The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-24
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SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
The WINE OF LIFE

Because its beauty must soon go by.
And Loves young dream is sweet because il
| day
swifter than springs first blossoms fade
| away.
Yet to have loved, though Love has fed, i
| bliss,
For nothing warns the human heart like thil
or that glad wine my soul has drunk it's fill
| Now the sun snks,-let night come when i
will.
The unknown hours may bring or shade o
| shine,
The treasure in my heart is always mine.
THE immense cannon now being con-
| struc.ed at Woolwich, Eng, will cost
the British government 81, 500, 900.
WHEN a man has a business that
| doesn't pay, he usually begins to look
around for a PARTNER to share his losses
with him.
THE West Point cadet laughs because
the Vassar girl ran screaming from
fright at the recent sham fight. Let the
cadet marry that timid Vassar girl, and
in six months he will take off his boots
in the hall when he comes In nights
for fear she will tear the scalp off him.
A WOMAN of indianapolis has shown
that she could be as murderously brutal
as almost any man. She pursued her
rival in love into a closet, shot her
fatally, and then, patting her revolver
gleefully, exclaimed, "Oh, culver
That's right, die hard 1 enjoy this, 1
do"
The largest library in the United
Stats is the library of congress, which
contains 274, 900 volumes; next in order
is the Boston Public library, with 273,-
Il
library, with 198, 900, and the New York
respectively third and fourth in point of
size.
A VIcKsBURa lady was recently in
quiring of girl from over the river
how a certain old acquaintance, who
married widower a few months ago,
got along. every poorly" replied the
girl A" there's five children, who ought
to be spanked twice day, and Maria's
left handed and can't begin to do 'em
justice. Poor woman, my heart bleeds
for her |"
CREMATION is regularly practiced by
the Ute and Digger Indians of the
Sierra region, pine wood being always
used for the pyre. The widow dosen't
hire a hack or buy any fashionable
mourning goods, but she smears her
face and hair with the exuding resin,
and resolutely declines to permit the
wooing of an enamored brave as long
as the pine juice remains. Per
haps, however, scrapes it sometimes
with chip, or exc a stone, SO as to
hasten its departure-being merely hui
man, you know.
MANY persons are in the habit OF
-. LaI a iokn
after dinner, Ten minutes sleep before
dinner is worth more than an hour
after. It rests and refreshes, and pre-
pares the system for vigorous digestion.
If sleep is taken after dinner, ii should,
be in a sitting posture, as the horizontal
position is unfavorable to digestion.
Let those who need rest and sleep
during the day take it before dinner
instead of after, and they will soon find
that they will feel better, and that
their digestion will be improved there
by.
A FAMILY in this city, the widowed
father of which has been somewhat
afflicted of late with an attempted in
of an uproarous sister-in-
law, has six year-old girl that has
faculty of prayer" A few evenings
since she enumerated the objects OF her
as follows "God bless
papa and my governess, and my sisters
and brother, and my uncle Sam, and my
aunt Georgia, and my twin cousins and
cousin Julia, and all my relations ex-
cept Maud and Jane and Ellen (the OBJ
aoxious aunts), and the less you have
TO do with them the better it will be for
San Francisco Chronicle.
WHEN you get fairly acl oss the bloody
chasm you might as well wade up to the
1t was ex-Gov. Andrews OF
South Carolina who was 30 affected by
the appearance and the enthusiasm OF
The Boston ladies as 10 remark that he
&c felt that an angel, thousand angels,
had come down and touched the pool OF
and that henceforth
The waters were to be pure and sweet, and
we're to flow out and mingle with others
On every side from our great country,
all converging in enc united interest,"
bearing upon their bosom at1ectlonate
greeting to all the members of our great
family" Gosh
FAIR HA1R.-Says a writer Shakes
peare especially appears to nave qe-
lighted greatly in golden hair: her
sunny locks hang on her temples IKE
The golden fleece, he says OF PortaG IN
'The Merchant of Venice" Twice only
n his plays does he mention black halr,
while numerous scattered alusions
show that he esteemed fair
lair the peculiar attribute of his deli
,atelv imagined and beautiful women.
It is a singular fact that among the por-
rats by the great masters hanging In
he national gallery of England--ltalian,
Flemish, Spanish, and French-there
s not single feminine head repre-
,ented with black hair among them all.
Pope has founded one of his finest
poems, 1.-THE Rape of the Lock, upon
woman's hair, and he declares In
couplet-
Fair tresses mans imperial race ensnare'
And beauty draws us by single hair
As a race. the Chinese are the most
nyeterate and consistent of fatallsts.
Their indifference in the time OF grief
md trouble, which we generally ascrlbe
o apathy, is more commonly the result
# their philosophy. Medicine, as is
veil known, is with them science IN
which for hundreds of years no progress
las been made, owing, it would seem,
n a great measure, to their fatallsm.
With a Chinese population In city OF
welve thousand, there are, at the most,
lot more than ten physicians, and these
leriye their incomes in a great measure
rom outside sources. Such remedies
IS are commonly in use among them
AVE probably been proved by the e1-
,erience of centuries. A Chinese Grim
nal. not destitute of money, in many
asses refuses to employ an attorney, In
he firm conviction that whatever he
!oes will not alter the result of the trial;
nd such as do procure counsel are IN
lined to be uncommunicative and indh-
erent in enlightening him as to the
acts in the case, and await the result
NTH the utmost seeming indifference.
n answer to the interrogations of coun-
ell. they are apt to turn away with
hrug and "You are lawee man. You
now ale same me-.
IRON IN THE SoUTH.-The editor OF
he Iron World, published at Pittsburg,
rho has lately made n trip through the