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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24
Postal Cards.

A recent Washington dispatch gives the
following information relating to the new
Postal Cards:
The card adopted is five and one-eighth
inches in length and three inches in width,
and is made of good, stiff paper, water
marked with the initials U. s. p. o. ID. in
monogram. The face of the card is en-
graved, surrounded by a border, in scroll
work, one-eighth of an inch in width. The
one cent stamp printed on the upper right
hand corner is from profile bust of the
Goddess Of Liberty, looking to the left, and
surrounded by a lathe-work border, with
the wordsA"U.S Postage" inscribed above,
and "One Cent below On the upper left
hand corner are the words United States
Postal Card" with directions to ''write
the address only on this side, the message
on the other." Underneath, and occupy
ing the lower half of the card, are ruled
lines on which to write the address, the
top line being prefixed with the word
40" The back of the card, intended for
the communication, is, entirely plain,
being devoid even of ruled lines In
color, the body of the card is light cream,
the printing velvetbrown. No variation
in size, shape, color, or in any other par
ticular, will be made from the regular
style to accommodate special cases, nor
! will the Department do any printing on
Che cards Beyond the engraving specified
in the description. .fcJ
P6staf cards will be sold for 1 cent each,
neither more nor less, whether in large
QuantitieA0r in small. ssz-z1 ~
The ohjeotof the postal cards is to fhcil.
itate letter correspondence and provide
for the Transmission through the mails, at
reduced rate of postage, of short COM
munications either printed or written in
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24
How to Begin an Article for Publica-
-- -----gE ton.

A GREAT many people are apt to hit upon
happy ideas in society, and when they go
home they write them out for publication;
and most of these good folks know how
hard 1t Is TO begin an article satisfactorily.
A word to them: commence with your
very finest writing and most beautifully
rounded sentences. Introduce your sub
ject in your most elaborate style, be po-
etical, rhetorical, didactic, as your mood
may be, and when you think fit gradually
drop into the discussion of the subject
matter When the article is finished, be
gin at the opening sentence, and read it
until you find you have commenced to
say something to the point. Stop at this
place; strike out everything before it, and
let your article begin just there. You
will then probably find that it opens well,
and that by collecting all your labored
composition in one place where it can be
readily stricken out, you will have saved
yourself all the trouble that would have
been necessary had it been scattered
through the article.-Frdnk K. Stockton,
IN Scribner's for Nay.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24

the house--Then you hunt up a stick and
60 for that carpet.
The first blow Mdesthe sun, and all the
fair face of nature, behind cloud of dust,
and, right in the center of that cloud, with
the wind square in your face, no matter
how Won stand, you WELD that cudgel un-
tilbOth hands are blistered and the milk
of human kindness curdles in your bosom.
You can whip the carpet "A longer or
shorter period, according to the size of
your mad; it don't make any difference to
the carpet, it is just as dusty and fuzzy
and disagreeable after you have whipped
it two hours as it was when you COM
menced. Then you bundle it up, with
one corner dragging, and stumble into the
house, and have more trouble with the
stove, and fail to find any way of using the
carpet-stretcher while you stand on the
carpet, and fail to find any place to stand
off from the carpet, and you get on your
knees again, while your wife holds the
saucer, and, with blind confidence, hands
you broken tacks, crooked lacks, tacks
with no points, lacks with no heads, lacks
with no feathers, tackS with the biggest
end at the point.
Finally, the carpet is down, and the
baby comes back, and the cat comes back,
and. the dog comes back, and your wife
smiles sweetly, and says she is glad that
job is off her mind. As it is too late to do
anything else, you sit by the fire and
smoke, with the inner consciousness that
you are the meanest man in America. The
next day you hear your wife tell friend
that she is tired; she took up and put
down that great heavy carpet yester-
day-Utica IN. " Herald,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24

AN enterprising young farmer, living
in Illinois, who had little spare time
at his command. applied year ago to
the New York Life Insurance Company
for an agency. The necessary papers were
forwarded to him and he made clean
sweep of two counties. Since then he
has taken two more counties and gone
regularly into the business. He says that
it pays better than any business he has
ever undertaken, for the plans of the COM
pany are so popular that he finds easy
work. There are thousands of neighbor-
hoods where an agency for this grand old
company can still be had. If you apply,
send full particulars, age, former business,
with two names as references, to the head
office, at 346 and 34S Broadway, New
York
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24

