American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-02-24
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A RouGH FELLER-A policeman
club
CoNsTANT1NoPI imports matches from
| America.
WHAT fish is most valued by loving
wife? Herring.
BosToN received over $4,000 for dog
licenses last year.
! CATS are said to be endowed with an
excellent metr-co,,s membrane.
SEVENTEEN Massachusetts horse rail
roads paid last year a State tax of nearly
fifty thousand dollars.
THERE is a boy down East so bright
that his mother has to look at him through
piece of smoked glass.
A BOY who had read of sailors heaving
mp anchors, wanted to know if it was sea
sickness made them do it.
IT is calculated that 200 dogs were de-
stroyed in Detroit in one day, recently,
with poisoned meat distributed by the po-
lice.
WHY is this year like the year before
| last? Year before last was 1870 and this
| is 1872 eighteen hundred and seventy
| tool.
A LADY widowed by the Chicago con-
| flagration has been recently remarked.
| Her second husband calls her his relic of
| the great fire.
| A CONNECTICUT obituary read, Passed
to the home of the angels from Hart
ford, Conn, -, only surcicing daughter
| of -"
| He whose wishes respecting the posses
! sions of this world are the most reasona-
| BILE and bounded, is likely to lead the
safest, and, for that reason, the most de-
| sirable life.
LOOK at that poor blind man feeling
his way with stick" said a compassion
ate miss. His friends ought to be
ashamed to let him go out at night by
himself. Especially such very dark
night as this"
A YOUNG wife, on being lately asked
what she would do in case her husband
should fail, replied, Give on arms, to be
sure. I have two and he has two, with
hands at the ends of them" We will
venture to say that that couple will never
fail
THE famous s'Mad Elephant of NIandla'
for months the terror of Central India,
through which he has roamed, tearing
down houses, trampling crops, and kill
ing no fewer than fifty three persons.
HERE is another Irish story: Bridget
came up to her mistress, and asked for
needle and thread. ''Do you want it fine
or coarse ?" asked the lady. Sure an l
don't know, num- said Bridget. ''What
do you want it for ?" said her mistress;
if you tell me that, may know what to
give YOU" "Well, mum, the cook has
jist towld me to stirring the beans, an
sure an l want a neydle an third for
that"
A WORTHY deacon in a town somewhere
or other gave notice, at a prayer meeting
the other night, of church meeting that
was to be held Immediately after, and I'M
consciously added: "There is no objec-
ton to the female brethren rcmaining!"
This reminds us of clergyman who told
in his sermon of very affecting scene,
''where there wasn't dry tear in the
houser'
A WOMAN in California, whose canary
had left her, hung the empty cage outside
the window, and soon had the satisfac-
ton of seeing it occupied by beautiful
brown stranger about the size of her lost
pet. Another woman, whose husband
had abandoned her. took the hint and
rendered her parlcr so attractive that soon
she had a better, bigger, browner fellow
than he who ran away.
A MAIDEN lady of Guilford, n. Y, of
good character, liberal education, and
rare accomplishments, is laboring under
a most singular infatuation. Imagining
she is engaged to be married, though she
has never seen her intended, she makes
extended journeys to see or meet her be-
trothed. Failing once, nothing discour-
aged, she starts off again.
OK January 1, 1872, there were printed
in Iowa 20 daily newspapers; 234 week
lies; tri-weeklies; 2 semi-weeklies; Z
monthlies; 2 bi-monthlies, and quarter
ly. There are papers published in the
German language; in the Norwegian; l
in the Bohemian, and l in the Holland
Politically. 167 are Republican and AZ
Democratic. The remainder are either
neutral or devoted to educational, agri-
cultural, or religious matters.
Miss P, just from the interior, was
looking for situation in New York, and
she saw an advertisement in which an adj
mrable opportunity was offered to one
who was willing to undertake light house
keeping. So Miss P wrote to the adj
vertiser, asking where the lighthouse was,
and how high it was, and whether she
would have to keep the lamps burning
all through the awful storms, and if there
was any way of getting to shore on Sun
days.-Heafth and Home.
TENANTS CAPITAL IN ENGLAND.-A
correspondent of HedrM and Home says
g In riding about the country here, l am
constantly struck with the extent to which
steam is used in agriculture They have
portable steam engine that goes about
on an ordinary four-wheeled wagon. which
runs plows, thrashing machines, and all
sorts of things. One day you see it at
work in the field, another in the barn
yard. In fact, machinery of all kinds for
farm labor seems to me to be much more
in use here than with us. There is no
such class of small, poor farmers as we
have. Unless Il man has from S25 to $50
an acre for working capital, he can't get a
lease from IA landlord. With SO much
capital and high rents, he has got to keep
pace with all the improvements to make
it pay"
The Sacramento Union of recent date
says: Among the passengers that ar
rived from the East by the last train that
brought overland passengers was couple
enjoying their honeymoon. They were
not juveniles, by any means, although |
they appeared to be deeply in love, but |
had arrived at the full years of discre
ton, the bridegroom being about seventy |
five years of age, and the bride sixty |
three. 1t transpireu that they, in their
youth, had been lovers, but some little |
quarrel occurred and they separated. |
Each married, and he came in due time
to California. Eventually they became |
wflower and widow. He returned to the
States, married her, and now at last they |
are happy together. They remained in |
the city until Friday or Saturday, and |
then left for their home in the interior, |
but while here they appeared as devoted |
to one another as though less than thirty |
years had passed over their heads"
A MASSACHUSETTS, woman, before her |
DEATH in order to keep her memory green |
in the mind of her husband, wrote num-
Der of letters, which she postdated, and |
confided them on her death bed to a friend, |