American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-10-12
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
STEWARDS hotel for workingwomen
will be opened in fortnight.
THREE POPULAR Understanding,
drinking, and talking.
PAwNBROKERs sometimes prefer Gus
toners without any redeeming qualities.
tn. old-fashioned high Spanish comb
is about to resume its place In ladies' hair.
THE Grspkic says that the high price OF
coal will compel the English to warm
The defects Of understanding, like
those Of the face grow worse as we grow
old.-RceAefoweaSH.
IAnuGRATIoN into the state of Nebraska
continues undated. Five hundred q day
Is said to be . low estimate.
TIE money order branch of the Post
oflce Department has increased nearly
one-third the past year.
In the best books great men talk to us,
give us their most precious thoughts, and
pour their souls into ours.
PRAYER and religion are one and in
seperahle; ~ much as there Is of one, so
much u tie other.-Hsdds.
A SINGLE orchard, ut San Diego, CAL,
has yielded this year 81 900 gallons of
olives.
LABOR Il exercise continued to fatigue {;
exercise h labor continued only while It
produces pleasure.-Johxson.
HB who receives . good turn should
never forget Il i: he who does one should
never remember it.
ONH may live ~ q conqueror, king, or
. magistrate, but he must die rs a man.
Dial WeSsf~.
WY b . good wife Ike the devils Be-
cause he s0Ws the tares whilst the hus-
bandman b asleep.
Tn longest tunnel ON the Chesapeake
and Ohio RatlroadEover mile In length
- cpmpleted.
An Englfsh court has recently decided
that tie presence Of ghosts In q house is .
suficjent reason for annullIn9 the CON
tract between landlord and tenant.
ArAR,axR had q calf 80 contrary he said,
that he 'shad to pull his ears on to make
him suck, and pun his tail on to make him
let CO."
WHAT Is fame but a famous element
recognizing itself; the ordinary man pays
homage to himself fdIl-grown.-John
WGee. r-fsf *,
TKRn are said to be about two million
cannibels on the elobe, but the number of
the people who live on other people Is
much greater than that.
SELv-DDgIAL. L. q virtue Of the highest
quality, and he who has it not, and does
not stTiKe to acquire Il, win never excel In
anything.
THE Congress of Peru has decreed the
abolition Of the death penalty, and fifteen
yeafss II to be the maximum Of all punish
ment In that republic.
A LONDON paper has discovered that q
very significant anagTam may be made Of
the name David Llvingstone, viz, go
ID. VI and visit Nile
THE Prislan frog catchers have got In
to trouble by furnishing toads' hind legs
instead Of the national delicacy when the
latter got short.
Or . miserly man Who died Of softenine
Of the brain, . local paper said: ssHis
head gave way, but his hand never did.
His brain soffened, but his heart couldn't. -
A CnecnNA1I paper says that in the
present condition 1.-THE Ohio, small and
very hne stxainer worn inside the mouth
may serve to prevent death by strangu-
latiou-
Tx En9land, some wearisome Gadgrind
Of . stnf1stlcian finds out idiots are on the
increase In the United Kingdom since 1859,
and - n0reason h assigned. we must con.
clude ITS owing to the beer, you know
In some parts Of the country peaches
are said to be 20 plentiful that they 90
about with their skins peeled on and their
pits out, begging fbr some one to eat
hem.
Tn director Of the Berlin Museum
paid Loo francs for small gold medal
containing on one side the head Of Marcus
Brutus, Mp~utsr, and On the other Junius
Brutus, first Consul.
AMoNo the patent contrivances designed
TO stop runaway horses IL pair of blind
ers, By which the driver, ON pulling .
t6e animal.
av~r.ryv - fo>t,,v.o ~ <J,n .xc,-,~,. ~ 49,,
present season has been their concentra-
ton W1thln limited territory. While the
Schuylkfll and the Delaware have been
swollen Elbr ten weeks, the water in the
Potomac b lower than at any time within
0yean.
THB soul Il by an ancient writer figured
- the dotted outline Of . man. The
vpiee a TIE soul = thought, by savages
and half civilized folk like Polynesians. to
voice, md this idea stin exists in some
parts Of England.
AHnMcAMAM u engaged IN getting up
what he callsa Universal Caravan. He
wants to enlist an army Of pilgrims will
ing to pay ], 100 francs . month into .
Joint fund for the purpose OF making q
tour Of the world IN three years. He pro
Athens, Yeddo and Paris.
APPROPRIATENESS are wondering why
th9if island, with itg 80 hines Of hsh, It's
NJ lo1[ ofecs1e - afabze lsnd, and its
e112n4lte HlnGsA dePo11ts, Is not more
ee4leq and proeperous. They are calling
Tor AmexlcaDk ftnl and American energy
- @4Ve1p ols6r resources, and they will
ct A. when AHnaRlcAns have more than
enezy end caplna enough to give to the
'aopneet g theiE own.
Sdk-4feasury DefhIeatsons.
ltaAepldbeusderstood at once through