American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-23
GENERAL ITEMS.


COUNTERFEIT postage stamps are in the
market.
THE stars are called wicked because
they sin-till-late.
THE present is a good season for the
hoarse plague-so far as public lecturers
are concerned.
IT has been decided that man becomes
OF age the day preceding the twenty-hrst
anniversary of his birth.
A YOUNG man who keeps collection OF
locks of hair of his lady friends calls them
his hair breadth escapes.
THE latest fashionable chaussure for Ia
dies is the ''Orloff boot" The difficulty
in some cases. however, is to get it orion.
CAN it be called an equine distemper
when so many politicians are hors du com
bat and so many mayors are in the field.
A WOMAN political lecturer in Rhode
Island is like taking two bites of an OK
heart cherry. The State is little, but the
Juice is sweet.
An Iowa woman has invented an appa-
ratus for raising bread. She should now
try her hand at producing something that
will raise the flour.
A VIRGINIA newspaper reporter has in
vented a baby with eyes in its knee-pans.
Perhaps he means only that it has knock
ular conformation of its knee.joints.
A LovE-LoRN he in Baltimore has turned
the tables of sex by suing his dulcinea for
breach of promise. To make the matter
really even his case ought to go to fe-
male jury.
THE demand for terriers of the Isle of
Skye breed is increasing so much that a
Broadway dealer has put up the price of
them from $40 piece to $50, and finds
purchasers at that.
DIR. Do LEWIS has started new peri
odical, called To-Day, which he is conf
dent will not die brightness, financially
speaking. though 1t may have a tendency
to Dio Lew'sness.
An enthusiastic scientist predicts that
in less than twenty years balloons will
make regular trips across the Atlantic.
The same was predicted over twenty
years ago.
HINT for the rc-Therapeutical So
ciety-A Pennsylvania patient who had
long suffered from rheumatism was re-
Gently quite cured through being struck
by lightning.
INDIAN affairs are becoming more and
more complicated. AperfidiOus chief has
elOped with Detroit gentleman's wife,
and a disappointed squaw has sued lead
ing merchant of Olympia for breach of
promise.
Our sporting reporter says it's all nom
sense to suppose that horses are likely to
NC ny the prevailing cplZOOllC
On the contrary when the animals throat
is most affected he's more horse than
ever.
SUCH is the thirst for scientific informa-
ton among all classes in Boston that it has
been found necessary to discontinue the
free exhibitions of the museum of the
Natural History Society because so many
visitors would take specimens away with
them for study at home.
10 cor,ofh;rrr mora fbov, coaroo ~,
England of late, while brandy Tor what
passes tor brandy is presumably plenti-
full. And yet, although nobody has de-
vised substitute for meat, a manufactu-
rer there announces his success in produ-
cling brandy OF fine flavor from fchens
and moses, by process borrowed from
the Russians.
HERE we have a good example of
French wit: " A doctor, like everybody
else at this season, went out for a days
sport, and complained of having killed
nothing. That's the consequence of hav-
ing neglected your business observed his
wife," So writes correspondent. An
American or English woman could not
have said that.
AN interesting individual in Springfield
having been arrested for grievously mall
treating casual little boys, it is almost su-
perfuous to add that his lawyers set up
tor him the plea Of insanity, medical tes-
timony being forthcoming to the effect
that he once had an attack of sunstroke.
An exchange says milkmaids who are
good singers are paid higher wages than
those who are not, because under the in
fiuence of music cows give down better
and more milk, and adds: Gan Orange
county milk producer is trying to engage
Kellogg and Parepa Rosa to sing around
his pump"
The Rev. DIR. Cunningham in a recent
A. s-Az
ism" to the time when Juvenile Buffers
from Jericho (who evidently belonged to
the old Wing partly chaffed the prophet
Elisha on account of his badness. In
fortunately for our civilization, however,
the absence of carniverous bears spoils
the completeness of the parallel.
The Chicago apothecaries were on Sun
day convinced that an alarming epidemic
of typhoid character had suddenly
broken out in the city. 1t is said that no
less than 23S, 492 prescriptions whereof
the chief ingredient was 'spirit-frumen-
: ti'' were dispensed on that day. The mall
ady in question is said to be an obscure
form of intermittent. having a tendency
to recur every seventh day.
THE cholera has broken out with great
virulence in different parts of India. Up
to August "a the deaths OF 227 Europeans,
all in the army, had been reported. The
disease has severely attacked her Males
TVS Sixty-fifth Regiment, and at last ac-
counts the troops were to be sent into
camp at Rawul Pinde. The natives also
are suffering terribly.
HORSES that have not run for years, and
can't be made to run in any satisfactory
way, now run freely at the nose, and the
amount Of hacking among the hack
horses and coughing among the hearse
horses is something without precedent.
The Dutchman complained that he felt
little horse because he had a colt in his
head. But every other horse one meets
to-day seems to have colt in the head
N. Y. Star.
Square and Compass.