The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-21
SAYINGS AND DOISGS.

= SAfINGS AND UUlAUS.
q To-MoRRow-
o thou tomorrow Mystery!
o day that ever runs beforel
What hast thine hid len hand in store
For mine, tomorrow, and for me?
o thou tomorrow what hast thou
In store to make mo bear the now!
o day in which we shall forget
Z The tangled troubles OF to-day
! o day that laughs at duns at debt!
day of promises to pay!
o shelter from all present storm! -
o day i'll which we shall reform
o eafest, best day for reforml
Convenient day of promise
Hold back the shadow Of the storm,
blessed tomorrow Chiefeet friend,
Let not thy mystery be less,
But lead US blindfold to the end.
joaquin Muller.
You've pinned it back" he cried with grief,
Much farther than you'd orter;
Your stomach stands out in bold relief
| My darterl oh, my darter!"
The most civilized are as near to bar.
barism as the most polished steel is to
rust. Nations, like metals, have only a
superficial brilliancy.
NEWS has been received of fresh sup
plies of guano on forty. five different
islands belonging to Peru. Some of
the deposits amount to millions of
tons.
MANY definitions there have been of
gentleman, but the prettiest and
most pathetic, is that given by a young
lady. ga gentleman" says she, is a
human being combining woman's ten
derness with mans courage"
DURING recent tornado in Minnesota,
a couple of sheep were carried fully a
mile and landed in tree top. and were
found pinned together by board that
had been driven through the bodies of
the poor animals.
IT is folly to call the Joys of childhood
the greatest. They are like the earliest
flowers of spring, the crocus, lovely
and richly-tinted, but small and scent
less. 1t is summer that brings forth
flowers of matured splendor and fra
GRANGE.
NATURE is the only workman to whom
no material is worthless, the only
chemist in whose laboratory there are
no waste products, ard the only artist
whose compositions are infinitely va
ried, and whose fertility of invention is
inexhaustible.
If some are refined, like gold, in the
furnace of efHction, there are many
more that, like chat, are consumed in
it. Sorrow, when it is excessive, takes
away fervor from plenty, vigor from
action, health from the reason, and re-
pose from the conscience.
IT was beautiful idea in the mind of
little girl, who, on beholding a faded
rose around which three little buds
were Just unfolding, exclaimed to her
little brother, Sc Sac, Willie. these little
buds have awakened in time to kiss
their mother before she dies"
HAVE the courage to give, OCCASION
ally, that which you can ill afford to
spare; giving what you do not wr was
nor value, neither brings nos, .9I,I for a
thanks in return; who isi,eer's oya,aow-
drink OF water from, i a1 tba drsuobt2
ing well, however "oi way
- WILLIAM HAGEN, of the acad-
~ OF civil eng neers, Berlin, predicts
The failure of the jetty system now be-
ing constructed at the mouth OF the
and declares that the large
amount of money appropriated ~
congress for that work Will be TOTAL
loss.
A REp-HEADED lady, who was amDi1
tons of literary distinction, found put
moor sale for her book. A gentleman,
In speaking Of her disappointment,
said /: CHER hair is red if her book is
not" An auditor, in attempting to re-
late the Joke elsewhere, said :"She mas
red hair if her book hasn't"
IT is impossible to refrain from grum-
bling at every American watering place,
20 long as the folly of the fashionable
mother continues to flourish. In France
The children are not seen at watering
places. They are at school-any where
but at Vichy. Trouville or Dieppe. And
in England any dress but the plalnest
is mover bought for them.
A GENTLEMAN relates, after leaving
oaper of which he was the editor, and
,eturning on a visit, he wrote leader
'or the new editor, and he really thought
+ pood-better than he had written for
months. Next day he met an old ac-
1uaintance with q paper in his hand.
. Ab." said he, "this paper is but
thing now-nothing like what
was when YOU had it l'-and pointing
% the article he had written, he con-
inued- Look, for instance, at that
hing Why didn't that fool let you
write the article? ?"
THERE is a story of a traveller who,
Wishing to reach Barnet, had somehow
,ot turned round, and was trottlng
long very composedly in the opposite
Erection from the right one to that
own. Meeting farmer in the road, ne
rev up, and asked, " How far Is 1t to
Garnet, if keep straight on p Wei.
aid the farmer, with a twinkle In bis
Intelligent eve, &c if ye keep straight on
he way We are going now, it's about
wenty. thousand miles; but If ye
urn right round, and go t'other way,
rs about half mile.
A GENTLEMAN who has just arrived
ore from the west had a somewhat re-
,arkable experience yesterday. just
fter the train left Fremont he and has
auehter were engaged IN eating
1nnh. when the daughter removed sew
raj handsome rings from her fingers
nd handed them to her father to take
ore of until the lunch had been dis
osed of. The gentleman took up some
ickan bones with the hand containing
he rings. and, in q moment OF ABSENT
,inded3ess. threw bones and rings out
f the open window of the car: Inc
ngs were valued at 81, 7OO.-Onidhd
Lerald.
TN the accessories to lady's toilet is
oticeable the extravagant display OF
ICES Mechlin standing high IN favor.
loft only are the costly kinds, such as
oint do Alencon, Applique and Valen-
iennes. called into requlsltion' pue 1ne
lexpensive and fluffy ones, when are
IMMENSELY becoming and within the
Zach of all. The novelty in belts is
,aV cross. Grain ribbon, not more than
We We e; inch wide, and worn about tie
oct 70 fasten in front on the left side
a bow, with loops and ends reaching reac ing
early or quite to the knee; also, the
arrow Russian leather ones exhiDi'eo
most of the shops.