American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-05-11

branches consume nearly nifty tons OF
writing paper, six thousand gross of pens
and one thousand gross of pencils.
A NEW Chinese temple was recently
consecrated in San Francisco with no less
than seventy Gods, two of which are
twenty feet high and CORRESPONDENCE
large. ---
A SPRING poet finds safety-valve for
y his affiatus thusly:
Come on, ye frogs and birds,
THIS Seins froze f S1u e Rsfas long months
Is worse than killing heas-"
AN Old bachelor at wedding feast had
the heartlessness to offer the following
toast: - Marriage@The gate through
which the happy lover leaves his enchant-
ed regions and returns to earth"
A COLLECTION of 275 specimens of
postage-stan;ps was lately sold in London,
realizing f252 It's Cd. A five-cent Con-
federate stamp. unused, and very scarce,
brought f5; and two-cent Memphis
stamp the same price.
THE following curious advertisement
appeared in New York paper: Fifty
dollars will be paid to any person who
will, in q short time, convert a shy, low
speaking man into an impertinent, loud
: speaker"
= SAID Detroit lady to a gentleman of
that city, "YOu are not a musician, be-
lieve." NO" said he; if l were the
2 proprietor of hand organ, set expressly
Il TO play old Hundred couldn't get sew
enty five out of it"
NEARLY fifty years ago writer in the
London N on, Tines began a leading article s.9s
the other day." etc. Hence some of the
Times contemporaries called the paper
"The Thunderer," and the title still clings
to it.
THE discovery is announced in Hun
gary of an almost entire human skeleton,
together with stone hammer, at depth
which, according to theories of modern
biologists, would prove that man must
have existed long before the mammoth
age"
The word siultramontane" was original
1y applied to the Papal Government, Italy
being beyond the mountains" in respect
tothe. rest of the Continent. Now all
who hold a belief in the unbounded
supremacy of the Pope and the union
of church with state are called Ultra
. montanes.
A WESTERN New York miss unguard-
edly made the remark in the family circle
recently that "when gentlemen eat warm
: maple sugar it gets into their mustaches
and makes them scratchy." Her father
: is curious to know how she found it
out.
THE Maine lumbermen predict that five
years hence, at the present rate of de-
struotion, the forests Of that State will be
wholly cleared of timber. The lumber
crop this year is estimated at zoe, 900, 900
feet. OF this amount the PenObscot lum-
bermen cut 225, OOO, 900 and the Kennebec
men over 1O0, 0O0,O
= THE Count de Grasse was once wound
ed in the knee with musket-ball. The
dnctnPa. n and ba nlQd and made M "
incisions, when, getting out-of all pa
thence, the Count asked why they cut him
up SO much 1--WE are seeking" said the
:. surgeon, ''for the ball." "Why didn't
you mention that before? l have the ball
in my pocket
Tx Providence, r. l., no one is eligible
to membership of fire company unless
!. he possesses a good moral character The
department is said to include prominent
church members, active Sunday School
Missionaries, large booksellers, and the
most respectable men in all departments
of-business.
In order to get rid of the annoyance of
constant requests on the part of minor
criminals before the Police Court for the
suppression of their names, the Law
renee, Mass, authorities have made an
arrangement by which the name of any
person not charged with a grave offense
will be omitted for dollar, the money to
rfdim fund for the relief Of destitute and
deserving persons.
THIS is one of the newest descriptions
of Dolly Varden: 1.-THE starboard
sleeve bore q yellow hop vine in full
leaf, on red ground, with numbers of
gray birds, badly mutilated by seams, fly
ing hither and yon in wild dismay at the
approach of green and black hunter. A
Calvary Mission infant class was depicted
on the back, the making up of the gar
-ment scattering truant children up and
down the sides and ON the skirt, while a
country poultry fair and a group of Amer
lean hunting dogs. badly demoralized by
the gathers, gave the front remarkable
9 appearance. The left sleeve had on it the
alphabet in five different languages"
.cTHE Marquis of Lorne's brother, Lord
Walter Campbell, who is in business at
NewYork, was recently introduced to a
young American who had drank wine
enough to be supremely candid, and the
words Lord Walter Campbell caused
him to say, in q loud tone, "that's played
F., out-these English lords are base counter
feits. have no objection to meeting Mr.
Campbell, but l don't want anybody to
pretend he is lord" Lord Campbell ac-
cepted apologies, and remarked that he
himself would wish to see the credentials
of any one pretending to be nobleman,
instead of accepting him on trust.
THE railroads in England, according
to the London Builder, comprise II, PAT
miles of track, now being worked in the
United Kingdom, on which have been ex-
pended 81, 500, 900, 900. This sum is equal
to five times the amount of the annual
value of all the real property in Great
Britain, and two-thirds of the national
debt. After deducting all the working
expenses, the gross net annual revenue OF
the roads exceed by S110 600, 900 the total
revenue from all sources of Belgium,
Holland, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden and
Norway. An army of 100000 officers
and servants are in the employ of the
companies, and the value of the rolling
stock exceeds $3.50, 100000.
HERE is one way of arriving at a YER
dict. In the Supreme Court of Maine, a
few days ago, the jury, after vainly try
ing to agree upon the amount to be
awarded to the plaintiff, adopted the sug-
gestion of one of their number, and tried
"chalking." One man thought the plain