The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-25
ADVERTISING RATES.
GRAVE IND GAY.

There is no special style of engraving
for engagement rings. A spiders web,
with fly in it, is a very pretty device.
bridget" said OMulligan to his
wife, " it's a cowld ye have. A drop of
the crathur 'ud do you no harrum.'
"Och hone" said Biddy, " I've taken the
pledge; but we can mix me drink
Jenny, and force me to swally it,"
The southern negroes are mystified
over the frequent visits of cyclones and
hurricanes, and an aged Savannah darkey
remarks: IF desc yere winds can't be
tuned down little what's de use buy
ing mules and formulating family?"
The owner of a pair of black eyes
assures us that the prettiest compliment
she ever received came from a child of
four years. The little fellow, after look
ing at her for a moment, inquired naively,
" Are your eyes new ones"
"A young man suffering from "here-
ditsry govt, said he didn't mind the pain
of it 20 much, "but," said he, "the
thought that some old ancestor of mine
had all the fun of acquiring this precious
heirloom is what takes hold of me-"
Mr.. Toole, the actor, is said to be
the only representative of the classical
painters left in England. He is now en-
gagged upon a picture, The finding of
what il left of the body of Harold"
which will doubtless be the hit of the
next exhibition at Burlington house.
A CHILD's GRAVE
A little mound with Clipped headstone,
The grass -ah me!-uncut about the
sward,
Summer by summer left alone,
With one white lily keeping watch and
ward.
A number of visitors went to Wis
consin cemetery to zee a dog that was
said to be watching faithfully over the
grave of his dead master. When they
got there he was seen chasing brindle cat
up an alley two blocks away.
Another new asteroidi Well, there's
no end to the discoveries man can
make if he prefers TO sit in a cold tower
all night to smuggling under three quilts
and resting his feet against hot soap
stone.
There is to be no shortening put
into coat tails this spring, and pants
will be baggier than ever, to accommodate
those gentlemen whose legs are built on
the silt plan. Dog-eared collars, cut 80
as to show the binding Of the undershirt,
will be popular.
-" l have my own 'pinion on zis tariff
question:" remarked a seedy looking
individual on State street last evening.
What is your opinion?" asked gen.
tleman standing near by. My 'pinion,
zur," replied the man, ais Eat every
feller's got his own right (hic) to go on
tariff e wants to-"
When the Memphians sent word to
the country that "poetry" would be re-
presented in their Mardi Grass process
sion, and the newspapers came back
with the word poetry changed to "pov
erty," they were slightly and justifably
irritated.
The bond required by the govern
ment from the centennial commission for
the faithful disbursement of the 81 $780,
900 will probably be signed by 100 citi-
Gems of Philadelphia, representing at
least $1OO,0OO,O0O. Sixty signatures
have already been secured.
The scholars in Chinese school
never put bent pins on each others seat.
They are not civilized enough for that;
but when one of them shuts the lid OF
next to him, the owner of the queue in
dulges in some frightful tea-box language
when he attempts to rise from his seat.
"A young minister, somewhat dis
tinguished for selfconceit, having failed
before a crowded audience,
was thus addressed by an aged brother:
70 If you had gone into that pulpit feel
ing as you now do coming out of that
pulpit, you would have felt, on coming
,ut of that pulpit, as you did when you
vent up into that pulpit"
We lately met an old negro trudging
llong with heavy eide of bacon that he
,ad bought, swinging over his shoulder.
Noticing that he was miserably clad, we
elt sorry for him, for cold wind WAS
blowing, and asked: why do you
,pend your money for meat? You'd
better buy coat" The old man stop
BED, looked us full in the face and said
N solemn tones: Massa, when l ak my
pack for credit it GIBBS it; when l speak
o dis (laying his hand upon his stomach),
t calls for de cash.
O my bonnie, brown bird, in my sweet, lit
tie nest,
Why silent and sad, with no laughter and
song?
IF all the dear brides love thee the best,
And know that thy love is as tender and
strong"
\ ripple a trill and gay little strain,
With fresh ruffied plumsge TO make her
more fair,
If ever YOU ask me such questions again,
Look into your heart, for The answer IL
there"
{ You love me- yet tell me SO seldom you do,
My heart gets to doubling and sadder
grow;
The Joy that it gives me if once you but
knew,
1 think you would always keep telling me
So"
When man acknowledges himself
II the wrong there is nothing more to DO
aid. The pcliteness of the average
Nevada editor is delightful Thus did
lie of the Humboldt Register acknowl-
,dce himself liar: 1.-The eX-publisler
# this paper hereby acknowledges him
elf n cussed liar, knave and horse-thief,
md ought to go west for publishing that
currilous and lying article about the
,ditor of the Register yesterday. A
black eve and bloody nose convlnces