American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-04-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

! He is haPpiest, be he king, or peasant
who finds peace in his home.-Goethe.
A TRUE American is too proud to beg
and too honest to steal. He gets trusted
-Ddnbuty Neess.
| A CoNNECTICUT editor having been
elected fence-viewer, calls on all who
| have feBces to be viewed to bring them
to his Office, under penalty of the law.
A HOUSE is never perfectly furnished
| for enjoyment unless there is a child in il
rising three years old, and kitten rising
six weeks.-So,they.
| TIE news seems to be almost too good
! to be true, but it is officially announced
that false hair is hereafter to be entirely
| tabooed from the heads of fashionable
| ladies. But what will they look like?
BRIGHAM YoUSG, according to the Dan.
| 6uay Ners, is troubled with perpetually
recurring silver, wooden. tin, glass, linen,
and pewter weddings. He is becoming
demoralized. and the Government is pre-
pairing to withdraw its troops.
LET young man at twenty years of
age put twenty dollars at interest, instead
Of expanding it for tobacco. Then. at
the beginning of the next year repeat it,
and include also the principal and interest
of the preceding year, and thus continue
to do from year to year, until he shall
haye reached the age of seventy; the
amount he would realize would exceed
thirty thousand dollars.
. IN Ru.fNEY,-N H., little dog was re-
peatedly baffied in his attempt to catch q
woodchuck as il ran IN long drain,
making its exit at the other end as the
dog folio wed through. He finally brought
neighborifg dog, stationed him at one
end of the drain, then drove the wood
chuck through, and he was caught. In
East Wohurn, Mass, a large Newfound-
land dog lately caught a mouse and car
ried it about until he found kitten, to
which he gave it.
LEARN A TRADE One man with a
trade is worthaa thousand without one.
The hosts of youag men in every large
city who apply for employment and fail
to get il, for the reason that they can not
truthfaliy afii Pm that tfey-are educated
or especially fitted for any particular
business, constitute a potent argumen Mt liz
favor OF reform. Under the apprentice
>eystem, we should have fewer ign rant
mechanics and incompetent business
men. A trade is fortune in itself.
SCANDAL
whisper broke the air
A soft light tone md lovc
Yet barhsd vii shame and woe: ~
Now might itpeIiSh only there,
nor luItlisr co.
All, me, quick and eager car
Caught vi, the little meaning sound,
Another voice had breatheti it clear,
And so it wandered round
From ear TO lip, from lip TO ear.
Until il reached a geuile heart,
And that il broke.
CONVENIENCE OF A DISH KETTLE
t'You want nothing but q dish kettle"
said an old housewife in the backwoods,
to her daughter, who had just got mar
ried. "Why, when your father aud
commenced, ] had nothing but dish
kettle. fused to boil my coffee in it, and
pour it into a pitcher; then boiled my
plate, while l stewed up the meat in it;
used to milk in 'it-and always
after a meal, L fed the pigs
out Of the dish kettle. Sal, if you are
only mind to, you can use it for any
thing.
y A SOLICITOR who had recently been en-
gagged by prominent life insurance firm,
returned to the office of his employers,
the other day, and complained that he
had,been snubbsd by gentleman on
whom he had called. "Saubbed," cried
the. manager, ''snubbeds Why, what
did you do that he should have snubbed
you! / have solicited life insurance from
the Atlantic to the Mississippi, and have
never yet been snubbed. 1 have been
kicked down stairs, beaten over the head
with chairs, and thrown out of the win
dow, but snubbed 1 never have BEEN"
The solicitor is driving a coaiwagon.
PRoF TYNDALL illustrates the value of
a single potato by supposing that every
potato ia the world but one weredestroy-
ed; that one would contain in itself the
possibility. of again stocking the world
with an Invaluable article of food. If
one potato would produce, when planted,
only a crop of ten potatoes, in ten years
The total product of the produce of this
one potato would be equal to ten thousand
which would be sufficient to
stock the whole world with seed. The |
real value OF that single potato, then,
would be such that it would be better that
the city of London or New York should |
be totally destroyed than that tuber should |
be lost to the world.
-SIGNs EDEATH.-In 1870, the Academy
Of Sciences in Paris offered prize of
20, COO francs $4,000 for a simple but |
positive sign of death which any non |
professional person could understand and |
apply. The. British Medical Press and
CtacuLar says: The most practical and |
one given was to tie a string
firmlyaround one of the fingers OF til e |
corpse; if the blood circulates
in Che least, the whole finger, from the |
string to the tip, will swell and become |
This depends upon the fact |
that, however profound the -syncope, or
however deathlike the person may APP !
pear, if there is any circulation whatever,
the person is not dead. The test is sim |
pie and conclusive"
INVISIBLE WATER-There is nc better |
example of invisible water than that given |
by DR.. TyrdalL AT every puff of a rail
way locomotive, cloud is projected into |
the air. Watch it sharply; you notice |
that it first forms at q little distance from |
the top of the funnel. Give close atten-
fecty clear space between the funnel and |
The Cloud. Through that clear space the |
Thing which makes the cloud must pass !
What, then, is this thing which at one |
is transparent and invisible, and |
at the next moment visible as a dense, |
Opaque cloud? 1t is the steam or vapor |
IF water from the boiler. Every bit of |
steam shrinks, when chilled, to much |
more minute particle of water The |
Of waterdust of exceeding fincness, |
which floats in the air and is called IA
cloud
SETTLING A DocTnR's BILL.-In Texas |
he other day q doctor rode fifty miles to I
attend patient. After he had cured the |
patient he presented q bill for $50, and |
proceeded TO complete his preparations |
Tor the journey back TO the post, thinking |
no more about the matter AS he was |
about to mount, the patients husband I
put in appearance, with his trusty rifle |
n his hand. doctor" said he, al reckon
He'd better settle this here matter now"
md taking him aside, "Y GU want agoin'
1H without a settlement, was you? |