The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

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One Of the great Quaker poets, sweetes
metrical gems. School Days" is devoted t.
showing the regret Of a brown-eyed Ne'
England girl at having "spelled down.
| -- the little boy
| Her childish favor singled"
I'm sorry that spelt the word,
1 hate to go above You,
Because"-the brown eyes lower fell
because you see, love you"
"Still memory to a gray-haired man
That sweet child face is showing;
| Dear girl, the grasses on her grave
Have forty years been growing.
"He lives to learn in life's hard school
How few who pass above him
Lament the triumph and his loss
| Like her because they love him."
SOME of the statisticians who are in
| vestigating negro life have found that
| that race, above all others, abhors sui
| eide. Only two cases have been re-
corded on the police books of Richmond,
Virginia, for several years.
The British house of lords consists of
five princes of the blood, twenty-e eight
dukes, thirty-two marquises, one hun
dred and seventy-one earls, thirty-seven
viscounts, twenty-six prelates, and one
hundred and ninety two barons.
San Francisco has the champion
religious idiots, who dress as children,
act as children, and play marbles and
leap frog, because they believe Elk
cept We be converted and become as
little children, ye shall in no wise enter
the Kingdom of Heaven"
THERE'S nothing kills a man so soon
as having nobody to find fault with but
himself. It's a deal the best way of
being master to let somebody else do
the ordering. and keep the blaming In
your own hands. 1t 'ud save many
man stroke, I believe.-George Eliot.
A GENTLEMAN in Europe writes 81
seS L the American papers notices OF
bank bills altered from one denomina-
ton to another. This is impossible in
this part of the world, though the very
simple device of having bills of different
values made of different Sizes"
CONSIDERING that there are half q
million words, more or less, in the Ger
man language, it's fortunate circum-
stance that the spelling of each and
every one is exactly indicated by the pro-
nunciation, rendering spelling matches
unnecessary, if not impossible.
A LUaUBRIoUs LOOKING individual,
approaching a musician, asked him in
earnest and melancholy tones, ''Friend,
do you know mans chief end ?" The
innocent fiddler cheerfully replied:
" No. sir but if you'll whistle it Ill
play it"
THE Indianapolis News says without
much exaggeration: Advertising has
created many a new business, enlarged
many an old business, revived many
dull business, rescued many failing
business, and preserved many a large
business, and it insures success in any
business"
In some of the colder states the saloon
business has ceased to be profitable.
The four saloons of Hutchins, Iowa,
have been closed because the wife of
man who froze to death while drunk on
their whisky went into court and got
verdict of $4,000 against each of the
proprietors.
COMMENTING on the comparative sue
cess of compulsory education in New
York city, nine "truant agents" having
captured 1886 street Arabs, the World
suggests Whether or not it would be
wise to appoint "agents" to see that
children were properly and adequately
scrubbed and spanked is a question to
be commended to the advocates of the
compulsory system.
A CONDUCTOR on the Union Pacific
railroad put ''dead beat" off his train
politely once; kicked him off three
times; then finding the inpecunious in
the car again, inquired: "Where in
blazes are you going, any wayp"
"Well," said the MOTTO be-got-rid-of,
sI'm going to Chicago, if my pants
hold out, but if I'm going to be kicked
every five minutes, / don't believe I'll
make the tripp The conductor let
him ride little way.
ONE day a lady came in carriage to
ask Corot, the famous French painter,
who has Just died, for 1000 francs with
which to pay her rent. "She is well
dressed" said the maid who had seen
her. sc can't understand how anybody
with such clothes can borrow money.
If were you I.ould refuse" Take
that to her, my child, said the artist,
offering bank note for the required
sum, and remember that poverty in
silk is the worst kind of poverty"
We need to labor with our minds and
hearts, as we'll as with our hands, in
order to develop what is within us, to
make the most of our possibilities and
to enable us to live nobly and worthily.
We need q careful balancing of cur
duties and relations in life and due
allotment of time and energy to each,
that we may not develop into one-sided
and unshapely characters, but attain
The symmetry and beauty OF true excel
lence.
PRESIDENT PORTER. of Yale, recently
gave the following laconic advice to
The students in the course of an ex-
tended address: "Don, drink. Don't
chew, Don't smoke. Don't swear.
Don't deceive. Don't read novels.
Don't marry until you can support
wife, Be earnest. Be self reliant. Be
generous. Be civil. Read the papers.
Advestise your business. Make money,
and do good with it. Love God and
your fellow men,"
A FRENCH chemist has so lar sue
,eeded in his experiments as to have
hopes OF producing at least
black diamonds, if not colorless ones,
from sugar. He has already obtained
4 carbon cylinder hard enough to cut
glass by exposing the perfectly burned
sugar to temperature of 800 degrees
Fahrenheit, in a closed vessel without
access of air. 1t will be an interesting
as far as regards the pro-
luction of sugar-yielding crops, II TINS
shall succeed fully IN his
designs, and cane and beets come TO De
grown with view to their final trans
formation into diamonds. Truly, we
ire living in wonderful age.
The French nation from the earliest
period of history has been the leading
nation of Europe. Its original races
onp disputed the supremacy of the all
Romans. They gave to
roman literature some of its most
elegant writer's. Cicero learned elo-
luence from one of their teachers, and
Jesar acquired in Gaul new arts OF
var. All through the middle ages, in
he crusades, in the great national
vars in the religious connections of
he sixteenth century, their gallantry .
vas the conspicuous splendor of the :
ines. Their writer's have since cleo
rified human thought their brave g
leeds have revolutionized modern T.
,olitics their more elegant arts have