American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-11-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


| SOME poor, but pretty girls attract lover
! by the face; some plain, rich ones by tn,
figure.
| A NEW cause of divorce-incompatibi
| ity of temperament of the wife's relatives
is recognized by the California courts.
THE wheat raised in such abundance il
| Northern Texas, this season, is said t.
rival the far-famed Genesee wheat in quail
| ity and flavor.
| The religion of many people is KEEP
| for Sundays and funerals. Give us re
ligion which keeps bright with constan
| use. That is the genuine article.
ROUND skirts are again the fashion. "Nt
lady IN Paris walks out in a dress tina
touches the ground" is the report of lead
ing modistes just returned from abroad.
A GERMANTowNER who had tarrieC
late at wine supper, found his wife wait
ing his return, in high state of nervous
ness. Said she-"Here I've been waiting
and rocking in the chair, till my heaC
spins round like topr' Jess so, wife
where I've BEEN" responded he. "Irs IN
the atmospheric"
THE Nation thinks "it would be well tc
remember, in the present fever of indigna
ton against fraud and dishonesty, thai
there is a considerable number of honest
men in America" and calls attention tc
the fact that "the defalcatiOns and frauds
bear very small ratio to the trust re
posed" The admonition is seasonable
and judicious.
81 FOUND it very announcement, and a
great loss of time" said Chateaubriand
"to dine before seven O'Clock. My wife
wanted to dine at five o'clock, and insist
ed upon that hour. After many argu
ments, and many heated discussions, we
finally compromised upon six O'Clock
an hour very inconveLient to us both.
This is what they call domestic conces-
sions"
NEW use for patent pills has been dis
covered: A farmer living in Kansas vii
lage was abruptly visited by robbers one
night not long ago, and having gun and
powder, but no shot, loaded with box of
fever pills and blaZed away. The result
was as satisfactory as though the rascals
had swallowed the pills. One of them
was killed outright and another danger
Ously wounded.
NOTHING on earth can smile but human
beings. Gems may flash reflected light
but what is diamond flash compared
with an eye flash and mirth flash. \ face
that cannot smile is like a bud that
cannot blossom, and dries upon the stalk
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night, and
between both, and more bewitching than
either
A MINNEAPoLIs painter received an or
der from restauranter to paint Il sign
with the word "Oysters' in various Ian
guageS, so that a man of any nationality
might understand that that was the place
to get bivalves. And that painter went to
work and made the sign read american,
Dutch, Norwegian and French oysters"
Any one ought to be able to suit them
selves from such an assortment.
THE Boston Transcript states that a
gentleman of that city relates the follow
ing conversation between two bell boys at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York: Pat
asks Mike, whats this suspension of the
banks?" ''Hist yep Mike replies, III
tell We. Suppose We have five cents"
''His." leave it wild me-" "Yis." Next
day We want it, and We AK me for it,
"Iis." Il tell ye, No sir, I've used it
myself"
AT AN examination of the College of
Surgeons candidate was asked by Aber-
nethy: "What would you do if a man
was blown up by powder ?" "Wait till he
came down." he coolly replied. True"
replied Abernethy. and suppose 1
should kick you for such an impairment
reply, what muscles would l put in mo-
tom" "The tiexors and extensors of my
arm, for l should knock you down imme-
diately" The candidate received his
diploma.
ACCORDING to the latest theory, guano
has not, as is generally supposed, been de-
posted by birds, but is the result of the
accumulation of fossil marine plants and
animals, whose organic matter has been
transformed into heterogeneous substance,
leaving the mineral part behind. OF
course it was originally deposited on the
bottom of the sea, but the islands on which
it is now found have themselves been lift
ed up from the depths of the ocean.
The weight of the tusk of the male ele-
plant is, on the average, at least six times
greater than that of the female, sometimes
weighing over hundred and fifty pounds,
and being more than ten feet long. AS
rule, short tusks are proportionately
heavier than long ones; and it is by no
means easy to obtain two perfect teeth
from the same animal, specimens with
single tusk being far from uncommon,
under which circumstances they are ex-
tremely well developed.
NOTHING, says Elisee Reclus, can con-
vey "A more impressive idea of the power
of water as a general agent than the wen
derful canons of Mexico, Texas and the
Rocky Mountains, where the torrent may
NC SccIl IL VIC luClS-
ion it has cut out for itself in the hard
rock, at depth of several thousand feet
between perpendicular walls The great
est of these canons, that of the Colorado,
is 29S miles in length, and its sides rise
perpendicularly to u height of 5000 or
G, 600 feet.
A SMALL boy has sent an Albany paper
the following information: "a tu dais
ago we lost our Cat. She got drownded
in Mrs well; but nobody knowd she
got drownded in the well and so MIR.
IS foxes and Mr.. IS foxes, and all
the nabars besides, drinked outen the well
Just the saim. Tina drinked more'n they
evir did afore l gcss-cause the water
tastid SO sweete. | went ? the well fur
water tother da and | seed the cat in ? the
well. She was ded She was atloatin a
round drownded Me and Billy tisht
her out with hook and line. She smelt
oriul. But the nabors doant drink any
more water outen the well now. Wat |
cant understand is viii they doant They
onghten b moar willin drink the watir
wen the cat is out than wen she is in. |
think so. ures trooly. n. b. this is a
tru tackt'
A SINGULAR course of proceeding in
murder cases obtains in Maine, having
been established by the Legislature of
of 1869. 1t is an old law of that State
that when Il prisoner is sentenced to be
hanged, he must be confined in the State
Prison for one year before he is executed.
The new law provides that Just before the