American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-07-12

tied, after which they shipped with the
gallant captain, the bride as cook and the
bridegroom as driver, for a trip to Buffalo.
When short distance from Albany, the
captain declared the bridegroom to be ut
terly incompetent for the position of dri-
yer, and accordingly landed him on the
tow path, md left him without money and
without friends. The bride was informed
that she could accompany him if she de
sired, but she elected to remain with the
brave captain, and the honeymoon was
promptly ended.
He looked like sailor, and said he
had pens for sale; and then he winked
He looked cautiously around the office
and then whispered, ''I've just landed"
and pressed bundle under his coat. He
had Il silk dress there, which he had given
"A few tin kettles for in China, and he
wanted to sell it ''for anything Almost be-
fore he went back TO ship. He just want
ed to get a little grog money. He twisted
the dress around his arm like rope, and
showed how the camels hair in it made it
come all right again without crease
He would take $75 for it. He said it was
worth that at wholesale. Didn't want to
pawn it; sooner throw it overheard :;
| would take $50 for it; $40; he would sell
for $25, and, sooner than go short of his
grog, for $1S. He made sale, and the
wife with real China silk, mixed with
camel's hair TO make it more enduring.
"How much?" said she. Guess said
the delighted husband. 'Well, it would
cost in the Bowery about $14-" 'If that
Teller ever comes back !'-Neto York Star.
A JOKE INSTRUMENTATION of the
most remarkable ventriloquists that ever
lived was NJ. St. Gille, of St. German en-
Laye, France, whose performances have
been recorded by the Able de la Chapelle.
Once, when overtaken by storm, ST.
Gille took shelter in a neighboring con-
vent, where the monks were in deep
mourning over the recent death of much
esteemed member of their community.
While lamenting over the tomb of their
deceased brother the slight honors which
had been paid to his memory, n voice was
suddenly heard to issue from the roof of
the choir, bewailing the condition of the
deceased in purgatory, and reprOvlng the
brotherhood for want of zeal. The It'd
ings of the extraordinary event brought
the entire fraternity to the church. The
voice from above repeated its lamenta-
tions and reproaches, and the whole COM
pany fell upon their faces and vowed to
make reparation for their error. They ac-
cordingly chanted in full choir a de pro
fttndis during the intervals of which the
spirit of the departed monk expressed his
satisfaction at their pious exercises. The
prior afterwards inveighed against mod
ern skepticism on the subject of apparI-
tons, and st. Gille had great difficulty in
convincing the fraternity that the whole
thing was deception.
SUDDEN CHANGE IN THE COLOR 6F
HAIR.-Two sudden changes of the color
of hair from black to white are reported
in foreign medical magazine. 1t seems
that Il physician of Berlin, a strong,
healthy, and less than middle-aged man,
sent his wife and one daughter to spend
last summer at a watering-p place. The
day that he expected a letter informing
him of their arrival, there came one say
ing that his daughter had been taken sick
very suddenly, and was already dead.
The shock was terrible, and instantly his
hair became entirely gray He had to
visit some patients that same afternoon,
and they scarcely recognized him. Their
peculiar actions revealed the change to
him. The other case was of man I>irty-
five years old, living in the Netherlands.
He was one day passing the canal in Rot
tcrdam, where he saw Il child struggling
in the water. He plunged in and brought
it to land, but it was already dead by the
time he had rescued the body. Bending
over it to try to restore life, he discovered
that the dead child was his own son.
The blow, so sudden and unexpected, and
coming upon him when he himself was
so much exhausted, turned his hair en-
tirely gray, and left him scarcely recog-
niZable.
A SARDINE SToRY-In one of the cities
of New Hampshire, some years since, 4
man named H-y was elected Mayor,
and very important he thought his posi-
ton. During his term of office a fire
company sent word that they should visit
the CITY and remain several DAYS. The
Mayor called a meeting of the City COun-
ell to see what should be done toward en-
tertaining the firemen. He wanted to show
the hospitality ofthe city in its most muniti-
cent form, and proposed that Il collation.
should be given the strangers.
''And what" asked one of the aldermen,
edo you propose to put on the table for
the collation."
1--WE will give them,'' said his honor, in
reply, ''hOt coffee and sardines."
One of the council thought that sardines
and coffee were hardly up to the mark for
the hungry firemen.
Il know better" said the Mayor, in an
angry tone. ''Sardines are hearty, and will
be just what the men need
Perhaps" said an alderman, Ibis hon
or does not know what sardines are.''
The Mayor sprang to his feet angry all
over
II known he shouted, "what sardines
are as well as you do, or any other mem
Der of the Board. I've eaten enough of
them in my life. They are easily prepared.
Just take two pieces of bread, and put Il
piece of ham between them, and then your
sardine is made
His honor sat down amid roar of
laughter He'd got things such as sar-
dimes and sandwiches, kinder mixed up in
his mind.