The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-27
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

Matilda. Babies are like tooth
brushes. Every tody wants their own. "
SELF-GRATIFIcArIoN is the high-press
ure power that keeps man going, and
duty is only the donkey-engine that he
works at intervals.
NEVER trust With secret q married
man Who loves his wife, for he will tell
her, AMI she will tell her sister, and her
sister will tell every body,
DOUGLAS JERRoLD used to say OF fem
mime writer's, elf you once dip a
woman's finger in the ink pot she will
go on writing forever"
SIXTY thousand Japanese in Ye3do
are studying tn English language and
tearing their hair over its torturing
idioms.
THERE are "a, 900 idiots in this coun-
try, who are acknowledged as such.
The majority of people will regard
these figures as being low estimate.
In three years two rats become 646,-
8OS, and yet the druggists look with
suspicion on man who asks for q
dimes worth of strychnine.
WHEN a young man in Patagonia falls
in love with girl he lassoes her, drags
her home behind his horse, and that's
all the marriage ceremony necessary.
IT is time to stop talking about the
softening influence of woman. A Mas
sachusetts man who has four wives has
just been sent to the penitentiary for
stealing horses.
A TOTAL eclipse of the sun will occur
on April 5. As the king of Siam is the
only potentate advantageously situated
to see the spectacle, he has kindly in
vited British, American, and other as
tronomers to dine with him on that day
and bring along their instruments.
ONE of the reasons why fight fire.
quently occurs in Montana churches
is, while the preacher is praying, the
congregation sit on the backs of the
chairs and frequently calculate
"That's right, old hossl" "Bully for
you |" "He's a book sharpi" etc.
Sometimes the ministers get riled, and
there's where the disturbance comes
in"
ASTRONOMER BARTLETT, of Battle
creek, is circulating this bit of gossip
about the big dipper: "One hundred
Thousand years ago the bright stars
which at present form this familiar con-
stellation were arranged in the form of
hr1n
sand years hence they will assume the
appearance of an elongated 'dipper-
different in shape from the one now
seen-and stretching over o wide extent
of the celestial vault"
THE royal baby begins to notice
things, and to handle 'em, too! The
other day he reached for the paregoric
bottle and smashed it on his pas nice
center-table, and then tried to make a
canal by running his finger in a circle
all round about" Then Edinburgh
went in and borrowed his wife's old kid
slipper, and when he came back there
was considerable excitement for a few
moments. Men do that sort OF thing
SO awkwardly.-N Y Mail.
FIRST Lovely Being Ito clever pianist
after performance): go, how charming,
Herr La Bemoiskii There's such color
in your Fortissimoes /" Second Lovely
Being: "Such roundness of modelling
in your Pianissimoes !" Third Lovely
Being "Such perspective in your
Crescendoes !" Fourth Lovely Be-
ing "Such chiaroscuro in your Dimin-
uendoes Fifth Lovely Being:
s'Such anatomy in your Legatoes !ll!r'
ETC., etc., etc. Clever is pianist be-
wildered, but not displeased.-Punch.
THE present debt of Nevada is $S4,-
l54. There is full treasury, school
fund of $3.50, 900, an established credit,
and reduction of taxes /; the popula-
ton of the state is not more than &c.
BOO: nine tenths of its area is in desert
and. The cities are all supported by
miners and therefore not permanent, as
when the mines are exhausted they must
follow the course of the Abandoned
towns of California.
should the mines give out, the outlook
or Nevada is not fattering; she has
leither commerce, agriculture. nor
to fall back on.-M T.
World. go,
SOME curious customs are still extant
n the Spreewald villages in Wendish
Prussia when the head of the family
lies. For instance. if the deceased
hould have CHANGED to be bee-keeper,
me of the family will 60 to the hive,
II d, striking the comb, will exclalm.
Bees, arise. your master is dead
IN the morning of the funeral, too,
he men proceed to the cattle-sheds,
md after causing the animals to get
lpon their legs, and placing cheese be-
ore them, will solemnly announce to
hem that the body is about to be taken
way.
A RECENT letter from Lexington, Va,
o the Richmond Dispatch says: "Val-
milne has been here for several days
onferring with the memorial committee
q reference to the final arrangements
or placing his beautiful sepulchral
aonument over the grave of Gen. Lee.
{ is hoped that full arrangements can
70 made, and the statue insugurated on
he 10Th of October next-the anniver-
ary of Gen. Lees death-wIth an ora
ion by ex-President Davis, and appro-
riate ceremonies, participated in by all
he old confec crates who can gather
here. 1t will be a matter of general
,terest to mention that fresh flo wers
ave never been wanting to deck Gen.
,ee's tomb. From all parts of the
ountry exquisite wreaths, crosses, an
hors. ETC., are sent, AMI fair hands in
lexington are continually fashioning
immortelles, eto., into the
lost beautiful decorations for the tombs
I the general, Mrs. Lee. and Miss
gnes. The beautiful custom of having
etudantouard tn keen daily watch and