25. Powelrs Early-Matures Sept. 10.
%. Reeves-From Tolona; very early.
81. Roderick-From Tuscola.
IS. Thomas-Five or six years from Ohio.
80 Unknown = From Clermont County,
Ohio.
Iv.-BROwN AND CALICO VARIETIES.
So Master-From Ohio, 1870
81 Large Strander-An old variety; medium
in earliness.
81. Little Strander-Very early.
:}3. Roan-From Ohio.
"a. Strawberry, or Calico-Formerly great
favorite; early and prolific.
v.-RED VARIETIES.
35. Black Purple-From Fulton County,
1871.
OF these varieties, Mr.. Phinney, with
his present experience, preferred the fol
lowing, all yellow: Bankers No. 1, Bank
eras No. 2, Goltra, Powelfs Early and
Thomas.
The following table shows the maturity,
August 2, and the yield of ears, weighed
as gathered, November 8 and the follow
ing days, reduced to bushels per acre, at
seventy pounds to the bushel:
Maturity, dug. =, Of BIZ.
81 I, SfofI,
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The BOrers of the Sea.

MANY stories are current as to how in
ventors have borrowed or stolen their
ideas from Nature, and there has been
much ingenious discussion as to whether
hints thus appropriated are properly pat
entable. Boring is an example of natural
processes that have been thus used by art,
and it is remarkable that the lowest crea-
lures are the most skillful mechanics in
this particular. An eminent living in
ventor, who had made fortune out of a
patent auger, hit upon the method follow
ed by the most successful insects which
bore into hard wood. And so we are as
sured that the celebrated engineer, Brunei,
in constructing the Thames tunnel, but
initiated the shell-lined burrOw of the
7eredO nnrnlis, or ship-wOrm. This mol
lusk in shape resembles worm, and sur
rounds itself with shell open at both
ends From the mouth it can protrude
its short foot, and the other extremity of
its body; the "tai1" is bifurcated, one
prong being the inspirator, and the other
the expirator tube of the siphon which
constitutes the animals nutritive ap-
paratus.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24
Mn nifest Absurdfties.

Is there any good reason why the dictates of
common sense should be disregarded in medical
practice: Surely not. Yet how literally they are
sometimes set at naught in the treatment of dys-
pepsia, liver complaint, constipation, nervous pros
tration and general debility. How often pow
erful purgatives, emetics and salivants given in
cases of indigestion, bilious colo and costiveness
when the disease has already robbed the patient of
strength he needs to combat with the attack The
absurdty of giving facilitating medicines to sick
people who are too weak already, is manifest,
that it is astonishing how any man can believe
in such practice. The rational course under such
circumstances is to administer tonic and reguat-
ing medicine and the experience Of quarter of
century has proved that Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers Is the most wholesome and efficient preparation
of this class to be found in the medical repository
1t is, however something more than an invigorant
and regulator Its properties as an aperient and
anti-bilious AGENT its vtalzing and purifying eff
feet upon the blood; its utility when given as an
anodyne, instead of laudanum, choral, or digit
ais, or some other supefyng narcotic its tranquil
lzing tendency in spasmodic affections, and its
palatability. as contrastcd with the sickenng pills
and potions of the pharmacGpoia certainly entitle
Hostetters Btters to be called the most compre-
hensive remedy in existence.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24
SCRENCK'S MANDRAKE PILLS.

These Pills are composed exclusively of vegetable
ingredients although they entirely suDersede
OF mercury do not leave hnyDI It's injurious er
fects. They directly the liver. and val
liable remedy in all cases OF der aHgement resulting
from a disordered state of that organ. Liver Com
plant Bilious Disorders. Indigestion, Sick Headache
typhoid ana other Feyers, &C.. &C.. all succunb te
the free Of SCHENCKs MANDRAKE PILLS.
For sale all Druggists and Dealers
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24

COLDS AND CoUGHs.-Sudden changes of
climate are sources of Pulmonary and Bron-
chial affections Take at once t'Bro1pn's Bron-
chial Troehes," let the Cold, Cough, or Irrita-
ton of the Throat be ever so slight.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24

DIR. d. GILMORE, of SIS Warren St., Jersey
City, n. j., has certain cure for Cancer. He
uses a vegetable extract that takes out the
Cancer, roots and branches, when the sore
rapidly heals, and never ulcerates. In its
early stage charges nothing for treatment and
medicine until cured.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24

CoNsUMPTION.-For the cure of this dis
tressing disease there has been no medicine
yet discovered that can show more evidence
of real merit that Aliens Lung Balsam. This
unequaled expectorant for curing consump-
ton, and all diseases leading to it, such as
affections of the throat, lungs, and all dis
eases of the pulmonary organs, is introduced
to the suffering public after its merits for the
cure of such diseases have been fully tested
by the medical faculty. The Balsam is, con-
sequehtly, recommended by physicians who
have become acquainted with its great sue
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24
r, FF r. r..

