The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-06-26
ADVERTISING RATES.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

Orange county, New YORK, uses I4,UUO
quarts of milk daily and pays out 1927, 600
monthly.
THERE are 300 to 400 American girls
in Milan learning to sing, in considera-
ton of which Providence kindly exempts
Milan from the presence of cats.
THERE are only two hundred men in
Connecticut who have not invented some
sort of clothes-pin, or some kind Of
salve or liniment.
How a woman can keep on talking
while she is twisting up her back hair
and has her mouth full of hairpins, is a
mystery not yet explained.
A Dr.. GLENN, who is ranked as the
wealthiest and most extensive farmer in
California, has sold his wheat crop for
$500, 900.
ILooK upon an able statesman out of
business like huge whale, that will
endeavor to overturn the ship unless he
has an empty cask to play with.-Steete.
Our two-cent and five-cent pieces
have the motto Gin God we trust" but
our new twenty-five.cent pieces hasn't.
When a man gets wealthy, he don't
propose to trust anybody, you know.
Boston swells wearra style of YES
called the 6. Longfellow," of which the
globe says that with one of them, a rea-
sonably high pair of shoes, and hat, a
man is in full dress.
DIR. MAURN suggests keeping tho
wire or mosquito-bar blinds of sick
rooms wetted. The effect on the at
mosphere is to refresh it, as though q
storm had occurred.
LIFE would be a perpetual flea hunt
If man were obliged to run down all
the inuendoes, inveracities, Nominations
and suspicious which are uttered against
him.
PETROLEUM oils are now said to be
coming into use for dressing leather,
and are claimed to be much better and
cheaper than animal oils for TINT pur-
pose.
A ROY is blessing until he puts on
pants. From the period of the first
rent in his trousers dates a feeling in
the maternal breast that is not wholly
affectionate.
ALL life is sacred, and therefore NOT
to be lightly taken, is reflection which
occurs to many humane persons who
carefully extricate bugs from their
strawberries before eating them.
TIE Marquis de Blague, one of Cam
bronne's Guard at Waterloo, died re-
Gently, denying to the last that his COM
mander said: "Tbe Old Guard dies,
but it never surrenders-"
THE mania for suicides is becoming
80 general in the Prussian army that a
proposition has been made to investi-
gate the cause, and devise means to
remedy it.
This is the time of the year when
mothers and daughters endeavor to give
the breakfast table chat watering
place tint, while the old gentleman eats
hastily and departs promptly to his
business when his second cup Of coffee
is finished.
A WIDOW has no bridesmaids; her
dress is generally gray or lavender,
never white, and she wears a bonnet
and veil. 1t makes no difference
whether she marries single man or a
widower, or. whether either party has
children.
IT costs 81 900, they say, to educate
girl at Vassar college, but when she
gets her diploma she can hang on the
trapeze head downwards, kick open
gate, Jump a fence or crowd a saucy
chap off the sidewalk, and the money Is
not wasted.
The Holyoke church horror appear
to have been brought about by nom
explosive oil. If national cemetery
for the reception of victims OF this
treacherous fluid were to be started, 1t
would prove about as thriving a grave
yard as could possibly be desired
If a lady wears a three-story hat to
the theater, is it etiquette for the gen
tleman who sits behind her to climb up
and roost on the back of his seat? Or
must he bob his head from side to side
TO catch furtive glimpses at the stage
around her head? Will some modern
Chesterfield answer?
A GOOD many years ago Massachu-
sets man was elected to the office OF
acknowledgements. When the fact OF
his election was announced he was
called upon for a speech. He proceeded
to acknowledge the honor in very hand
some terms, and added that he had no
doubt he should make a good heuten-
ant governor, as that was the Office he
had always held in his own house.
OLD Zachariah jackson, OF Rocky
Gulch, Nevada, is forty-niner who
had been through the mill" The other
day he hobbled up to party of new
corners and observed: Tend to yer
bizness, boys, and yell be all right.
I've been here nigh on to thirty years,
and have been lypched, shot and
stabbed, knocked down, thrown off a
mountain and mopped around generally,
but I'm here to-day, biggern'n box
car"
A CINCINNATI woman says II never
knew but one woman, in nay life, who
chose to make her husbands shirts, and
confessed she liked to do it; and she
had nothing else to do; could leave
them any moment had some one else
to make all the button-holes had
ready made bosoms, and when she fin
ished her half dozen was presented by
her delighted spouse with twenty dol
lars in greenbacks. No wonder she
liked it."
THE annual report of the register
general, for 1874, of the =" births,
deaths, and causes of death, In Lon
DON and the other large cities OF the
United Kingdom has been published.
The report gives the statistics for
twenty-one large cities, and of these
London is the most healthy. The death
rate in London was only % per 900
and the excess of births over deaths
was 44,7SS. In London there are 10
persons to each acre of space IN Edln-
burg, AT; in Manchester, 50; in Liver
vool. 90 in Glasgow, 100. Inc re-
{ oective rates of mortality are Lon
Aon, % Edinburg. %; Manchester, 80;
Liverpool, 80: Glasgow, 81.
lido not think we fully realize, any
ore of us, how much worship there Is
in the mere act of creating beauty; not
only in the beauty OF loving looks and
deeds, and beauty of form aHd color
and proportion. God loves beauty:
4 yery star that shines. every flower that
b ooms, every dew-drop that glistens ia
the sun, proves this; and beileve that
every woman who strives to make her
own home and her own life beautiful,
serve s God in this as truly as she serves
him upon Bonded knees or in the holy
services of the sanctuary. And IN Just
80 far as she fails of making that home
and that life as beautiful as she can, III
inst SO far does she fail of her duty to