American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-31
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


need.
A MEIER is far more for getting than
forgiving.
A SHORTCUT to the heart is frequently
through the stomach.
| WHAT table is useful, though it has no
legs? The multiplication table.
Two English ladies, soiourning at Cats
| kill for the summer, walked no less than
eighteen miles in one day recently, for
| exercise.
| SAL" said one girl to another, I'm so
glad hain't got no beau now 'Why
so?" asked her companion. ooh, | can
eat just as many onions as please"
A THIEF was lately caught breaking in
to song. He had already got through
the first two bars, when policeman came
up and hit him with a stave.
y MICROSCOPIC lens was recently made
in Lorf.on, at a cost of e250, from a
| diamond. The magnifying power of the
lens is an increase over that of glass in
the proportion of eight to three.
Two carpenters in Newburyport, Mass,
lately had nail-driving match. One
drove in sixty-five nails a minute, while
the other drove seventy-tve in the same
time. including his thumb-nail.
WE are told in one of the fashion
papers that 1.-The fashionable color for
gloves is subdued mouse" but We are
not told where to procure the "subdued
mouse" from which to extract the color
AN indignant witness exclaimed: 1.-THE
first time that / ever did such IA dishonOr-
able act would blow out my brains, sir. ="
Very good" said the examining COUNSEL
land what would you do the second
timer"
THE fact that ladies' hats are airy moth
re- tnI fIn I,af &c
Lowell belle. who walked several squares
bareheaded, the other day, unconscious of
the absence of her dear love of a bonnet.
A coUNTRYMAN stopped an express
train on the Kentucky Short Line Road,
by waving his hat The conductor check
ed up, and was disguised to see the fellow
deliberately proceed to shoot squirrel
out of 4 tree.
AN urbane and popular clerk in a De-
troit fish store was recently called away
to take charge of his uncle's grocery in
Arkansas. Previous to his departure his
admiIing friends came together and over
came his feelings with new straw hat.
A KIND lady in New York gave pair
of pantalOons to a poor boy lately. The
next morning the youth returned, and re-
quested her to put a watch-pocket in
them, as otherwise they would not be of
much use to him.
AT Fulton, n. Y, recently, several
holes were burned through the sides of a
shed by the concentration of the rays of
the sun by the covers of some new milk
cans which were exposed on bench near
by, each cover acting as a concave re-
Hector.
DICKENS received ever 100000 for
Little Dorritt" But Douglas Jerold
received only e10 for Black-Eved Su-
fha
duced on the English stage, and died leav-
ing his family without sixpence.
A CoNNEcTICUT woman was prevented
from attending the funeral of her sister
by the non-arrival on time of a lace-hand-
kerchief from New York. The brutality
of the express company is severely COM
mented on by the neighbors.
IT is the custom in some countries in
Europe to hoist white flag upon city
or country prison when there is no Grim
inal confined within the walls. Such
flag was raised Il few weeks since upon
the prison of a Swiss canton and at Ok
ford, England.
THE eleven Territories, including
Alaska, as accurately as can at present be
ascertained, contain over one billion and
4 quarter acres, exceeding by nearly two
hundred thousand square miles the ag
gregate territory of all the admitted States
of the Union.
A STREET gymnast of Paris, known as
Samson's Iron Jaw, whose speciality was
to pick up weights with his teeth and
throw them over his head, raised barrel
with his teeth, and, in attempting to dis
pose of it in the same way, fell down
dead with broken spine.
''WHAT a n,lisance!" exclaimed a gen.
tleman at a concert, as young Top in
front of him kept talking in a loud voice
to lady at his side. Did you refer to
me, sirs' threateningly demanded the
fop. "Oh, no; l meant the musicians
there, who keep up such noise with
their instruments that can't hear your
conversation"
THE curious phenomenon of regulation
can be exhibited by placing a block of ice
on a netting of fine wire. The ice will
be melted by the wire, and passing down
through it will become frozen in a mass
again below the wire. A simple wire can,
in a similar manner, be drawn slowly
through block of ice, which unites again
behind the wire, finally showing no sign
of having been cut at all.
In the Geological Gardens of Paris there
is a monkey that would be a priceless
treasure to Mr.. Darwin. 1t is stated, on
creditable authority, that this monkey has
many a brilliant tenor of the opera might
envy, the chest notes especially delighting
his hearers, while his taisettO is not disa
greeable OF course, like all geniuses, he
has rivals, and an ambitious monkey
near by often tries to vie with him in
gathering laurels to crown his noble
brow But the Columbus of operate
monkeys scorns competition, and his rich
voice quite browns that of his less-favored
neighbor, whereupon he shows very hui
man pride.
A TRAVELLER, who has lately visited the
grand pyramids of Cheops, says that,
taking one hundred city churches, of the
ordinary width, and arranging them in
hollow square, twenty-five feet on the
side, you would have scarcely the base
ment of the pyramid Take another one
hundred, and throw the material in the
hollow square, and it would not be full
city of New York, and the structure
great work of man. One layer of brick
was long since removed to Cairo for
building purposes, and enough remains to
supply the demands of century to come,
if permitted to use it with perfect free
dom.
A PAPER has been read before the Lon
don Society of Arts on an improved
method of lighting towns, factories and
dwellings by vegetable or mineral oils.
The system proposed is to distribute the
oil over the premises in pipes. like water,
from general reservoir, containing a few
gallons at the top of the building. The
flow is regulated by small cisterns provid-
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