American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-09-06
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

always lending money.
THE Chinese make their paper none,
from the leaves of the mulberry tree
THE largest farm in England, compris
| ing 5000 acres, is owned and run by
Yankee.
NEVER fall in love with woman b,
the water side; there are situations il
| which every woman looks an angel
| Beecher
a MAN who rode in the same car will
a bridal couple from New York to Wash
ington heard her call him "dear Charles
| just j4S times
THE fall is the best time for transplant
| ing all trees. Commence the work a!
soon as their leaves fall, and they vii
have time to become used to their new
homes before the ground freezcs-Coi'
| Country Gentleman.
| NOTHING can be more cruel and nothing
more foolish than TO place children wher,
| they must be dressed every day in fresh
and fashionable clothes, and their freedom
| to play curtailed for the sake of appear
| ances.
OF all the blessings enjoyed by human
| beings, there is none better or more de
sirablc than IA cheerful, happy home. 1t
is, therefore, the first duty of every one to
endcavor to promote the most amicable
relations in the home circle.
AT a small village in Grass valley Cal,
1t is considered contrary to etiquette for a
funeral to pass before the doctor of the
place, because he keeps a loaded cannon
in front of the house ready to discharge
upon any such person.
THE phrase ''loanabe capital'' is never
applied to houses or lands horses or car
riages, goods or chattels; but by general
usage restricted to capital existing in the
form of money, either in actual possession
or in bank deposits payable on demand.
THE reason why common salt some
times becomes moist when exposed to the
atmosphere is because it is not pure
Chloride of calcium and chloride of mag
nesium are impurities generally present
in salt, and they absorb moisture from
the air.
MANY of the men whom we calmly set
down as failures may have been doing
as much as those who have made ten
times as much noise in the world. A
great deal of the best work in the world
is anonymous, if we do not contine the
term to writing.
A NEW and cruel invention is the in
PRODUCTION of living butterflies into the
centre pieces of flowers, which usually
adorn the middle of the table at fashion
able dinner and supper parties. The I'M
fortunate insects are fastened to fine
wire which is passed through their bodies
and concealed among the flowers.
CALIFoRNIANs are boasting of a new
domestic fowl, the chaparral cock or
churra, which is easily domesticated, and
when properly cooked is superior to
chicken for eating. The churra is about
the size of a curlew, with a top-knot, and
a long tail of beautiful colored feathers.
1t is a great enemy to snakes and vermin.
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land for his summer play, or the resident
of the inland city go the sea, he should
seek some spot unvisited by those devoted
to fashionable display, and employ his
time in unrestricted communion with ma
ture, and in those pursuits which, without
let.Or hindrance, perform the Office of
recreation.
ALL over the world it has been observed
that very few things will grow under the
shade of beech trees, and this has given
rise to a suggestion that the beech roots
eXcrete some matter injurious to other
vegetation. But the true explanation
probably is that the great tendency of the
beech to root near the surface, and the
great number of these surface roots, so
dries the ground and eXhausts the soil
that there is not enough food or moisture
for most plants.
THE Je,oiM Chronicle, of London, sug-
gests that it might be practicable to found
a State in our Union composed wholly of
Jews. Its language is noteworthy: 1--WE
have even anticipated the possibility of a
wholesale importation of Jews from those
countries in which they are oppressed,
either by law or by circumstances, either
by Government or by popular bigotry, to
those vast tracts of territory where nature
is bountifui, where freedom is secure, and
where nothing is wanted but an industri-
GUS population"
AMONG the plant puzzles, Where did
apple originate? has been one of the best
discussed of questions. A few years ago,
when the remains of the lake-dwellers-a
people who lived in houses made on piles
driven into the mud of the lakes-were
discovered, and apples were found in the
mud beneath, it was thought we had got
nearer the origin of the apple; but when
they found wheat, flax, and other things
also in the mud, and which certainly were
not indigenous to Switzerland, it was felt
that the great apple secret was as far away
as ever.
Nor the least ingenious suggestion
offered to the commissioners of the cen
tennial exposition comes from New Hamp-
shire. A citizen of that State communi
Gates the following colossal plan: DEAR
SIRs: I speak of cheese-cheese in the
grandest and most sublime sense of the
term, cheese such as the world has never
seen; cheese. hundreds of thousands of
pounds of it. 1t shall be an immense
plain, the consolidated efforts of every
cheese manufacturer in the United States,
and will be capable, when laid down
upon its side, of accommodating many
hundreds of people. Such cheese as the
one | speak of would certainly create as
and would gain for our manu-
facturers the admiration of the world. l
desire space for such cheese. Can |
have it? Answer.
A VERY important circumstance always
enters into the question of bank accom-
modations. This refers to the amount and
character of the securities, notes, bonds,
or other eXchangeable values which Dor
rowers can offer as the guaranty for their
loans. Banks, not being traders dealing
in merchandise, always demand in eX-
change for their loans, and as the security
thereof, something that is not only equiva-
lent to the money lent but readily con
vertiblc into money. They can lend only
on the most negotiable kind of property.
Hence, in commercial crisis that shakes
credit and makes almost all kinds of
Unacceptable, borrowers find IA
in procuring loans from banks
because they cannot easily supply the
requisite basis in the way of guarantees.
Only the very best class of borrowers can
secure accommodation at such times, and
even they often fail.
DIR. HERMAN MEYER, of Zurich, asserts
that a shoemaker ought not only to pro
ducc Il shoe that does not pinch, but a
shoe so constructed that it will give to Il
foot distorted by the pinching it has borne