American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-12-13
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RULED paper-the French press.

RULED paper-the French press.
THE oxidized buckle mania is sub
siding.
The happiest women, like the hap
| piest nations, have no history.
NEW advice to the unemployed
Young man, Key West."-N. Y. Com.
Adc.
THE bottom of a well must be a
shocking bad place, for even truth is said
to lie there.
WHEN a man gets fearfully shot in Pi-
oche, Cal, it is termed close punctuation
of anatomy.
THE habit of lying in bed too long is
| bad, but the habit of lying out of bed is &,
great deal worse.
ANTS on lawns have been checked by
using flour of sulphur, where boiling Wa
| ter cannot be used.
A BARREL. of oil is considered a good
| trade for a bushel of potatoes in some
| parts of the oil regions.
THE best sauce in the world is hunger,
| and that is never wanting to the poor,
| they always eat with relish.
THE wheel of fortune turns swifter than
| a mill-wheel, and they who were yester-
day at the top are to day at the bottom.
IT was nothing lofty or mysterious that
| impelled A. Hamilton TO suicide at Wy
oming, Iowa. He only had the dys-
pepsia.
A MAN who is given to deep study We
call book worm. If he goes deeply into
geometry, therefore, he becomes an angle
worm.
ANY apt scholar can learn Greek or
Latin in from three to five years, but ten
years are required to make a professional
burglar.
hot tt-1,n u cI1y,
plv of invalid visitors is exhausted it can
make a handsome living out of its illimit-
able oyster beds.
THERE are said to be twenty five hun
dred deserters from the United States
| regular army scattered throughout the
Western country.
The lady who doesn't attend church
| because she can't dress fashionably never
stays away from hanging or horse
| race on that account.
MANY farms in Colorado Territory are
being exclusively devoted to the raising
| of chickens and turkeys, and the business
| is becoming very profitable.
THE Brooklyn (N.Y.) Arg,ls, regardless
"What insect do our Cuba-bound boys
| expect to see? The Spanish fly"
CINCINNATI is asking itself whether ii
is the correct thing for well-known la.
| dies of high social position" to frequent
| lager-beer saloons unattended by gentle
men.
A PHILOSOPHER says that "a true man
| never frets about his place in the world,
but just slides into 1t by the gravitation of
his nature, and swings there as easily as Il
starr
Miss RoxELLANA Romans, of Brooklyn,
who took $4,000 out of Mr.. Earle for
sNt,N e,
She has got &c. 900 left after settling with
her lawyer.
THE Supreme Court of California has
decided that the taxation of mortgage
on land, or the money secured thereby,
and the taxation of the land, is double
taxation, and therefore unconstitutional.
THE wife of certain clergyman in
New York City receives all the marriage
| fees. She stipulated before her OWE mar
rage that this should regularly be DONE
and uses the money to dress herself and
daughter.
THE Grand Master of New Jersey Ma
sons recently decided that the use of pos
tai cards and unsealed circulars for the
purpose of communicating Masonic in
formation through the mails is un Masonic
and must be discontinued.
A PHILOSOPHER remarks that there is
something peculiarly instructive in stand
ing upon street corner in a large city,
and watch the men all rushing around
trying to make money, and the women
floating around to spend it.
THE city of Dover n. H., has attained
its two hundred and fifoieth birthday, be
ing seven years the senior of Boston. 1t
is, with the exception of Portsmouth,
which was settled at the same time the
Oldest settlement in the State.
WHAT a charming spectacle was pre-
scented by the recently welded daughter
of the Montreal Chief of Police stopping
to shake hands with members of the po-
lice force as she came down the aisle
OF course the sight of them arrested her
THE Populdr Science NontAiy gives an
account of the finding Of an ancient well
in Illinois. IL was discovered thirly-two
feet beneath the surface, the everything
layer being of muck, and above that TWEEN
ty-two feet of sand and gravel. The well
was built of stone, laid in II sand and lime
! cement, and was complete even to the
curb stone.
As consequence of the panic the price
of yellow seal Johannisberger, which is
| sold only to crowned heads and Ameri-
cans" has fallen to SO n bottle. This
| viii be grateful news 10 many of our I'M
| fortunate bankers and brokers whose sus-
| pension forces them to economic even in
| the necessaries OF life,