American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-07
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

SEE, in another column, the advertise
ment headed II eriU help any num-
IT has been discovered that three-fourths
of the women of Boston wear false teeth
. THE discovery of extensive borax de
posts in Kern County, California, is
announced
| A PHILADELPHIA manufacturer lately
turned out a given amount of paper from
piece of wood which, on the morning OF
the day the paper was made, was growing
timber.
THE Boston Post saws: ave scarcely
know what additional article the ladies
can suspend from their waist belts. Fans,
umbrellas, vinaigrettes, handkerchiefs, and
card books now dangle at their side when
promcnading" There is nothing addition
al more appropriate than wash-tub a
cooking-stove, and a sewing machine,
with written instructions as to the best
meihcd of using them.
A LUCKY HIT.-A young man recently
conceived the idea of dipping matches,
after they were tipped, in paraffine, so as
to protect them from moisture. For this
| improvements he now receives from a
match manufacturing establishment an in
come of about ten dollars per day. Matches
thus prepared are said to ignite readily
after having lain in basin of water an
entire night.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Germantown
Telegraph asserts, giving details, that a
smoke-house was built in Eastern Penn
sylvania in 1890; that during the past sea-
son, in repairing the building, a head of
wheat was found embedded in the cap of
| the gable; that five of the grains thus
found were planted, and four of them
grew "in bare ground,r after having been
embedded in mortar eighty-two years.
EXPERIMENTS at the New York State
Lunatic Asylum have resulted in proving
the great value of conium-the hemlock
of the ancients-in the treatment of insan-
ity. The concurrent testimony of the
cases in which it has been tried is, that it
soothes and mollifies the moter centers
operating on the moter tract as opium
operates on the BRAIN thus quieting and
rcnovating the whole muscular SYSTEM
and acting indirectly as a tonic and nervine
1t is now largely used in cases of epilepsy
by New York physicians.
A WONDER has been discovered in San
Francisco-a dressmaker who will keep
her word at any price. She had promised
a new dress to be worn at a party in San
Jose on a certain evening. 1t was finished
on the day, but the person who was to
| take it had gone, the train by which it
was to go had also departed when the de
pot was reached, and no fast horse could
| be had on account of the epiZootic. Ris-
ing with the emergency, the energetic
dressmaker hired an engine and tender
and took the dress to San Jose in time for
| the party.
THERE is now lying in the Story Coun-
| ty Qowa) Jail, man who was unable to
| find a woman for himself, and was obliged
to steal another mans wife. After being
discovered and locked up for the naughty
| caper, the woman wrote him the following
letter: April 10, 1S73.-Hew, l want to no
whether you can give me up or not, feel
as though | could give you up and go
home if you can give me up. / don't no
but it would be a graded better for both
of us to give each other up. You can
write on the outer side whether you can
or not. From Eliza to Hew.
THE CATS MEAT MAN-There is
dealer in Fulton Market New York,
whose special business it is to furnish the
daily supply for the private cats of the
adjoining stores and warehouses. The
hearts and livers of animals are purchased
from the butchers, chopped up, and re-
tailed at five cents a package. The differ
ent kinds of meat are kept separate, for,
as the dealer expressed it, 'some cats is
particular, and won't eat but one kind of
meat Meat of a less delicate kind is
also provided for dogs. The packages
weigh but a few ounces, and the dealer
has regular customers, who religiOusly
market for their dumb favorites. He is
doing a thriving business.
THE Academy of Sciences at Paris have
awarded their prize of $4,000 to Mr..
Gramme for his electro ma ghetto machine
which is one of the simplest and most
efficient that has yet been invented. The
construction is SO free from complications
that the instrument will work and give
| cn months fnrathnr
and to those who know anything of the
subject these will appear as results of the
highest Importance. One of the uses to
which this machine may be Immediately
applied is the production of a light of in
tense brilliancy, which will be seen far
ther than any other electric light yet
known. One of the French steamship
companies is about to use this light on
their vessels as precautiOn against COLI
sions or other casualties, and it is obvious
that it can be made of great general
utility.
On of our recent poetasters offers these
observations:
:. Give me ksses-do not stop
Measuring nectar by the drop;
Though to millions they amount
They will never drain the fount.
Kiss me then
Every moment and again.
If she kissed him every moment she
would kiss him half million times
year, and she would have to kiss him
every minute for two years before ''to
millions they amount" This would not
allow time for meals, and it is probable the
poet and the woman would starve. As
far as the poet is concerned, we do not
know that it makes much difference Per
haps the world will be happier if he does
die. We think, upon reflection, that we
may possibly be able to spare him; but it
will be hardly fair to kill the woman at
the same time. Upon the whole, it will
be better to have intervals of repose Sup
pose we say kiss him for an hour and then
pause to let him fill up with beef and
cabbage.-Nar -4deler.
NECESSITY is the mother of invention,
and it is to Mother Necessity that we are
indebted for that very useful but very dan
gerous little household article-the lucifer |
match. Mr.. Isaac Holden, in his evidence |
before the English Patent Committee thus
gives the history ofthe invention, which, |
he says, was due to a happy thought that
flashed upon him without any previous |
consideration. Mr.. Holden, many years |
ago, had to rise mt four in he morning to |
pursue his studies in chemistry, and eXpe-
rienced the greatest Inconvenience from |
his tedious efforts to obtain il light from |
flint and steel. He was giving lectures at
this time to a very large academy. He
goes on to say: "Of course | knew, as !
other chemists did, the explosive material
that was necessary in order to produce in
Simultaneous light; but it was very difficult
to obtain Il light on wood by that eNplo-
sive material, and the idea occurred to
me to put under the explosive mixture sui