American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1861-07-13

Being.
How TO Enjoy the Springs ANA stag n
Home.
The Southern Literary Messenger gives
the following directions by which the above
named end may be obtained The expert
ments certainly would cost little, and IL APP
pears TO Us would surely prove successful:
1 Uhite Salphur.-Tie a roll of birthstone
under your nose, and drink freely Of thick
warm water. Break some doubtful eggs in
your pocket, and run round until you are
exhausted. Procure asecoRd- lssad diabetes.
change your linen three times day, and
strut loftily under tree.
/ Oh S,rset.-Get large tub, and put some
white pebbles in the bottom. Sit down in it
and blow soap bubbles. Dress your best,
and don't know anybody.
| Red Sreet.-Obtain some iron filings, paint
'em read. put 'em in tiH-pSn or pitcher,
and look at 'em in solitary silence Eat much
nation, and ga to bed early. whiskey iulip
eight times day.
| Sal Salphur.-Call yourself South Car
Gilman, and take things easy. Live wen.
Stay in one place long time. Tincture Of
birthstone occasionally.
Montgomery Hhite.-Wear loose sack
coat and loei at mulattoes frequently. Eat
great variety of raw meats and undsne
vegetables. Play at faro and draw poker
feiIoto S1lphur-Get good living on the
top IF Hill, where you can't see anything
whatever. Dominoes, draushts and back
CANNON.
44Heghaay.-Sit down in hard chair in
deep hot hole, and drink citrate of magne-
STA and Epsem salts. Gamble s0sae with
dyspeptics.
Coy1ag's--Take tie Lynchbarg papers,
and gaze with melancholy pertinaeity at tie
side Of naked I'LL. Whilst aBa religious
tracts.
Rockbrjdge Allam.-Select some cases Of
cancer on the face, with a few necks serof,l-
lousy raw, and dine with them daily on diff
ferent yictuals. Then catch the dripping
from thee caves of very old house, in n tin
cup with long handle, thicken the drppinss
with powdered nutgalls, and drink three
times day.
.Aa-HecIiag SDriRgs-Throw green blan-
ket in shallow pond, and wallow ON IT. Cut
off a strip of blanket and clay it to your ribs.
Read about old novels and talk 20 piOus old
ladies about death and chronic diseases OF the
digestive tube.
Farm Spriags.-Diet yourself on the una
dulterated juice Of the tea-kettle.
Hot Spriags.-Wear a fun suit Of mustard
plasters, and walk about in the sunshine at
MONDAY, swearing you have got the rheu-
matism.
Berkeleg SPriags.-keep your shin clear,
and know nothing but Baltimore ten pins.
Peaks Of Otter.-Climb high pole on
cold day at sunrise. Shut your eyes and
whistle.
Heirs Care.-Go into the cellar at mid /
the edges of things, and skin your
shins against the coal-seuttle. Sit down on Z
a pile Of anthracite, with tallow can lie, I
and wonder.
Old Point Can't rt.-Build hog-pes in
mud puddle; fill it with coekle-burs and
thistles, and call it surf bathing. Drink bad I
brandy. Don't sleep. Lie down y nth your
windows iwide open, and no clothing on
Come home with a fish bone in yoar throat, /
and oysters shell in your head, pain in |
your stomach, and ten thousand musquIto |
bites in your body.
Cape May.--Penetrate an immense crowd /
of male and female rowdies, drop some salt /
water in both eyes. Shoot pistols Eat
some ice cream and claret, and sepd up one
sky rocket every night. Have yourself in |
suited often by niggers. At midnight smell
of an oven with dead pig in it. Fill your
pockets with eut-glass broken into minute |
fragments.
Yankee Hateria9 Places GeaenaVy.-Keepl
a stale Goldfish under each arm, live on oni- |
ons and pumpkins, go in strong for the Union
and freesoil, and dance the round dazces in !
big brooches.