The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-03
FACTS AND fAEOIEs.
Two PICTURES .

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BEFORE MARRIAGE.
My Maggie, my beautiful darling,
| Creep into my arms, nv sweet,
| Let me fold you again to my bosom
| So close can hear your heart beat.
| What these little fingers been sewiDgY
Ones been pricked by the needle, / see
These hands shall be kept free from labor
When once they are given to me.
| All mine, little pet. will shield you
From trouble and labor and care.
| will robe you like some fairy princess,
| And jewels shall CLEAN in your hair;
| Those slippers you gave me are perfect
That dressing gown fits to a L;
| My darling, ] wonder that heaven
Should give such treasure to me-
| Eight-nine-te my precious,
Time flies so when am with you,
1t seems but a moment I've been here,
And now. must say it 2 Adieu.
AFTER MARRIAGE. %.
Oh Meg YOU are heavv-rm tired
Go sit in the rocker, pray;
Your weight seems hundred and ninety
When you plump down in that sort Of way
You had better be mending my coat sleeve
I've spoken about it before
And want to finish this novel,
And look over those bills from the store
This dressing gown sets like the ID;
These slippers run down at the heel;
Strange, nothing can never look decent;
I wish you could know how they feel
WHAT this Dill from Morgan Z why, suroiy
It's not for another new dress
Look here I'll be bankrupt ere New Year,
Or your store bills will have to grow less
Eight o'clock! Meg. sew on this button
As soon as you finish that sleeve;
Heigh-hol 1 am deucedly sleepy,
I'll pile off to bed, believe.
The French "Prince Imperial" and
the OK empress will shortly leave CHS
elhurst, and take up their. abode in the
chateau of Arenenberg, in Switzerland.
Some one defines real poet as "a
singer whose verses haunt your twl.
lights" This definition is undeniably
a good one. 1t includes the mosquito.
-. Prohibition after all" said red
nosed fellow as he read the senate liquor
bill: nobody allowed to sell before
what sort of encouragement Is
that 10 early rising p
Mark Twain, apropos of a new port
able mosquito net, writes that the day
is coming "when we shall sit under our
nets in church and slumber peaeefuliy.
while the discomftted flies club together
and take it cut of the minister"
"A Frenchman has discovered a
method by which he can bring down
rain whenever it is needed or, rather,
draw moisture from the air. He claims
that sprinkling of chloride of calcium
upon the surface of the ground is en-
tirely effective.
Here is an extract from u letter
written to her lover by Montgomery,
Ala, girl: "For your sake, darling,
have quit using chewing gum. would
you have quit gum for me? would
not have quit gum for any other person
in the whole world"
According to The New York Mail
MIR, Bunker, the early proprietor OF the
hill of that name is not now living. IL
is rather unfortunate that Mr.. b. should
have been gathered in 80 soon. ne
could be here now to sse see how lar ms
got ahead of old Brett
would do him good.
The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer tells
IF two families in Stewart county whose
ives were saved by gentleman obey
ng a presentiment he could not resist.
BE had forebodipg that a storm would
7isit that section, and that his house
would be in its path. He told others
# it. but they only laughed at him,
aying he was frightened from reading
md hearing the accounts of the late
ycIone. He gave credence to the
bought. which would not go down at
he bidding, and dug hole near the
louse. He had no sooner finished 1t
han the storm did come. and barely
lad he and his family sought refuge
herein than the tornado tore his house
O pieces, All IN the hole in the ground
scaped. ~
To MARGARET :. |. ,I7.EsToN, OF VIRGINIA.
line eyes have never gazed in thine,
)ur hands are strangers; yet divine
he deathless sympathy which binds
Our hearts and minds.
,hou singest along the mountain side;
nv golden songs are justlhed
" the rich music of their flow;
1 sing below,
Where the lone pine-land airs are stirred
" notes of thrush and hooking bird
he heights befit thy loftier strain;
Mine courts the plain.
nd now with joyous sylvan things
nd round me mid the flash of wings,
he rivulet's lapse, the breezes play,
On this bright day,
lnehed like a dryad's tender face
With early springtime's happiest grace,
his day of soft harmonious hours,
Made sweet with flowers,
" loyland muse is blithe to send
air greeting to her mountain friend,
more for love than praise
These WILDWOOD lays
"A singular illustration of the para
,zing effect of the imagination under
pine circumstances was recently afforded
, Allentown, Pa: A bright boy OF
Leven wears was engaged in Watching
,me cattle in field, and killed time
Y swinging with rope from the branch
| a tree. His brother, also a small
oy, was near him. All at once the boy
it'll the rope dropped with his entire
eight upon the rope, but with his
nees almost touching the ground:
he brother, very much alarmeI,- at
Ice ran for assistance, but before aid\
me the swinging boy was dead. The
pc was cut, when the loop fell from
70 victims neck, indicating tue fact
at there had been no knot, and that
70 looping was but an accident. The
~, imagining himself beyond all self
had become so frightened
not to stand upon his feet, as he
light have done, but had fallen for
ard, and so strargled. A more strik-
g illustration of the remarkable intiu-
ce over reason sometimes obtained by
e imagination could scarcely be al
rded.
AN EARTHQUAKE AT SEA.