American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-12-07
GENERAL ITEMS.
The epizootic-hence these steers.


ALL things are but altered, nothing
dies.
If seven days make one week, how
many will make one strong?
GRAVITY is no more evidence of wis
dom than a paper collar is of a shirt.
COP never would have required the sac
rifice of Isaac from mother.
METAL wallpaper is the latest perver-
sion of the English language.
The one-dollar gold piece is to be with
drawn from circulation.
A WOMAN who tells fortunes from a tea
cup is Sauceress.
THERE is no death; what seems so is
transition.
TRUTH is richer than Imagination; she
Oversteps it on all sides.
Our homes should be as holy as our
churches, to say the least.
HUDIBRAs calls matrimOny q preverse
fever beginning with heat and ending with
frost.
A BAD marriage is like an electric ma
chine; it makes you dance, and you can't
let go.
He who cheerfully commits the uni
verse to God has nothing in the universe
to fear.
An exchange is talking about ''the next
Worlds Fair" just as if we didn't have
trouble enough with this worlds "Fair."
IT seems that iron is a good tonic for
debilitated ladies. That may be so, but
ironingis better one.
LIFE is constant sunshine, which
death cannot interrupt any more than
night can swallow the sun.
FASHIONABLE authority decides that a
stove-pipe hat is always becoming, unless
il is too much stove.
INFANCY is perpetual Messiah, which
comes into the arms of fallen men. and
pleads with them to return to Paradise.
To love and labor is the sum of living.
and yet how many think they live who
neither labor nor love.
Brown says the mountain air is so thin
in New Hampshire that you can see the
mountains peak and the wood pine.
THE most beautiful of affairs is the soul
OF an unhappy man who is comforted and
thanks God.
The New York World has invented a
new name for the horse epidemic. 1t is
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
mus"
IT has been discovered that all the
French nouns representing work and
luxury are masculine, while the seven
capital sins are feminine.
A scHOOL-MAsrKR. on being asked what
was meant by the word fertilization, an
swered, 1.-TWO twentifcatiOns make a
tOf0uc8LkOu.
SsPKNNY CHURCHES" are coming into
vogue in England. 1t is necessary first
however, to get together large number
Of penny-tents.
THE Journal des De5afs pays Prince
Napoleon the unintentional but not unde-
served compliment of denying that he is
. tssimple'' citizen.
The French Academicians have refused
to receive Mr.. Darwin as an associate.
They are indignant at his total neglect of
the tiger side of their pedigree.
A REVENUE assessor In Ohio, asking
the usuai questions, inquired: did your
wife have any income last year," eyes,
sir, replied the assessed, ''both girls.''
Mrs. PARTINGroN has been reading the
Health Officers weekly reports, and thinks
%'totaP' must be an awful disease, since as
many die of it as all the rest put together.
As the Missouri Democrat dubs Wood
hull and Claim 1.-The Broad street heif.
ers,' will it kindly inform the farming
community at what age its ssheifers'' usu-
ally reach cowdom ?-Chieago Times.
AN enthusiastic student of zoology has
been supping on Welsh rarebfts Tor a
weeks, in order to ascertain whether night
mares were subject to the prevailing cpl
zootic.
THE mayor of Boston has issued pro
c1amation forbidding the use of bustles OF
lewspapers containing maps of the burnt
district He says he wants his fellow cit
liens to realize the full extent OF their ca
lamity.