American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-10
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
IAsTER OF ARTs-A male flirt.

LONG DIvIsION-SeparatiOn for life.
PROVIDENCE, it has been not inaptly
said, provides for the providcnt.
PIoUs SISTER: Tommy, who loves al
mem" Tommy: 900 does"
NINETEEN persons were killed at bull
fights in Madrid during the last two years
| DAVENPORT, Iowa, has girl who spell.
backward. We never thought backward
was hard word to spell before.
MORE people have been killed by light
ming in England this summer than has
ever been known before, in the same
length of time.
| "WHoM the gods would destroy they
first make mad" Yes, and when some
men would dye, they first get madden.
WHY is moth fluttering round candle
| like man getting off a horse? Because
they are both going to light.
A MAN in Chester County, Penn, has
been fined for allowing weeds to grow on
his farm to the damage of his neighbors.
THEY have sent 1000 young black bass
from Saratoga Lake to England. They 60
over in large glass tanks.
A ''HOME for destitute animals has
been erected in Boston by the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
THE average cost of building mile of
railroad is fOrty-four Thousand two hun
dred and twenty-five dollars in this coun-
try.
A DIES MONIES Uowa) barb advertiscs
for a shop boy who is willing to let the
proprietor run the shop at least half
the time.
''DO YOU keep matches?" asked wag
of country grocer. "Oh, yes, all kinds"
was the reply. "Well, I'Iltake trotting-
MATCH" said the wag.
WESLEY, Me-, must be pleasant local
ity for forest rambles. Thirty-eight
bears have been killed in that vicinity in
the last twelve months.
A SPRINGFIELD paper says: "We know
shoes have soles and tongues, and now a
made Hear We don't believe it"
IT is stated that more people have been
executed in France during the last twelve
months than in any year since 1915, when
the episode of the ''hundred days" be-
tween two restOrations sent so many per-
sons to the gallows.
A LITTLE boy was sent to store for
some eggs; before reaching home he
dropped them. In answer to his mother,
who asked, ''Did you break any," he re-
piled, mo, didn't break any, but the
shells came off some of Them
In the San Joaquin Valley, Cal, is
grain patch thirty-five miles long and
eight miles wide, covering an area of 179,
200 acres. The average yield is estimat
ed at sixteen bushels, which will give a
total of 2, 1867, 200 bushels, or sc, O15 tons.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT, seeing Dioge-
mes looking attentively at parcel of hu
man bones, asked the philosopher what
he was looking for. "That which l can
not find," was the reply; ''the difference
between your fathers bones and those of
his slaves"
A NEW alarm clock belonging to Mrs.
Slifer, of West Philadelphia, sounded at
midnight. The baby screamed, Mrs. |
5lifer had Mysteries, and her husband fired |
six shots out of the window at a supposed |
burglar, and wounded passer by. When |
The police came they found him trying to |
brown the disturber of his peace, which |
ne finally threw into the yard, where it |
whiZZed all night, while the neighbors
threw things at it, installing it for cats.
SOME of the clerks were waiting in the |
Treasury Department for the opening of
business. One said to the company:
who is the shortest man mentioned in
he Bible?" The old Joe Millers were all
exhausted nehemiah Qxnee- Oh -miah).
Bildad the Shuhite (shoe-heignD." To all
answers the clerk replied "No." "We
give it up" was the response "Peter,"
was the reply. 'Peterr' they all cried;
he was stout, large, athletic man"
Cant help it. He was the shortest man
ever read of in the Bible. He said he
pretty short when he hasn't any money"
THE following legend relates how GER
ain Grand Duke of Florence built a
bridge without expense to the State. The
Grand Duke issued proclamation that
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grand plaza at a certain designated time,
hould be provided with a new suit of
clothing free of cost. At the appointed
lour the beggars of the city assembled,
the officers caused each ave
Tue of the public square to be closed, and
hen compelled the beggars to strip off
heir old clothes, and gave to each one,
I'D clothes thus collected enough money
vas found concealed to build beautiful
fridge over the Arno, still called the Beg
,ars' Bridge.
AMONG the feathered creation the eagle
md raven, the swan and parrot, are each
An eagle kept in Vienna
lied after confinement of one hundred
md fourteen years, and on an ancient oak
n Selborne, still known as the craven
ree," the same pair of ravens are be-
ieved to have fixed their residence for a
cficS VI InoTe Ildl HlHcty years oWduS
lpon the Thames River, about whose age
here can be no mistake, since they are
nicked by the Winters Company,
lnder whose keeping they have been for
i've centuries, have been known to sur
i've one hundred and fifty years and
more. The melody of the dying swan is
ntirely NEUROLOGICAL. Upon approach of
eath the bird quits the water, sits down
Ipon the bank, lays its head upon the
round, expands its wings trifle and eX-
'ires, uttering no sound.
A TERRIBLE scientific revenge was re-
emily taken by a young chemist in Ven
ce named Orlando Farnerini. He loved
young lady, but she loved another, who
vas a tailor. Orlando owed him money,
nd sent word he would pay it if the tailor
nd his bctrothed would visit him in his
laboratory. The invitation was accepted,
nd Orlando slyly got them to take part
n electrical experiments. He babe them
i've him their hands, put one pole of a
tumkorf apparatus between the girls fin
ers, and the other into the tailors hand
nd then joined currents. The lovers fell
o the ground in convulsive fits, but Far
erini only laughed. After trying to dis
ngage themselves from the apparatus in
ain, in five minutes they became distort-
d corpses. Farncrini with the utmost
sang froid' reported the matter to the
'olice, and gave himself up.
A LATE number of the Pittsburgh Post
laims that the enormous supply of lum-
'er necessary to the growing wants of the
market in that section is in danger of be-
oming inadequate to the demand. Pitts
urgh alone consumes 100 900, 600 feet per
mum. At the same time not much
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