The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-15
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SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

HE agricultural hall for the centen
NAL exposition at Philadelphia eover
. ten acres.
& ENGLAND reads eighty-seven bags O
American newspapers every time tn
mail from this blarsted country gets in
/ THE empress of japan cautions he
young lady friends about talking
loudly on the street, like the vulgar
f American girls"
IT has been ascertained that bed-buRs
, can live a year without air or food. Per
haps this is what is meant by "the sur
vlval of the fittest."
THIS conundrum is respectfully sub
mitted to the best speller 1fS-i-o-u-x
! spells su, and eye spells j, and sigh
ed spells side, why doesn't Sioux
! eyes i-g-h-e-d spell suicide.
A CONTEMPORARY asks: sis mumps
singular, or are they plural ?" Both.
When you get humps on both sides of
your face at once, they are plural, but
they make person look singular.
"GIRLs," observes an experienced
matron. remember that those men
make the best husbands who can .swal-
low dozen hairs to an ounce of.butter
without knowing it,
"KnL himl kill himl" shouted a
crowd in Virginia City as they gathered
around hotel. "What for?" inquired
a stranger. "He's got on alligator
boots and a velvet coat. Mash 'iml"
SCOTLAND spent last year fully e.
600, 600 sterling on whisky for her own
consumption, which is more than one
half the annual value of the lands and
heritages outside of the nine larger
burghs in Scotland.
THE friends of Mile. d'Abbe, niece of
the elected Empress Eugene, are de-
termined topkeep that young woman out
of the poor-house as long as possible.
Her wedding presents cost sixteen hum
dred thousand dollars.
THERE is no doubt that Byron was .
bad man. He played cards and drank,
for in his lines to Tom Moore occurs
this damaging admission
"Tve ace high for those that love me,
And q smile for those that hate"
M. MICHEL, Frenchman of science,
proposes the application of the principle
Of bell rung by change in the Their
mometer to thed. scovery of that change
in the temperature of the water which
indicates the proximity of an iceberg to
navigators of the Atlantic In foggy
weather.
The barbarous Persians are not slow
with their brilliant weddings" though
Jenkins doesn't nourish them as he does
here. When the shah's daughter was
married last month, she "was vailed
with what looked like waving mass Of
molten gold, and was taken to her hus-
bands house by soldiers, with candles
in the muzzles of their guns"
ST WANT to know" writes a CORES
pondent, show you pronounce the In
dian name Sioux" We didn't know it
was an Indian name, but we usually
pronounce it Sigh-oo-ucBs. We some
times fear, though, that the fiery i'm
petuosity of youth may lead us to place
too much emphasis upon the sigh and
the ucks.- Courier Journal.
ONE year ago she leaned over the
garden fence and told him that she
would wait for him till her brow was
furrowed and her hair turned white, if
necessary, and he went away thinking
he'd got soft thing. She's ramming
around town now with a fellow who
parts his hair in the middle and calls
himself "Chawlie," and he's her hus-
band, you know.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH is reputed to
have discovered the potato, but M.
Teller, of Paris, claims the merit of
inventing it, as he has in his garden
all the year round new potatoes, which
continue to increase and multiply in
winter under ground; like trufies, as
we'll as in summer by the ordinary
methods. He has taken out no patent,
and will only reveal the secret If the
nation rewards HIM with an annuity.
IT is said that the matrimonial pros
poets of the Baltimore girls have been
seriously damaged by that little Incl
dent of five babies at birth which
recently TRANSFERRED in that city. 1nas-
much as the mother OF that infant mob
merely intended to show what a Balti-
more girl can do if she tries, it is really
cruel to hold the rest of the girls there
responsible for the very remarkable
success which attended the effort.
A TALENTED fellow countryman says
that we may think what we viii OF 1t
now. but the song and the story heard
around the kitchen fire have colored the
thoughts and lives of most of us have
given us the germs of whatever poetry
blessed our hearts, whatever memory
blooms in our yesterdays. Attribute
whatever we may to the school and the
schooImaster, the rays which make that
little day we call life, radiate from the
God.swept circle of the hearthstone.
CHAIR gettin' little, thin, sir, " said
the barber. "Youug man, said John
Henry, looking down upon him from
the height of a solemn experience;
young man, when you are married
Won will never allude in that thought
less manner to domestic affections. No;
don't apologize. My feelings are blunt
ed. But is there not some mysterious
soft, seductive compound
that makes the hair more slippery 70
the grasp%
TanEE stone coffins of great antiquity
have been found in Dundee. One con-
tanned a skeleton, the body having been
buried in reclining posi-,
ton. Cord had been wound around
the limbs, which, with the SKULL were
in excellent preservation. Inc secono
coffin contained nothing the third COT
fin was six and a half feet long, and IN
r. wa.e human remains. No clew to the
dates was obtained. Two urns-one
roueh and the other artistically formed
were picked up in the neighborhood.
TprRr ia an isolated monastery in
Turkey inhabited by twenty-three monks
ubo have not seen a woman since IN
fancy. One of them is described by
visitor as follows al He had never seen
a woman. nor had he any idea what sort
of things women were, or what they
Looked like. He asked me whether they
the pictures of Panagla (the
holv virpin) which hung in every church.
He listened with great interest while L
told him that all women were not ex-
ectIv like the pictures he had seen, and
that they differed considerably one from
another in appearance, manners, and
"YEs." said the driver of the car to
the man who stood on the steps, "she's
a mighty nice mare for car work-least-
ways to look at. Kick? Well you bet.
since I've had her, she's removed the
insides from two horses hitched in with
her; she's caved in her stall times
enough to make one carpenter rich, and
livened up more'n one passenger
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