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

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The MINISTER OF THE INrERloR-Th
cook.
CANADA is the bealthiest country ir
which the British soldier serves
, WHITE MOUNTAIN tourists complain
that the prices are higher than the noun
tans.
WHEN corn is converted into whisky
it must become the "giddy maze We
hear of
THERE is skeleton in nearly every
house, but fortunately few persons have
the skeleton-kcy,
THE book to which reference is most
frequently made during the holidays, is
the pocket-bOok.
AN old Hoboken woman who peddes
peanuts is worth $4,000, and owns three
houses
On a cold day one likes to see the fire
getting up, yet one grumbles at a rise in
Goals.
A RUNAWAY locomotive in England
dashed through fifteen gates and ran eight
miles without doing injury to any one or
itself
A CoNNECTIcUT woman's grief for her
husbands death was increased by the
thought that the parlor curtains were in
/ the wash.
A BoARDING-HoUsE keeper mixed some
patent medicine in his hash because it
was advertised as a cure for consnmp-
ton.
To begin the New Year properly make
provision for your family, by taking
policy in the Washington Life Insurance
Company,
II you want to find out mans real
I disposition, take him when he is wet and
| hungry If he is amable then, dry him
and fill him up, and you have got an an
gel
SAYS an Irishman of Chicago "Shoor
there are no people at all in the most
densely populated districts, and the side
walks is in the middle of the street.
The State of Maryland, to avoid the
infusion Of impure vaccine matter, has a
State Vaccine Agent, whose duty it is to
provide and distribute the genuine virus,
A New YORK belle told a suitor for her
hand that she would accept his offer in
six weeks, if Mr. So-andso didn't make
similar offer in the meantime.
The brother of Beethoven signed his
name, to distinguish himself from his land
less brother, - Won Beethoven, land.
owner The other signed his name,
"Beethovcn, brain-owner," to be equal
with him,
In case the Grand Duke cannot visit
the oil regions, the Titusville HeIUld pro
poses to send on Il tank of crude oil and
sprinkle the contents around him, so that
he can get an idea of how those regions
smell.
I,,; =. 60,
of beggars that they generally pull the
door bell hard enough to break it, and yet
when you go to the door they barely have
strength enough to speak in a whisper,
ACCORDING to returns in the Office of
State Auditor Russell, it appears that
nearly $4,000, ,000were spent for insurance
in Iowa last year The amount was
about equally divided between fire and
life insurance companies.
SCENE, FRESHMAN RECITATION Room
Professor: What instrument would you .
use in the construction of this geomctri- .
cal figure - Freshman (af'tcr looking .
thoughtfully at the floor, ceiling and .
professor: "a piece of chalk, sir.
A VERY wicked Connecticut man, being
recently taken i'll, and believing he was
about to die, told a nelghbor that he
felt the need OF preparation for the next .
world, and would like To see some proper
person in regard to it, whereupon the feel
ing friend sent for an insurance agent.
NAPOLEON the First used to carry with
him, when he went hunting, fifty bottles
of wine but never touched it, On one
occasion he was thirsty, and ordered
glass. "All gone" said the valet " Here
after said Napoleon, take tifty-onc
bottles, and keep one for me-
A sHREwIsH wife, quite sick, called to
her husband to come and sit by her bed
side. This is sad world my dear
said the wife, plaintively Very" coin
cided the man Were it not for leaving
you, l would love to quit it "Oh, my
dear eagerly responded the fellow,
g now can you think | would interfere
with your happiness? Go, by all means
The lady got well.
AT Boston, at one OF the engine houses
wires like bell pulls are placed in various
parts of the building, upstairs and down
stairs, connecting with the stable. When
m alarm is sounded, by pulling oNe Of
heSe wires the horses are unhitChed and
he stable doors thrown open. As the
lorseS are trained to start from their
stable at the sound of the gong, it some !
ines occurs that they are in their places |
1t the pole of the engine before any Of
he tiremen can reach the machine. !
THE Manchester NtJ1of says that here !
.fter no dcnizen of Bristol, ~ H., should
oppose lovers in keeping late-or, rather, l
,arlv hours, for the late fire there was /,
discovered by Il young manwho had been
mt courting. The Franklin Fire Com
,anv made the young lady q present for
,eeping her beau up until three o'clock in
he morning-the time the fire was dis
covered This fire was the first one the :
franklin boys had been called to for y
ighteen months
4 STORY is told of a man in Connect I
ut who fell from the roof of "A five->tOry D
,uilding TO the sidewalk but, as he struck 1
N the thick soles of his rubber shoes. he \
pounded back within quarter of an inch +
# the roof, and 50 continued 10 bounce, +
he distance decreasing by only quarter q
# an inch at each journey. He subsi-l +
d on hash enclosed in rubber balls
which lac managed to catch ON the bound,
nd at the end of a month was stopped
nd returned TO his family.
THE administrator of the estate of Mrs a
COMPTON, of Orange County, \. Y, lately e
ound among her effects stored and hid in "
mt of the way places, $4Ss in gold and ],
liver coin and in paper money. Green =
ackS were found between the leaves of 20
singing book \ >u>piCiuu>lv heavy 90
ca-pot was discovered fun of gold and i
liver. An old sugar-bowl, nearly full of %
ags, had in its bottom So in gold and %
early that amount in silver In a bundle !,
f rags found in AN old chest which was I
Tiled with cast toF garments. ~
fcrc nearly S2OO. The coins we've Amer !.
'an, German and French the oldest Ger "a
IAN piece bearing daic uf lssS, the old ''
II American, 1903. [
TUWFNTlNE II lIEADACHE-Dr War u
uriun Bcghie Edinburgh Nf'r' .EaTf- II
~ advocates the Use IT turVeniinc i'm the p
evere headache 10 which ECryuu- and k
vsteTical women are subject There l. b
borrower he saNs. another class oi O
uiIerers from headache. and this t. Com. Do