The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-01


Stay, then, till sorrow dies;
Then-hope and happy skies
Are thine for ever!
The London World wants London
hotel on the American plan, 80 that peo-
pie can pay SO much day, and then eat
all day if they want to. Let us, too.
have hotel on the English plan, which
permits man to pay for as much as he
can drink in an hour, even if man
lasted only ten minutes.
"A Danbury man, wishing to engage
several bushels of potatoes from per-
son in the suburbs, asked neighbor what
sort of man he was. & Well" said the
conscientious neighbor, 81 don't know
much about him, but should think he
would make tip top stranger"
=" Say, ma, want England the
mother of this country ?" Yes, my
son; you ought to know that" "Well
want George Washington its father ?"
Why-y-yes, of course" We'll,
ma, wot want to inquire is" "Yeu
you go right out and split that wood,
George, or Pll inquire you"
"A correspondent of the Woman's
Journal, writing from mid-ocean, asks:
"Can there be anything more impress
sive than this infnity of space?" Moth
ing, we should say, nothing; unless it is
to walk four miles through a snow storm
to see your girl and then find another
fellow making love to her.
Victor Hugo preserves blot on his
carpet, caused by the upsetting of his
inkstand, Just as he had finished one of the
most celebrated chapters in Les Misera-
bles." So man might always cherish a.
patch in his pantaloons, inserted after he
had been kicked all the way down stairs.
There is nothing under the sun like sem
timent.
AN inquisitive but badly posted
Briton went down to visit Mount Yer
non not long since, and after making
many inquiries, and noting down the
answers, he said to the superintendent:
" All! may ask you if General Wash
ington was in the harmyf" "He was,
SIR" replied the superintendent. And
on which side, union or rebelf" Rebel,
sir" was the reply, which was carefully
noted down.
An attempt is being made in Rich
mand, Va, to stop the sale of intoxica-
ting liquors to minors. The Virginia
gosling, feeling that tobacco alone can
not make him what he conceives to be q
man, has becomes frequenter OF the
bar-rooms, and fond parents grieve and
hunt for him instead of starting him on
to the Black Hills, where the Indians
would willingly relieve them of further
care concerning him.
The grandest' operations, both II
nature and grace, are silent and imper-
ceptible. The small brook babbles IN
its passage, and is heard by every one
but the coming of the seasons is silent
and unseen. The storm RACES and alarms,
but its fury is soon exhausted, ana It's
effects are partial and soon remedied; but
the dew, though gentle and unheard, Is
immense in quantity, and the very lie
of large portions Of the earth. And
these are pictures of the operations OF
grace in the church and in the soul.
DO adults grow? Lewis G. james
says they do. He has short article IN
the Herald of Health giving the results
of actual measurements during ten years
in the health-lift. In some instances
middle-aged men have grown an inch IN
height by practicing that exercise ana
several have gained three-fourths OF an
inch. DIR. Cobb's Uranium grew more
than an inch in circumference after he
was forty, but then he was Universal
list and his expansive faith may have had
something to do with the growth.