American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-09-07
GENERAL ITEMS.


take care you don't hurt yourself
The only good motive for riding a man
on 4 rail is a locomotive.
CARPETS bought by the yard are worn
out by the foot.
a WORD. spoken in season, is the mo-
Their of ages urtyte-
NEVER use hard word when an easy
one VIII answer as well.
A SARATOGA belle wears S225, 900 worth
of diamonds this year.
DIR. HOLMES says that crying widows
marry first There is nothing like wet
weather for transplanting.
IT'S ofno use any longer for ladies TO
wear expensive jewelry the imitation
cannos be told from the real article
"a THING of beauty is a joy forever.
Is it my boy? Marry it, and you'll find it
is very much the reverse.
A MAN that boards riches and enjoys
them not, is like an ass that carries gold
and eats thistles.
Cop does not do anything for us He
gives us means with which to do for our
selves.
The defects of the understanding. like
those of the face, grow worse as We grow
old.
1T is an evidence of great hardness to be
more concerned about our sufferings than
our sins.
PHILosoPHY may analyZe a tear, but ii
cannot curve hope in it; it may make
the spectrum, but it cannot make a smile
SCENE one said to Mrs. Siddons that APP
plause seemed necessary to actors to
give them confidence. More" she re-
piled. lit gives us BREATH
A NEWLY married daughter asked her
mother how long the honeymoon lasted
''Until you ask your husband for money
her mother replied.
A CLERGYMAN. occasionally troubled
with laps,ss iinguG, called modern young
ladies', the other Sunday, the . daughters
OF Hem and SHAM"
OK the day before the Fourth. Duluth
ians wore their overcOats. Who wouldn't
be a ''Zenither" of the ''unsalted sea-
about this time.
PRESERVE your conscience always soft
and sensitive. If but one sin force its way
into that tender part of the soul, and is
suffered to dwell there, the road is paved
for thousand more iniquities.
BRIGHAM Young has just made the nee
essary application to the Comptroller
office at Washington to establish bank
Deseret. The capital proposed is $500, 1000
4 YANKEE ice company, doing business
in Columbia, Genital America, was re-
Gently fined 81 200 for being short of ice.
The Supreme Court of that country has
reversed the decision.
COURAGE and modesty are virtues
which every sort of society reveres, be-
cause they are virtues which cannot be
counterfeited; also they are known by the
same hue.-Goethe.
A GOOD book and good woman are e y
cellent things for those who know justly
how to appreciate their value. Some men
however, judge of both from the beauty
of their covering.
FAMILY ORACLE. eyes, my dear, this,
a mere toy, may become in my hands a
death-deaIing Instrument to the birds OF
the air and the beasts of the field, even to
the biggest beast"
81 WANT to KNOW" said creditor,
fiercely, g when you are going to pay me
what YOU owe me 30 s.When I'm going
to pay you? Why, you're pretty fel.
low. Do you take me for a prophet?''
For the engagement ring in America
the solitaire diamond is de rigeur, though
in eastern countries, by virtue of the sig
nificance of color, the sapphire is the
stone which pledges the betrothal.
A TEXAS German attempted to drown
himself because he lost S12 rolling ten.
pins. He was right. Any man foo
enough to roll ten-pins this hot weather is
too big fool to live.
AT certain church-fair. set of Coop.
er's works was promised to the Individual
who should answer set Of cOnundrums
A dashing young fellow was pronounced
the winner, and received a set of wooden
pals.
A REMARKABLY rich gold district has
lately been discovered in Australia. A
cake of gold weighing 2,56i ounces, OBJ
tanned near Sandhurst, was the result Of
single fortnight's work. The follow.
ing fortnight gave cake of 8, 764 ounces
worth more than $4,000.
A FRENCH inventor recently made &
public trial of boots designed to aid one te
walk on the water Nothing ever floateG
more beautifully than those boots did
But the trifling circumstance that they
1loated wrong side up nearly caused the
inventors death.
1.-THE law of nature, being cOeva1 with
God" said Alexander Hamilton, sis, OF
course superior to any other. No human
laws are of any validity if contrary to this
and such of them as are valid derive al
their authority mediately or Immediately
from this original
SINCE it has been decided in Iowa that
the Sunday liquor law does not apply te
persons whose religion entails the Observ.
ance of a day other than the Christian
Sabbath, they say that the number OF
Jews and Seventh-day Baptists discovered
in community would astonish a census
taker.
THE wool-growing states of the ola
West-ernbracing the region between the
Alleghanies and the Mississippi-art
showing considerable increase i'm the mum
Der of sheep returned in 1872, over that
of 1870, while still further on, in the ,seu
West, Of the Rocky Mountain and Ore
gon region, the increase in numbers has
been nearly double the original stock o.
four or five years ago.
Do YoU know what clambake is? Ig
nOrance exists in various quarters of the
world. on pour several bushels O
CLAIMS upon red hot stones, cover them
over with wet canvas, heap seaweed OF
the mass. and in half an hOur-a feast tol
the gods. Buta clanbake dinner includes
besides some clam chowder, plenty O
boiled and sweet potatoes and if som,
baked fish is included we have the feast il
its perfection.
Grim HumOr.
A curious work, on 'sthe humorous Gle
ment of German law" by o, Gieske, ha;