The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13
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early, and continued until the marriage
of the daughter, and no other duty of
the mother nor study of the daughter
should interfere with it. This and the
school education should go on stimuli
taneously. If anything is to be post
poned, let it be music and drawing and
philosophy, which, as experience shows,
are usually unattended to and unprac-
ticed. after the 'happy event. The
more and higher the education the
better. But let us have a real and
practical, instead of sham education.
"What keeps Mr.. N-from kirk,
james," said a worthy minister 81
hope its not Methodism" "No," re-
sponded the verger; "its something
worse than Methodism." "What, then
Is it Calvanism ?" " Worse, your rev.
erence, worse !" "Surely, james, it is
not Deism p "Much worse, an il
please your reverence, than even that.
"Good heavens" said the astounded
pastor, "can it be Atheism which de-
prives us of the best church warden
that ever shook a boxY "Truly, re-
sponded pious. James, 'tis a much
more serious matter it is rheumatism y
The ladies in particular will be glad
to know just how things are conducted
in a lodge of Freemasons. A pamphlet
under the sanction of the bishop of
Toulouse, has been issued and extern
sively circulated, which declares that
the Freemasons are possessed of sa-
tanic secret; that they perform mock
cry of the mass on an altar lighted by
six candles that every member, after
splitting on the crucifix, tramples it be-
meath his feet; and that, at the con
clusion of the ceremony, every one as
cends the altar and strikes the holy
sacrament with poniard-
Female devotion goes almost wholly
unrcwarded in election times. Every
man knows that there is every reason
in the world why he ought to stay out
until | or 2 o'clock in the morning if
he wants to. His neighbor does, and
he makes up his mind to do it, too.
Therefore, when he is steered home at
an unusual hour, and, from glimpses
of gaslight through the window shutters
knows that his wife is sitting up waiting
for him, he feels it is not love on her
part, but tyranny. It is this that makes
him open the door stealthlly, take his
boots off in the front hall, and go down
and sleep ON the basement sofa.
A husband and wife were celebrating
the twenty-ffth anniversary of their
wedding, and when quite little circle
was gathered about them the husband,
with not little self-complacency, said:
"Here my wife and / have been mar
ried for twenty-five years, and in all
that time neither of us has ever spoken
to the other an excited or unkind word"
Thunder" said the witty DIR. M,
"what stupid time you must have
had of it,"
A little five-year-old friend, who was
always allowed to choose the prettlest
kitten for his pet and playmate, before
the other nurslings were drowned, was
taken to his mothers sick-room the
other morning to see two tiny, new,
twin babies. He looked refiectively
from one to the other for a minute or
two, then poking his chubby finger in
to the cheek of the plumpest baby,
he said, decidedly, "Save this one"
A New England fireman rose hastily
at the first alarm. He ran along the
streets believing ''Fire J" He was en-
Enthusiastically dumping the old ma
and crying, 'Now, jam her
down for our side, Johnny" when by
the light of the ascending flames, which
were trying to toy with the pale-faced
moon. he discovered that he had on
his wife's velvet basque, spangled with
bugles and beads.
If the orphan asylums are not for
the shelter of orphans, what are they
for? Such a question was propounded
recently by Adam Seltz to the author
tiles of the German orphan asylum IN
Baltimore, when they vowed by his
name that they would not admit him
to the privileges of that institution
Adam Seltz is eighty years old, but he
is unquestionably an orphan.
Nothing tends more thoroughly to
shatter ones confidence in outward APP
pearances than to see young man,
clad in the height of fashion, saunter
into Il crowded restaurant, pull on his
kids. languidly seat himself at table,
consult the bill of fare, and then inn
mediately afterward to hear the walters
voice ringing out the magic words,
"One plate of hash and a glass OF
water"
There is good reason to believe that
contagious diseases are often commu-
nicated by dogs, cats and other house
hold pets. A case of scarlet fever re-
Gently occurred in England in which
a dog conveyed the disease. He had
been the constant companion of a fever
patient, and his hair doubtless became
impregnated with the malaria.
While a San Francisco undertaken
was drawing the tade-line over the
corpse of Chinese woman, he was
to see her roll her eyes up at
him. The surrounding friends showed
no surprise, but simply said, "She be
deadee by twelve o'clock.
An Illinois editor boasts of being.the
proud possessor of several ears OF
Egyptian corn that are quite curl
osity. Husks not only enclose the ears,
but the kernels themselves are each
covered with husk, the same IN text
ure us the outside husk.
They tell us that postal cards are
German invention, and were first IN
troduced by the German government
during the Franco-Prussian war, for
the convenience of the soldiers.
We propose to give our young read
ers few ''points" with regard 70 the
candy oI,eStion- The next tine that