American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-06-22
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The artesian wells on the Colt estate in
Hartford cost S12, 900.
A MAN who don't know anything will
tell it the first time he gets chance.
A THIEF running away is scamp but
the policeman's chase after him is a
scamper. --"G
/ The British iron product is about 8.
3OO,OoO tons year, and the American
about {, 100000. -...T.-... Gid.
The young widow who was buried in
grief is now alive and doing well. 1t is
| only another instance of premature inter-
ment. DAB
THE st. Adams (Vt.) Messenger thinks
sky blue is pretty color for ceilings,
but not so tasty for country milk at eight
cents quart"
+, OF a little more than nine hundred ex-
hibitors III the department of painting
and drawing in the French Exhibition,
1876 are females.
CoUNTRYMAN at the menagerie-" See
here, now, them amt zebers don't you
see they're all marked alike? They've
been fools enough to paint 'em all to one
pattern"
AN old lady who inquired for the dol
lar warden hat" went away sorrowing
when the clerk told her that they were
just out, but he had plenty of I" six dollar
vardens."
THERE is a reverend gentleman in
Minnesota who spends his Sundays in
prophesying that the world will not out
last the present summer, and yet he has
sown 100 acres of wheat.
Ike" said Mrs Partington, "How
do astronomers measure the distance to
the sun >" "Why," replied young hope
full, ''they guesses a quarter of the dis
lance, and multiplies by four" Mrs. p.
fainted!
THE amount of gold produced in the
Pacific States and Territories in 1871
reached $50, 100000. The amount of
farm produce grown in the State of Penn
sylvania in 1870 was worth nearly 1884,,
100000
AN Irishman went to Bangor and
bought horse for two dollars and half.
When he had dragged him home, a neigh
Dor said: "Arrah now, Pat Why
didn't you give another half dollar and
git good one ~
AN august Senator, who is getting a lit
tie bald, was the other day asked by his
heir, Papa, areyou still growing?" ''No,
dear; what makes you think so?" ''Be-
cause the top of your head is coming
through your hair"
A MAN who was delivering public ad-
dress in Massachusetts, the other evening,
stepped over the edge of the platform,
and, striking on his feet, calmly contin-
ued: ''To come down to the level of my
audience"
THE Boston Times says: The blind
street beggar ought not to stop to exam
inc by gas-light the scrip given him, if he
wishes to be successful in convincing the
charitable of his total blindness. The OPP
Grafton was witnessed last evening.
A MAN incarcerated in the Tombs has
Il. IL I.
cell: SIN New York City the spires of 342
churches, worth Sal, 100, 900, point heav-
onward. I'm here for stealing loaf of
bread for my starving child"
A NEw-FAsHIoNED ring is made Of a
wide band of gold, reaching nearly to the
first joint of the finger, and is studded
with alternate lengthwise rows of tur-
quoise and pearls, or small emeralds and
diamonds.
A STORY is told of father in a church
who, when the marriage service came to
the point where the clergyman asks, "Who
giveth this woman to be married to this
to do it, although it do go agin the grain.
1 wanted her to marry Bill Plowser, who
is worth twice the money O. that ere
man."
A MAN in Middletown, N. Y, has in
vented a rifle with which he has been as
tonishing the natives. 1t is said to have
hurled a bullet through a target composed
of forty-two inches of solid pine, eight
inches of hemlock, eighteen inches of
oak and nineteen inches more of pine,
goodly impeachment surely. "a lead
bullet melts before leaving the barrel with
the intense heat caused by the friction,
and ball of composition has to be used,
which, if unimpeded, can be sent over two
miles"
A LITERARY treasure has been discov-
cred in the library at Lambeth palace-a
copy of the second volume of the cele-
brated MaZarin Bible, containing the
whole of the New Testament. This is
the earliest printed edition of the Holy
Scriptures. 1t is in Latin, and is suppos-
ed to have been printed by Guttenburg
and Faust, at Metz, between the years
1850 and 1455, and is probably the first
book printed with movable types 1t is
entitled the "Mazarin Edition." because
it was discovered by Nj. de Bure in the
cardinals library.
REMARKABLE SURGERY.-Hattie Thorn
as, of Naugatuck, Conn, was caught in
some machinery about a year ago, and
the scalp was torn entirely off her head
from the nap of her neck to her eye brows
Her physician, finding that she was likely
to rally from the first effects of the acct
dent, began transplanting pieces of skin
from her arm to her head. The expert
ment proving successful, number of
Miss Thomas friends volunteered to fur
nish whatever new material was needed,
and sixty four pieces of 6 seed-skin,"
many of them as large as a half dollar,
were put on from time to time, which
now cover her head as perfectly as the
original skin, while the lady's health is
entirely restored.
THERE are over 100000 affiliated Ma
sons in the United States, will be seen
by the following Grand Lodge reports for
1871: Alabama, 10, $50; Arkansas, 1924;
District of Columbia, 2,420; California,
9,52S; Colorado, S54; Delaware, 967; Flor
ida, ITO; Georgia, 10, 4S9; Idaho, 1888;
Illinois, $3.50; Indiana, %, 1888; Iowa,
l2,54s; Kansas, 3,7s1; Kentucky, 90, 3ss:
gan, 22,172; Mississippi, 11,004; Mime
sofa, 4,5SS: Missouri, IS, 493; Montana,
5i1; New Jersey, S,3l3; Nebraska, 1,O5G;
Massachusetts, 2O,253 Maryland, 5,161;
Nevada, or; New Hampshire, 6,413;
New York, 1920; North Carolina, IL
100; Ohio, 24,0S4; Oregon, ,437; Penn
sylvania 31,30S; Rhode Island, 5,2l5;
South Carolina, $500; Tennessee, Is, COL
Texas, II. 500; Vermont, 5000; Virginia.
s, $50; West Virginia, ,S45; Wisconsin,
S,9H; Washington Territory $50. There
are, perhaps, 100000 unaitiliated Masons
in the United States.
A CERTAIN old Friend, of Phi iladelphia, !
n singular woman, died twenty odd years |
ago, leaving Il large fortune to two neph-
ews, then both babies, and mothcrlesS. |
The will was confidcd to another ancient |
Quaker to be kept II profound secret nv |