American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-07-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,


dress.
ACRoBATs OF EVERY HOUSEHOLD
Pitcher and tumbler.
DENMARK possesses a well-equippeC
army of 1000 men.
THIRTY thousand people sailed from
Liverpool for the United States in May
IT is said there are more divorces
| granted in Austria than in any other coun
try in the world.
The Colorado desert, across which the
Southern Pacific Railroad will run, is
three hundred feet below the level of the
sea.
| THE greatest ''pain annihilator' in ex-
istence is said to be boy who has smash
ed 200 windows this year.
A "SoCIETY for the encouragement of
young men desiring to marry" is organic
ing among the young ladies at Rondout,
n. Y.
THERE are in the lunatic asyluns of
Austria one hundred and two persons,
each of whom believes that he is the late
Emperor Macmillan, of Mexico.
THERE are in the United States GO, 900
church edifices, affording accommodations
for twenty one millions and a half of wor-
shippers.
A COPY of the third folio of Shakespeare,
printed in 1864, was sOld recently at a
London auction for one hundred and
forty-one pounds, or about seven hun
dred dollars.
SCENE IN CHATHAM STREET, New
1ORK.-"How much for these pantss"
six dollars is the lowest l can take. ("
II tell you what I'll do-I'n give you two
dollars" Take 'em along"
A GERMAN poet has lately written a
touching poem, in which the hero is repre-
sented as devoured by an alligator under
palm tree on the shore of Lake Erie.
A CoNNECTIcUT editor says: "Our
early peas came up in two days after they
were planted this year. AnybOdy's will,
if the hens are allowed to run in the gar
den.'
THE old San Francisco round $50 slugs
have become so scarce that the brokers
are selling them as curiosities at $50 each.
The Octagonal slugs are more plentiful,
but bring $50 each.
A MARRIED woman lately sat up all
night darning her husbands stockings, be-
cause she read in the newspaper that Gin
consequence of the wretched condition
of the tiremen's hose, much property was
burnt up"
THE ease with which the marriage con-
tract can be cOnsummated in Scotland is
illustrated thus Mr.. A. and Miss B., who
added that it was Mr. and Mrs A. s Bible,
were forthwith held to be man and wife.
''I WISH you wouldn't give me such
short weight for my money" said Gus
toner to a grocer who had an account
against him of long standing. And /
wish you would not give me such long
wait for NINE" replied the grocer.
STATISTICS have been compiled from
which it appears that during the first four
of 1872 the amount of money
sought to be raised for new loans, banks
and industrial undertakings brought out
in England, America and on the continent
was about EGO, 100000.
THE man with the iron jaw lives in
Taunton. He takes thick, heavy flint
glass tumbler and bites large pieces out of
it with perfect ease, and chews them to
powder. He does not swallow them,
however, for fear of having pane in his
"CHARLEY, what makes your cheeks so
red?" asked his sisters admirer, of little
urchin five years old cause put some
of sisters paint on. She puts it on every
day" 1t was an embarrassing disclosure
all round. AT least Charlie thought So
after the visitor was gone.
''NIcE weather for cornr' said a minis
ter to one of his parishioners, the other
day. "Ycs,'' said the old farmer, 'but bad
for gram and grass" A few days later
hey met again. "a fine rain we had yes
terday," said the minister; good for grass
md grain" eyes," was the reply, 1'but
awful bad for corn!'
IT is stated that the State of Texas |
would contain the entire population of the |
United States without making it any more
hickly settled than Massachusetts, and |
would hold the entire population of the |
French Empire Tor Republic that now isl |
md leave uninbabited margin of sixty |
niles around the boundary of the State.
THERE is hotel in California compos-
ID of ten immense hollow trees, standing
few feet apart. The largest of these is
;ixty-five feet around, and is used as bar
md kitchen. For bed-chambers there are
line great hollow trees, whitewashed or
,apered, and having doors cut to fit the
hape of the holes. Literature finds
,lace in leaning stump dubbed ''the
ibrary."
THE Sandwich Islands are rapidly be-
llation was 142, 900. In 1866, this had
lwindled to $4,000. Forty years more
will suffice for the total extinction of the
Every race seems to de-
.rease except the white, which is increas-
ng at a rate unequaled in history. Sooner
,r later the Caucasian will inevitably be
he only type of man on the globe.
THE students of college in Maine put
he settees in confusion in the chapel of
he institution at prayer time. When the
professor entered he took in the situation
It glance, and opening the Bible, com
nenced reading at the 23d verse of the
9th chapter of Proverbs: 1T is as
port to fool to do mischief, but man
If understanding hath wisdom" The
Boys saw the joke, and have needed no
uch admOnitions since that time.
A YOUNG lady writes to learn why we
10 not have department for ''answers
o correspondents The reason is sim
de- We once announced we would glad
v receive questions on various topics,
md endeavor to answer them satisfac-
orily. The first inquiry we received
vas in relation to a little amount we owed
he writer We think it was eight dol
ars. We borrowed the money and re-
urned satisfactory answer" but it
,ut back our business a full year The
,oung lady thinks such department
would be very lively. We found it So
Danbu'y Neocs.
MARCUS AURELIUs has been studying
cience. He has read in papers that if
IN icicle forty-five miles in diameter
hould be moved towards the sun at the
ate of twelve million miles a minute it
.ould never touch the sun, because it
would be melted as fast as it came. But
lie does not believe it. He asserts that if
his icicle were only long enough to allow
he pushing forward to be kept up for
ONE time, the continual dropping into
he sun of two or three oceanfuls of water
very minute would gradually cool off