The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-15
GR1TE and GAY.


No man ever yet forgot by trying to
forget but he is on the highway to for
getfulness when he tries to remember
The Cairo base ball club is called
Qui- Nine. The Vassar club Is known az
the Feminine.
The fashionable hustle has elongated
until it looks like ships rudder on the
wearer. and is not made to sit down In.
Marden says the latest style OF bon
nets look like big sunfiower blown up
AGAINST the female bump of self-esteem
by a passing gale.
"That's what / call finished ser
mon," remarked a man as he was coming
out of church. Yes, finished at last,
replied his neighbor, though L began
to think it would never be-
Cherries are green enough now to
nick and the small boy will soon be
going around with his hands clasped
across his equator, looking as II ne diuh
care how soon the republic went 70
pieces.-BrooHyn Argus.
News from the Spirit World.-Me-
dium-The spirit Of the late MIR. Jones
is present. Jones' widow with emotion)
I hope you are happy, Jones Jones
Craps out)-Far happier than ever was
on earth ! Jones' widow-Oh, Jones
then you must be in Heaven! Jones'
On the contrary.
TWO PICTURES.
An old farmhouse with meadows WIDE,
| And sweet with clover on each SIDE:
A bright-eyed boy who looks from ont
| The door with woodbine wreathed about,
| And wishes his one thought all day:
"Oh if could but fly away
From this dull spot the world 10 see,
How happy, happy, happy,
How happy would bel"
Amid the city's constant din,
A man who round the world has been
| Is thinking, thinking all day long:
"Oh if could only trace once more
The field-path to the farmhouse door,
The old green meadows could see,
How happy happy, happy,
How happy would bel"
How they express in. At the CEN
tennial the Philadelphia ladies cry out,
Isn't it cunning ?" New York ladies,
How superbly lovelyr' Boston ladies,
"Ah, how exquawsite Louisville
ladies, "Be-utiful, TO shuah p' Chicago
ladies, "Oh, MY wished l owned
thatl" while the genuine Yankee girls
from the rural districts exclaim, Gee
whimminy, but amt that ere stun
ner, neow!"
miss Jane Stuart, in an article on
the "Stuart Portraits of Washington,
in Scribner's Magazine fer July, has this
interesting reminiscence "I once heard
my father, in private conversation with
Washington Allston, give his candid
opinion of Gen. Washington's appear
ance. He said that his figure was by
no means good that his shoulders were
high and narrow, and his hands and 1eet
remarkably large. He had aldermanic
proportions and this defeat was in
creased by the form of the vest of that
day. But. with all these drawbe cks, his
appearance was singularly fine. have
heard my mother say that the first time
she saw him he entered the hall door as
she passed from the entry to the parlor,
and that she thought him the most
superb-looking person she had ever seen.
He was then dressed in black velvet, with
white lace ruffles, etc, exactly as Stuart's
picture represented him."
The following recipe for pathetic
marine poem" appears in new English
: book: "Take one midnight storm, and
one fsherman's family, which, if the
poem is to be real success, should be as
large and as hungry as possible, and must
contain at least one innocent infant.
Place this last in a cradle, with the
mother singing over it, being careful that
the babe be dreaming of angels, or else
: smiling sweetly. Stir the father we'll
, up until he disappears. Then get ready
t Immediately quantity of cruel, crawl
t ing foam, in which serve up the father,
| directly on his temperance, which. is
sure to take place in an hour or two, in
the dull, red morning. This done,
S charming saline effervescence will take
e place among the remainder of the family.
e Pile up the agony to suit the palate, and
the poem will be ready for perusaI."