The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-20
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SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

SAYINGS AND DOINGs.
SHE raised her spectacles, took an.
other look at the child. tapped her
snuH-box and said 'fWaIl, it's my
opinion that that child's troubled with
worms ?"
A RHODE ISLAND COW tore a woman 8
mouth clear around to her ear and her
husband at once ran away. He said it
was useless to think of contending with
a woman who was all month.
A SPELLING SCHOOL movement, which
is destiny to sweep the country" has
begun In Ohio. The struggles of the
average Ohioan with the word "baker"
are said to be almost terrific.
/ IT is pleasant TO note the progress of
refining influences, and the broadening
| of social culture. Over the toilet ap-
| pliances in a north end wash room, in
Boston, is sign bearing the words,
"Don't wipe your nose on the towel"
Don't listsn to tales of his bounty
Don hear what they say of his birth,
Don't look at his seat in the county,
Don't calculate what he is worth;
But give him theme to write verse on,
And see il he turns out his toe;
If he's only an excellent person,
My own Araminta, say "No!"
"SHE is q perfect Amazon" said
pupil in one of our schools of his teach
er, to companion. eyes," said the
other, who was better versed in geo
graphy than history, "I noticed she
had an awful big mouth"
SPEAKING of the awful chilliness of
Venetian houses, Charles Warren Stod-
dard says that at the day of judgment
he has not doubt in his own mind but
that these Italial domestic refrigerators
will be the last thing on earth to get
warmed through, and it will be the first
time they were ever comfortably heated.
A GOOD story is being told of George
William Curtis. He prides himself, it
is said, on his English accent, eschew-
ing the Yankee "drawl." Therefore,
when he was over there and went to
tailor's he was not little mortified at
the masters exclaiming carry, show
the Hamerican gentleman the weskets."
"Ive known many a lass,
Who would thoughtlessly pass
Whole hours paradng the streets;
While the mother weuld scrub,
And rub at the tub,
Never minding the cold nor the heat.
1t is SO !? 1t is so?
You may smile as you like
But it's So"
The San Francisco Bulletin says that
the first piece of gold found, which
raised such revolution on the Pacific
coast is still to be seen. Its value is
between four and five dollars. 1t re-
sembles piece of spruce gum just ont
of the mouth of a school girl, with
similar indeL tations. 1t could easily
be identified by any one who had ever
seen it.
A BUFFALO paper prints the following
of .ko oil nj
paying patrons "Please discontinue
my paper from the time have paid up
to. do not stop the paper because I
do not want it, but to get rid of an in
tolerable old bore that intrudes himself
in my house, regardless of time or cir
to sit for an hour or two,
three or four times week, to read my
papers, and who is q Thousand times
more able to take a dozen papers for
himself than am to take one. If the
nuisance is stopped, I shall send for
the paper again"
In general we may observe that cour-
age, of all national qualities, is the
most precarious; because it is exerted
only at intervals, and by few in every
nation whereas industry, knowledge,
civility, may be of constant and univer-
sal use, and, for several ages. may be-
come habitual to the whole people. If
courage be preserved, it must be by
discipline, example and opinion. The
tenth legion of Caesar, and the regiment
Of Picardy, in France, were formed
from among the citizens;
but having once entertained notion
that they were the best troops in the
service, this very opinion really made
Them such.-Htkn1e.
AN EXPERIMENT IN NATURAL Hrs
often reads of the discov-
cry of live toads in the center OF trees
Or inside of apparently solid stone. A
French naturalist, M. Margelidet, has
Just published the results OF an expert
january, in the year 1870, he caused
cavity TO be followed in a large stone,
put a toad into the cavity, and then
sealed up the mouth of the hole with
cement. The other day,
five years, day for day, nince he had put
the poor creature into durauce vile, he
broke open the cavity at the museum
Of natural history, and found the toad
within alive and we'll, though in tor
pid condition. Nor has it since its re-
lease taken any nourishment whatever.
In the days when rouge-et-noir flour
ished at Baden Baden the Prussian Of
ficers were strictly forbidden to play.
Ons of them, however, dressed as
civilian, ventured to place 10 Napoleons
on a color The color came up twice,
and the officer was just about to take
up the money when his eye fell upon
the king of Prussia, who was Watching
the game with interest. In his fright,
the officer did not dare to remove his
NapoleoLs. The play continued and
the same color came up third,
fourth, a fifth time, and 5000 francs
were added to his pile, but the winner
st bod motionless, erect as if on parade.
expecting the next instant to see all
his winnings wiped out. The king put
an end to his suspense by approaching
and saying in kindly mood: 81 ad;
wise you to draw in your winnings and
10 be quick about it, before notice
Won; your luck cannot continue so
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