The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-05-06
GRAVE and GAP.

A physician boosted at dinner that
he cured his own hams, when one of his
guests remarked: doctor, I'd sooner
be your ham than your patient"
..Schoolmistress-"J Johnny, 1 am
ashamed of you'll When was your age
could read as well as 1 can now"
Yes, but you'd different teacher to
what we've got"
The requirement of four month";
county residence as a qualification 10
vote is said to disfranchise six hundred
Methodist ministers every year in New
York.
Minnesota possesses singular muir
der law, under which the most deliberate
murderer, if he pleads guilty, escapes the
gallows, though he may be hanged il he
stands trial and is convicted.
You may never have thought of il,
but it is utterly impossible to get down
right angry without raising your voice.
Control your voice and you are sure 10
control your temper.
Esquimaux theologians reverse heav-
ven and hell, placing the penitent and
saved in a world underground, and keep
ing the sinners above, where they are
frozen.
"A STRAY CURL
1t hung Ger her shoulders divinely,
curl of magnificent gold;
thought, as it lay there supinely,
OF tresses that German girl sold.
envied the curl so reposing,
Like sunshine or ambient pearl;
But while was dreamily doing
II fell with a quivering whirl-
And that curl-ah! my dream was then
ended
It lay there aghast on the floor,
While its owner in ignorance wendell,
Mid silence, her steps to the door!
..Anecdote of Lord Macaulay's re-
markable memory-when he was less
than three years old his nurse sang
" Sing song O. sixpence" TO him. Dur
ing the course of a long and busy life,
for more than fifty years, no one sang it .
to him again, yet hewas able 10 repeatit
whenever called upon TO do 50.
When death strikes down the inno-
cent and young, for every form from
which he lets the painting spirit free,
hundred virtuesrise in shapes of mercy,
charity and love, to walk the world and
bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing
mortals shed on such green graves, some
good is born, some gentler nature
comes.
There is bird in Peru To which the
natives have given the beautifulname of
alma perdiaa (the lost soul), whoselcry Is
exceedingly melancholy, the first noteis
shrill and long, and is followed by three
more of the same length, but gradually
deepening in tone. The Peruvians sayit
is bewailing the dead. The tone of this
birds voice is very different from Peru
Wan bark.
Annie Besant, the English radical
heroine, has started petition TO parlia-
ment praying that no further grants of
money to or for the royal family or any
member of it shall be given under any
circumstances whatever. The signatures
have run up into the neighborhood Of
eighty thousand, and, when presented, it
will be the largest petition ever sent to
that body.
Wood burns because it has the proper
stuff for that purpose in it, and man
becomes renowned because he has the
necessary stuff in him. Renown is not
to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain.
A person may, indeed, by skillful con-
duct and various artificial means mako a
sort of name for himself, but if the inner
Jewel is wanting, all is vanity and will
not last day.
He who never relaxes into sPortive-
ness is wearisome companion, but be-
ware of him who tests at everything.
Such men disparage, by come ludicrous
all objects which are pre-
sented to their thoughts, and thereby
render themselves incapable of any emo
ton which can either elevate or soften
them; they bring upon their moral being
an influence more whitening than the
blasts of the desert.
The new educational scheme OF ia
pan provides for universities, 81 high
schools or academies, 256 grammar
schools, and $500 primary schools.
Thirty university students are to be
sent abroad every year for professional
research, the government allowing them
81 800 each per year, while $50 from the
study upon allowances OF
81 900. The annual cost of education
in the high schools has been fixed at
$3.50 per head, and lower ones at %.
Spring sports have begun. The
golden-haired child is abroad and she
trundleth her hoop against your stomach.
Again the resounding whack Of Skinny
is heard. and the volant clinker knocketh
of the crystal head Of the calm and use
full lamp-post. The vivacious kite scareth
the inquiring steed the sidewalk is sur
rendered to the geometrical intricacies OF
hop. scotch, and democratic youths num-
bic the-peg in the clean dirt. once
more the hero of our national game hieth
to the diamond field and smlliugly OIL
fereth his other eye and remaining three
fingers as a sacrifice. Hail, gentle spring
this is invigorating.
uov To maze HARD TIMES EASY.