American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-01-04
GENERAL ITEMS.

\ wELI-INFoRMED Western paper says
Franc. is 4 Undertook. and President
Theirs is sitting on the safety-valve.'
BERLIN proposes TO improve upon the
English pOstal-card system, by letting the
postman wait for an answer.
WHITE men are to be banished from
the Cherokee Nation. '.Who is there tO
mourn for the poor" white man?
As the cold weather comes on, many q
susceptible financee is impelled to give
the mitten to the chap she has on her
hands.
ONE style of bonnet is called the '.Man-
sard." because it takes a great deal OF
''man's hard' earnings to pay for one oi
'em.-Boston Post.
THE literary guild of Maine will cele.
brate Franklin'S birth day on the 18th
proximo with a strictly temperate ban
quet-tea and toaSts.
THE archaeological smile sometime APP
Piled to lawyers on account of the length
of their bills is further borne out by their
constant to-wittering.
THREE-FoURTHs of the women of Bos-
ton wear false teeth, but the old estab-
ished system of backbiting is not affected
BY the Innovation.
THE Omaha Bee ''honies'' a subscriber
it had pitched into by explaining that the
article complained of was paid for as an
advertisement. That took out the sting.
A FAMOUS rose tree in the Island OF Cey-
Ion is eighty feet in circumference and
fifteen feet high. 1t has cen known to
bear 200 roses in full bloom.
THE meanest man in any town is the
one who horsewhips his wife because she
won't tell him what she intends to give
him as a Christmas present.
THE great number of Smiths in the
iS
in Norwalk. Conn.,, ''Smith Manufac-
turing Company"
THE biographical grave-clothes of Pope
Plus IN. repOse in myriads of journals
tic pigeon-holes throughout the civilized
world, ready for use at a moments no
tice.
THERE is nothing like good defini-
ton, as the teacher thought when he eX-
planned the meaning of ''eld maid'' as Il
woman who had been made a very long
time.
''THIs company shall never get another
cent of my money! said an angry lady.
on a railway train. 'sHow then will you
travel?'' asked the conductor. ''I'll pay
my fare to yOu.'
A WHOEVER who had never quarreled
with his wife said the last day of his mar
rage was as happy as the first. Another
widower said the last day of his marriage
was eAC hstPpiCSts
THE epiZootic cat-arrh has extended in
Massachusetts to the feline genus. and a
catachrestical reporter catalogues it as
''catalepsis cataractes." Being a Zymotic
disease, it probably spreads by catalysis.
THE man who fell from telegraph pole
the other day while engaged in placing
a wire, is now so far convalescent that lie
has recovered his spirits, and wittily
says that he is only suffering little from
the effects of climb it.
THE very essence of laZiness is given by
a writer in Lippincott's, comprehended in
this brief Oriental proverb: mo man
should run when he may walk. walk when
he may stand, stand when he may sit, or
sit when he may lie down."
To adorn lovely women nearly every
animal in misunderstanding, perhaps,
the festive pig-has been put under con-
tribution. The latest illustration of this
is the introduction of ''yak laces." The
yak is the ''grunting OK" of Thibet.
THE Oneida Communists have resolved
to curb their appetites within the limit of
two meals per diem. They've had so
much din about their peculiar system that
they would like to dispense with their
dinner.
AN aesthetic hOuse-painter has conceived
the fresh and vernal idea of painting the
exterior of houses with semblances of ivy
and other creepers in the winter time
when the real articles are withered. He
expects opposition from the sparrows.