American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-10-19
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
COOP mechanics can make from 81 to
S. per day In Arizona.
THEY allude to the bald-headed men in
Colorado, as ''psrsOns with their heads
above the timber line."
IT has been lately discovered that PhG-
nix Park, Dublin, covers an immense bed
of coal.
ssMAMMA," said a precocious little boy,
who, against his will. was made to rock
the cradle, 6 If the Lord has any more ba-
bies to give away don't you take EN-"
ticle known to commerce.? Because. when
purchased, instead of going to the buyer
it goes to the cellar.
ONK Ofthe Paris hotels, anxious to Sc
cure American patronage, advertises
s. Fish-balls and buck-wheat cakes at all
hours"
"INsuLrs," says a modern philosopher,
''are like counterfeit money we cannot
hinder their being offered, but we are not
compelled to take them"
THE following notice is posted conspicu-
Ously in a newspaper-Office out West:
''Shut the door and, rs soon as you have
done talking business, serve your mouth
the same way"
As SO MANY articles in everyday use
are manufactured of paper, it is asked If a
paper beefsteak can be invented to take
the place of the leather ones common at
boarding-houses.
A JEALOUS prohibitionist, on being
asked why he Signed every pledge that
was presented to him. give as a reason
that If he broke one, he would have the
rest to fall back on.
The rivers of Maine have kept fuller
this year than ever before, and cOnse-
quently no mills have suspended for want
of water or materials with which to work.
The .Kennebec has been almost literally
full of logs since the opening of spring.
ELF there is anybody under the canister
of Heaven, that 1 have in utter exeres-
slanderer, going about like aboy construc-
tor, circulating his calOmel upon honest
folks"
THE latest novelty in the West Is the
discovery that Indians will s'sunburn'' the
same rs folks of lighter color, some say
even as much or more than a white man,
and four or five days exposure turns
them at least two shades darker.
THE situation Of the American Lega-
ton in Berlin Is said to be one of the finest
In the city, directly opposite the beautiful
Thiergarten Pork and Promenade, and
surropmfHf on al sides by the palaces of
Berlin mobiles.
AN iconoclastic English agriculturist
is upsetang the Druidical ruins at Stone
henge, to make room for a crop of ruta-
baga turnips. If he had an Americans
more out of them by fencing them in and
charging half crown for admission.
SIX hundred single men and women Of
WEIGH. English and German nationalities
arrived in New York. a few days ago, on
their way to Join the Mormons. The men
are described as q seedy set, but the wo-
men are nearly all under twenty-five, and
good looking.
THE story that Philadelphia sportsmen
toes, installing them for snipe, is the in
vention Of an inscriptions itemizer.
The Philadelphians knew what the insects
were, but despaired of killing them in any
other way.
IT has been decided recently in Illinois,
that If any accident occurs while person
is either getting OFF or on train. or at
tempting to do so for any reasonable pur
pose incident to railway travel, it comes
within the terms Of an accident policy as
6 travelling in public conveyance"
THE men who have been spiritually
minded have become poets and philoso-
pliers and prophets, winged souls, living
on land, on water, In air-having led the
way Of human progress, shining at the
head of the marching columns of human
ity.
WE are always able to propose more
than we have the power to accomplish.
Our work is to do all we can by the best
employment of our best powers now.
That best employment can never be, with
out feeling that the world of spiritual
things is upon us, that the Lord is very,
very nigh.
RELATIVE to the question whether con-
sumption is or is not contagious, high
medical authority says q nOxiOus influ-
ence may pass from person In advanced
consumption to healthy person. in close
communication, and may produce the
same disease, statement which at once
suggests the query whether q similar pro-
position IL not true In regard to many
other non-contagious diseases.
THE American doctrine of the inviola-
bility of private property at sea. in time
of war, was among the points discussed at
the meeting OF the Emperors at Berlin.
portant nations which still withhold their
assent from tho entire abolition of priva-
teering and Of warfare upon private
vessels.
THOUSANDS of bushels of apples will be
left to rot on the ground in the orchards
Of New England this autumn. In some
towns the farmers are offering cider at
so per barrel, and 1t is difficult to find
purchasers sufficient to exhaust half the
apples at any price. The best varieties OF
winter fruit can be obtained back In the
rural districts at q merely nominal price.
ECCENTRIC couples in San Francisco
have been In the habit of adding romance
to their marriage by chartering a steamer
and going out Of sight of land to have the
ceremony performed. But now they find
they have made a mistake, as the courts
refuse to recognize marriages made out