The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-23

| made INTO nails all Troy.
A MAN never knows what it is TO fee
alone in the world until he has grabbed a
nickel in showcase window, and dis
covered that it is fastened to the lowe
|-surface of the g lass.
To novels or palaces though we ma,
come, the wretched musquito with hOr
rible hum, will sure lie in ambush ant
wait for us there, till sleep shuts oul
eyelids, and then take his fare. Hum
| Hum? Buzz Buzz When sleeI
shuts our eyelids he'll sure take hi
fare.
NOTHING is 50 discouraging to young
lawyer Just as he wakes eloquent about
angels tears, weeping willow and tomb
stones as to be interrupted by the cold
blooded justiceIwith, You're off your
nest, bub; this is a case of hog steal.
ing"
THE Sultan of Turkey spent $3.50, O0O
not long ago, on fireworks and illumina-
| tions, the occasion being his birthday an
niversary. That is the way he spends
his salary of $10,000,0 900 in gold, and
has to borrow good deal more besides
for similar tritling expenses.
"VELL, you see my friendt goes into
peeziness NIT anuder weller, und dot
oder weller vurnish der capital und
vurnish der peeziness experience; und
pretty soon, three-four years, dot pee
illness is voundt oop, und I got der CAPT
tai undt dot oder weller got der expo
rience."
A SUNDAY teacher was giving lesson
on Ruth. She wanted to bring out the
kindness of Boaz in commanding the
reapers to drop large handfuls of wheat.
"Now, children" she said, "Boaz did
another very nice thing for Ruth; can
you tell me what it wasP p Married
her" said QUE of the boys.
A LITTLE Boston boy was sitting by a
window, the other evening, looking at
the stars as they came out, one by one.
After gazing a. few minutes he cried,
"Ohl papa, papa! Look at Gods finger
nail v' He referred to the moon, which
was in the quarter and had just appeared
over the hill.
THERE was a French singer with a
tremendous voice, who could not dis
cover what line in art he was best fitted
for. He went to Cherubini, who told
him to sing. He sang, and the founda-
ton trembled. "Well," he said, when
he had finished, "illustrious master,
what shall | becomew can Auction
eer," said Cherubini.
IT will be hardly necessary to tell the
name of the facetious party who went
into a dry goods store the other day, and
was observed to be looking about, when
the proprietor remarked to him that they
didn't keep whisky. cit would save
you a good many steps if you did," was
the quick reply.
T,,r Jo,,d l;+tIa mon in c,rov etoad IN
the dry goods box in the street, and, as
he handed down a bottle of the pain
killer to John Smith and took Johns
quarter he sang out in rafting tone:
" And sold again! And love to say sold
again! for whenever i say sold again!
another quarter of a. dollar drops into
the treasury.
"SIR," asked an attorney yesterday OF
4 witness who was testifying in case OF
assault and battery; "have you ever
been i'm this court before ?'
eyes, sir" replied the witness. 81
nave been here often"
"Ah, been here often, have you 2,
,aid the attorney in a triumphant tone
Now, tell the court what for"
"Well," replied the witness, slowly;
{ I have been here at least a dozen times
=
dill you owe."
THE New Testament revision in Eng
and, a work in which quite a number of
eminent divines are engaged, has now
,een going on five years, and to complete
t probably five years more will be re-
luired. The revisers are reported hav-
ng entirely completed their work upon
he four gospels, excepting so far as two
questions are concerned, which still
,ause difference of opinion and are yet
% be decided. The number of disputed
,oints is very great, and requires vast
mount of research to- satisfactorily set
lie many of them.
A PHILADELPHIA hilliner apprentice
vent to visit her mother in the country
asst Sunday, and when that worthy ma
ron beheld her child she exclaimed
Isabel Marie Stephens, what on airth
10 YOU mean, coming out in broad day
ight with your gown all kaiuElmuxed
p in heap behind we, and all bound up
n that way in front of We? And hain't ye
OF no stockings all of one color, that ye
af to wear them zebra-colored things?
'hought We was goin' to be a milllner:
hid think ye'd married a barber, and
-as playing up signboard for him. Did
yer think one ofmy girls would come to
hisp'
NOTABLE INVENTIONS. = The first
lention in history of the use of steam
5 motive power is as follows: Hero,
lechanic of Alexandria, Egypt, about
fty years anterior to the birth of Christ,
lvented a machine in which motion of
ontinued rotation was impaired to an
xis by the reaction of steam issuing
ON lateral orifices in arms placed at
ght angles to the revolving axis. This,
e believe, was the first machine that
as ever put in motion by steam: 1he
rst actual model as a steam carriage OF
hich we have written account, was
by Frenchman named Cug-
Dt, who exhibited it before the Mar
uis de SAKE in 1868. The first passen-
n steam car was put upon the Stockton
I'd darlington railroad, England, Ser
mber 27. 1925. Professor Morse pat
fed his invention of the telegraph in
,37. but the first line i'll operation, from
yashineton to Baltimore was not COM
eted until 1914.
GEORGIA CoTToN PLANTERs.-Cotton
now rolling into this city, writes a cor
spondent from Augusta, at the rate OF
10 bales per day. 1t is immediateiy
rown upon the market and ssfu' mus
Nv after day drawing Gom New 1ork
ss sum of s45, 900 Of sa7o, 600 per week,
putting it matsrs are ra paHyg o%-
=. Ppas;,-r with us, and indeed in all SOUTH
4 cotton towns The planters are in
tier condition to "hold back" their crop
an have known them since the war.
eretofore they have had it so heavily
Drtgaged they were forced to sell for
price offered, these mortgages
vays maturing prior to the 18th of Dc
ber This placed a great percentage on
e market, depressed and broke it down
n very low figure. The staple, there
e, ruled low until after the holidays,
zen it would rally and sell for heavy
oft. Now, however, the planters are
ry little, comparatively speaking, IN
BIT, for the good and sufficient reason
~ swamped their factors until they
nd get no more credit. They propose
run tilt with the cotton bears as soon
they sell little, pay of, and get some
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