American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-10-26
The toner's fayorite bird-swallows.

The tOper's favorite bird-Swallows.
AVERY narrow apperture-The ''crack''
of a whip.
An object of interest-Your deposit in
the savings bank.
Ii you court a young woman, and you
are won and she is won, you will both be
won.
PEOPLE who are always wishing for
something new, should try neuralgia
once.
THEY are fools who persist in being
quite miserable because they are not quite
happy.
A HUSBAND can readily foot the bills of
q wife who is not afraid of being seen foot
ing the stockings of her husband.
A REWARD is offered for a barber who
does not ask you to be shampoOed or "hev
your hair cut, sah?''
THE jute crop of Bengal has been seri-
ously injured by storm. A rising in
back-hair will probably be the result.
ALEXIS tells every American that he
meets that he intends to return to the Uni
ted States, and will be present at the CEN
tennial celebration in 1876.
ANfmprovement on the Cardiff Giant
has been inventor in Iowa in the shape
of pctrified buffalo, found standing and
duu III the ACT OF eat1ng.
THERE are some medical enthusiasts in
England who think. perhaps, it would be
wise if all small and unhealthy children
were suppressed when first born.
OWING to the scarcity Of vegetables and
the plenty OF diamonds in Arizona the
miners are swapping with the farmers
even. karat for carrot.
1T is said that our National Park in the
Yellow Stone Valley has one little draw
haek-fon will
: nously interfere with pleasure parties,
unless they take a notion to be friendly.
GEORGE SAND wants to introduce female
FreemasOnry in France; but there is a
difficulty. The goats in that country
can't be trained to wear side-saddles, and
the French ladies can't be trained to ride
the other way.
Ar q convention OF milk producers.
hold in New York recently, it was report
ed that of 500 samples of the fluid exam
ined by chemist, 40 were adulterated
and Of SIS, 600. 600 paid every year by con-
sumers, only So, O00. 600 reached the far
mers.
THERE is good deal Of excitement in
Ireland, Just now, over the reported dis
covery Of gold in paying quantities, near
the town Of Kinsale. If the report shall
prove true, we may live to see emigration
whence it has been pouring in an unbroken
stream for so many years.
WHEN a man has endured the troubles
of life for upward Of a century, we would
suppose he could be patient until the end,
which naturally must be at hand. But
not so thought centenarian living in
Illinois; he recently hung himself at the
age Of one hundred and three years.
2 Br recent invention an additional pro-
teS1on against fraud Is given to the draw
ers of checks and drafts. A new style of
colored paper, of a delicate French gray
shade. is SO prepared that figures once
made upon it cannot be erased or chem
ically removed without leaving a mark
that would lead to immediate detection.
= A 1EsIDrNr of Gilroy, California, has
kdfscovered process by which the nico-
tine may be extracted from tobacco. Civ
ing good native qualities the finer flavor
Of prime Havana brands. 1t has been
found that the soil of California is admira-
bly, adapted for the culture of the weed.
A cLEKoYMAN, meeting Barnum the
Snowman, the other day, after inquiring
after his health, physical and spiritual,
sid: s.Barnum, / always liked you.
You are a good fellow, and l trust we
shah meet In heaven eOh," said the
y 1mperturbable Snowman, with atwinkle of
his eye, g have NO doubt we shail-if
you are therel''
An ingenious Yankee-so goes the
story has just inventeda large revolving
m1ch1ne-a scOOp-net covered with lace,
sAnd put in motion by wind, water or
steam-by which he puts mosquitoes to a
profitable use-these insects being big
and thick where he lives. Every revolu-
ton draws in an ounce Of mosquitoes
these are drowned by the wonderful ma
chine, and a ton of them when thus col
} lleeted makes splendid dressing for
land, worth $45, and quickly sold.
IT has been generally supposed that the
original purchase of Manhattan Island for
226. in l626. waa a Drntfv OO0f invQsfTropf
but AMI idle mathematician has made the
Z discovery that, If the same sum had boon
put oeat 81 0Pcr 0cHL. compound interest,
SIG, $50, l79 Goa sum sufficient to buy
several New Y0rks, and nearly equal to
eheva1uation of the entire real and per-
fqatpfoperty in the United States at the
1ftdht time.
Thar Great Britain will require an I'M |
! QeRAX large amount of the products of
( American farms to make up for the def
cheney at home, seems certain. Butchers
meat is so high that only the rich can buy
1t, while the cattle disease is spreading. |
The potato disease is general throughout
tie country. The last number of The |
u Mo- Lane Erpress received states that SO |
-Dniy short, but poor in quality, and it es- |
-inates That at Least one quarter more for
eign wheat than ordinary will be required |
for the support Of the people. Barley, !
oats and beans are all rapidly rising in |
= Nor to have beans on Sunday is still, in |
some parts Of New England, a fracture of |
the twelfth commandment. The bean fig
ures largely in the economy of the old |
Bay State. It has its moral as well as its |
official uses. 1t is given to the inmates of
the State prison at Charlestown, and is |
made q moral test of character. In the |
kitchen there, rows of convicts, seated at |
the long table, sort over the beans for
next days dinner, throwing away the |
! black and imperfect ones. This is the first |
step toward awakening in these degraded |
beings the distinction between good and |
bad. When they have learned to sort out
the bad beans, they have taken one step
IN the formation of a moral character. So |
sOlicitOus is that State of the morals OF all |
her children.
1r. Boutwell, Again.
OF course Mr.. Boutwell,, having assured
the public that he would buy one million of
dollars of our national bonds on the first
Wednesday in October, did on that day
actually buy not one million but three
millions of those bonds. Equally of course
private limitations of his intention thus
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