American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-09-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AN editor says no man who had pai'
regularly for his newspaper was ever hi
by mad dog.
THERE is nothing so effective in bring
ing man up to the scratch as health.
high spirited flea.
. LEATHER made from the skin of tn
white whale is now regular article o
manufacture at some of the villages II
Canada.
"WHEN a man pawns his watch he's
pawnee, isn't he, and when he's Pawne,
he's an Indian, isn't he 81 is the kind o
sophistry used in Kansas.
IT is said that Captain Jack is in a de
cline. Let his friends take heart. He viii
soon undergo a rise that will be mos
hemphatic remedy.
A MAN near Dubuque harvested fifty
acres of wheat alone, alternately cutting
binding, and shocking. He cut, bound
and shocked five acres in one day.
/ BoURBoNs weak and Bourbons strong
says Berlin journal, are about to ANAL
gamate. Weak Bourbon and strong water
is the fusion in vogue on this side of the
ocean.
THEY have judge in Kansas who
fined a lawyer for saying " sic transit
The official thought it was swearing, and
remarked Indignantly, that nobody should
sick ~ him in that court.
l "A
Mexico who can ride on horseback all
day in the sun, sleep on the ground, and
| live on sour milk, cheese and red
pepper ,, 49,
| $500 too much, and not being able to find
the man, and having no money to make
the loss good, leaped into the river and
drowned himself.
| A SOUTHWESTERN man, speaking of
1 -v,fr I.rrf
| trade open to the gentle sex, and that trade
| is marriage. The lecture business has
always been pretty good trade for wo-
| men.
A LITTLE four year old girl looked at
| the rainbow with great attention, recently,
| and then suddenly exclaimed: mamma,
1 dess bod is doing to play croquet He's
dot his wicket set.''
A RESIDENT of Maine complains that
the weather " probabilities " are posted
in their appointed place so late after they
arrive that the usual question among
farmers is, " What is the weather going to
be yesterdays'
SPOILED figs and carpenters glue are
the principal constituents of a new SEN
sation in the way of sweatmeats sold as
''royal jam" by the London grocers. A
sufficient amount of gin will produce the
royalist kind of jim.jam.
Indian, asked him if he knew the sun
never sets on the Queens dominions
NO" said the indian. do you know
the reason why" asked John. because
God is afraid to trust an Englishman in
the dark" was the savage's reply.
THE man who bought dog to keep off
burglars, and had his sixty dollar suit of
clothes torn into trips and two big
mouthfuls taken out of his calves in try
ir,rr 10 III Inal -o,1 I,nc
covered from his canine attachment. He
yearns to realize on that animal
If Columbus had put one dollar at in
terest, six per cent compound, when he
landed upon this continent, at this time it
would amount to over So, 000, 900, 900. If
one of the Pilgrims had put 5000 at six
per cent. compound interest, to-day it
would amount to enough to purchase the
New England States at assessed value.
MOTHERS will do well at this season of
the year, to keep their children in the
walk the watermelon and the undertaken
go hand in hand; typhoid fever sails in
an invisible shallop on the lake of the
green scum; and cholera morbus famil-
iarly swings upon the front gate.
LADIES in fashionable attire are gener-
ally supposed to look captivating, even
to the eyes of unsOphisticated nature
But look at the facts. A dog, brought up
on a whaling vessel, who had been alb
never seen a woman, was so frightened at
the first he saw when he finally reached
the haunts of civilization that he imme- |
diately went into a fit.
LAUGHTER is one of the gifts which |
men from animals. Mirth, |
so far from being one of the lower attri- |
butes of human nature, is one of the
higher. 1t reigns in an innocent nature,
and tends to perfect and brighten the |
mind wherever allowed. 1t may be said
OF this emotion, as quaint Andrew Fuller
said of anger: "He WOULD it hath a maim
ell mind"
TRUE humOr springs not more from the
head than from the heart; it is not con-
tempt, its essence is love; it issues not in
laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far
deeper. 1t is a sort of inverse sublimity;
exalting as it were into our affections
what is below us, while sublimity draws
down into our affections what is above us.
1t is, in fact, the bloom and perfume, the
purest eff1uences of deep, fine and low
ing nature.
A MAN in Pennsylvania has invented a
rat-trap that is made to operate upon the
selfish passions of the poor rat and lure
him into trouble. mirror is set in the
back part of the device, beyond the bait;
and as his ratship is out on foraging ex-
petition he espies the bait, at the same
lime believing his own image in the
mirror to be another rat making for it on
he opposite side. This is too much for
rat nature to stand and be cool over; so
he rushes for the bait and is caught.
THERE are many plants which, when
hey find themselves by some accident in
another country, find things much more
adapted to progress and rapid develop
ment than in their own. Many English
plants, that are common weeds with us
md great nuisance to the agriculturist
ire comparatively harmless or even I'M
known to anv one but botanists there.
So with many of our plants in Europe.
Dr. Kerner, of Innsbruck, notices that our
Rudbeckin h,ciniata promises to be a bad
weed in Austria. 1t commenced to spread
lbout thirty years ago, and is now very
With us it shows little or no
disposition to leave the open woods and
hickets where it generally abounds. An
,ther species, however, (Rudbechsa hfrt0)
s taking possession of many poor mead
,ws, and it will not be long before it will
lave to be recorded in complete works on
American weeds.' \ good portion of
he meadows on the battle field of Gettys-
,urg is overrun with it.
SOME competent sanitary and bbulous
asserts that when people feel the
reed of an acid, if they would let vinegar
lone, and use lemons or apples, they
would feel just as well satisfied and re-
GIVE no injury. A suggestion may not
.ome amiss as to good plan when lem
ms are cheap in the market A person