American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-03-23
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
ALWAYS on THE SPoT-Detectivcs.

| spirits less than medium sighs9
If domestic infelicity drives men to
sea, they should seek the Pacific Ocean.
| THE debt of France amounts to about
1925 for each of the population.
| JOSH BILLINGS says: "Thare is a
CRATE deal ov raw bliss in Citing tired"
'GooD bourd for fore dolls week, "
says a sign on Russell street, Detroit.
| AT Fairfield, Conn, carriages are made
entirely of India rubber, excepting the
axles and tires.
THE fortune of Mr.. A T. Stewart, of
New York, is estimated at between fifty
and sixty millions.
A WESTERN farmer says that he doesn't
| want any railroad shares-it's as much as
he can do to run thirty eight plow-shares.
a YOUTH of ninety-one recently led to
the altar charming bride of one hun
drcd and six. 1t is reported that they
were married without the consent of their
parents.
THERE is a family of ten persons re-
siding at Cream Ridge, in Salem County,
n. j., whose united weights amount to
., 1877 pounds, an average Of 21S34 pounds
each.
MASSACHUSETTS has now a mile of
completed railroad to every five square
miles of territory, and for each one thou
sand of population.
a BOsTON gentleman prizes very highly
two ears of corn which he plucked from
Daniel Webster's field the day the great
statesman was buried.
PRACTICAL.-Hopeful- breakfast
soon be ready, mamma?" Mamma-''Yes,
my dear" Hopeful-'Well, papa. you
might say grace Just now, to save time"
A wELL-KNowN author says that to be
q ly-1 init fn h,,t
never finding time to set about it, is as if a
man should put off eating and drinking
and sleeping from one day to another I'M
Til he is starved and destroyed.
THE youth who stole watch and re-
turned it to the owner, who promised
mo questions asked" is in Jail. The
owner was as good as his word, but he
arrested the youth without asking any
questions.
SCENE-Country Store. Clerk, sympa-
thetically, to lady whose boy drove the
husband is dead, poor soul?' Eyes, the
old mans gone-what's the price of this
yer calico?"
n CONNECTICUT Quarryman of thirty
years standing says there had been a
greater number of cold days the past win
ter than for thirty years before, and that
the frost had penetrated the rocks to such
depth that blasting was rendered diff
cult
A CEDAR FALLS Qowa) citizen, deter
mined to ascertain whether evaporation
caused such marked diminution upon
his corn during the night, stuck pegs in
the ends of a lot of ears, and found them
afterwards in the feed-trough of another
mans team.
A YOUNG man applied for a marriage
license in Cambridge, ILL.,, but the clerk
reminded him of two previous applica
tions. Eyes" was the reply, 1.-THE other
girls did not know l wanted to get mar
ried till l showed them the document
but this one does"
DISCERNING child (who has heard some
remarks made by papat,'Are you our
I'm one of those boys who can only be
managed by kindness; SO you had better
get some sponge-cake and oranges at
once"
A QUEER coincidence is reported from
London. During the past two months, a
man named Preston has, when passing
the New River, rescued two women from
drowning, at the same spot. They were
sisters, and on each occasion he was tax
ing short cut homeward after missing a
train.
THE Emperor William of Germany has
ninety-two orders and decorations. If he
should wear them all at one time, their
weight would be fifteen pounds. The
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria comes |
next. He has seventy nine orders, weigh
ing, in the aggregate, thirteen pounds and
a half.
AN aristocratic lady, after anxious in
quiry as to what would remove paint |
from her window glass, was told that eel |
bow grease" was the best thing known,
she naively exclaimed: ooh!
I'm so glad that l have found out! l |
wonder if they keep it at the apotheca-
rvs"
Va, lately, caused no little trouble by the |
habit of walking about at |
all hours of the night. Having establish
ed the reputation of a first class somnam
bulist, he walked off to an carly train
with his carpet-bag, as naturally as though |
he had been awake, and left his bill I'M
paid.
FRANCIS VINCENT, a Woodworking me-
chanic of Cold Brook, n. Y, for forty
years. struck out of the wilderness with
his family two years ago with less than
near by New York city. To-day his pur
chase is worth S50O,000 1t lies adjoin-
ng a. 4. Stewards new city on Long
Island.
PROFESSOR HUETER has performed
'ome remarkable cures by TRANSMISSION, in
ectisg the venous blood of a healthy man
INTO the arteries of an invalid. He
links his process less dangerous, and
more uniformly successful than the or
ljnary method of injecting into the
rcins.
A CELEBRATED French preacher, in a
sermon on the duty of wives, said: !"
zee in this congregation woman who has
,een guilty of disobedience to her hus-
,and, and in order to point her out will
ling my breviary at her head" He lifted
lis book, and every female head instantly
tucked.
JAPANESE auctions are conducted on
lovel plan, but one which gives rise to
zone Of the noise and confusion which
lttend such sales in America. Each bid
Ter writes his name and bid upon a slip
If paper, which he places in a box. When
he bidding is over the box is opened by
he auctioneer, and the goods declared the
property of the highest bidder.
THE Norwich Bulletin says, next to
Connecticut has the largest
deposits in savings banks of any of the
Jew England States. The amount on
anuary l, 1871, was so, 237, 705, and now
must exceed 500, 900, 900. In the six New
england States, the deposits now eX-
eed 1915 900, 600, and perhaps reach $500,
00,000
A PARIS banker lately became a lunatic.
lie imagined himself magnet A few
avs ago, while in his office, talking very
ationally with his wife and daughter, he
uddcnly jumped up, exclaiming, 81 am
- and dashed himself head fore
lost against large iron safe. Unfortu-