American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-02-22
GENERAL ITEMS,
MEN of cOlOr-Painters,

MEN of color-Painters.
The best thing out-a confiagration.
AND now the washwOmen of Cincinnati
are getting us a wiring.
CHAIRS should never be covered with
silk, but satin.
AN article you can always borrow
Trouble.
No CHAIN is stronger than its weakest
link.
INCREDIBLE as it may seem, many Of
the richest planters in Jamaica live on
coffee grounds.
IT seems as if them as aren't wanted
here are the only folks as arn't wanted i
til other world.
A HUMANE mother in Danbury. pads her
young hOpeful's pants and gives him
chloroform before whipping him.
YOUNG ladies who lace themselves too
tightly when dressing for dinner evident
ly prefer grace before meat.
Two hundred boys under ten years o1
age have been discovered at work in coal
mines near Bath, England, contrary to
law.
The difference between true and false
doctrine is often only the width of hair,
! see. And yet, the false doctrine is the
heresy.
MAIL trains consisting of three cars and
. locomotive will soon run between New
York and Chicago at the rate of 40 miles
an hour, making the trip in "A hours.
The newspaper reports of Captain
Jacks fight with the regular troops con-
firm the statement that the MOdOcs fought
naked. The regulars were not to that
manner of fighting born.
MRS. SwIssHxLM, having finished her
work on ''women who have been hanged u
can now supplement it by voluminous
treatise on dwomen who ought to be, but
rn't."-Bosfoa Pest.
MINNESOTA is celebrating whether wire
fences or picket guides would be the
cheapest means OF keeping wayfarers
from straying of the prairie roads and
freezing to death in snew-drifts.
WHEN N. P. Willis was asked to make
a speech, he replied, 81 am by profession
a writer, and You cannot expect pump
to give water from the handle as well as
from the mouth.
SWIFT said the reason certain UNIVERSE
ty was q learned place was, that most
persons took some learning there, and
few brought away any with them; so it
accumulated.
An unfeeling Maine manufacturer OF
piOus youth who sold q parlor-organ be-
fore he bought it in order to place head
stone above his mothers grave.
SEvKNTY-sIx per cent. of the weather.
predictions from Washington, for 1872,
prove correct, and fully one-half of the
rest only anticipated slightly the condition
of weather announced as "probable."
THERE are one hundred and forty-nine
savings banks in New York State, with
assets amounting to about three hundred
million dollars. the number of depOsitors
being upward of seven hundred and sew
enty-sfX thousand.
stMY DEAR" said the sentimental Mrs.
Waddles, s'home, you know, is always the
dearest spot on earth" swell yes, said
the practical Mr.. Waddles, sit does cost
me about twice as much as any other
spot,
In more than half of the United States
aliens are accorded the right to hold and
convey real estate. Il would be for the
interest Of the country if like privileges
were accorded in all the States. In New
York the ancient law continues in force.
A GANG Of swindlers, pretending to be
Mormon emissarice, have been very sue
cessful in Paris selling certificates of a
pretended Mormon loan. The principal
parties engaged in the fraud have been ar
rested.
DIR. RUDOLPH DOEHN, formerly a men,
Der of the Missouri Legislature, and noted
for his translation of Badeau's military
Life of General Grant" and other Ameri-
can works, is now chief editor of the Ores
den (Saxony) Press.
SIX establishments in New Orleans with
an aggregate capital of one million five
hundred thousand dollars, are engaged
in the manufacture of Oil and oil-cake
from cotton-seed, the yield being one hum
dred thousand tons per annum.
A SOLID celebrating society of Boston
decides that in Massachusetts, poverty is
to be regarded as an unfailing indication
OF unmanliness; it being everybody's
bounden duty to be prosperous or else
to leave the State.
ONE of the most remarkable signs of
the times-in Massachusetts-ist to see
one of its most gifted orators come out in
opposition to prohibition and in favor of
beer drinking as q preventive for intem-
perance.
MRS. PARTINGTON wants to know why
some of the sewfng-machine advertisers
do not cali their machines the Ceres. Her
nephew, who is learning the heather
misogyny, tells her that Ceres first taught
sowing