American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-06-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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ness.
WHY is a hen immortal Her son never
sets.
UNDERTAxERs' jokes are apt to be
grave.
CAN ship with two owners be calleda
partnership.
WHAT roof covers the most noisy ten
ant :? The roof of the mouth.
WHY is love like Scotch plaid Be-
cause it is all stuff, and often crossed.
THE first street railroad in Florida will
shortly be opened at Cedar Keys.
MEMS great enemy is the wine glass;
women's is the looking glass.
SOME of the largest steamships burn
800 tons of coal crossing the Atlantic
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WILLOW for the making of baskets
is imported into this country from Ger
many.
THERE are no less than 8, 900 canoes in
the museum of Florence, all relics from
POmpeii.
A GEORGIA woman, twenty-five years
married, is the mother of twenty living
children.
A HoRsEY MAN, hearing mention made
of the "Latin Races" wished to know
where they were held.
LETS investigate" is what they say
now, instead of the more vulgar Come
and take drink"
THE Union Pacific Express brought to
Omaha nearly five tons of silver bulliona
few days ago.
A DISPUTE as to what was trumps was
settled in Virginia by one gentleman
turning up spade, and violently shifting
his opponent Herewith.
A LAFAYETTE Qnd. lady played it fine
at circus recently exhibited in that city.
She pretended to faint and got nine glasses
of lemonade free.
ACCORDING to Archdeacon Fuller, of
Toronto, it costs the people of China
$500, OOO, 900 a year to support their religi-
ious Institutions.
THE ignorance of the French peasantry
is said to be unparalleled in the civilized
world. Not one in hundred can read
or write.
THE first locomotive used in England,
nearly forty years ago, now stands on
pedestal at the Darlington railway sta
sion.
Ex-MAYoR SMITH, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
who recently died worth over million
dollars, began life as a milk-man when
Brooklyn was a mere village.
WHAT positive proof is there that King
David and his son Solomon were tailors
"And Solomon mended the breaches
which David his father had made"
THE Catskill On. W Mountain House
stands 5000 feet above the Hudson, and
from the front balcony a view extending
over about 10, 900 square miles can be had
on a clear day.
NEWLY married daughter "How long
does the honeymoon last, mamma ~
Practical parent "Until you ask your
husband for money, my dear"
In
"counted one hundred and seventy
three alligators in a sail of six miles
along a bayeu." ga strong allegation"
says an incredulous brother.
Two acres of forest land on a noun
tain side near Elkton, Mo-, recently sunk
to the depth of the tree tops, leaving
walls as vertical as the sides of house.
THE ST. Petersburg Golos says that the
personal expenses of the Grand Duke
Alexis, during bis travels in the United
States, amounted to upward of $500, 900.
No MAN is so poor that he has not
friends whose happiness is linked with
his fate, and whose hearts will be wrung
with anguish at his punishment or his
suffering.
A MARRIED woman lately applied to
her lawyer to procure divorce. On
what grounds, madam ~ asked the law
yer. ION the ground that can now do
Ii SIctI ucdl DCGtCi, vas thS iSPiJ-
ONE hundred thousand men were en-
ployed for twenty years in building the
great pyramid at GhiZeh, and ten years
had been previously spent in quarrying
the stones and transporting them to the
place.
In Newburyport, Mass, there are twin
brothers, one of whom is lame in his right
foot and squints with his right eye, the
other being lame in his left foot and
hi 1nft or
very appropriately designated as rights
and lefts."
THAT Danbury (Ct.) Nears fellow says:
'The majority of women care but little
about suffrage If the backs to car seats
could only be followed out so as to adj
nit of their bustles tapping over, the bal
lot might go to thunder for all they care"
MIR. J. J. MILLER, an American civil
engineer, has just been appointed by the
Governor General of India to the posi-
ton Chief Engineer of State Railways
in Central India, with rank as a Lieuten-
ant Colonel of Royal Engineers OF TWEEN
ty-eight years service.
ONE pound of gold may be drawn into
a wire that would extend around the
globe. So one good deed may be felt
through all eternity. Though done in the
first flush of youth, it may gladden. the
last of long life, and form the brightest
and most glorious spot on it.
HERE is an illustration of practical hu-
marity which is credit to the women of
Maine: Last fall the stock on an Oxford
County farm could not be sold, and rather
than see them starve, the owner, who was
a lady sixty years of age, went to work
in mill in Lewiston and paid for their
keeping.
OUR DUMB ANIMALS says balky
horse can be started every time by dash
ing water in his face. If that VIII not
answer Just wait about forty eight hours,
until he gets hungry. Then place your
self ten feet ahead of him with peck OF
oats. If he will not move for that, you
may give him up as incorrigble-
A BosToN bride, whose groom rcmon-
strated with her at the wedding for in
dulging in rather indiscriminate bestowal
of her last maiden kisses on a number of
her male friends, remarked with natural
naviete that the gentlemen in question had
been in the habit of kissing her ell her
life, and she didn't see why they should
stop row.
TERRE HAuTE, Ind, has professional
man of all work, named Springer. lie
married couple one day, and the next
day he sold them furniture for their new
home shortly after he attended the wife
in the capacity of a physician as a con
sequence of this part of his work, he soon
acted us undertaken at her funeral, and
on the following Sunday preached her
funeral sermon. Not long after he mar
ried the widower to another lady, thus
beginning the old process over again.