American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-25
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
TWISTED hemp cures felons.

DELICATE COVERING FOR THE FEET
-Lace-boots.
A GELATINoUs STRUCTURE. - The
Bridge of Size.
A POPULAR MONARCH IN BAD Wealth
ER.-king Roof-us.
DOES it add to persons looks to be in
frame of mind
WHY is the figure nine like a peacock !?
Because It's nothing without its tail.
A PARADox.-A man who dislikes
poetry is of course a-verse to poem.
A MAsToDoN's tooth. one foot long, was
recently dug up in lama County, Iowa.
AN inexperienced farmer tried to make
corn beef by giving his own oxen whisky.
ONE of the prizes offered at the Georgia
State Fair was for darning stockings.
FIFTY-NISE wolves and thirteen wild
cats were killed in Green County, Iowa,
during the year ending May 1.
ORDINARY BEGGARs make from two to
three dollars a day in New York. Some,
of greater ability, average five and six.
WHEN the Hoosac Tunnel is completed,
the cost to the State of Massachusetts,
will be about $4,000, 600.
THE fisheries of Canada employ 81, 900
persons, and SIS, 100000 are invested in
the business.
A sNow-wHITE PELICAN, measuring
was shot near Jacksonville, ILL.,, few
days ago.
On steamboats, to ST. Paul Mimi, a
traveller can buy transportation ticket
and eat himself, or pay more and let the
boat eat him.
If mendicant were to ask aims of a
sentry, and the sentry were to present
arms to him, would the former be salts
fed 4?
THE chap who gets up queer statistics
has been at it again. He says, 1.-The
combined mouths of the %, 900 singers at
the Boston Jubilee will form a cavity of
73j square feet"
CHEMISTRY asserts that every adult per-
son contains one and three-quarter
pounds of phosphorus. This explains
the universal penchant for match max
ing.
VIsIroRs to the British Museum are
shown an anvil, very like any other an
vii, which is declared to have once be-
longed to one of the Pharaohs.
THE last lusus nature reported is in
Jersey City, where an eccentric bovine is
growing a pair of hind legs where the
horns of well regulated cattle are sup
posed to vcgetate.
Two girls in Marlboro, VT, one day
recently were offered ten dollars apiece if
they would saw ard split a cord of hard
wood slabs. They accomplish the job in
four hours and half.
A MAN in choppiIg log of wood near
San Francisco, the other day, found i'm
bedded near the center, live frog. The
log was perfectly sound and two feet in
diameter.
THERE are 401 male and 20 female con-
victs in the Prison at Jacksonville, Mo-,
and in June the whole force of prison
labor will be employed by the South
western Car Works Company.
MIR. BARNUM is said to be wearing
Grape for the recent death in St. Louis of
a colored lady who weighed over nine
hundred pounds-twice as much as the
lamented Daniel Lambert.
AN Italian capitalist has established
pea-nutery at Sullivan, Ind. The citizens
will celebrate the event in a grand mass
meeting, on which occasion fourteen
bushels of peanuts will be barbecued.
THE new Government bridge between
Davenport and Rock Island was put to a
severe test recently. A weight of eighty
tons caused the main spans to be de-
pressed only three-quarters of an inch.
A BRAKEMAN on the Connecticut Shore
Line took his lady love to New London,
Ct, the other day, was there married in
the conductors room. and took his wife
home on the train, doing his regular
work.
MERLE's great painting, ''La Folle'-
with group of five fgures-which re-
Gently wa, received at the Goupil Gallery,
has been purchased by a Philadelphia
gentleman for the sum of $4,000.
THE Suez Canal, among its other curl
osities, presents the traveller with the extra
ordinary spectacle of vast fiocks of flying
fish, which at times suddenly appear in
the vicinity of the vessel, and as suddenly
disappear.
An Englishman who had wandered
about the African diamond mines for sew
eral months, subsisting upon charity,
had streak of luck last March, finding
ing during that month, on a little lot he
had OfteR before abandoned, $685. 900 in
gold.
XYLoNITE, which is prepared b. the
action of nitric acid on woody fiber. is
made into sheeting or tissue impermea-
BILE to water. which may be used as sub
stitute for india-rubber in the manufacture
of all waterproof articles.
A YOUNG MAN living at Elizabeth, N.
j.. has been notified that some mining
property belonging to him in Utah, and
long since abandoned as worthless, is
awaiting his disposition, having devel-
oped a value of $2,00O,0O0.
THE average yield of wheat in different
countries varies remarkably. In Austria
it is IA bushels per acre; in France and
Prussia, II; in Spain, 90; while in Britain
the average yield is from % to 30. The
yield of barley in France is 81 bushels
per acre; in Prussia, %, and in England
from IS to 40 bushels per acre.
THE labOrers on the Government works
at Rock Island, ILL.,, have discovered fos-
sill remains which will doubtless prove of
great value. A deposit of fresh water
shells was found fifty feet above the sur
face of the river, showing that the Missis-
sippi had at some time overflown that ele-
waited point. The fossil remains of some
prehistoric animal were also found, which
will be forwarded to Cambridge for Agas-
siZ.
WHEN a stranger treats me with want
of respect" said a poor philosopher, 81
comfort myself with the reflection that it
is not myself that he Sights, but my old
and shabby hat and cloak, which, to say
the truth, have no particular claim to
alteration. So, if my hat and coat choose
to fret about it, let them; but it is moth
ing to me-"
In Bangor, peripatetic saloons have
been established. The proprietor puts
bottles containing straights and mixed
drinks under the seat of his buggy, and
drives round town. Whenever he stops
the solitary wayfarer gaZes up to heaven,
hands over fifteen bents, and retreats wiD-
ing his mouth on his coatsleeve.
A TALE OF Woe
clasped her tiny hand in mine;
cla=ped her beauteous form:
vowed to shield her from the wind,