The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18
ADVERTISING RATES.
GR1VE AND GAP.I

Don't lick candy with red stripes on
it. There's pizen there. Rather sit
down and believe that no one cares for
you.
The revival feeling is spreading, but
it hasn't yet got down deep enough to
affect arrearag0s on country newspaper
books.
Massachusetts, drinks more lager
beer than any of the forty-one states and
territories, the aggregate for last year
being 7O9, 1929 barrels.
When a Persian woman talks to her
husband in loud tone of voice, they
shut her up; that is to say, they send
her to Jail for thirty days.
The government has abolished the
sunset gun at indianapolis; but the sun,
strange to say, keeps going down as usual,
except, perhaps, trifle later.
Being stopped by highwaymen one
night in the city hall park, he said: "Gen-
tlemen, I haven't got any money, but
I'll give you my note for three months"
"A Kentucky judge has decided that
q man has no right to harness his wife to
a pillow, no, not even with mule. And
yet women complain that they have no
rights.
There is brilliant future fol- the boy
who, when he sees ton of coal coming
to the house, rushes to his mother, asks
for the peppermint, rolls on the floor and
groans, and says he has the cramps.
An impecunious tramp offered a
cancelled postage stamp for sale at high
price as a sacred relic, declaring that il
was from one of st. Paul's letters to the
Corinthians. This is hard winter.
Cool ANs NICE
A hundred weight of ice for paper dollaFet
Now! In the middle of this bright wintareI
On end stands the hair of the housekeepAre,
As she thinks what twill be in the midsum-
mare,
For ten cents lump, weighing three pounds
spare,
Clipped in the presence of the purchasareI
The time for man to stand firmly
by Jobs example is when he washes his
face with homemade soap and begins to
paw around over the chairs with his
eyes shut, inquiring for towel, quick,
and is told that the towel is in the draw
er, but the keys are lost.
1t was Cheyenne small boy who
being talked to by his Sunday-schoo
teacher on sins and frailties of the body,
was asked: "Well, my son, what have
you beside this sinful body| Quick as
thought the urchin responded: A clean
shirt and nice new pair of breeches."
The recent trial in st. Louis has
brought out the story of the old French,
man who had been tried for theft and
acquitted. AS often as the offense was
thrown up to him he would reply: 40
pepe (the people) he say yes but 20
courthouse he say no. Aha By CARL"
When Alexander Wilson, the orni-
biologist, was personally canvassing for
his great work, he went to Cincinnati,
then town of few hundred houses,
and, according to his diary, visited q
number of the literati and wealthy of
Cincinnati, who all told me that they
would think of it, viz, Of subscribing;
they are very thoughtful people" The
dry old joker!
The Detroit Free Press chap says
that when man earning salary OF
fifteen dollars per week can dress his wife
as well as a man earning ten thousand
dollars, what is the use of earning ten
thousand dollars? This on a par with
the philosopher 81. F.'s" theory that
a lunatic who fancies he has million OF
dollars is no better than a man who has
the million, but doesn't know how to
sDend it