American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-09-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


YOrNa ladies' economy-Never throw
away match.
THE bread-and- butter brigade-Board
ing school misses.
How to keep your head above water
Never be above drinking it.
THE man who pretends to know every
thing generally knows nothing.
A CORRESPONDENT wishes to know
whether horse is dumb beast. Neigh
A GOOD appetite is a good thing; bu
not if it is to be worried by urging or by
| neglect
AFTER all, il, is rare that man gets ut
terly at the end Of his rope until he i:
hanged.
THE cost of days sojourn at Niagara
including the sights, is now $1S 80, which
is pretty close to a prohibitory tariff
against the place.
American ship building is reviving
Seventy.five thousand TINS were added tC
the registry between June 1st and August
9TH of the present year.
A NEW use of anathesia has been devel
oped by London physicians, in conveying
invalids from place to place, without in
/ jury 10 their Nervous system.
DURING the past fourteen years there
have been received at the Chicago Stock
Yards over 81 ,OOU, 600 beef cattle and hogs
and over Is, 900. 900 have been shipped
during the same time.
| MANY persons regard hearty desire for
| food as something unrefned, indelicate,
and to be constantly discouraged. This
! is greater, and more harmful mistake
than that OF coaxing tie appetits
IT is proposed to get up a cemetery near
New York, of about one hundred acres in
extent, for the burial of people who have
been talked to death. The idea is a good
one, but the cemetery ought to be larger.
TIE value of land affected the rate of
interest in former times. The number Of
years at which the rent of real estate
would pay for its purchase, was the test
applied to the value of money for general
uses.
THE use of grass, in England, to which
sewage was applied as manure, rendered
the butter from the cows fed on it so of
fensive that it could not be eateii; and the
serious question arises whether vegetables
grown on land cultivated with sewage do
not become poisoned
AN exchange says. "The Nebraska
Indians are allowed to ride free on all
trains they can jump on while the latter
duced very rapidly" This is by all odds
the most effective and economical system
of dead heading on record,
THE New York Tribune is reported to
have cleared some $4,000 during the first
six months of the present year, which is
at the rate of 16 per cent per annum on
the price of the latest shares sold. Eight
shares of the New York Times stock has
just been sold at $4,000 each.
"THAT's very stupid brute of yours,
Johp," said Scotch minister to his par
ishioner, the peat dealer, who drove his
merchandise from door to door in a small
cart drawn by donkey; II never see you
but the creature is braying." "Ah, sir"
said the peat dealer, we ken the hearts
warm when friends meet
AN Englishman has invented an i'm
provement for two wheeled cabs, which is
certainly ingenious and apparently prac-
ticable Beneath the vehicle, and under
the control of the driver, is a shifting
balIast-box, which can be SO adjusted by
a lever as to counterbalance any excess OF
weight upon the horses back.
DON'T live a single hour of your life
without doing exactly what is to be done
in it, and going straight through it from
may be. take hold at once, and finish it
up squarely and cleanlt; and then to the
next thing without letting any moments
drop in between.
THE woman worth having lives in Rip
lev, Miss, and is seventy-tive years old.
The local paper says she walked five and
a half miles to market, lately, carrying
on her back seven turkey gobblers, twen-
ty-two chickens, twenty four dozen eggs
and six pounds of butter" and she does
that sort of thing regularly.
THE "InternatIonalists" number so, 900
members in the State of New York, one
II "A
lis The society is a secret one, holding
the most radical reform ideas, and favor
ing the largest freedom and the fullest
rights of the individual. 1t is expected
that they will soon attempt to make them
selves felt in political matters.
A CASE occurring at Wurtemburg and
reported in the Phar. Jour and Trans,
shows the necessity of Using carbolic acid
with caution. A physician prescribed
thirty grains of acid to be mixed with al
cohol and water. and rubbed briskly upon
the skin of two patients suffering from
itch. AS result, one of the patients died
within an hour, and the other narrowly
escaped with his life.
THE Iowa train robbers are reported to
be living quietly and almost publicly in
in Lafayette count Mo. and IA local paper
at Sedalia records the passage through
that city of a posse of armed men, who
"created an unusual commotion by march
ing soldier fashion from the depot to the
hotel" They were under command of a
Sheriff, and started off Immediately to
capture the robbers. They evidently be-
lieve in securing birds by plentifully
sprinkling their tails with salt.
EVERY hard working man should have
a hobby, and those men who have learned
and taught more to the world than any
others are those who, outside of their
regular employment, have pursued hob
by with tireless perseverance. The pur
suit of bugs otherwise the study of ento-
mology, of plants, or the study of botany,
with all other similar pursuits which have |
built up the science of natural history, |
have mainly been followed by hard work
ers in other ways.
SEPTEMBER means business. Summer |
is ended. Vacations are over. The play |
time of the year ends with August, and |
the first days of autumn show Il revival of
business activity and Il return to real work.
The summer has been unusually cool and |
healthy and dull. But the prospect for a
large and profitable business season is de
cidedlv good. Already there are sure in
tlications of IA revival of trade, and mer
chants and manufacturers feel IA healthy
glow of encouragement.-Dail Graphic.
Now COMES another awful warning to
tobacco chewers, all the way from San
Francisco, too. A doating wife of that
city, and pink of neatness had hus-
band who chewed, and always carried the