American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

To PREVENT bleeding at the nose
keep out of other peoples business.
"THE LAND OF FREE LOVE" is the
title of an English tourists forthcoming
book on America.
Most men are not satisfied that a
woman understands a kiss unless they
have it from her own lips.
THE average Massachusetts, girl don't
want any better facilities for sliding down
hill than Goldfish with string through
the gills.
THE Atlantic is the only power OF
earth, know, that can make woman in
different to her personal appearance.-C
d. Warner.
A NEW YORK gentleman has discovered
that new sealskin sacque will effect an
instantaneous cure upon his wife when
she is troubled with a prolonged fit of
mental depression.
WHAT world of gossip would be pre-
vented. if it was only remembered that a
person who tells you of the faults of
others intends to tell others of your
faults.
A YOUNG widow down in Kennebec.
Me-, remarked at the funeral, 81 hope
you'll excuse my not crying. but the fact
is, crying always makes my nose bleed. !"
GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE clock was sold
again in Philadelphia the other day.
George hated to part with it, but the
restaurant besiness not being brisk, his
saloon and contents were sold at auction
to satisfy his ungrateful creditors.
A GROUP of young women are discuss
ing the new minister: "What do You
"Oh, was awfully disappointed: it didn't
touch me in the least. l never could
abide that gerry bright red hair"
THE mysterious suicide of a Miss Annie
@. Doyle put the Washington quidnuncs
in state of ferment the other day. The
excitement subsidized when it was discov-
cred that the story arose from the break
ing the neck of a bottle of aniseed oil.
A PROPOSITION WAS seriously made in
the Pennsylvania Constitutional COnven-
ton the other day, that the punishment
of fraud at elections be changing by the
neck until dead, without the benefit of
clergymen, Of executive clemency or any
other benefit whatever"
MUCH of the pleasure of shopping must
be lost by American ladies while making
purchases in Cairo. A writer in the New
York World says, regarding this: -" If
you enter shop, you are expected to
purchase, while, to look over the goods
for the mere enjoyment of it, is not per
mitted with any degree of gracefulness.
A MAN lately fell into a canal in Brus-
sells. After being fished ont insensible,
ordinary remedies were tried in vain for
three hours, after which DR.. Joux applied
iron plates at white heat to the upper
parts of the body near the vital center,
which soon set the drowned man squirm-
ing. He has recovered from the drown
ing, but complains of the barns.
This is the way Texas whisky affects
one not accustomed to it, if we are to
judge by the following, which we find in
an exchange: GA traveller in Texas was
invited to drink at small town where he
had stopped. He says: Il woke up next
morning and found myself on top of a
haystack, with my coat on, and myself
with both arms inserted through the
stirrups of my saddle, and the surcingle
around my neck, acting as neck-tie.'
A PERFUMED PEDAGoGUE.-The pert
misses of San Francisco grammar
school have mutinied against their prin-
cipal, who, to do them justice, would
seem to be an ignoramus, generally. The
girls grievances are summed up in this |
frank confession of one of them to re-
porter: "We hate him. He don't know
he's not neat: he's fool, and |
told him so; he don't smell good" The
fact was elected that every pupil |
in the first grade is supplied with a scent |
bag, and when the principal approaches |
very near one, handkerchief containing |
the bag is held to the nose.
THE Professor of Natural Philosophy |
in certain college gave the class prob
lem to think over during the night aid
answer the next day. The question was
this: eff hole were bored through the
center of the earth, from side to side, and
a ball were dropped into it, what motions
would the ball pass through, and how
would it come to a state of rest?" The |
next morning fellow was called up on
his philosophical problem. "What an
swer do you give this question:" asked
The Professor. "Well, really" said he,
II have not thought of the main aues-
lion, but of preliminary one. How are
you going to get that hole through"
1T sounds strange to hear of Hindoo
but nevertheless such men are.
The Indian Mirror announces that the ere
1oubtable Hindoo iconoclast, Pundit Da-
yananda Saraswaty, who recently dis
cOmfited the Pundits of Benares in an
open theological encounter, and has 9th
erwise made himself famous throughout
Northern India, has come down to Cal
:utta, and has issued notices in Sanscrit,
Hindi, Bengal and English, inviting in
luirers and others to- come and discuss
theological subjects with him. His creed
lbjures idol worship and caste.
A TOO FAITHFUL dog came very near
being responsible for the death of his
master, in Scranton, Pa. The canine was
his owner, Mr.. John Snyder, a
gentleman of seventy years, when the lat
er was overcome by the intense cold, and
ell in the snow on the street. The old
yentleman's predicament was discovered
1y Waterman, bat all efforts of the lat
er to afford relief was frustrated by the
log, who would not allow him to ap-
)roach the PROSTATE form. Finally
party of laborers came along, the trusty
log was driven off with clubs, and the
I'D man rescued Just in time to save his
ife, although very badly frost-bitten.
CANINE EcoNoMY-Thc Springfield
Republican has the following: ga dog
whose master purchases his family sup
)lies at one of two meat markets but a
ew doors apart, has been in the habit of
going there every noon with a five-cent
1iece which his owner gave him, in his
mouth, and receiving in return dinner
If meat. But one day he Numbered into
he other market. Too proud to retreat,
lie laid his money on the counter, and
vas furnished "a dinner by the proprietor,
Who was familiar with his habits. But,
either through generosity or more liber-
il spirit of dealing with customers of
very sort, the dinner was considerably
more bountiful than he was in the habit
If receiving at his old quarters, and from
hat day to this he has regularly patroniz-
I'd the market which experience has
shown him gave him the most for his
Money"
ECONOMICAL TWINS comical twin
story is reported from Dublin. A barber
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