American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-03-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
TAKING COLD-Stealing ice.


A PRE- AMhtE-A walk before break
fast.-L0,reH Courier
JOSEPH ALLENBAUBERGRoPE
sHAUBINTICKER lives in Topeka.
MORE than one hundred persons diet
| by falling down stairs last year.
| A BROOKFIEt.D man has named prize
rooster Robinson, because Robinson Cru
| soc.
| AN Irishman said he did not come to
this country for want. He had abundance
of that at home.
| A WOMAN of ST. Louis, upwards of six
feet high, lately married man of four
| feet four.
DIsRAELI is said to be writing sequel
| to Lothair." An exchange suggests for
| it the name of &c Seehere"
THE railroad men down East are quiz
Zing new station agent who made re-
QUESTION for ''red oir' for signal lamps.
"DID he bring those chickens to your
house in a secret way?" queries defend
ants attorney. Not he brung 'em in a
bag"
A YOUNG man recently walked from
New Haven to Bridgeport and back, in
eight and three-quarters hours-thirty
four miles.
CALINo got up the other night and fun
''Oh," he cried, if l could only get match
to find the boxr'
If your neighbours hens are troublesome
and steal across the way, don't let your
angry passions rise: fix place for 'em to
Law!
THE proverb says: "Hunger sweetens
BEANS" but a venerable housekeeper
says she always found molasses best to
use.
ADVICE TO HUsBANDs-Settle as much
money upon your wife as you can, for her
second husband-pOor fellOw!-may not
have a siXpence.
A YOUNG lady of Paris, Me-, has sued
q prominent young man of that town for
5000, as damages for wood and oil burned
while paying his attentions to her.
THE Name Central Railroad Company
paid last year to persons on account of
injuries received in the accidents at Free
port, Farmingdale and Bangor, $4,000.
"JosH BILLINGS" says he is not hu-
morist but moralist. Eli Perkins "
says he is not humorist, but a statistician.
Mark Twain" says he doesn't write
humor but history.
THE latest case of absence of mind is
that of a young lady who, on returning
from a walk with her lover the other
evening, raped him on the face, and
babe a good night to the door.
THE Danbury Ne,cs says: "a Danbury
gentleman who went up to Falls Village
with a view to settling there, has returned
discouraged. He says the soil is SO poor
that the people give concerts for its ben
eft"
A COMPANY of juveniles in Toronto
have carried on profitable business for
some time by capturing dogs on the street
and restoring them to the owners when
liberal rewards could be obtained for so
doing.
SCHooLMIsTREss, Ito dull little boy,)-
" Johnny, Pm ashamed OF you When |
was your age l could read twice as well
as you can" JOHNNY" Yes'm but you
had different teacher from what l got"
SOME Chester County Pa.) woodcut-
tiers recently sawed down a large poplar
tree, and found snugly ensconced therein
hickory sapling, fully four inches in
side the bark. Both hickory and poplar
were perfectly sound.
A MARRIED. lady complained that Der
husband had ill-used her. Her father
hearing it. boxed her ears. Tell him."
said the father, THAT if he beats my
daughter, will beat his wife" Rather
a pleasant prospect for the lady.
A GERMAN lady in indianapolis, whose
y
his property mortgaged to the fullest eX-
tent, has managed his business so skill
fully that she has released it all, and is
now in possession of an income of So, OOO
ONE of the best temperance sermons
ever delivered is this sentence ny the late
Rev. Samuel j. May "If it is small
sacrifice for you to give up drinking wine,
do it for the sake of others; if it is a great
sacrifice, do it for your own sake"
MARY c. REMsEN, of Brooklyn, has
brought suit against the Board of Health
for removing her son to the Flatbush
Hospital when sick with the small-p OX.
The young man died in the hospital, and his
mother asks $4,000 damages. claiming
that he was well cared for at home.
THE following is a tale of four cities,
in which, the Detroit Tribune has the last
word 1.-The Indianapolis Journal
publisher A Voice from a! Mule The
Cincinnati Enquirer says this mule is
half brother to the editor of the Louis
vile Journo1, The Enquirer did not charge
full fratcrnal relationship, out of respect
to the mule"
NEAR Nassau, New Providence, there
is a solitary house, pleasantly situated. to
which, in conformity to Il singular Gus
tom there prevailing, newly -married
couples go to pass the honeymoon. They
take servant or two and steal away from
the.town, to this place, from which, after
a becoming period is passed, they come
forth again.
PRESIDENT SMITH, of Dartmouth Col
lege, began life as Il type setter. In speak
ing of that part of his life, recently, he
said that i'm the printing office he learned
to honor labor, to spell, and ''many things
about newspapers and books, and the
matters they treat of, which served as Il
good preparation for the further studies l
ut length undertook"
Mr. SAMUEL PECK, resident of Bel
fast, Me, died few days since at the
advanced age of ninety-two years He
was a native of Massachusetts, and had
resided at Belfast over seventy years. lie
remembered the visit of General Wash
ingtOn to Massachusetts,, and was one of
double lines, between which Washington
rode.
A WORTHY BostOnite, anxious to help a
UNCONVENTIONAL school, agreed to leave it
800, 600 at his death, if the institution
would pay him the interest on 800, OGO,
at six per cent, up to that event. The
shrewdness of it lies in the fact that he
could get his life insured for that amount
for 81, 900 or So, 900, leaving him a very
comfortable income besidesl That is, for
a nice annual revenue of, say, So, 0OO, he
would let any college insure his life for
100000.
THE following is told of Bishop E., of
Massachusetts: Visiting one of the church
ac al Il hn tod rot a