American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-20

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| blunt.
CONSUMPTION is said to carry to the
| grave 2OO,OO0 people annually on the
| North American Continent.
4 CRAZY man in Elko, Cal, recently
| swallowed a twenty-dollar gold piece, a
| couple of tens, and few silver dollars.
FROM thirty to forty-eight dollars is a
common price to pay for making up a
common Calico dress by some of the
| New York fashionable ladies.
A MAINE man has just built a hand
| some residence; in finishing it sixty kinds
of wood were used, all of which grew
upon his own land.
WHAT strange contradictions some
| things appear-for instance, one who is
| supposed to know, says: "A kiss is at
once the cheapest and dearest thing on
earth"
A DOLLY WARDEN suit is described as
a neat coquettish little dress, resembling
| in appearance cross between a brick
| wall and an animated window curtain.
A GOLDEN wedding was celebrated at
| New Haven, few days ago, at which
| were present the bridesmaids and grooms-
| men who assisted at the wedding half
| century since.
A GOOD illustration of the Importance
| of right punctuation and correct spelling
is afforded by the following verse of Scrip
/ ture: 1.-THE wicked flea, when no man
pursueth but the righteous, is bold as a
| lion"
AN anti-swcaring association has been
formed among the railroad men at Harris
| burg BY the rules of the association, a
fine of ten cents is exacted for every oath
uttered. They claim large and rapidly
increasing fund.
| BY a typographical mishap, the other
day, the New Orleans National Republican
was made to speak rather irreverently of
''Our young Governor" as Our enter
prising thief" 1t meant to say "Our en-
terprising chief"
A LATE London paper contained an ad-
vertisement, saying that ''Mr. Moon, who
died in 1858, is requested to come for
| ward and prove his decease." ''He is re-
quested to communicate with his fathers
| solicitors"
| A PUBLIC speaker lately tried to give
his hearers definite idea of eternity, in
the following manner: "Why, my friends,
after millions and millions of years have
glided away into eternity, it will be a
hundred thousand years to breakfast
timer
A PARIS STREET SCENE-'Dear lady,"
said child, exposing a toy for sale, ''buy
this 'What is its price?" Judge your
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day" This is dramatic enough to make
the fortune of three English dramas of
the period.
AS wife was holding her husbands
aching head in her hands one morning,
she asked: care a man and his wife
One?" Il suppose So" said the husband,
"Then," rejoined the wife, 81 came home
drunk last night, and ought to be ashamed
of myself"
GOTHAM recently produced wedding
cake that weighed forty pounds. 1t was
in the shape Of house three stories high,
and ornamented with flags, bow-windows,
balconies and CupIds, with newlymar-
ried couple, of sugar, coming out of the
front door.
''WHAT time is it, my dear?" asked a
wife of her husband, whom she suspected
of being drunk, but who was doing his
best to look sober. ''Well, my darling,
can't tell, cause, you see, there are two
hands on my watch, and each points to a
different figure, and I don't know which
to believe"
julius A. SUMNER, of Akron, o., says
he rode on the first passenger car ever
drawn upon railroad in the United
States; that he rode upon the first steam
boat that ever navigated Lake Erie; and
that he was the first man to build a rolling
and nail factory in the State of Ohio.
Two years ago San Francisco turned
up its nose at any coin less than ten cents,
sold nothing less than that price, and
made no change below it. Now it has a
one-cent paper, the EUening Post, bearing
at his head the novel announcement for
that latitude, "Change given by the news
boys"
THE wag of the Cleveland Leader says
Questionable sports who intend to put
! -, oil T,I AL
Mountain and other summer resorts,
should commence lodging their washer
women now. A few shillings a week
saved early in the season will purchase
many mint-julep and other necessaries
of life, when the heated term arrives.
AN English clergyman, High Church
man, was preparing number of young
women last February for confirmation.
Among them is one who tells this story,
"You all doubtless know, my good girls
said he, addressing them with affection
ate earnestness, "what next Wednesday
is." ooh yes, SIR" they all exclaimed
ait is st. Valentines Day" They were
right enough, but it was also Ash We'd
nesday, which happened to fall on the
14th this year, and the coincidence was
fatal to its pretensions.
THE following anecdote of a worthy
Quaker in England is taken from an ole
paper: He was unusually devoted t,
strictness as a sectarian, but was kind
hearted and public-spirited. The parisl
church was so dilapidated that it had to b'
taken down, and a new one built in it.
place. The people hesitated to ask tn,
generous Friend for his aid in an under
taking so contrary to the views of hi
sect. But on being consulted, he though
he could consistently give money to har
the old church taken dorn, and accoIdingl,,
did subscribe hundred pounds.