American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16
GENERAL ITEMS.

A BAD style of arithmetic-Division
among families.
AN Irish editor congratulates himself
that half the lies told about him amt
true.''
A CHARLESTON lady advertises for a
place as assistant in the duties of a
family
A PIscAToRIAL party Is what they call it
now. When we were a boy, they called
it ''goin' a-fishing.''
WHY are ripe potatoes in the ground
like thieves? Because they ought to be
taken up.
The 'sbig bugs of Paris are deeply in
terested in coming exhibition of cole
OpterOus insects.
ssSAoKKD NIGGER' is what the Western
folks call Barnum's precious Egyptian
Warranted genuine) mummy.
ELEVEN thousand NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
to the Burns Monument fund have been
received in he city of Glasgow.
CAPE COP is called the s'right arm of the
Bay State probably because it it's Fright
handy" to the BOstonians.
The Iowa man who has been indicted
for feloniously appropriating bridge,
must be an ssarch offender"
II b said that the temperance party in
Massachusetts propose to abolish all rail-
WHY was Robinson CrusOe unable to
get up an oyster stew? Because he
hadn't the skill-it required.
MANY persons write articles and send
them to the editor to be cOrrected-as if
an EDITORS office was house of correct
ion.
THE German postal authorities have
hxed the maximum weight of a mailable
epistle at go grammes, exclusive of gram
mar.
The alumni of Harvard challenge the
present class to a test OF proficiency in
oaraI exercises-meaning thereby boat
race.
A CoNNECTIcUT,p paper is led by the first
most to think that Captain Hall has found
the North Pole, and is bringing it back
with him.
CONSIDERING the scantiness of French
stags-costume, the Bostonian pronuncia
ton of ttOpera buff isn't SO very far out
of the way after all.
The Chicago Grand Jury refuses to in
dict liquor dealers for keeping open on
Sunday, giving less weight to the letter of
the law than to the spirit.
A WESTERN editor, in acknowledging
the gift of peck of onions from a sub
scriber. says: cit is such kindnesses as
these that bring tears to our eyes,"
HBRE Is the heading of one of the Mis-
siissippi papers, introducing a sensa-
.cowhide, pistol, and skedaddle''
WE find that about every candidate that
has been nominated for Office thus far is
the w0rkingman's friend.'' Political
claptrap is as current this year as ever.
ARCHBISHOP MANNING, of England, has
forbidden the employment of female sing
ers In the charches in his diocese. May
this action be termed Manning the choirs?
THE Philadelphia Star notes it as fact
observed there, that dyspepsia and kindred
the strset-f.ilway system in that city.
- A TAILOR announces that he Is ready to
furnish entire suits of boiling cloth to
such political and sporting gentlemen as
"travel on their bolt
UNDER the abolition of capital punish
ment In Iowa, the criminal classes, having
got an inch, have taken an ell, wherefore
It is now proposed to give them knell by
the law Of Lynch.
poor girl, living in the country, she used
to "plant corn in her bare feet" This
fmparts pew idea of the origin of these
troublesome things.
MILWAUKEE cherishes Teutonic lady,
fair, forty, and measuring two yards
around her chest, sixty-two Inches around
her waist, and twenty-eight inches around
uer -D1cepSs
THE number of marriages in Chicago in
the year since the fire, have been greater,
and the number of divorces less than ever
before. the same being called by moralists
publication by fire.
AFRoyEcri is again ON foot to drain the
Zuyder Zee. which was once lowland
forest, though for the last five centuries
1t has been an immense bay, covering an
area of fifty thousand acres.
DUBUQUE is probably the best drained
city in the world, being under-burrowed
IN every direction by exhausted mines,
shafts within the city limits.
AVERMoNT genius has supplanted sold
Probabilities" by the invention of waist
c0at-p0cket barometer, which renders its
possessor the signal service of predicting
the weather for the next twenty four
hours.
last week, and although it was clearly
proven on the inquest that his mother-in
law had taken up her abode in his house,
the c0r0ner's jury was Obtuse enough to
render verdict of unaccountable suicide.
WE regret to learn from a contemporary
that fears are entertained for the recov-
eFyr Of a man injured on q railroad. To
entertain sfears of the recovery of hui
man being, Is certainly very novel way
Of adordlng consolation to his friends.
ssWnAr are we coming to ~ NAV we'll
De exclaimed when We are told by Canon
Trevor that he learns that there is actual
fy subscription on foot in Bombay to
build = pagoda In London, for the worship
of Vfshnu and silva.