American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-06-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
| A MONTANA lover bought out his rival
for 5000.
Music is the food of love-beef and
mutton that of matrimony.
THE Mayor of Concord, N. H., stands
six feet five inches in his stockings.
| MENTION is made of umbrellas in
! Chinese books printed more than ], 800
| years ago.
| No MARRIAGE can be solemnized in
| Switzerland without giving three weeks
| notice.
New HAMPSHIRE has fifty-four savings
banks, with an aggregate deposit OF near
ly $4,000, 900.
IT is suggested that every enterprising
baseball club should be provided with a
cemetery.
Two HUNDRED unstamped or misdi-
rected letters go to the Dead Letter Office
from San Francisco every week.
CHICAGO has recently lost one of her
ancient landmarks by the pulling down
of a house erected fully thirty-six years
ago.
A VERMONT paper suggestlvely re-
marks: anonymous communications
are worth four cents a pound at this
Office"
AN old man at Wilton, N. H., on enter
ing the cars Immediately begins to pray,
and keeps it up until he is safely landed.
PARTIAL returns from the Assessors in
dictate that the value of property in the
State of California is over $500, 600, 900.
has completed his ninety-first year, yet
obstinately refuses to cut four cords of
wood day, with or without crutches.
STEPHAN, the Postmaster-General of
Germany, was, in his youth, so poor that
he had to earn precarlOuS living by
copying lawyers briefs.
A LADY of Newburg, Maine, has framed
the verdict a jury gave in her favor in
suit for breach of promise of marriage,
and has hung it in her parlor, as warn
ing to tritlers.
A BOX containing black bear was re-
ceived at an express office in San Francis
co the other day Outside was this IN.
scription Black bear-Ef yew don't
want to get bit, kepe your fingers out of
the craX."
THE whole area of Maine is about 3d.
600 miles, of which the great primeval
northern forest contains about 10000
square miles. 1t is largely composed of
tall pines. There are about 1, 800 lakes
in the State, covering nearly 5000 square
miles.
THE Hartford Adrocate gives the fol
lowing from a recent recitation in meta
physics: "Professor-Which is the most
delicate of the senses =? Senior-The
sense of touch. Professor-Give an ex-
ample. Seniority chum can feel his
moustache, but no one can see it.
A PARTY of Americans on their way to
the diamond-tields of South Africa got out
of money at Cape Town, and proceeded
on foot to the diggings, walking $50 miles.
They have been unusually fortunate, as
they deserve to be, and with such perse-
verance would probably succeed in any
thing they undertook.
FRANCIS JOSEPH spends annually for
charities two million f1orins, the Emperor
William nine hundred thousand, Victor
Emmanuel two hundred thousand, the
King of Belgium two hundred thousand,
Amadeus, of Spain, four hundred thou
sand, and the Russian Gar six hundred
thousand.
SOME idea of the value of land in the
crowded business portions Cf the city OF
London can be CLEANED from the fact that
a small plot in Lombard street, containing
an area of /, $50 square feet-about TWEEN
ty-five feet by sixty feet-was recently
sold for e6O, 1000. This averages over e39,
or about $195, per square foot.
MIR. ALoNzo NYE, of Chatham, Mass,
has flock of brant, which he uses as de-
coys in shooting. Several of them are SO
well trained that when they see flock
of wild brant coming they will set up a
vigorous quacking and entice them within
gun shot; when, warned by the touch of
a string attached to the leg, they will
quickly retreat outside the range of the
guns, and allow their fated victims to be
A CURIOSITY from the marine world is
now to be seen in the shop of a chemist
in Dresden 1t is the skeleton of giant
sea spider, in an exceedingly good state of
The body, which is quar-
ter of yard long, rests upon eight long
legs, which, when stretched out, cover,
with the body, the space of a yard. Crab
like claws, or long arms with joints, rise
above the head, and give to the whole a
CHASTITY appearance.
By reference to IA report transmitted to
the Reichstag, we find that in 1867 the
naval strength of Germany was fixed as
follows: 16 iron-clad frigates, 20 sloops-
of-war, and S dispatch boats. At the end
of 1871, there had been built of these, D
iron clad frigatcs, 9 sloops ofwar, and D
dispatch boats. There are now in process
of construction, iron-clad frigates,
sIoops- of war, and ? dispatch boats. The
report calculates that the navy will be
brought up to the proper standard in 1877,
and that besides the annual appropriation
of SO, 400, 000 already voted, $50, O1S,91O
will be needed.
JUDGE S. c. HAsTINGs, Of San Fran
cisco, Cal, is the owner of II large tract
of lule land at Maine Prairie, on which
he had large number of stock pasturing.
\ few hours before n late violent and dis
astrous storm, he telegraphed from San
Francisco to his son in charge, TO remove
all the stock from the tules, TO the high
land, as Il severe storm was ppnding