The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08
PARAGRAPHS OF THE PERIOD.
THE toothache stops as soon as the
tooth is found out.

The toothache stops as soon as tn
, tooth is found out.
WHEN Michigan father pounds OIL
} the stair-door and informs Sarah tina
it is time to go to bed he means bus
mess. The next time he gets up o
wild-eyed lover goes for the gate on a
gallop.
/ A MAN made three successful at
tempts to blow his brains out, and
then his wife said to him, Don't try
it again, John you haven't got any.
That man now goes about saying he
owes his life to that woman.
Two SONS of Erin were standing by
a hydraulic press, when one of them
called out to the other: Jim, I'd
like to put We under andsquaze the divil
out of ye." would We, indade, my
boy? was the answer "Squaze the
divl out o you and there would DO no.
thing left.
l.. PAT had been engaged to kill a tur-
tie for neighbor, and proceeded inn
mediately to cut off its head. Pats
attention was called to the fact that
the turtle still crawled about, though
it had been decapitated, and he ex-
planned: +" Sure the haste is entirely
dead, only he is not yet conscious of
It,"
RELIGION lis not confined to devo-
tional exercises, but rather consists in
doing all We are qualified to do, with
a single eye to Gods glory and will,
from a grateful sense of his mercy to
us. This is the alchemy which turns
everything into gold, and stamps a
value upon common actions.
LAST September Scotch sailor
named Anderson performed one of
the moet perilous feats on records He |
climed the summit of the South Half |
Dome, in the Yosemite Valley, dis
lance of 1900 feet, by means of
spikes and ropes. After him few
other tourists reached the dizzy height.
To find one who has passed through
life without sorrow, you must find one
of love or hatred, of hope or
fear-one that hath no memory of the
past and no thought of the future
one that hath no sympathy with hui
manity, and no feeling in common
with the rest of the species.
You have seen the ivy and the
clustering around our walls.
Well, that is just the way sometimes
,he sweetest Christian graces cling to
rough hard natures. Jesus sometimes
axes us as stones in the walls of his
church, but he has to trim us off pretty
veil to make us fit. By nature we
lont harmonic with goodness, and
purity and devotion. |,
The line of conduct chosen by a
BOY during the five years from fifteen
o twenty will, in almost every in
tance, determine his character for !
life. As he is then careful or careless,
prudent or imprudent, industrious or
ndolent, truthful or discriminating,
Intelligent or ignorant, temperate or :
SO will he be in after years,
nd it needs no prophet to cast his
oroscope or calculate his chances.
He sat in a railway car. His head :
Tas thickly covered with mass of
ed hair. Behind him in seat sat a
ian with hardly any hair on his head,
Ie said to him, "I guess you wasn't +
ound when they dealt out hair" Il
Oh, yes, I was" replied bald-headed, e
but they offered me lot of red hair,
nd l told them to throw it into the c
81 bin" P
BEN WooD DAVIS gives this de6ni- 8
on of The Soul" in the New York
vening Post: il
The soul is two-fold creation
One part an in6nite sea a
Within whose caverns lie treasur es =
That sparkle alluringIy. u
The other part is a diver,
Who leaps in this infinite sea n,
To gather few of these jewels ~
Of wonderful rarity. VI
And sometimes he comes to the surface, sI
Jewel or two in his hand m
But, alas how often he rises Il,
With nothing but seaweed and sand!
THE biggest snake story we have !,
en- in long while appears in 81
entucky paper. A short time ago 10
le Mr.. Ives discovered large cave W
the side of hill, and heard the re
uealing of pigs inside. In attempt ha
g to ascertain the cause, he saw pro-
lding from the mouth of the cave III
immense rattlesnake with a pig in ne
mouth. Neighbors were sum- uI
1ned with various weapons, fire was OF
lit in the mouth of the cave, and in he
out an hour the reptiles came pour
: out. They were fired upon from hi
: rock above, until 80 were killed, pr
t many made their escape. The 70
gest was ten feet long. flo
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