American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-31
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

In Boston girls are aged from sixteen
to twenty-two; young ladies" range from
thirty to fifty five.
AN elderly lady endeavoring to post a
letter in hydrant is a spectacle to make
an oyster weep.-G1uphic.
THE wild oranges of Florida make a
wine which gets man so drunk he
sleeps two days and nights before waking.
A SAN FRANCISCO man has applied to
General Schofield for permission to go to
the lava beds and embalm the bodies of
Captain Jack and the other Modocs as
soon as they are caught and killed. 1t is
not stated whether this proposition is
made on behalf of Barnum or not.
The other day a countryman asked one
of Barnum's men, "Where is the num-
N.Y." The latter replied, "He is dead,'
and the inquirer passed on perfectly salts
fled, for he couldn't expect that even Bar
mum could prevent an occasional death
among his curiosities.
A PHOTOGRAPHER in Portland, Maine,
employed woman to wash the floors of
his establishment. The woman seeing a
basin full of what she presumed was hot
water standing on the stove, emptied the
contents into her WATERFALL, to warm the
water it contained. OF course, it was a
| nitrate of silver bath, and, the first the
photographer knew, his floor was dirty
red brown, the woman's arms much
browner, and she bowling because the
| "Ould Nick was turning her into nagur."
| IT turns out that the fishermen consti-
| tute the healthiest class in Massachusetts.
| They are the finest-looking men, the most
robust, and with capacities for great en-
durance. Their diet while actively en-
gagged in their vocation, consists of fish,
pork, potatoes, and hard bread, with fresh
| f.,,% = IL 1,x.t
| tom of invalids from the rural districts,
suffering from chronic indigestion or in
| sipient phthisis, to make an amateur fish
| ing-voyage, and often with excellent re-
suits.
CURIOUS INNATE OF TOOTH.-A re-
| markable case in dentistry is mentioned
by the New Brunswick On. j. Times, of a
| citizen of that town, who, after the extrac-
| ton of tooth with which he had been
long tormented, but in which the only
part apparently unsound was so minute as
| not to admit the insertion of delicate
| needle, discovered on cracking it with
hammer that it was mere shell in which
lived a nondescript six-legged bug, which
ran briskly about the table on being
leased from its prison. AS the gentleman
is confident that the animal could not
have made its way through the perforation
from without, he considers this a clear
case Oh Spontaneous SeutTdllOu
THE necessity of cleanliness and of
keeping the pores of the skin open, is il
Illustrated by the fact that if coat of var
nish or other substance impervious to
moisture be applied to the exterior of the
| body, death will ensue in about six hours.
The experiment was once tried on child
in Florence On the occasion of Pope Leo
the Tenth's accession to the Papal chair,
it was desired to have a living figure repre-
sent the Golden Age, and so child was
gilded all over with varnish and gold leaf.
The child died in few hours. If the fur
of rabbit or the skin of a pig be covered
with solution of india-rubber in naphtha,
the animal ceases to breathe in a few
hours.
BAD News FOR BAID-HEADED MEN
DR.. j. NJ Toner, of Washington, a physi-
clan of large experience and a close OBJ
server of facts, says that according to his
observations nearly all persons of both
sexes who lived to the age of eighty years
and over, retained a considerable if not a
| complete suit of hair at the time of their
deaths. He comedies that there are eX-
ceptions to this rule, but insists that
large ma ority of persons living at the age
of eighty and upward retain compare
| lively good suit of hair, or are not bald.
His hypothesis is that person who re-
tains his hair past the age of sixty five has
a
The rule may be tested by any one calling
| to mind the ages and condition of the hair
| of persons of his acquaintance of the ages
| indicated, the condition of whose hair is
| known to him. The vast majority of per
sons who become bald, or lose their hair,
| do so between thirty five and forty five, and
| these rarely live to be over sixty five or
seventy years of age.
THOUGHTs BY A NOODLE
don't think goose is a swan.
don't think sheep is rabbit.
| But think. when I'm thinking thereon,
| That thinkng's dangerous habit.
| For some people think they are right,
And some people think they are clever.
| And some think that black must be white,
| And some think OF nothing whatever.
| And some people think Of themselves.
| And some people think Of their neighbors;
And some think the gold that one delves
Is very poor pay for ones labors.
| For my part, think that thought
! That thunk while thinking and musing,
That thinking is really worth naught,
| Because thinking 1 think, is confusing
| WE had hoped to get along without re-
sorting to the terrible engine of destruc-
ton known as "Bogardus' Kicker" but
yesterday, when the same old chap came
| in and asked for one of the two copies of
the Philadelphia Press we receive, he was
| invited to sit dOwn-the secret spring was
| touched, and twelve kicks were admins
tered beneath him, that would have sent
| an ordinary man through the roof. The
| unsuspecting victim merely remarked,
| "Your Hoe press seems to jar the build
ing a little to-day" Then, turning on the
full strength, we looked at him again
Though split in two sections a smile was
on his face, and copy of the Press in
each fist. Poor but worthy medical stu
dents, desiring half subject to cut up,
are invited to call and see our stock, or
the entire remains, neatly packed in ice,
will be shipped to any address, c. o. d.,
on receipt of stamps. Louis Democrat
SHOULD vice be allowed to transmit it
the LIST day of May a fifteen-year-old boy,
living at Greensburg, Pa. murdered a boy
of nine years, in order to obtain posses
sion of pound of sugar. The circum-
stances of the murder were atrOcious. The
body of the victim was found hidden I'M
der a pile of leaves, with broken skull
and clothing covered with blood. In
| quiry showed that the boy assassin came
of depravcd stock. His grandfather was
hung for murder, and his father cut his
own throat and died In view of these
| facts, we ask, but do not propose to an
swer, the question which this para grab
opens. If answer is made by any one in
! the Affirmative it mi ght be well to pro-
pound second question, as to whether
this is not case in which "euthanasia"
or "happy dispatch" might be prescribed
for the whole family with happy results
Graphic.
EXCESSIVE AMIABLITy-A traveller
coming up from the Central depot yester-
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