The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-29
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

| If you want 10 get IL hoy lHIO Inc
habit of walking lop- sided let him have
a pistol pocket in his trousers.
An Iowa court has decided that it is
not legal for farmer to hitch his wife
up with a mule, no matter how anxious
he is to pillow.
| Ir is probable that tobacco was intro
| duced among the natives OF western
Africa by European sailors and slave
| dealers. In 1907 the negroes at Sierra
Leone we're cultivatiDg the weed, and
smoking was common among both
sexes.
SPEAKING about the ladies' fashions
it is worthy of remark that there has
been this year revival of calicoes. 1t
is said that Madame Theirs, who now
sets the Paris fashions, instead of the
Empress Eugene, is responsible for
their restored favor in the fashionable
world.
KING LOUIS, of Bavaria, is the pet OF
lady newspaper correspondents. who go
into ecstacies over him by the column
His mustache is blonde. his vo
light tenor, and his character SO bl
less as fully to account for the tx
entertained in less moral courts tina
is not quite sane.
How sweet is perfect understanA
between man and wife. He wa
smoke cigars when he wanted them,
he was to give her ten cents every
he indulged in one. He kept his "
and every time she got fifty cents al
he'd borrow it and buy cigars. An
they were happy.
HE was a rich American in Paris
discovered that an unpleasant-loo
fellow followed him every day
morning till night. He became
easy and diplomatic inquiry was
whether the man who watched was
nected with the police. AS resi-
much negotiation the unpleasant
son was arrested, and proved to
gatherer of butts of cigars. The
American smoked only famous brands
and smoked them only half up, and 1t
paid to follow him.
elastic and malleable by pIungiDg 1t
when heated into an oil bath, two Sile-
sian experimenters have turned their
ingenuity to the opposite extreme, and
have recently discovered a method OF
making glass SO hard and unyielding
that it can neither be bent nor broken,
and NAV be plunged, red hot into cold
water without injury. Indestructible
lamp-chimneys and window-panes that
defy snow-balls are among the least
of the advantages expected from this
invention.
WHEN a street car is crammed full,
and the scrawny little off-mule is bleed
ing from the cuts it has received in fall
ing on the track while straining to start
the great load of human selishness be-
hind it, and the driver is flashing and
cursing the poor creature to make time,
=. 81
times a man, standing on a corner
square ahead, waiting to get on and add
something to the woes of that mule.
If this wretched animal has the power
to think one solitary thought, it must
be that he thinks how grateful he ought
to be that he is not to go to Heaven,
where men and women go, when he
dies.
The Milwaukee News has heard from
Old BIiffkins again. This time he has
been in terrible trouble. He went to
wedding the other evening, leaving his
Young wife at home. At about two
O'Clock in the morning he started for
his mansion with pretty good supply
of whisky and champagne IN HIM, and
as he entered the front door, muttering
to himself, "Two souls (hic) WIZ buzzer
single thought" tall figure in white
nabbed him by the collar and jumped
him into the back room, and sweet
voice said, "Stop your noise, or III
knock the poetry out of you II And
then Bliff knew it was his wife, and he
leaned up against the coal-stove and
wept that he ever attended wedding
of any description.
How MANY poor women there have
been and are. whose pathetic story is
told in those ten homely lines
Here lies an old woman who always was tired,
For she lived in q house where help wasn't
hired.
Her last words on earth were, Dear friends,
Where sweeping amt done, nor churning, nor
sewing. ~ -. - .,
And everything there will be just TO my
For where they don't eat there's no washing Of
I'll be where the loud anthems will always be
ringing, .;o,--
But, having no voice, I'll get nd OF the sing
Dom. MOURN for me now, and don't mourn for
me never, -
For I'm going to do nothing for ever ana
ever
MARK TWAIN is credited with the fol-
lowing description of the washington
monument. as seen from the dome of
the capitol "Still in the distance, but
on this side of the water, and close to
its edge, the monument to the father OF
his country towers out of the mud
sacred soil is the customary term. 1t
has the aspect of factory chimney with
the ton broken of. The skeleton OF a
d dec syp s'affoldiug fingers about its
summit. and tradition says that the
spirit of Washington often comes down
and sits on those rafters to enjoy this
tribute of respect which the nation has
reared as the symbol of its unappeas-
able gratitude. The monument is to be
finished some day, and at that time our
WASHINGTON will have risen still higher
in the nations veneration, and will be
known as the great great grandfather of
his country. The memorial , chimney tnay
stands in a quiet, pastoral locality, tnat
is full of reposeful expression. With
glass you can see the COW sheds about
It base, and the conte1ted sheep .e1Etn n,S,
bling pebbles in the desert s t soi1'T nies
doing in the holy calm of its protect
ing shadow"