The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-06
ADVERTIELNG RATES.
PARAGRAPHS OF THE PERIOD

sultor to 90 down ON his knees to a
lady when he asked her to become his
wife, which, with very stout gentlemen
was an uncomfortable proceeding.
The way in which Daniel Webster
proposed to Miss Fletcher was more
modern, being at the same time neat
polite. Like many other lovers, he
was caught holding skein of thread
or wool which the lady had been I'M
ravelllng. "Grace," said he, eve have
been untying knots. Let us see if we
can not tie one which will not unite in
a lifetime" With a piece of tape he
fashioned half true lovers knot,
Miss Fletcher perfected it and kiss
put the seal to the symbolical bargain.
GATHER" asked a Viclsburg bow
at the dining table the other dav, "are
you a big MANI "Wcll | dunno"
musingly answered the parent.
''Why?" cause | heard some men
talking at the hotel, and they said you
were one Of the biggest men in town."
'.Well, | suppose | do stand pretty
high" replied the parent, looking
pleased and consequential. There was
half minute of silence, and then the
boy added: "They said it was a won
der how you carried your feet around?"
The boy can't understand yet why he
should have received box on the ear
which made his head roar for two long
hours.
SAYINGS OF DIR. JoHNsoN.-Getting
money Is not all mans business; to
cultivate kindness is valuable part of
the business of life.
A man has no more right to say an
uncivil thing than to act one-no more
right to say rude thing to another
THAN to knock him down.
HUMAN moments. are stolen away by
a thousand Petty impediments which
leave no trace behind them.
AS man advances in life he gets
what is better than admiration-iudg-
ment to estimate things at their true
value.
HAVE you ever watched an icicle as
it formed? You noticed how it froze
one drop at time, until it was foot
long or more If the water was clean,
the icicle remained clear, and sparkled .
in the sun, but if The water was
slightly muddy, the icicle looked foul,
and its beauty spoiled. just so our
characters are forming. One little
thought or feeling at a time adds its
influence. If every thought be pure
and right, the soul will be lovely, and
will sparkle with happiness; but if
impure and wrong, there is always
wretchedness.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Jewish
Messenger says: The small boy sharp
ened his pencil and wrote the. advent
ures of the day. The diary -was
passed around, and we admired the
graphic description of sea life collched
in sentences like these: "June 18th Y
Very Ruff June 18th Ruffer to-day.
June 10th, To-day we went 81 nots.
1t is still very ruff. June 18th, There
were not many at dinner to-day, and
liked the plums. June 10Th, didn't
keep diary yesterday. Ma said it
was the plums. 81 nots to-day"
An aged colored woman in Gal
ton, when urged to leave her resi6
to escape the recent food,
Il jess don't done nothing oh de
lie good book says dat de worl,
get stroyed by water again,
gwine to stay here suah." In
.wo hours the house went
md Aunty came padding to
| part of the roof. The old \
aith was somewhat shaken, but-
:aid as she made her way to the hignS
ground was, 81 jess clare to goodness II
lis ere isn't 'markable."
THE husband and wife had ar
.anged that when one was drunk the
,ther should work, thus keeping on
every day. But once John kept drunk
or three days, and came home in dis
ress. "And what are you crying
,bout?" asked his helpmate. "Oh, L
eel so unhappy" cried John. "Un-
iappv, and you've been drunk while
I've been working ever since day be-
ore yesterday. Do you expect to be
III angel"
A WEALTHY New Yorker in Long
Stand stopped a man who was driving
spanking team along the road and
inquired whether the outfit was for
ale. Eyes" said the driver. ''What
; the price," "Fifty-six thousand
lolIars," was the reply The New
Z orker thought he wouldn't buy. The
lorses were Lulu and Fleety Golddust,
md the driver was Charley Green.
THE Picton Gazette says Mrs. Rorke,
wife of the mate of schooner Union
lack, which sunk in Lake Erie re-
emily, saved her preserved peaches,
Though the vessel sank in five
minute. he woman who, with a jar
# preserved peaches in each hand,
an calmly await death is worth hay
ny, although sugar is ten cents a
pound. Osmego Palladium.
One of the street sensations in New
orleans last week wa- the horsewhip-
,ing of gay Lothario- by an indig-
lant married woman whose acquaint-
nee he had attempted to form on the
treet. She made an appointment with
lin and brought her husband along to
zee fair play while she whipped her IN
client admlrer.
In some churches choirs are per-
nitted to sing their own voluntarle'
With, which to close the service. AT \
he Efuneral of distinguished genie
nan.of Massachusetts, the singers sang
If their own accord:
'Believing we rejoice
To see the curse removed.
..WoN'T you cut open penny Ior
ne father" said little girl when she
anne home from school one day.
Cut open penny! What do you
want me to do that for?" asked her
ather. Cause" said the little girl,
our teacher says that i'll every penny
here are four farthings, and l want
o see them"
WE may wear our hair shingled ana
,ut on STYLE and laugh at the China
men, but hes particular IN MS way