American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-06-08
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
PRIVATE sincerity is public welfare.

PRIVATE sincerity is public welfare.
DEEDS are fruits; words are but leaves.
BEAUTY without grace is hook with
out bait.
Two things, says Kant, are sublime
conscience and the stars.
In conversation, a wise man may be at
a loss how to begin, but fool never
knows how to stop.
THE excuses of our youth are drafts
upon our old age, payable with interest,
about thirty years after date.
THE dividends of the Washington Life
are made and paid in cash or insurance,
annually from date of policy.
BE thou what thou singly art, and per-
senate only thyself. Swim smoothly in
the stream of thy nature and live but one
man.
WEALTH is a relative thing; since he
that has little and wants less, is richer
than he that has much and wants more.
OWNERS of pearl jewelry should be
careful to keep them from exposure to
destroys their luster.
READING makes a full man, talking a
ready man. The happy medium is reach
ed when a man reads enough to give value
to what he has to say.
been discovered that solution of sui
phate of iron sprinkled upon fruits and
plants has a wonderful effect. Beans
gained sixty per cent in size and in quail
ty, and pear-trees were wonderfully bene-
flied by the new fertilizer.
AN Australian newspaper says that the
practice has been very successfully
adopted in gardens, of sowing rows of
common larkspur, the leaves of which at
tract grass-hoppers at once, and when
eaten is certain death to them-and that
thousands of grasshoppers have been thus
seen lying dead-all OF which may may
net be true.
To DECoY Pre-, instead of driving
him, some ingenious chap recommends
tying the end of strong cord to an ear
of corn, drop it in front of the pig, five
or six inches from mis- nose, and commence
walking away with it slowly in the way
you wish the pig to go. If he gets dis,
heartened at the prospect of getting hold
of it, allow him a slight nibble, and then
proceed.-Rural Ne,o Yorker.
oPoLIsH OAK.-Slightly''o the work
with linsecd oil, and then rub off; then
make a paste of whiting and paraffine oil,
covered with yellow ochre, or something
darker, if necessary, for the color of
wood. After the wood is well filled in
with this paste, it must be well rubbed off
clean, and let stand two or three hours be-
fore the polish is applied.-Hea7h and
Home
ENDEAvoR to take your work quietly.
Anxiety and Over-actiOn are always the
cause ofsickness and restlessness. Wemust
use our Judgment to control our excitement
or our bodily strength will break down.
We must remember that our battle is to
be won by strength not our own. 1t is
a battle that does not depend upon the
swift nor the strong.
REMEDY FOR NASAL CATARRH.-Make
weak brine, and snuff it up the nostrils
and let it run down in the throat; also
wet the head with the same. If persisted
in a sufficient length of time, it will eff
fectually cure nasal catarrh. 1t is said by
a physician that the various mixtures sold
as ''Catarrh Remedies" in many cases,
are only salt disguised so as not to be
known. Wetting the head with salt and
water will stop the hair falling QUIT Il.
o., in Rural Nep Yorker.
CocoA-NUTs are just in season; here
they are only rarity, but in tropical
| countries they are production of great
importance. This nut yields delicious
food, nutritious drink, a rich oil, and
| fibres which are manufactured into
thread, ropes and all kinds of cordage.
| The Oil is made by boiling the pulp. Vast
quantities of this oil are burned in lamps
| throughout the whole Indian Archipelago.
A tumbler half filled with water has oil
poured up to the brim. Two lighted
| sticks are the wicks, which burn brilliant
ly Every native glories ina display of
| lamps in the house and about th9 grounds
at the approach of night. When first
taken out of the boiling pot the oil has a
rich flavor, but soon becomes rancid. So
copious is the supply, however, that it
| can always be had fresh and sweet for the
table. Like the olive-Oil of Syria, it is
used as butter, lard or oil, according to
circumstances in cookery. From it soap
is made, lamps supplied, leather dressed,
and cosmetics fabricated.
THE uses of willow wood are thus
stated by the Cabinet Maker :: In England
there is no wood in greater demand than
sound willow it is light, smooth, soft,
tough, will take good polish, and does
not easily burn. 1t will bear more
pounding and hard knocks, without splin-
ter or injury, than any known wood and
hence it is used for cricket bats, and
whenever it can be obtained, for the
floats of paddle steamers, "strouds" OF
water wheels, brake-b blocks for luggage
and coal trucks, the sides and bottoms OF
| carts and barrows, where wear and teal
| are greatest. To the wood-turner it is
invaluable and were it grown as timber,
and Obtainable, it would be used fol
many purposes to which foreign timber is
now applied, and that, too, with consid
cradle advantage both to producer and