American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-03-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


leave i'll alone is Il better
For LApIEs.-A recipe for dressing
the hair-First buy your hair.
CAPTAIN SHAW, chief of the London
fire brigade, receives salary of S4,250.
Go slowly to the entertainments of thy
friends, but quickly to their misfortunes.
A CHILD has been born at Fort Kent, |
Maine, having seven fingers on each
hand.
THREE hundred million letters yearly
pass through the Post Offices of the
world.
PUNCH says he has observed that the
unfortunate mans friends live long
way Off
THE average depth of the Atlantic
ocean is three miles that of the Pacific,
four miles.
ASAN Francisco man found thousand
dollar emerald in an old trunk at an auc-
tion house.
THERE are said to be five hundred
miles of gas-pipe underlying the streets
of New York city.
IT is said that there are twenty-five cen
tenarians living in the State of New
Hampshire.
THERE are twenty-eight orphan asylums
in the State of New York, giving shelter
to over 1900 children.
IT is estimated that there are from
100000 to $50, 900 cases of typhoid fever
in England every year.
A ST. LoUIsAN has lost faith in the
doctors because shortly after being vac
cinated he was bitten by mad dog.
A BOY being asked the meaning of the
word amateur, said it was man what
slipped up and wasn't jawed for it.
A NEW style of hand-ring has chain
with small gold bird attached, which
holds the handkerchief in its bill.
A BAKER has invented new kind of
yeast. 1t makes bread SO light that a
pound of it only weighs twelve ounces.
PHILOSOPHERS tell US not to believe
that the rich are happy. All! But the
question is, are they less unhappy?
A CONTEMPORARY says of a prominent
General that 'shis sword was never drawn
but once, and then in a rattle"
If your wife does abuse you, you have
the pleasant consciousness that she will
not permit any one else to do SO.
THE number of clergymen in the
United States is set down at ninety one
thousand, and their average salaries at
500 each.
THE young widow who was buried in
grief is now alive and doing we'll twas
only another instance of premature inter
me1t.
A MEDICAL impostor in New York has
been doing thriving business among
poor people by pretending that he was
the city vaccinator.
A MAN in Cincinnati gained bet that
he would produce one-wheeled carriage
in less than half an hour. He went out
and came back with a wheelbarrow.
STATIsTICIANs demonstrate that if Lon
don increases in the same ratio as for the
last twenty eight years, the city will con-
tain over six millions in the year 1890.
AMATEUR FARMING-Henry Ward
Beecher says the profits derived from his
farm are such that he is anxious for a
mOneyed partner, who takes delight in
the literary pursuit of drawing checks.
EVERY column of newspaper contains
from ten to twenty Thousand distinct
pieces of type. The displacement of a
single one makes an error. Is it strange
that errors occur?
DEATH by starvation is very rare
thing in this country, but almost a daily
occurrence, as recorded by the British
press, in some parts of the kingdom, but
especially in England proper.
A READING, Pa, carpenter has made a
bid for fame by carving complete ''tea
sct"-plates, cups and saucers, knifes and
forks, cream mug, sugar bowl, tea pot,
ctc.,-Out OF peach stones.
every tree is subject to disease" said
speaker in a Fruit Growers Conven-
ton. "What ailment can you find on an
Oak?" asked the chairman. GA corn, y
was the triumphant reply.
AS it takes 81, 900 cochineal insects tc
make pound, and as 1,849, S42 pounds
were brought into this country last year
100, 239, 730, 900 must have given up theil
lives to color the dresses and checks ot
American ladies.
AT dinner party in Paris, given by ar
American, each guest found valuable
souvenir under his or her plate. The la
dies received rings, boquet holders, lock
cts, or fans; the gentlemen, cigar cases
pOcket-books, etc.
A LADY who has pretty hand is anx
ious to learn whether people are NOR
liable than common to ''burn their fin
gers if they happen to be taper ones
We cannot say, but we have advised he
not to let a spark get at them.
81 HEv allurs observed that whinil
dog is sure to get lickt in fight. No Gu
of well reggerlated morals kan resist tn
temptation to bite cOwardly purp tina
tries to sneak off with his tale between
his legs. The whinin bizness man is jus
So A good ringing bark in with more t.
put greenbax in mans pocket than forty
two years Of whinin. Josh Billings
A SAN Francisco street-car conducto
Just beginning to collect his fares, place,
his hand in the side pocket of his coat t.
draw forth his nippers, when out came
formidable five-shOOter from a miner
hip pocket, accompanied with the excla
nation, "LoOk here, stranger, kim iron
the mountains, but yer can't get the dro
on me-"
A NEW FAIRFIELD man has invented
torpedo in the shape of kernel of corn
which is designed for the Requirement O
crows. As soon as that offensive bir
takes hold of it, it explodes and blow
the top of the head off. This affords
cheap and innocent recreation for tn
crow, and at the same time does ava
with grievous evil.
A DOCTOR asked the head of a famil
in Ohio if they had been vaccinated. Fl
answered in the affirmative He il
quired: where did you get the vaccin
virus ?" The father stated that one G
his little girls had hurt her finger with
pin, and his oldest daughter had vaccir
ated the rest of the children from tn
sore, and that they were all working"
A GENTLEMAN in London lately, i
making return of his income to the Tia
Commissioners, wrote on the paper
For the last three years my income Ina
been somewhat under f15O; in future
will be more precariOus, as the man
dead OF whom borrowed the money"
THE Ang,o- Brazaian Times tells stor
of an Argentine Second Lieutenant VIII
made q "pronunciamento'' several veal
ago in the city of CorrIentes, but W;
nd . A.