The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-04-10
ADVERTISING RATES.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

The Ohio senate has passed a bill
liking the compensation of members of
the legislature at $500 per annum.
MORE good manners at Nice. An
English lady, the wife of baronet,
cheated Scotch marquis at cards, and
the indignant Scot beat her on the spot.
THERE is theatre in Paris where the
actresses pay for the privilege of appear
ing on the stage. When the manager
wants to get rid of any member of his
company he raises her salary.
CUsToMER-Iw want a mourning suit,
Shopmau-What is the bereavement,
may ask? Customer-My mother-in-
law. Shopman-Mr. Brown, show the
gentleman to the light affection depart
ment.-Fua.
81. GRAY-Pack with my box five
dozen quilts" There is nothing re-
markable about this sentence, only that
it is nearly as short as one can be con-
structed, and yet contains all the letters
of the alphabet.
For generations past, French has
been the diplomatic language of Europe.
On the close of the Franco-Prussian
war, Berlin wrote a diplomatic note in
German, of the deepest Russian blue,
to st. Petersburg the latter replied in
good Russian, sixteen quarters black.
The exchange OF correspondence stopped
then and there in those two languages,
and French was resumed.
Ar last here is a new fancy in the
prestidigitation line. He borrowed
bonnet from lady in the audience, and
as he was about to return it it caught
fire in the gas, and he had to stamp on
it with both feet to extinguish the
flame. Misery of the lady It was her
best bonnet. Then he fred pistol, and
a bonnet just like it fell from the chan
delier IN the middle of the theatre.
You've fellow, if you have been
burning up another mans fuel and
coal oil all winter, without yet arriving
at a definite understanding with his
girl. you may expect to be chalked down
as light and pithless fraud, and may
ook to have the scathing finger of
,corn and the black muzzle of bull
log pointed at You il you attempt to
AXE up your swing on the gate where
7ou left off last fall.
TALKING of the tight skirts which are
low in fashion, lady who was born in
he last century said the other day:
You call those tight skirts You
hould have seen Madame Tallien then
Vhen she walked in the Tuileries with
dress of an almost transparent text
ire, worn over a pair of silk tights
zou have not come to that" "No,"
another lady, "and I hope
re never shall.
TALMAGE is back in his favorite role
gain. In his last Christian at Work,
le offers last word of gratuitous
dvice to theatrical people elf you
zi1 only stoop down and look through
be cracks in the floor of the stage"
moke. Better fly for your life. 1t is
ard work getting to heaven from the
american theater. You will have to
pring seventy-fve feet at the first
imp !"
A CLERGYMAN, at q recent teachers
,eeting in Ohio, said that teachers are
DO often selected in the wrong way.
Examiners make an intellectual re-
uirement in straight.jacket style, and
ay no attention whatever to the par
cular natural, innate adaptedness of
ne teacher for the profession, aud thus
len and women are found at the head
our schools who are no more able 70
evelop the hunisn mind than a Modoc
! to draw q picture of the heavenly
erusalem with charcoal"
THE climate of Texas soon makes an
lephant of q man. The Daily Tele-
raph, of Houston, says: "Horses
nd alligators have but feeble constitu-
ons compared with many of the stall
art sons of the Lone S'ar empire.
istol balls and bowie-knife thrusts are,
y many, considered the harmless re-
tits of playfulness and good humor,
nd the kick of a mule or mustang is
OF sufficiently emphatic to call for seri-
rs remark or notice."
AT Green Bay, Wis, winter still
ngers in the lap of spring, but the
eople don't mind it, because they have
le garment known as the sawdustello.
ne who has seen this useful invention
Iys of it 4: "This covering, which en-
races a coat and brooches all in one,
i'd is donned by both sexes, is made
1T of two thicknesses of blankets,
led in between with sawdust. Hay
straw can be used for the stufing.
he outfit looks little elephantine to
stranger. but the people of Green Bay
mt mind the appearance SO long asst
so comfortable"