American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

mines last year. and over six hundred
were injured.
THE jury in the Tichborne case re-
ceived one guinea Ia little over so per
day for their services
An Australian has false eye, made of
an emerald and diamond. He considers
his sight priceless.
PAT was asked the other day if he un-
derstood French Yes, yer honor, II
its spoken in Irish.
A DRY GOODS merchant in New York,
who advertised for book keeper at 500
per annum, received six hundred applica-
lions for the position.
FORM of oath in San Francisco courts:
"Sommy Swathy tesmy you shagginkase
nowntril shabby truth nothin butty truth
seppy COB woshy name"
A FRIEND IN NEED y
"A friend in needs friend indeed y
This really is great trash
For I've a friend. and he's in need,
And always wanting cash
A MAN named Always Smith has
been arrested for drunkenness in New
Orleans His parents evidently attempt
ed to secure variation of the old familiar
name.
Miss ELLEN L. FLETCHER, of Charles
ton, n. H., having learned the trade, has
opened a jewelers. shop, and the watches
of all the young men in town are out of
order in consequence.
SwINDLERs tried to seduce Western
man on railroad train into betting that
he could open patent paddock which
they carried about. He took the bet and
opened the lock with a sledge hammer.
A FIRM in Dubuque received five dol
lar bill the other day, upon which was in
scribed This is the last of a fortune of
$50, 900 given to me by my mother. All
spent in dissipation, and this will go to-
night. October %, 1867"
Mrs. MUFFIN" said visitor, emily
has your features, but think she has her
the dear little Emma, Its because have
fathers hair that he has got to wear a
wig"
A DRUNKEN 1rishman, on being told
that his Incorporate habits would soon
make his poor wife a widow, was quite
affected, and exclaimed "Och, faith it
nd make me the wretchedest man in the
wur- rid to live to see Mrs. Coons a wild
der -
A GENTLEMAN of ripe age was court
ing rich widow. "See, mamma" said
her small son, who was playing, in the
room, " this poor Mr.. BOnhomme has
lost all his back hair. Wont you give
him some of yours which you bought to-
day -
A YOUTHFUL novice in smoking turned
deadly pale and threw his cigar away
80, dear ~ he said, there's some'in' in
that cigar that's a maxim me sick" 81
know what it isl said his companion,
putting away. "What 81 "Tobacker."
A JAPANESE woman whose lover is
faithless rises at two O'Clock in the
morning and drives nail into a sacred
tree, vowing that when her lover dies she
will pull it out. She believes that the
god, to save his tree, will strike her lover
dead.
A CALIFORNIA court has granted
divorce to husband on the ground that
he was insane when he married The
Judge has the immediate prospect of an
immense business, and the Pacific Rail
way Company is making provision for an
extraordinary travel westward during the
spring.
THERE are four adventurous young
men in Dubuque who are preparing to
make voyage from that city to Cuba in
q boat twenty-five feet long by six feet
wide. They propose to go down the
Mississippi to the Gulf, and then keep
along the coast to Florida, whence they
will strike across to the shores of Cuba.
THE inscription on an Ithaca, IN. "
tombstone, composed and chiseled by a
bereaved husband, after lauding to the
skies the virtues of the deceased wife,
concludes with the startling assertion,
" She is in Heaven :" then, in parenthe
sis, is the saving clause, 81 hope"
A LADY in Des Moines proposed to a
fascinating dry goods clerk. He said,
g Ask ma" reversing the natural order of
things to suit the year "Ma" was a
than housekeeping in the young lady.
She answered mo-" and the young lady
left disconsolate.
In the Galary Club room, a good story
is told of a College President, who, meet
ing on the cars student whose character
for sobriety was not good, and whose
then appearance evidenced a recent de-
bauch, approached him, and solemnly
and regretfully said, ''Been on drunk 2"
{" So have l." was the immediate reply.
Witty, but severe Madame Boliver
having tried in vain to get pay for some
crayats which young fop had bought of
her. at last sent in her bill in this style
Two dozen fancy satin policemen, 200
francs" "What do you mean What
are satin policemen ?" asked the dandy.
Your cravats, for they take thief by
the throat every morning"
IT is estimated that S75, OoO, OCO worth
of fuel is burned yearly in the United
States. Locomotives consume over eight
million cords OF wood annually, and over
800, OOO, 900 worth of sawed lumber is
yearly employed in building and in manu-
features. Four million acres of forest
disappear every year before the AK to
supply all these demands.
AT masquerade ball recently given in
Scotland, an officer of inland revenue
managed to obtain admission, disguised
as one of the walters, and took list of
the names of all who appeared in pow
dered Wigs. He has since assessed them
for double tax for wearing powder with
out license, there being a tax of five dol
lars per annum for the privilege of wear
ing powder on the head in Great Britain.
SOME startling figures are given respect
ing the ravages of the small pox in Phil
adelphia- 1t is said that no epidemic pes
thence, not even cholera has, within half
century, been equally general or fatal,
the bills of mortality presenting an aver
age of more than two hundred deaths a
week during the autumn and winter. 1t
has ragged during period nearly ten times
as long as did cholera, and it has not yet
ceased
A DETROIT man, who had contributed
a bundle of his cast-off clothing for the
relief of the sufferers of the Minnesota
fire, received from one of the sufferers the
following note: THE committy man Civ
me, amongst other things, wat he called a !
pare ov pants, and 'twood make me pant
sum to ware 'em. found your name an
where You live on one ov the pokits- My
wife laffcd so when I shode 'em to her
that thot she would have conipshun
fit She wants to no if there lives and
brethes a man who has legs no bigger than