The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26
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1t is said that $4,000, 600 boxes- of
backing are annually manufactured in
the United States.
He lay in his little bed in northern
Iudiana. He read his little novel. He
smoked his little pipe. There was little
left of him.
One of the most pitiable sights in
this life is the spectacle OF man who has
been married but three months wearing
cotton in his ears.
The Leap Year Necktie" for gen.
tlemen has a spring which, being touch
cd, moves a thickness of silk aside, and
shows disc inscribed :" No"
The editor of the Newport News
wants a female congratulations, he
says, who can Cling golden CLEANS
over the sombre tints Of life"
He was bound to be accurate, and he
described the woman's costume thus:
I" She wore an elegant suit of something
or other, cut bias, and trimmed end
wise"
The Sandwich Islanders are going to
adopt new flag, but they can't decide
whether 10 take gray horse blanket
with hole in it, or an old vest with the
back ripped out.
A convict wrote letter TO his brother;.
serious letter, without an attempt at a
joke, which, however, concluded thus: al
must leave off, now; my feet are so cold l
cannot hold my pen"
Why should'st thou FIJI to-day with sorrow
About tomorrow,
Ny heart
One watches all with care mos; true,
Doubt not that He will give thee, too,
Thy part.
Paul Fleming, 1909.
The bronze American Girl is to be
unveiled next summer in Elmira, New
York, town that has yet TO put up its
first monument to a Sabbath-school
teacher.
One Of the respectable citizens" of
an Indiana town was recently found
frozen to death with a jug of whisky
within his reach. A man who will de-
liberately freeze 20 death within reach of
Il jug of whisky may be able to palm HIM
self off as a respectable citizen in be-
nighted Indiana, but there are other
states in the union.
THE DISAPPOINTMENT
Old Birch, who taught village school,
Welded Il maid of homespun habit;
He was as stubborn mule,
And she playful rs rabbit
Poor Kate had scarce become wife,
Before her husband sought to make her
The pink of country polished life,
And prim and formal as Quaker.
One day the tutor went abroad,
NAnd. simple Katy sadly missed him
When -he returned, behind her lord
She shyly stelr, and fondly kissed him.
The husband s-fIger rose, and red
: And white his face alternate grew
" Less freedom, ma'am" kate,sighed and
said, -.
"oh, dear, didn't know twas y6u!"
Bayard Taylor says that black-eyed
women can never .loye rs fondly as those
with blue eyes. Mr.. Taylor's experience
must he very limited, or he would know
that black-eyed woman, even If she does
not spend quite as much time in signing
as her fiirer sister, can love more in five
minutes than Il blue-eyed woman can in
year. Chicago Times.
AS George III. was walking the quar-
ter deck of one of his men-of-war with
his hat on, sailor asked his messmate
"who that fellow was who did not douse
his peak to the admiral?'' "Why it's
the king" "Well, king or no king"
retortcI the other, "hcs IN unmannerly
dog Where should he learn man
ncrs?" replied Jack; che was never out
side OF land in his life
1t is told of map agent that on
recent trip he WAS attacked by highway
robbers, who demanded his money. As
he WAS too prudent to carry money III
the country, they failed to make haul
out of their victim. But, said the
agent, Il have some splendid maps OF the
country along with me, which / should
like to show you !" and in Il twinkling
he was off his horse, had a map stuck
upon pole, and explained it so eiiectu-
ally that lie sold each of the bandits
map, pockctcd the money, and resumed
his journey.