The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-17
GRAVE and GAIN


form club: awe bend the knee, but
not the elbow" This is supposed to re
fer to dexterous habit of drinking out
of bung.
| GOOD NIGHT
| What do see in Baby's eyes?
| So bright! SO bright
| / see the blue, see IA spark
See a twinkle in the dark
Now shut them tight.
Whatdo see in Baby's eyes?
| Shut tight-shut tight.
| The blue is gone, the light is hid
I'll lay a soft kiss on each lid.
| Good night! good night.
| The lightning struck Patchogue
darkey on the head Saturday morning
last, but he refused to bulge an inch,
and muttered doggedly: "Dat makes
free times Use been hit, and now /
shouldn't wonder eff it huff me alone."-
| ~ Y Tribune.
-" Philadelphia is swelling like
toad" says an envious New Yorker.
"Our little neighbor reminds me of the
story Charlie Backus tells in the min
strels. 'Mr. Backus,' lady said to him,
is that your natural mouth, or do you
use glove-stretchers p"
"A tall, gaunt, Reese river, Nevada,
man walked up to a bar and said, GIVE
got an aged mother back in Missouri; I
was brought up religious; amt prepared
to die and what 1 want to know is, if
the snakes is strained out of them air
whisky"
The moment girl has secret from
her mother, or his received a letter she
dare not let hei. mother read, or has a
friend of whom her mother does not
know, she is IN danger. The fewer Sc
crets that lie in the hearts of women at
any age the better. 1t is almost a test
of purity. In girlhood do nothing ha
if discovered by your father, would
make you blush.
Delightful little dog story from Gull
tured Boston: ga gentleman living at
the South End recently bought a setter
dog, and upon taking him home his little
girl inquired what kind of dog he WAS
Upon being told that he was setter
she asked if he would have little dogs.
No, he would not. She then replied that
when hen sets she has little chickens,
and 1 don't see why setter dog shouldn't
have little dogs"
The Rev. Charles Voysey, OF Lon
don, has preached an elaborate sermon in
favor of slavery, and denunciatory of
emancipation in the West Indies. He
seems to agree with Lowell's lines,
But Iibbaty's kind O. thing
That don't agree with niggahs,
for he asserts that freeing them in ia
maica has sunk them into savageism, de-
based them morally, and in every way
injured them.
"A young man called on his intended
the other evening, and while waiting for
her to make an appearance he struck up
conversation with his intended brother
in-law. After while the boy asked:
"Does galvanized niggers know much?'
81 really can't say" answered the
amused young man, and silence reigned
for lew moments, when the boy re-
sumed:
"Kin you play checkers with your
nose?'
"No, have not acquired that accom-
plishment."
"Well, you'd better lern, you hear
meF
"Whyw
"'Cause, Sis says you don't know as
much as a galvanized niger, but that
yer dads got lots O. stamps, and she'll
marry you anyhow; and she said when
she got ahold of the old mans sugar she
was agoin' to all of the Fourth of July
and let you stay at home to
play checkers with that hollyhock nose
Of yourn."
And when Sis got her hair fixed and
came in she found the parlor deserted by
all save her brother, who was tying the
tails of two kittens together and sing
ing:
"Oh, how 1 love the Sabbath school,