American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-11
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

| tween inc animal and vegetable KING
dOms.
VIRTUE, though in rags, may challenge
more than vice set off with the trim of
| greatness.
THE richest man in Denver is a Next
can, with an Indian wife, and she leads the
| fashion.
AN incurable type of yellow fever-the
rage for gold, because it breaks out in rash
| speculation.
AN inveterate old bachelor says ships
are called she because they always keep
man on the lookout.
| WHY do girls kiss each other, and men
do not? Because girls have nothing bet
ter to kiss, and men have.
| WOMAN ought to do all she can to make
this earth paradise for man, as it was all
her fault that she lost the other.
| NINETEEN million cigars are annually
imported from Cuba. They are princi-
pally manufactured in Connecticut.
| WHY does the girl of the period" make
the best housekeeper? Because she makes
| so much hustle about a little waist.
! You can tell when a newsboy has been
stuck with one of the new $500 greenback
cOunterfeits by the unusually thoughtful
expression upon his countenance.
A GoOD-HEARTED but partially deaf old
lady is much disturbed by the talk about
the kickapoo Indians. She doesn't see
why anybody should kick a poor Indian.
THE new Capitol building at Albany,
N. Y, will, when finished, be the finest
structure on the continent. The selection
Of ornaments for the lobby is said to EN-
brace some rare specimens.
"WHY," asked Il governess of her little
charge, do we pray God TO give us our
daily bread? Why don't We ask for four
days, five days, or a week." I'VE want
it iresh,'' replied the ingenious child.
IT is not isolated great deeds which do
most to form character, but small con-
terminous acts, touching and blending
into one another. The greenness of a field
comes not from trees, but blades of grass.
John Kerr.
OWING to the war among the dry-goods
merchants at Denver, calicoes were reduc
ed to two cents per yard, and every editor,
reporter and minister in the place now
wears shirt-gaudy in some instances,
but still shirt
IT is related that an Irishman once Wis
tied New Hampshire, and after having
inspected the numerous hills and noun
tain ranges, exclaimed: "Bedad! l niver
was in IA country before where they had |
SO much land they had to stack it,
AN engineer on the Western North |
Carolina Railroad shouted to crowd of |
rustics who had gathered to see the first |
train of cars come in: Put down your
umbrellas! You'll scare the engine off the
track,' The umbrellas were lowered at |
once.
In disastrous times of peril the greater
the reason for cool heads, presence of
mind, steady nerves, calm courage, and
the refusal to add any sensational element
to inflame excitement. Panic never saves
a ship or furnishes an escape from a
wreck, when u squall comes or u tempest
RACES.
THREE blue bulls walked down the
street, AS blue any bulls you'll meet.
The poorest to the others said, What shall
we do. we are busted. A river flows across
this street, It's depth is just seventy feet
Well settle down pier upon, And blow
our brains out one by one.
A RECENT writer says that the Japanese
make no distinction between moral and
science and very little between
ethics and etiquette. To them education
is morals. A cultured man is, in their
view, of necessity moral man. They
say ii is not polite to lie, to cheat or to be
angry.
FIRED" said young man, walking
up street, the other day, after lis
know why you are like harp struck by
ightning?' No" says Fred. 81 give it
up" because "a harp struck by light
ming is a blasted lyre."
CoLERIDGE says there are four kinds of
readers: the hour-glass, whose reading .
runs in and out and leaves no trace of
gain; the second, like the sponge, takes
the third retains only refuse
hat some would throw away; but the ,
fourth, like the miner among gems, keeps :
he pure and casts aside the clippings.
.rb |
wo hundred pounds out of Il fourth story I
window on the head of a negro who was
passing and he had them arrested. He | +
aid he was willing to let the boys have $
I'm, but when they jammed gemman's t
lat down over his eyes, and spoiled it in !
hat way, the law must take its course. I
AN uncouth child of nature writes feel /
ngly anent IL popular topic: Il could t
tan bein' called liar an thief" says '
lie, cor even be tole that the ole man KEEP +
huop-skirt factory, but when one of /
ay in as | had suthin to do with that ere
Betsey nor is Out jes riz on my hind
egs and combed him down"
The tallest treesgrowing in the United a
states east OF the Rocky Mountains are T
nly about one hundred and fifty feet O
Ugh. The big trees of California f,
Sequoia) are from two hundred to three O
undred feet high. The Australian gum a
rees are much higher, being the highest "
rees known. Specimens are commonly C
act with 400 feet in height, and one has t,
zen measured of the height of 420 feet.
A TOUCHING EPITATH- n
Stranger. pause
My tale attend, r.
And learn The cause | e
OF Hannahs end.
Across the world Il
The wind did blow, L
She kechcd cold {
What laid her low. :
We shed quart ii
OF tears, Ills true, a
But life is short s
Aged 81. :,
tide by his patriotic title, had neighbor II
Tho was in the habit of working on sun r,
avs; but after "A while the Sabbath break n
r Joined the church. One day our friend
let the minister to whose church he be /,
,nged. "Well, Uncle SAM" said he, d
do you see any difference in Mr.. P N
nce he joined the church?'' "Oh, yes" ~
aid Uncle Sam, "a great difference Be 9,
IRE, when he went out to mend his fences M
e carried his AK over his shoulder, but h
ow he carries it under his coat"
EXTRACT from Il Virginian's will 81 Il
ill to my nephew, James Madison M,
may have after my just debts Il
re paid with condition that after | am IL
uried he is to have a marble head and 81
DOT stone put to my grave, 10 be seven Ill
'et long and four inches thick. | want -
ie following inscription cut upon both
nds of each slab: Henry NJ, born br
Tkey hunter and tolerably good fiddler to
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