The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-07
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

| MILKMAID (singiug without).-
| Shame upon you, Robin,
| Shame upon you nowl
| Kiss me would you ? with my hands
Milking the cow?
Daisies grow again.
Kingcups blow again.
And you came and kissd me milking the COW.
Robin came behind me,
Kiss'd me well vow;
Cuff him could [? with my hands
Milking the COW?
Swallows fly again,
Cuclkoos cry again,
And you came and kiss'd me milking the COW
Come Robin Robin,
Come and kiss me now;
Help it can ? with my hands
Milking the COW?
Ringdoves COO again,
All things WOO again,
Como behind and kiss me milking the cow
A DYsPEPTIo at the Virginia sulphur
springs hung himself the other day,
leaving a note behind which read: "It's
a mighty good joke on dyspepsia |"
And 60 it was.
A TRAVELLER among the summer wa
tering places says that the young men
spend more money than the millionaires.
They pay fifty cents drink at the hotel
bar rooms, order wine for dinner, hire
carriages. eat soft shell crabs, and after
few days go home dead broke.
BULwER, in one of his early novels,
writing on love. says, "Perhaps it would
be better if we could get rid of it alto
gether. Life would go on smoother
and happier without it. Friendship is
the wine of existence, but love is the
dram-drinking.'
FINIs.-
After the heat of the noon-tide ray
After the Cares of the weary day
Finished the duties and tolls Of the day
Cometh the end
Into the unknown spirit land,
Over the river by no fridge spanned,
Crossing alone the misty strand,
Beginning the end.
Only a futter and gasp for breath,
Only a cross and lily wreath
Only a sleep the daisies beneath,
Not yet the end
Cleaving the sky with wings Of dove,
A crown Of light in the realms above,
A dwelling forever where God is love,
This is the blissful end
SIXTY miles to the north of Duluth
3" the zenith city of the unsalted SEAS
an iron mountain has been discovered
which rivals its namesake in Missouri.
It is eight miles long, one and half
miles wide, and 1000 feet above the
level of Lake Superior.
Cn1CaRO BALLOON reporter always
begins like this: "The monster ship,
upward into the boundless vacuity of
aerial space" Merely saying that
"the balloon went up pretty fast"
would be playing into the hands OF the
other papers.
The Two SQUIRRELs.-
There were two squirrels
That lived in a wood
The one was naughty.
The other was good.
The naughty ones name was Dandy Jim,
His mother was very fond of him;
The good ones name was Johnny Black,
He had beautiful fur upon his back,
And he never went near the railroad track.
But Dandy Jim,
Alas for him!
He ran away,
One summer day,
Over the hills and far away;
And his mother sought for him far and near,
But never word of Jim could she hear;
For crossing the track,
The railroad cars ran over him,
And that was the end of Dandy Jim.
But Johnny Black
He always came back,
Whenever he went from home away,
He knew that home was the place to stay,
He thought that his mother knew better than
he.
JOHN PAUL's hotel experience "Oan
[ have q room ?" modestly ask after
my name. CLERK looks at
me q moment, takes in the general
unostentatiousness of my apparel at
glance, turns away and attends to the
swells who get credit of Bell instead of
buying for cash of Porter, chats with
the young men whom he knows for
few minutes, pauses to tell some old
gentleman with bald head the last
brilliant bon mot apropos of the Beech
er trial, and when everybody else Is
roomed and he has settled the pen
smallest bell-boy in the office snd turns
TO me with, "Show this gentleman up
TO 993 !" And by this time I feel so
humble about it that bow to the bell
boy and look round for his bag and
wonder how I'm to find No. 993 to show
him to.
THERE is a story related OF JARVIS, the
painter, to the effect that,
walking down Broadway one day, he
saw before him dark looking foreigner
bearing under his arm small red cedar
,igar-box. He stepped Immediately
INTO his "wake," and whenever he met
. friend (which was once in two or three
for the popular artist knew
he would beckon to him
With wink to '.fall into line" behind.
By and by the man turned down one of
he cross streets, followed close by
Jarvis and his ''tail." Attracted by
he measured tread of 50 many feet, he
urned round abruptly, and, seeing the
that followed in his foot
teps, he exclaimed "What for de
lebbiI is dis What for you take me
III? What for you so much come after
ne, eh?" ''Sir," exclaimed Jarvis, with
IN air of profound respect, 1--WE saw
'ou going to the grave alone. with the
,ody of your dead infant, and we took
he opportunity to offer you our
and to follow your babe to
he tomb" The man explained, in his
broken manner, that the box contained
My cigars, and he evinced his grati-s
ude for the interest which had been
manifested in his behalf, by breaking
open and dispensing them very hber-
lily to the mourners.