The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-17
ADVERTISING RATES.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
D The pooling privilege of the Louis
: vile Jockey Club and Driving Park a.
: ISOLATION for 1875 brought s., 1000.
! THE man who predicted mild white
, because corn-husks were thin, was foun
, frozen to death in q corn field the othe
day, few miles from Dayton. The,
buried him close to the grounding.
I'm sorry to hear of your embar
rassment," said gentleman to frienC
who had failed heavily. "Not at all,
for my creditors il is they who arr
embarrassed"
DoRE's picture of the "Seventh Cir.
Gle of Dante's He'll" contains 900 fig.
ures. Those in the foreground are the
size OF life. They are grouped in q
circle about Dante and Virgil, who are
on a central eminence.
AT horticultural exhibition in Paris
last fall, several gourds were exhibited
that had gourds of other varieties
grated on them. The operation was
performed by introducing the stem of
q gourd through the skin of one TO
which it was to be joined.
PERSONS planting out fruit trees are
informed by several experienced in the
matter that black walnut trees exert an
injurious influence on some other va
rieties, as the naples. It is according
~ desirable to plant them to them
selves.
THE entire territory of Scotland is
20. 047, 642 acres. Fifty-seven proprie-
tors own trifie more than one-third of
the country. and almost one-third of
this upward of one-tenth of all Scot
land) belongs to the three richest of
them. zrf7~s5-
SPRING has come, Spring ha come, Spring has
Hark! the feashsred songsters tune their notes
On cage.)
Hark, the lowing herdl List, the wArbling
Gaily, smiling, budding, blooming Spring has
On horn.)
SoMBER thoughts and fancies often
require real soil or substance to -four
ish in they are the dark pine trees
which take root in and frown over the
riffs of the scathed and petrified heart.
and are chiefly nourished by the rain of
unavailing tears and the vapors of
fancy.-J r. Boyes.
THE new Encyclopedias Britannica
says: eff the natural resources of
America were fully developed it would
afford sustenance to $500, 900, 600 in
number five times as great
as the entire mass of human beings now
existing on the globe. And, what is
even more surprising, it is not more
improbable that this prodigious popu-
lation will be in existence within three
or four centuries" ..
A LADY went to pay her respects to
one of the latest arrivals on the list of
when the following coloquy
took place between her and the little
sister of the new conner /:
"I've come for that baby now" said
the lady. "You can't have il" was the
reply. "But I must have it'll came
over on purpose" urged the visitor.
"We can't spare it all" persisted the
child; "but I'll get q piece Of paper
and you can cut pattern"
CouoHINa can sometimes be stopped
by pressing on the nerves OF the lip In
the neighborhood of the nose. Apress-
ure there will almost certainly prevent
q cough when it is beginning. 1t is
known that sneezing may be
stopped by this plan, but it is new to
many that il can check coughing. Press
ing right in front of the ear may also
stop coughing. 1t is also preventive
Of hiccough, but much less 80 that OF
sneezing or coughing.
(WHICH, TODAY, ARE
Ye were too faire,
With dropping lids,
Among your heavie morning teares,
found ye.::
Faire budsl
I left ye there.
For sorrow bids
Brief greeting to gay youth, it feares,
Te wound ye.
But deare roses, in your noone
Chat graceful, merrie prims)
I stole away the lovely boone,
And was it not q crime
To rob the wooing aire
OF your sweet breath
Ali daintie flowers,
The wanton hours
OF midday's golden shine
Will see ye pine,
Tomorrow and SO fade,
Away to death.
ONE of the methods adopted by the
authorities of Paris for the encourage
ment of birds in the parks is the manu-
featuring of artificial nests so cunningly
that each variety Of bird
will recognize its home at once. The
nests are made by women for the fol-
owing birds: The sparrow, titmouse,
king-6sher, chaffnch, cuckoo,
magpie, and others. Three
thousand of these nests have been put
Up recently. ..,.- -..
EDGAR A. PoE's memory is to be hon.
,red with monument at last. The
sum desired, 81 500, has been raised
through the efforts of the public school
,eachers' association of Baltimore, and
The work will be begun at once. The
iesien is an obelisk of pure italian
marble, with q bas-relief OF Poe on one
If the panels, and appropriate inscrip-
ions and emblems on the other three.
It is thought the monument will be
ready for dedication within few
month";.
A FARMER was elected to a corporal
ship in militia company. His WIFE
after discoursing with him for some
lime on the advantage which the family
would derive from his exaltaton, m
,uired, in a doubling tone, Husband
will it be proper for us to let our chill
lren play with the neighbors' nowT
0ne OF the little urchins eagerly asked,
. Are we not all corporals ?" "Tut,"
aid the mother, "hold your tongues;
here is no one corporal but your father
md myself"
The other day, when it was very cold,
had hung Thermometer outside
window, whence the wind blew it down
INTO the snow beneath. When dug 1t
out of the snow, found tine mercury
up to the freezing point, but it sunk
immediately to much lower degree.
Few think of this uniform temperature
IF the snow, and that relatively to some
other things it is very warm. The
inherent caloric of snow is most val
liable source of warmth to persons
caught out in the cold beyond shelter,
as they would find by burrowing in it,
when, with the aid OF buffalo robes or
one might sleep comfortably
--f1I- kbnunh the Triahuaan'a