia, California,
'elta says: About two months ago
Iexican by the name of Francisco
leila came to the ranch of John
[einlan, of Mussel Slough, and hired
ut to herd horses. He subsequently
lated that he had been one of the Chavez
and. had resolved to leave them and
as fearful that he would be murdered
II SO doing. On the morning of the
9th inst. after Viella had gone to his
ork. a large, well-dressed man-whom
,e China cook took to be either Mex
AN or a Frenchman-rode up and
anted breakfast. He was mounted ON 80
large bay horse and armed with pistol
nd gun. He rode away over the plain.
oward night the horse of Viella was
und tied to the fence, with the saddle
and forty or fifty rods away
10 dead body of the rider was found,
here he had been lassoed and dragged
yer the plain until his neck was broken
Id life extinct There can be no doubt
1T the murderer was member of the
havez gang.