American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-06-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

SINGLE-MINDED PEoPLE-Bachelors.
ALWAYS lizard PREssED'-Bricks.
A WEATHER REroRT-A clap of thun-
der.
A CRY THAT SooTs PEorLE-Pitts-
burgh.
MERE CATcH-rENNY AFFAIRs-Hand-
organs.
THE FIRST ARK-TICK ExPLoRERs-
Noah's bed-bugs.
THE wealth per capita of the State of
Illinois is $685. 3d.
DEPOSITS in the Bank of England
amount to $1S3, 100000 a year.
PORTUGAL, in a hundred years, has not
quarreled with any power.
SCARCITY of children at the Shaker set
Element at Baileyville, New York, induced
two she-bears out of the woods to COM
promise on thirty five sheep.
SIR CHARLES LYELL calculates that the
entire continent of North America will
be washed away into the ocean in four
and half millions of years.
"I'M SO thirsty" said boy at work in
his industrious father; ''you know what
the prophet says, Hoe, every one that
thirsteth.'"
EVE was the only woman who never
threatened to go and live with mamma.
And Adam was the only man who never
tantalized his wife about 1.-The way moth
er used to cook"
THE tunnel under the Niagara River at
Buffalo, to supply the city with water,
has been completed for 700 feet, and an
extension of 300 feet has been ordered.
The pier will be located in the rapids.
SOME idea of the vastness of ST. Paul's
Cathedral, London, is had in the fact that
no fewer than Il, 600 persons were under
its roof on the occasion of the royal
Thanksgiving.
A BURLINGTON Qowa) baby is immor
talized by the following epitaph:
Beneath this stone our baby lays;
He neither cries nor holers:
He lived Just e-andtwenty days,
And cost us forty dollars
PROBABLY the heaviest contract ever
undertaken by one man is that of Henry
Meiggs with the Peru Government to build
a railway across the Andes for the sum
of 800, 600. 900. The highest point to be
crossed is IS, 600 feet above the water.
THE city of Rome is said to be honey
combed with about nine hundred miles
of subterranean passage ways, cut through
the solid rock, and that these contain the
bodies of from six to seven millions of
human beings entombed there since the
city was built.
A SOUTH CAROLINA gentleman has in
his possession the original sword used by
Thaddeus Sobieski at the great battle of
Warsaw. 1t was brought to this country
by Count Sobieski, in the year 1918, and
sold, with his other effects, in Charleston,
where he died in 1922.
A GENTLEMAN recently married in Chi
cago presented his bride at the wedding
with the original transcript of one of the
first dispatches ever sent over the first
telegraph line from Baltimore to Wash
ingtOn. 1t was the announcement to the
lady's grandmother of her birth, and read,
"Only girl"
"DO YOU execute this deed without any
fear or compulsion of your husbands"
asked Commissioner of Deeds of a wo-
he was taking. Fear of my husband"
exclaimed the irate lady. He-compel
mel You're foolI' And she swept
Indignantly from the Commissioners
Office.
THE Cork correspondent of the Boston
Pilot says that more people are now emil
grating from Ireland than ever before
Not less than A, 900 leave the country eve
ry week. Whole villages are left with
only the old and decrepid in them, and
some of them, such as Limerick, are 60
ing to decay.
THE ancient Saxons used to engrave
upon certain square sticks, about a foot
in length, the course of the moon for the
whole of the year; such carved sticks they
called al-mon-aght, literally, all-moon-
heed-hence our modern word almanac.
THE house which Davy Crockett built,
and IN which he lived for many years, is
still standing, five miles northeast of
Rutherford Station, in the northern part
of Gibson County, Tennessee. Some of
the pegs on which the Major suspended
his venison are still to be seen.
On the oath of November, 1871, Mr.. T.
A. Fogg. of Pulaski, Tenn, put IN the
center of bale of cotton note offering
$50 to the finder on forwarding it. On
the 9Th of May he received the note from
and forwarded the $50 to Alder. Cham
bers, a workman at the Victoria Mill,
Newton Moor, Chester County, England.
ACCORDING to Charles Lyell, who made
a special study of the rocks at the Falls
of Niagara, it has taken 30, 900 years to
cut away the rock for that cataract. But
not even Mr.. Lyell could compute the
ages that must have passed before the
water began to drill a canal from Lake
Erie to Lake Ontario. The age of the
world exceeds the widest guess of our
ancestors.
AN English engineer has invented
torpedo, designed to be elected from a
mortar, and to take its course under water
for any required distance under 1000
yards. 1t can be discharged at vessel
from a fortress, and SO silently will it
move under the waves that the occupants
of the vessel will not be aware of its APP
proach until they are blown skyward at
the rate of mile a minute.
THE schools of Massachusetts, produce
some very brilliant citizens. A New
Bedford youth, setting out for pilgrim
age to Boston, the Mecca of New Eng
land devotion, purchased a steamboat
ticket the other day, and quietly seated
himself in a ferry-boat. After sitting
there an hour and a half, and crossing
the harbor several times, he ventured to
inquire how long it would be before the
boat reached Boston. He will start again
another day.
A SINISTER, who can stand the deroga-
tory remarks concerning old maids no
longer, writes to the Cincinnati Times
am happy to say that have for many
years belonged to that class of much
reviled women; but many of my most
intimate friends have been married wo-
men, and from them have | heard more
scandal and detractions, more jealousy
and rivalry, more of the spirit of ENVY,
hatred and malice, and all uncharitable-
ness than from any old maid L ever knew
or heard of"
A CLEVER old lady, apparently just ar
rived on a train from the country en-
tered one of the refreshment rooms mt the
SDrin Dfie1d Mass Railroad Station the