The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15

are in session will please take notice.
..Aphotographer has invented wss of
making large mouth dimple up and
look strawberryfed, and he's had to osdder
three new cameras and buy c"en'' }r
more chairs.
-" What are you-confdespce Pera-
tors?" said gruff old fellow to No little
beggar-girls who asked for aims. "No,
SIR said the smallest, with charming
simplicity, "no, sir; but we 'opes to be. /"
This will be busy year. Just think
of it-three hundred and sixty-six days,
ffty-three Sundays, leap year, centenni-
al celebration and the presidential cleo
ton, and perhaps-the millennium.
Bayard Taylor said that newspaper
men lied that newspapers were vehicles
of vice that he had no respect for pro-
fessional journalist. And now Bayard
Taylor takes "a situation on the New
York Tribune.
1t is noticed by travellers that South
Americans are putting on more style
than they used to. They now dip the
thumb and forefnger into the meat dish,
whereas twenty years ago they made
dive with both hands.
The state of Georgia exempts from
taxes cotton and wooden mills and ma
chinery for ten years from the time the
mills are started. There is one mill i'll
operation in Augusta, containing $1,000
spindles, which has made dividend of
twenty per cent. among the stockholders.
An Atlanta African wants to eat
thirty quails at one sitting for wager
of ten dollars. He certifes that one day
for dinner he ate three Shanghai chickens,
three dozen of eggs, half pound of but
ter, six biscuits, and three cups of coffee,
and came up smiling when supper was
ready.
Perkins will get tight occasionally,
much to the establishment of himself and
friends. "For years." says he, 1T was
unaccountable to me, for | never did
drink but mouthful or two; and the
cause never did strike me until | meas
ured nv mouth and found that it held a
pint"
"A clergyman's widow gave this adj
vice to a young lady friend the other
day: "Jane, if ever you marry minis
ter, m AIRY one who in an emergency has
enough of the grace of God in his heart
to 60 from the pulpit 10 the Kitchen
and pare the potatoes for dinner without
growing"
Nothing else in the world will bring
that same CHASTITY expression to a mans
face that fits over his countenance when
in the midst of gay party he suddenly
that he has left his handker-
chief at home on the bureau, and will
have to go out and wipe his nose on the
side of the house.
Your honor" exclaimed Mrs. Null
dooney to the squire, -" it's not the black
eve, nor Wit the kicking, that I'm COM
plaining NV, for my Patrick always was
but when he convarts the last
drop o'gin have in the tay-pot, thin,
your honor, object to the PROPENSITY OF
the young blackguard."
The color OF a soldiers uniform Is
shown to be not so much a matter OF
taste as of vital importance. Experience
nr,yes that men are hit i'll battle ac-
cording to the color of their dress. he'd
is the most fatal; the least fatal, Aus
trian gray. The proportions are; Red,
twelve; rifle green, seven; brown, SIX
Austrian blush gray, five.
In the land office, at the capitol
there are plenty of surveys made by
Washington. He wrote nice, clear
hand, and drew his plats with great
nicety and skill. So it appears from
them. If Virginia desired she could
send to the Centennial an immense col
lection of valuable and interesting docu-
ments, relics and pictures OF revolution
airy times.
There was very pleasant donation
party the other evening, and the party
sang, eve give up all for heaven" with
deep feeling, but the next day the minis
ter expressed a desire to resign. He said
that three quarts of beans, keg OF dried
apples, and a calico dressing-Gown were
undoubtedly valuable in their way, but
they seem an unnatural basis to preach
sound theology from.
Eo.rray man started with team
to the Black Hills, and the Indians
wanted to interview him on the way.
He whipped up his team, but the red
skins gained on him. He threw out his
load, but they came still nearer He
finally tumbled off the bed, drew the
king bolt and rode the forewhcels safely
into Gustav City, at the rate OF twenty
miles an hour
The Emperor of China has sent a
pair of gongs to Queen Victoria Pres
ents like this from a gentleman to lady
in good society mean something, too. 1t
hasn't been annouced officially-in fact
her majesty once minated that she
never would marry again-but the
Emperor of China is Il very fascinating
fellow. well off. and the queen has lately
seemed more sprightly than Tor years.
1t all means something.