American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-24
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

HoNEY-BEEs in Cuba swarm three times
year.
THE ToPER's FAvoRITE BIRD-Swal-
low.
A CORPORAL OF MANY STRIPEs-Cor-
poral punishment.
A FARMER has no right to pull the ears
of his corn 1t is unkind.
SOMETHING that always comes to
pass.-The express train.
New HAMPSHIRE consumes the least
tobacco of any of the States.
THE Paris hotels charge the same price
for keeping canary birds as servants.
Young ladies with new solitaire dia-
mond rings never refuse to play the piano.
EVEN in time of peace death is the pen
atty for desertion from the italian army.
THERE were only fourteen fires in
Charleston, S. c., for the year ending
April 81, 1872.
OLE BULL has drawn $40, 900 worth of
notes out Of his violin during the last two
years.
THE premium list of the Georgia State
Fair numbers 1 1923 prizes, aggregating
$50, 900.
THE eAaron cup" California flower,
measures two feet eight inches from the
base to the tip.
w HN is Il not STluult-Cdkc ike Il
pillar Because it is the grub that makes
the butterfly.
A NEW verb to express the sudden ac-
cess of heat in the atmosphere has been
invented-e'It vesuviates."
A WATERFORD, VT, girl certainly
knows how to say 'No." She has just
refused the twenty fifth offer of mar
riage.
IT has been proposed to have an hour
each week set apart for Christians
throughout the world to unite in prayer.
IT is said, but we don't kno,o that it is
true, that the prize for gymnastics at
late fair was awarded to one of the cheeses
exhibited.
A SCIENTIFIC gentleman informed the
world that the film of soap bubble,
about to burst, is three-fourths OF one
millionth of an inch thick.
THE United States have 5000 telegraph
stations, 5000 miles of line, over 1000
operators, and transmit over II, 5OU,00O
messages annually.
THE Crown Princess Victoria of Prus-
STA, daughter of Queen Victoria, has Of
fered a prize of $4,000 for the best essay
of advancing the material interests of
working women.
THE great question is, What shall we
do with the north pole when we find it ?
There are nov, four expeditions hunting
for it among the icebergs, and it will
scarcely escape all its plrsuers.
Every person arrested, convicted and
sent to the penitentiary in the United
States costs on an average, 81 20O-while
every boy educated at the expense OF the
State costs only about $500.
THERE is one coach driver in the en-
ploy of the Catskill Mountain House,
Al l.. l,.a mic q
trip nor lost train-a fact which lndl-
Gates faithfulness, punctualIty and good
health.
THE learned Prof. Parsons had a great
horror OF the east wind and Tom Sherl-
dan is said to have once kept him pris-
oner in the house for fortnight by liking
the weathercock in that direction.
A FIELD GLASS, lost in Prickly Pear
Valley, Col, last winter, was found few
weeks ago, and the trees, vegetation, and
small stream, near which the glass laid,
are indelibly photographed on the glass
eS.
THERE were imported at New York
last year one hundred and two cargoes OF
bananas, eighty-seven cargoes of pineap-
piles, and two hundred and twenty-five
cargoes of cocoanuts.
IT has been found in New York that
the present fashion of building with
white marble, or painting iron buildings
~ lite, is very injurious to the sight,
from the strong reflection radiateG by the
white.
A BALLOT cast against levying tax for
completing the High School In FOND du
Lac, Wis, declared the voter did not
want no skole by dam site" and an
other asserted that there was 'too much
,kule now" And yet Fond du Lac Will
have more ''skole."
A CYSrC suggests that the marrying
deceased wife's sister implies either that
he husband has treated his first wife
very kindly or cruelty. If kindly the SIS
Ter wishes to experience the same treat
nent; if cruelty, to avenge 1t.
CHINESE physicians in San Francisco
Use medicines that one would naturally
prefer to take in homeopathic doses
Hundreds of packages containing drled
lizards and venomous serpents are I'M
ported from China ard consigned to
Chinese doctors, who use them IN their
practice.
IT is said that in a leading bank in
Stockholm all the clerkships have for
some years past been satisfactorily filled
~ females. That is no more than might
nave been expected, as every one VINO
las ever entrusted secret to women
Knows they make tirst-rate tellers.
SOME of the Greenfield, (Mass.) farmers
market their butter in Boston put up in
me pound tin boxes. These are packed
n ice and arrive at the hub as fresh and
lice as they leave the dairy. 1t is the
,ilt-edged butter that receives this treat
nent, and it brings seventy-tve cents or
more per pound.
A LAZY little four-year- old in Bath,
Maine, said the other evening, while bus
w employed at the tea table-from which
he whole family had decamped for the
purpose of witnessing beautiful rain
'ow-'if God will let that rainbow stay
here till | get Gone supper l will look mt
E."
THERE is curious freak of nature near
'ayuga Lake. 1t i. an oak and pine tree
rowing together, SO closely connected as
o present the appearance of one tree, and
n fact they might be so called, for at the
DOT no division line can be seen, and the
ark has nearly the appearance of that of
inc.
Mr.. JAMES BROOKS, in his recent book
f travels, thus describes Japanese
heater: 81 went to the theater the
Their night in Kanagawa-a big in
titution with no seats, but with rails
D lean on. We all squat. The
atives leave their penny and two penny
traw shoes at the door, near the tin box,
nd take tickets for them, as we take
ckets for our hats or coats. 1t was
ery funny sight to see four or five hun
red shoes ticketed with wooden straps
ttachcd to them, the straps written over
Japanese characters"
TIE best authorities estimate the en-
re worlds wool product for 1877 at L.,
10000, goo pounds. OF this enormous
lJluTitN Enrpna 1rpln,.l ahnut