-
DR.. Pierce's Peasant Purgafive
Pellets, or Sugar-Coated Concentrated Root
and Herbal JUICE, Anti-BiiNus Granules-the
Little Giant" Cathartic or NKlfnm IN farzo
Physic. scarcely largerD than mus.
tard seed, yet representing much eathartic
and thorough. jet gently ,1/kf,dLy operating:
Being entirely xs<stable. no par.ie-
Hioo%. n5eiPasie%. Pain in
Shoulders, 3ightness 81 Chest,
taste I'm MONth, Bilious attacks,
Internal EevN, Kush Of BLOOD
ings, take DR.. PiefSe's PeIIets.
One or two, taken DALI for time, will cure
Pimples, BiOtch$ Eruptions,
Boils, ScrofuIous SNGes and yiru:
and Bones. No cheap woNd paste board
boxes but kept fresh and rel4 bic in walls. rs
cents, BY druggists or g {dozen. Manufac-
tured at the Worlds DNPcusary, Nos.
So. 81. 81 and SO West SeneczzSt.. BUFFALO, N. Y.
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pencil of ink. They may, therefore, be
used for orders, invitations, notices, re-
ce3pts. acknowledgements, and other re-
o,1irements Of business and social life,
and the matter desired to be conveyed may
bo,either in writin<or in print, or partial
b. both Ii. f&eir treatment as mail
matter they. ard b be regarded by Post
masters the same as sealed letters, and not
as printed matter, except that in no case
will unclaimed cards be sent to the Dead
Letter Office. -.
An ordinary printed business card may be
sent through the mails when prepaid by a
cent postage stamp attached; but such
card must contain absolutely no written
mattM except the address, Otherwise it
will be treateds rs not fully prepaid, and
refused admission into the mails 800
=, All cards different from. those herein
Described bearing embossed or printed
postage stamps, and purporting to- be
United States postal cards are counterfeit
and the manufacture of such cards, or the
attempt to use the same, will subject the
offender TO a fine of $500 and imprison-
msnt for five years. (Sec. 11S Postal
zPostmasters will not under any circum-
stances, be permitted to redeem or eX-
change postal cards that may be mis-
directed, spoiled in printing, or otherwise
rendered unfit tor use,-in the hands of
private holdee.
NAe ppartment :wll hot furnish less
thar ~ cad orr the order of Post
maseeh -1ndividaals desiring postal cards
will purchase them of Postmaster, as in
no case can they obtain them upon appli-
cation to the Department.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24

The variation in yield from different
varieties is very considerable. One of the
yellow varieties produced but forty bush
els to the acre, or only one-half the maxi
mum yield, showing that the variety plant
ed is no small factor in the product.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24
DIR. J. r. hILLER'S
UNIVERSAL
MAGNETIC BALM.

