American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-10-05
GENERAL ITEMS.

and by
PEOPLE that work while they play-ac-
tors.
: GRACE and beauty are flowers from the
root of utility.
MoTTo for lawyers-be brief; for doc
tors-be patient; for potters-be ware.
BEWARE of the boy who is too big to
help his father, or denies his relatives.
A CHRISTIAN pound weighs sixteen
ounces, and is at least evenly balanced.
SOCIAL science is political economy
with soul instead of an arithm" t'c.
The health of the community is an al
most unfailing index of its mOrals.-Matl-
| mean.
The Government employs upward OF
5000 women in the different departments
in Washington.
GERMAN musician has discovered that
the tone of a violin is much improved by
saturating it with lager beer.
MEN are like buggies; the more brass
they contain, the more noise they make,
and the farther you can hear them.
THE only vice that can be forgiven is
hypocrisy. The repentance of 4 hypo-
critic is itself hypOcrisy.-Haztitt.
AN actor asked a peasant what part he
performed in the great drama of life. 81
mind my own business" was the reply.
New Hampshire was first called 6 La
COMA" An attempt was once made to
change the name of Massachusetts, to
- Oceana."
THE blossom cannot tell what becomes
of its OdOr. and no man can tell what be-
comes of his influence and example, that
roll away from him and go beyond his
ken on their mission.
In reply to young writer who wished
to know which magazine would give him
the highest position quickest, contem-
pOrary advised a ''pOwder magazine, If
you contribute a fiery article.''
On Spanish sun-dial is written, 81
mark only the bright hours" This is
wise. There is more sunshine than shade,
more bright than dark hours to be remem-
bered.
THE late Bishop of Norwich said ::
''Cheerfulness is the daughter of employ
ment, and have known a man come home
i'm high spirits from funeral merely be-
cause he had the management OF it,
| THE very first advertisement to be
found in any newspaper is one which re-
fers to the theft of two horses. This ap-
peared in the Impartial Dtetltgencer, an
English paper, in the year 164S.
| DESERVE friends and you will have
| them. The world is teeming with kind
hearted people, and you have only to car
ry kind, sympathetic heart in your own
bo7 ON to call out goodness and friendship
from others.
THERE is dew in one flower AMI not in
another, because one opens its cup and
takes it. while the other closes itself. and
the drop runs off. So God rains goodness
and mercy as wide as the dew, and If we
lack them it is because we will not open
our hearts to receive Him.
NEARLY forty per cent, of the total deaths
of all ages in the United States is found
among infarts under five years of age.
The mortality in our great cities, however,
hnC I'm ra
highest being in Chicago, where it has in
creased from percentage of % in 1913 to
81 i'm 1869.
LEARNING will accumulate wonderfully
if you add little every day. Do not wait
for long period of leisure. Pick up the
book and gain one new idea, if no more.
Save that one and add another as soon as
you can. Says the old Scotch adage:
MANY a little makes mickle."
A FRENCH inventor recently made a
public trial of boots designed to aid one
to walk upon the water. Nothing ever
floated more beautifully than those boots
did, but the trifling circumstance that
they flOated wrong side up nearly caused
the inventors death.
WE are ruined, not by what we really
want, but by what we think we do; there
fore, never go abroad in search of your
wants if they be real wants. they will
come home in search of you; for he who
buys what he does not want, will soon
want what he cannot buy.
A MAN advertised few years since that |
on the receipt of twenty-five cents and a
pOstage-stamp, he would communicate to
any one the secret of gaining handsome
fortune. The stamp brought back to the |
anxious seeker for wealth the valuable |
advice, g Go to work and earn it,
NEVER get angry. 1t does no good. |
Some sins have a seeming compensation |
or apology in present qualification of
some sort, but anger has none. A man
feels no better for it. 1t is really a tor
ment. Another reason for never getting |
angry, is that there is little that can hap
pen that is worth getting angry about.
The Spectator wants the English nation
to civiliZe the savages of the head-waters
of the Nile by the sword. We suppose a
little robbery of the Warren Hastings sort,
and an opium trade, and a Jamaica massa-
ere under Governor Eyre, and the blow
ing of few thousands from the lannon's
mouth, would greatly help matters.
1T is said the following words actually
formed the perOratiOn of the cOunsel's
plea for a client, in an assault and battery
case at Athens, Ala: Let the humble
ass crop the thistle of the valley; let tine
sagaciOus goat browse upon the noun
tain's brow; but, men of the jury, say
that John Candle is not guilty"
The New Haven Palladium tells of an
amusing incident which occurred in a
church not twenty miles from that city,
)n a recent Sunday. As one of the lead
ng male singers was uttering the last
oud Amen, his false teeth "a temporary
'et) dropped out of his mouth! Luckily ,
he service was nearly ended, and the ac-
.ident was not seen by many of the con-
yregation.
A STRIKING mustache at Saratoga is
hus described: 1t is one of those fOrmi- |
liable hirsute APPENDICES that instantly ,
young ladies, and in a twink
ing, awes Civilization in general. In di- I
nensions. it is ten inches over all, and two
inches breadth of beam. The design is
imply ferOciOus, and frightens little chill
ren, who flee in terror at the first glance /, ,
t it, and cling to their nurses for protec- :
ion. In architectural design, it is pecul- :
ar and quite original, and the extremi- u.
les are unwaXed and persuaded to point
onward, like the claws of the amiable
)bSter.