American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-09-14
GENERAL ITEMS.


Coop LIvING-Living within your
means.
AN OLD BACHEAoR's IDEA-When ia
ken to be well shaken: the baby.
MANY g good match has proved Luz
cifer.
IT is noteworthy that whitewashing is
generally done by black men.
A STUDENT of theology describes wO-
mans original sphere to be apples.
WHAT grows bigger rs you contract it?
Debt.
REPROvE thy friend privately! COM
mend him publicly.-!Soton
How TO handle red-hot iron-Wait
until it coOls.
THAT which is distinct from man is I'M
known and unknowable.
my DEAR boy, honesty is the best
policy "Well, you ought to know,
father, for you have tried 'em both"
TRICKS and treachery are the practice
of fools that have not sense enough to be
honest.
LIQUOR is the worst thing in the world
to carry AROUND with you during hot
weather.
IT is said that after Lots wife was
turned to salt he could not find a fresh
one.
s. WHAT have you to remark, madame,
about my singing?'' Nothing, sir; it is
not remarkable"
WHAT requires more philosophy than
taking things as they come? Parting
with things as they go.
So MANY need help, that those who have
power and means, and use them not, lose
the noblest luxury of life
THERE is one rule for great men: Do
nothing; another tor little ones: Say
nothing.
LEARN to say ''no." No necessity of
swapping it out, dog-fashion, but say it
firmly and respectfully.
WHY is a man who can't learn by ex-
perience like a laurel? Because he is an
evergreen.
WHAT is that which makes every per-
son sick but those who swallow it? Flat
terry.
He who closes the door of his heart
against a brothers needs, will miss the
presence and benediction of angel-guests.
A sCoLDING wife in Milwaukee, dis
located her jawbone while ''giving' it to
her husband.
MANY are weary of existence; but no
can conceive of anything more to be de
sired.
liz Our Fathers tender eyes follow the
faltering wing Of a sparrow, there is no
burden under which we can fall UNI
noticed.
THE constitution of the PROPOSED State
of Deseret guarantees suffrage, right of
office, and education to all citizens, with
| out respect to race, sex, or religion.
NOTHING created has such glorious as
surance of Immortality as Man, and no
being so hesitates to open the gates and
enter in.
| DEAN SWIFT said Sc 1t is with narrow
souled people as it is with narrow-necked
bottles-the less they have in them, the
more noise they make in pouring it OUT
I 81 SAY, Mick, what sort of potatoes are
those you are planting?'' Raw ones, to
be sure your honor wouldn't be thinking
| | would plant boiled ones? -
| SEVEN thousand operators, in 5000
offices. manipulate the keys in sending
off l l SOC, 900 messages over $4,000 mile;
| of telegraph in the United States.
IT Is good discretion not to make toe
much Of any man at the first ; because one
cannot hold out in that propOrtiOn.-Lord
| Bacon.
If A young lady wishes a young gentle.
man to kiss her what papers would she
mention? No Spectator, no Observer, but
as many Times as you please.
a WISE darkey, in speaking of the hap
piness of married people, said: $ Dat al
ponds altogether on how much dey Joy
deyselves.''
| WISCONSIN papers complain of a mar
who was mean enough to elope with tn,
only school-teacher in Green Bay, thu:
shutting up the school.
A MAN may be so.engrosscd by the nat
ural world as to live as if there We're NJ
spiritual world. Such Il man becomes
gross materialist.
a JUDGE, pointing with his cane at
prisoner before him, remarked, ''There il
Il great rogue at the end of the stick.
The man replied, AT which end, my
iords''
WE are now in this world. Our bust
ness is with this world. We have func
tons and duties here. All true religion
must help us to discharge these. What
ever does not is worthless.
CHICAGO has shooting gallery exclli
sively for ladies', among whom there is
growing restlessness to become prOticien
with rifle and pistol. The divorce courts
swift as they are, are too slow for them.
The first American advertisement ap
peared in the Neaos Letter. published o
courae at the ''Hub," in 170l. Charge
were to be ''at a reasonable rate, from
twelve pence to five shillings, and not t.
eXceed.''
A FRENCHAIAN took room in Paris OF
condition shat the landlady would wax,
him up every morning at eight O'Clock
and tel him the day of the week, the stat
of the weather. and under what form o
government he lived.
THE pews of Methodist church on tn
boundary line between Pennsylvania ant
Ohio stand in the former State and tn
pulpit in the latter. Pennsylvania coup
les, in consequence, have to be married il
the vestibule.
A PREPoSTEROUS story is circulating t.
the effect that spOrtsmen in New Jerse.
mistake mosquitoes for snipe. The mucl
greater length of the Jersey mosquito
bill should render such an error impos
sible.
The Russian government has deter
mined that foreign insurance cOmpanie
must deposit half a million rOubles (S377.
600 in our currency in the State Bank o
Russia, as a condition precedent to bein:
admitted to do business in that country
Much of our life is frittered away witt
carking cares and anXieties. They com
from too close a look at things. which ar
temporal. We are so near them. Thi
nearness must be corrected by spiritual
mindedness.
Vanilla.
The vanilla bean, or more properly cap
: sale, is the fruit of 4 climbing plant o
. stout vine, native in the West Indies
Mexico, and South America. Several VI,