American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

"A counterfeit note
THERE are said to be 500 German news
papers in the United States.
jerks says that "A pawn-broker's Office
must be IA LoansoRae place.
A BLUE JAY-Jay Gould-the first OF
the season.-Boston Transcript.
THE mosquito, as a public singer
draws well, but never gives satisfaction
Two thousand farms were taken up in
Washington Territory last year by actual
settlers.
IT is a paradox that you increase the
value of a unit ten-fold by adding nothing
to it.
THE storm signal man on top of Mount
Washington holds the 'highest office in
the gift of the nation"
''WHY is there no cream on this milk,
George." said an under graduate to his
scout at Cambridge. Stir it up, sir, "
was the reply. 1T sinks to the bottom. y
A MAN who sailed around the world and
carried Philadelphia newspaper in his
pocket, said ii was the most widely cir
culated journal published in America.
A PARTY of gypsies were in Danbury
recently. The Nescs says: These peo-
pie appear TO think good deal of their
native land; they carry it around with
them"
MIR. SPEAKER" SAID a member of the
Jamaica Legislature, discussing bill for
the regulation of the timber trade, Il
know these timber merchants to be most
egregious rascals-I was in the timber
line myself twelve years"
A LADY of Boston, seeing among the
religious notices that a certain clergyman
would preach I'D. w." said at once that
she would go and hear him, presuming,
as she did, that the subject of the dis
course was dolly Vardens."
PROGRESSIVE teacher to a pupil of the
period. ''Sary Jane Hooker, just take
that chewing gum right out of your
mouth. Little girls who chew gum in
school need never expect to become Pres
ident of the United States"
A MINISTER made an interminable call
upon lady of his acquaintance. Her
little daughter, who was present, grew
very weary of his conversation, and at
last whispered in an audible key: "Didn't
he bring his amen with him, mamma?'
THE Harvard Adcocdte has refused the
publication of humorous poem of two
hundred lines, beginning:
An elephant sat il a swallows nest,
Drinkinga cup of tea;
And watching delicate hen that sang
From the top of neighboring tree
A BosTON girl being asked if she had
not once been engaged to "a party by the
name of Jackson. who was at that time
q Harvard student, languidly replied, q
remember the circumstance perfectly, but
am not certain about the name
THERE is a man in Terre Haute, Ind. =,
who has attended every circus within
reach ever since he was five years old. He
is now seventy, and has heard the band
begin to play and seen the elephant com
mence his circumgyratory movements
about one hundred and seventy times.
SOMEBODY wrote repeatedly to General
Schenck, our Minister in London, for his
autogr .ph. The General is said to have
written the following reply: "Sir, has
ten to comply with your request, and take
this method of informing you that you
are an unmitigated nuisancel R. c.
Schenck."
A HONG KONG criminal court recently
condemned culprit to be killed by
wakefulness. The victim was kept awake
constantly for fifteen days, his sufferings
for the last few hours being described as
of the most excruciating character. AT
last he dropped down and his heart
ceased to beat.
CoRPULENT old lady:-'1 should like
ticket for the train" Booking clerk (who
thinks he will make a jockey SIN;
will you go in the passenger train or the
cattle trafn?" Lady-''Well, if you are a
specimen of what shall experience in
the passenger train, give me a ticket for
the cattle train by all means"
THE Belfast (Me) journal says "a
former Sheriff of Waldo County, whom
we see daily in our streets and elsewhere,
had writ to serve in the back part of the
county. After diligent inquiry he found
that the defendant had died suddenly.
He tossed the paper over the wall of the
cemetery, and made return upon the writ
that he had left the summons at his last
and usual place of abodep"
WHEN the youngest of the girls, eight
years old, left Japan, her mother placed
in the bottom of her trunk a package
carefully sewed up in cloth, and labeled,
" For my little daughter-not to be opened
until she shall have arrived in America"
When settled in her Georgetown home
she opened it, and bursting into tears she
cried as if her heart would break. Such
good mother, to make the gift-one SO
inexpressibly dear to every girl-heart the
world over. Of course it was doll, in all
the splendor of japanese costume, and,
for the moment, the poor child was over
whelmed with inconsistencies and long
ings for her mothers face
DEATHS FROM STEAM IMPLEMENTS
The Mark Lane Express states that an ap-
palling accident happened recently at
Arisaig, near Fort William, by which two
young girls lost their lives. Actuated by
curiosity, they went to see a steam thresh-
ing machine at work. During the tenn
porary absence of the person in charge
one of the girls seems to have gone so
near the machine that her clothes were
caught by the machinery, and she was
dragged in. Her companion, in attempt
ing to extricate her, was drawn in after
her. The altered noise of the apparatus
brought the man in charge to the spot,
but, being stunned at the frightful sight
that met his eye, he was unable for
moment to stop the machinery 1t was
then found that the unfortunate girls were
literally torn to fragments. The same
paper gives an account of the death of
three laborers by suffocation, in the van
OF that accompanying the engine of a
steam cultivator. 1t had been freshly
painted, but as the night was cold they
took small stove into it, and in the
morning they were found dead.
How MEN LIVE IN THE PINE WooDs. -
An Au Sauble correspondent writes: The
men walk up from sixty to seventy miles
with their packs on their backs, and after
reaching their destination, commence
building their "camp" (so-called) made
out of logs and rooted with scoops"
Then commences the work first cutting
down distractions and clearing roadways
(called swapping y; then falling tim
Der, rOssing chat is taking off the bark
from the smaller end of the log); then
skidding the logs; then loading on to
sleighs and hauling to the river bank pre-
paratory to being put into the river as
soon as the ice moves away. The men |
have to get up about four o'clock in the
and quit work at dark. They
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