The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-11
SAVINGS AND DOINGs.

THE japanese white false teeth out
of solid ivory.
NATURALIsrs say that single swal-
low will devour six thousand flies in a
day.
"PUTrING pull-bnck necktie on to
him." is what the Missouri IynoherB
now call il.
A LOCAL contemporary reads one of
its columns, "After Thoughts" That's
what its readers are after in vain.
TWENTY little children crowd around
and call Queen Victoria " grandma"
"DILIGENoE commands SUCCESS" But
success doesn't always obey.
| IT must be unpleasant for a suffering
man in Berlin to hail a street car, be-
cause there they call street-car pier
Observation-Disclosures for short.
THE best of men
That e'er wore earth about Him snffsrer;
soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit,
The first true gentleman that ever breathed.
-Tzomas Dekkdr.
JENNY LIND dresses her hair in the
same style precisely as when she was
in America twenty-five years ago. She
has two daughters, one eighteen and
the other twenty.
A sTALwART Indian is often seen about
the streets of Virginia City, dressed in
calico, like squaw. He is compelled
by the Piutes to wear women's clothes
for cowardice shown in battle sever
years since.
EDMOND ABOUT is afraid that if they
let the sea into the desert of Sahara and
keep it there Europe will lose the
warm equatorial winds" and become
an Arctic wilderness.
A NIDDLE-AGED woman fell as she
was descending a pairrof stairs on Full
ton street, aud the first man to help her
reach her feet was banker who hap
pened to be passing.
THE Prince Of Wales takes twelve
pairs of boxing gloves with him on his
IndiG trip, and it is apparent that he
means to command respect or knock his
foreign subjects over the ropes.
IT is stated that the harvest prospects
are Frightening in England, and there
seems to be no danger that John Boil
shall be put on short commons. The
supply of foreign wheat is large, and
the reports from continental Europe
are encouraging.
The little thirteen year-old girl who
magistrate to fourteen days in prison
and four years in the reformatory for
plucking geranium has been released
by the home secretary. The magistrate
has not been removed, however, or even
reprimanded.
"Did you fall, madam ?" he inquired,
as he seized her arm.
"Fall OF course / fell, you fool
you You don't suppose I'd sit down
here to rest, do your" she snapped.
He didn't say.
AT the Louvre Hotel there is n Mr.
Walker. Mr.. Walker had dog. His
dog hes lost a running match. And
this is how Mr.. Walker has to pay his
wager. He is, during one whole month,
to run into the arms of the first man he
meets at the corner of the Rue de Valois
after o'clock, and to say: "My dear
brother, at last we meet after twenty
years." Then he is to apologize. Mr..
Walker has thus embraced fourteen
Frenchmen Ugh Paris Figaro.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRIoH wants nearly
everybody to be weak minded, SO that
q few women can be glittering actresses,
and few men poets like himself.
Thomas Bailey thus expresses his Cd
idea in the Atlantic:
Rachel -Ristori. We shall taste OF death
Ere we spirits like these. In one age
dwell
Not many such a century may tell
Its hundred beads before it braid wreath
For two go queenly foreheaels. II it take
Eons to shape diamond grain on grain,
Eons to crystalline its fire and dew
By what slow processes must Nature make
Her Shakspeares and her Dantes? Great
the gain
If she spoils thousands by making one or
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