The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-10
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GRAVE And GAY.
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good.
Bret Harte says that California pro-
duces magnificent grapes, but that its
other fruits rival those of the east only
in size.
1t seems strange, but it is true.
When we spend dollar on ourselves we
soon forget it, but when we give dime
to another we remember it a long time.
Fashionable store Lady No. 1:
How du doc, dear? How's yo'r dog
ID yu get fond of him ?" Lady No. 2:
Vewy; yah, vewy. Dim fawly in love
with him, deah dog."-M. Y Herald.
belief in yourself is about as good
an Investment as one can make. If you
really think you are right, the battle is
half won.-M Y. Hail. But if YOU
happen to be wrong, what fine mess you
make of it,
The Boston Traveller says that it is
not right for one man to lean upon an
other. That's so. If you get too drunk
to stand up, lean on the fence, or sit
down and make believe you are inter
ested in paving contract.-Free Press.
Said teacher: what do the va
rious objects that you behold upon the
earth all display ?" to which boy of
the "fIrst jography" class replied in
breathless haste: Wisdom n goodness
of tn equator"
The National Sunday-School Teacher
toIIc no ctr Of nbola
asked in the lesson of "David sparing
Saul" why David compared himself to
ga flea," replied that he guessed ait was
because Saul couldn't catch him."
The other day Black Hills stage
hin, DUO trro' s'.-AA- harseWhin his pas
revolvers into him few times, and nefn-
a coroner's inquest and found that he
died of pneumonia.
"a wonderful thing is seed!
The one thing deathless forever
Forever old and forever new,
Utterly faithful, utterly true
Tickle and faithless never.
Plant lilies and lilies will bloom;
Plant roses and roses will grow;
Plant hate and hate to life will spring;
Plant love and love to you will bring
The fruit of the seed you Sow"
In horse.car, the other day, an old
lady seated opposite sharp-looking gen.
tleman kept her eyes on him a long time
and finally asked, "Mister, are you a
pickpocket ?" "Why, no, madam Pm,
a tradesman," he answered. Is that
50 ?" she sighed. "Well, Pm awfully
disappointed. wanted to try and see
if 1 could reform you.'
.."Sir," Indignantly inquired a young
man at restaurant yesterday, as he
went up to the counter to settle with
the proprietor, edo you call a tough
biscuit split in two, and three or four
half ripe specimens of fruit inserted,
strawberry short-cake ?" The proPrie-
tors lip curled with scorn as he de-
manded of the young man if he was such
a fool as to suppose there were 40 blanks
in the great lottery of life? The restau-
rant-keeper is frequently great philoso-
pher.-iSt. Louis Rep.
There is one thing on which hus-
band and wife never have and never can
agree, anu IudG 10 Oii "ho'o SoioSASAoSo -
well-beaten carpet. When the article is
clean it's mans impression that it
should be removed, and he be allowed to
wash up and quietly retire. But wo-
mans appetite for carpet-beating is never
appeased while man has a whole mus
Gle in his body. And if he awaited until
she voluntarily gave the signal to stop
he might beat away until he dropped
down dead 1t is directly owing to his
superior strength of mind that the civil
Iized world is not widow this day.
1t is remarked of the female clerks
in the Washington departments that
they might set up an aristocracy of their
own, if they choose. Widows or daugh-
tiers of army and navy officers of the
highest rank, daughters and granddaugh-
tiers of former members of the cabinet,
senators, supreme court justices, and
presidents, are to be found among them.
The granddaughter of Thos. Andrew
Jackson Donelson (adepted son of An
drew Jackson) was born in the White
House and educated in Berlin, and is
now clerk in the postofice department
the daughter of chief justice fancy is, or
was, clerk in some government bureau,
and so was the daughter of Robert j.
Walker, formerly secretary of the treas
urV.