1t cures as If by MAGNETIC
INFLUENCE, Neuralgia and all pain. and is
therefore very properly termed " Magnetic
Balm" 1t is purely vegetable preparation. 1t
has equal AZ a remedy for
Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Diarrhra, Dysen-
terry, Collie and all Bowel Complaints.
Its timely use will cure Colds, Group, Diph-
liberia Quinsy, und all Throat affections.
When properly used. Fever and Ague;
and other complaints incident to our western and
southern climates. easily broken up
Nervous Pain. Sick-Headache, and Rheu-
have failed Toothache Earache, Burns Chill
blains and BruiseS are relieved at by its use.
The gen uine has %. gE ansOln Il Co.'s
private Revenue Stamp on the outside, and DR..
j. r. Miler's Magnetic Balm blown i'll the bottle.
Examine closely, and buy none but the gen.
uine.
Sold by all Druggists. Price rs cents per
bottle.
D. RANSOM Son & Co. Propr's Buffalo. n. Y.
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Let him never forget the motto of the head of
our family, Everything for the French peo-
pie" Let him fix on his mind the writings of
Emperors deeds and correspondence; and,
D r6na2lyy let -hlm reg1enheT- that when cfrcm-
: Sttances permit hat tie kause Of the people is
the cause Of France Power is heavy bur
den, because one cannot always do all the
COCA one could wish, and because contempora-
de- seldon render Justice. 30 that in order to }.
fufnn ones mission one must have faith in
and conscientiously appreciate his duty. 1t is
necessary to consider that from heaven above
those whom yon have loved regard and protect
you. It Is the soul Of my filustrious uncle
that has always inspired and sustained me-
q > The like wHDql0y IN my son, for he will al
ways be worthy of his name / leave the En-
press all my private property wish that at
the 1uajonty IA my son she shall live at the
Elysee and Biarritz. / trust that my memory
will be dear to her, and that after my death she
will forget whatever unhappness may have
= caused her. With regard to my son, let him,
keep as talisman the seal wore attached to
my watch, and which comes from my mot her.
LET him carefully preserve everything that
came to me from the Emperor, my uncle, and
let him be convinced that my heart and my.
soul remain with him. l make no mention Of
my faithful servants. am convinced that the
!. d, Empress and my will never abandon them.
shall die in the Catholic apostolic and Roman
religion, which my son will always honor by
his piety.s vs-. ft "a
Done and signed with my hands at the
Palace of the Tuileries, the 24th of April,
1865.
(signed) vr,ClTD NAPOLEON.
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SOME say that the use of tobacco is another
form of intemperance, but no man is intern
perate that wears the Elmwood Collar For
sale at all furnishing stores.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24

FLAGG's INSTANT RELIEF has stood twenty years
test. Is warranted to give immediate rekitJ TO all
Rheumatic, Neuralgia, Head, Ear, and Back Aches
or money efunded.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24

S. Black Purple -. out medium tall 500
The heaviest yield, it will be observed,
is from the Black Purple, which gave
eighty bushels to the acre. Next comes
the Arcola, white variety, with 79.4
bushels per acre; and next to this, the
McElvery, yellow sort, which yielded
seventy-six bushels. The average bushels
b., 81, N ,,aro oro nc f,I1ou-c.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24

CRISTADoRo'S EXCELSIOR HAIR DYE STANDS
unrivalled and alone; its merits have hGcn uni
versally acknowledged that il would be Il supcrcro-
CATION to 4escant on them any furIhcr-.otning can
beat it,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24

ASK for Prussing's Cider Vinegar and take
no other. Warranted to Preserve Pickles.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24

Ten thousand emigrants left Liver
pool in one week recently for the United
States.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24

IF YOU have Fever and Ague, try shallenberger's
Antidote. You will then know of ONE remedy that
never fails. The cure is immediate.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24

WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS,
w Plense say on saw the advertisement
in this paper.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24

BEST AND OLDEST FAMILY MISUNDERSTANDING
Zonfc-for Dyspepsia, Constipation, Debility, Sick
Headache, Bilious Attacks and all arrangements of
Liver Stomach and Bowels. Ask your Druggist for
1t. BeIcdre Of limitations.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24
SE the Refsinger Sash Lock and Support to
EAS1EN YOUR WINDOWS!

No spring to break, no cutting Of SASH cheap dura
Bile very easily applied; holds sash at any place de-
sired and self fastener when the sash is down send
locks sent 10 any address the L. S. postpaid
ceipt of soc Liberal inducements the trade Agents
wanted. Address-Reisnger Sash Lock Co., No. 4l3
VI ,rl.et street Harrisburg, Pa
of this cheapest and best lock-
H.od's Household IdDu-e, ". ]. Independent &c &C
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24


A fHERH is nothing 50 solemn in nature
as the vast desd1atioa that .reignS about
thehorthspole- Firgin yet Of the presence
ihoudhe footor sah or any evidence
of our human kind-so when we catch
vague glimpses of that land 0fs sifeAce, or
are enabled to lift the curtain of ignorance
that hangs about its outskirts, nothing can
mozeaarike the mind withits Impressive
ness. We all know that in some lonely,
ice-bound spot lie the remains of brave
explorers-Sir John franklin and his
company-never, perhaps, to be brought
back ~, the worldrUf green fields ana
pleasant PLACES. 7 Hn someglmes The s.
= crets of the fat North are unIoe keds some
times the shadow of Ignorance which en-
velopes it and hides. it from our sight
Isl gives way tor the light OF knowledge, and
the world reads a curious history in the
shsreyelation. 1t has been reserved for Cap
tain Carlsen.sa N Norwegian navigator, to
pierce this veil of mystery. in one instance
to make a discovery, which,
in the recital of it, seems more like a
- strange fairy tale of the Moth thap
a Tsober narrative of our Hdeaic1S WMe
so many brave men are exploring the
Arctic-regions searching for the North
pole, the geographical phantom which
allures and never evades, curious interest
will at1>h to this disQvdya But in Qfaer
~: y q: 4: S. \
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24

