American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-02-17
ODDS AND ENDS.


Snails fried in cracker crumbs arc
a Paris delicacy. .....
The Swiss ribbon makers are said
to know $4,000 different colOrs.
There are eighty-seven female ed
itors and reviewers in Paris.
he that will sell his fame, will al.
so sell the public interest.
A knowledge of our weakness Gre
ates in us charity for others.
Iowa has raised bale of cotton
Of excellent quality.
Happiness is perfume that one
cannot shed over another without a
few drops falling on ones self.
The United States Patent Office
has commenced the publication of a
weekly official gazette.
Five drops liquid ammonia to a
gallon of water, used to water plants
will expel worms.
Cotton was introduced into China
from Central Asia, and Cochin Chi
ma, about the niuth or tenth century.
Two hundred and fifty dictiona-
ries of as many languages are in
course of being published in London.
The great secret of success in life
is, for a man to be ready when his
opportunity comes.
The greatest men live unseen to
view, while thousands are not quail
fed to express their influence.
There were 305 murders in New
York last year, and only one man
hanged for them.
The New England States have a
mile of railroad in operation on ev-
cry fifteen square miles.
The receipt of grain at Buffalo last
year were 100000 bushels against
49, 600, 900 in 1870.
1t has been estimated that Oregon
will have surplus of fifty to sixty
thousand tons of wheat to export.
A Utah young lady died recently
from the effects of tight lacing! She
had no business to be straight-laced
in that locality.
The number of gallons of native
wines made in, and within small
radius of Cleveland, foots up $780,
600 gallons.
The Onondago Salt Company, of
Syracuse, N. T., employ 5000 labor
ers, and turn out about 25O,OOO tons
of salt per annum.
The value of the steamboats, now
in use on the Western rivers is plac-
ed at $22,O43,5OO, and that of the
barges at $5, 7G9,4O0.
The loss in spinning cotton is es-
timated at eighteen per ct. in East
India and ten per cent. in other
yrowths.
A promise should be given with
caution and kept with care. 1t
should be made with the heart, and
remembered by the head.
The poet Cowper is to have me-
norial window in the church at
3erkhamstead, where his father
In 1870 there were 225, 900 tons of
ice exported from Saigon, Cochin
Jhina, principally to China and ia
)an.
In England and Wales there are
upwards of 100000 paupers, sup
'orted at q cost to the nation of
early $12,000,000.
The Texas Legislature has lately
hartered the Houston Tanning and
leather Manufacturing Company, re-
emily organized, with a capital of
100, 900, to be increased to 250,OO0.
To keep dressed poultry from
polling when warm days come on,
prinkle the fowls with powdered
harcoal, after the animal heat has
'ft the body.
At present in Italy, there is no
larket for books or writings of a
,riOus character. The consumption
so small as not to stimulate pro-
uctiOn.
Prof Agassiz told the late Teach
81 Convention in Boston, that he
fought, in public education, too
uch was made of the memory, and
70 little of the mind.'
Princeton College, which has just
ltered on its 125th year, has 379
three of whom are from
lpan and one each from Syria,
lrkey and Japan.
A mammoth cheese was recently
in Faneuil Hall, Boston,
which 1000 persons bought slices,
Iying for them in the aggregate
81 40.
A Chinese thus describes a trial
the English law courts: "One
an is quite silent, another talks all
e time, and twelve wise men con-
mn the man who has not said o
,rd."
Rev. G. Albert Haven, of Massa-
usetts, not only seeks to abolish
of color and sex, but
lnts to see black woman Presi-
mt of the United States, and mar
d to white mani
q Bridget, told you to have my
{ water the first thing in the
,rning." Sure, sir,D replied Brid-
t, "didn't bring it up and lave
at the dure last night, SO as to
We it in time.s
The rite of baptism being about
be administered to several infants,
onfused clergyman requested,wi
sat solemnity, that "all children
ring parents who wished to be