VI, ABOUT the year 1850, Wuen one
William Barentz, Dutch navigator, sailed
away on hiszsGcond voyage of discovery
to trace out, if possible, the Northwest
passage-that famous imagined highway
to Asia by way of the Arctic Ocean, the
fact of the existence of which SO many
4 II 0ther naSigNosV have vainy endeavored
1.S to realhe. 1is ssstst ss&s - -1stvssis si
Sc OLE Dasen0fai3ed nhis search, but he dis
covered Spitzbergen, the vast archipelago
= l-s-whsch lies in th0heart OF theaArctic ocean.
He found it expedient to land upon this
coast and there he built huts for shelter
ispd III his iconpenT Here he tarrisd
( ld9Ha tie dFeaIg months q an Arctic Il
spot, leaving the huts and their contents,
and returned to his native country, never
to revisit his quaint settlement.
Three centuries nearly have passed
away since that event. The years have
come and gone over those silent witnesses
to the presence Of the ancient mariner and
his sturdy crew. In all that time, as we
may belieys, mo- living thing has invaded
the sacred solitude of this spot haunted
with memories of that coming, long ago,
tss7 Of Barentz and his men. Possibly, from
distance, the walrus and the seal may
II h2vegazed upon it, and. from his rapid
flight in the ether some Arctic bird of
passage NAY have; turned q curious eye
upon the scene. But no dust has settled
there; NO moth has stolen in to bring de-
cay. Even the elements seemed to have
rsbated their severity and to have protected
with kindly hand the legacy left to their
undivided keeping. The sequel almost
partakes of the character of one of those
tales wherein the Princess in the Arabian
: rNigbtA deferred hsr threatened and Sde-
layed Mte by willing away the tedious
evenings of her cruel Caliph. One day,
in the year 1870, Captain Carlson bore
shoreward in his ship to this icy coast of
Spitzenbergt He landed at the spot where
Barnett had landed before him; and to.his
perplexed eyes appeared the vision of the
old encampmept.
-sE The huts Wefe still there, just as Myn-
heer had left them nearly 300 years ago.
In the rude hearthlay. the relics of The
utterly dead and long -extinguished fire.
Upon a shelf were books from the old
Dutchman's library-a work on naviga-
ton, the latest edition published before
he had sailed, and history of China
2 Ha1slated into Dutch Jugs apdS dishes
swhere3h fjPd beemprepard the drink apd
food Of the adventurers, were scattered
here and there, and even apair of shoes
was found which had belonged to a little
cabin boy, who, as say the records, had
died upon the voyage. There were also
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Nap0le0n's WIN. :

late Emperor Napoleon, Under which let
teri Of administration are now applied
for in London. The estate is sworn to
under e12O,OOO, and this sum is subject
. to Chains which will reduce IL one-haif.
Ehit IiS Il sa%4Rd m my ,s sen SAL az my fy
.tagq pos esse{ an thS halities rsqdisite
k9 IT, &easase 5r sIsn dess;a sish
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-24
THERE was man in our town,
And he was wondrous wise,
He had a pain from ear to ear,
Another between his eyes;
And when he saw he had Catarrh,
With all his might and main
He Iailr.1.h In sod Sannrs Rnn,nd,-

AHu MS MS HtaItn again.
1t is sold by Druggists everywhere.
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Proprietors for the Southern and Western )
ef-For sale by all Medicine Dealers.
Der wanderer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1867-1957, 1873-05-24
&atbpliitbe miii1pmet
in 1922 unD 1872.

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Sabresfeier res uWerfes Der @laubens<
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unp in paris beltebsnpen, aus 0sitli>
den unc 9aten ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ben elidlibsn @epanfen aueeeflbrt
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9uns nit.
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0sleul@aft ausidlisbli9 aus faniNeil>
fioneu, bic eanals nod foleence Na>
men trusen: China, GcnasRtna, So
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@ti1onen, ne'9e bereits an 100000
@brtten 3dbltsn, belabsn su ib,er eeis