American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-05-10
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Il New YORK female seminary is going
to Europe to spend the summer.
A YOUNG husband handed his wife a
dozen buttons the other day, and asked
her to put shirt to them.
A HOME for aged and INDECENT dogs
where the UPSTREAM shall cease from
troubling, and the weary canine shall be
at rests Bergh's latest.
MIR. A, ID. WILLIAMS, of Richmond, is
become the wealthfest man in Virginia,
by simply investing $1,000 few years
ago in 10000 acres Of land, which has
since turned out to be immensely rich in
coal.
SOME men spend fortune colorIng
their pipes. Others spend fortune color
ing their faces. We know one man who
has spent 100000 simply in coloring his
nose, and is not satisfied yet. We hold
him up as a beaeon:-Graphic.
Young woman, evidently from the
country" was seen standing the other day,
with a very perplexed air, at one of the
Chicago lamp-pOst boxes. She was OBJ
served to knock several times on the top
of the iron box, but obtaining no response,
She passed round to the opposite side, and,
raising the cover OF the slit in which let
tiers are placed, she applied her mouth to
the aperture, and called out Tor i'm, Can
We let me have a postage stamp, if we
please?"
A WORD For THE WIFE.-There is
much good sense and truth in the remark
of a modern author that no man ever pros
pered in the world without the co-opera-
ton of his wife. If she unites with him
in endeavor, or rewards his labor with an
endearing smile, with what confidence
will he resort to his merchandise or his
farm, fly over lands, sail over seas, meet
difficulty or encounter danger! He then
knows that he is not spending his strength
in vain, but that his labor will be rewarded
by the sweets of home. Solitude and dis
appointment enter the history of every
mans life, and he is but half provided for
his voyage who finds but an associate for
his happy hours, while for his months of
darkness no sympathiZing partner is pre-
pared.
a MYsTERY.-A California coroner and
jury were recently in dilemma, the inno-
cent cause of which was simply a corset
1t was produced before the jury to show
the manner in which the wearer had re-
ceived two bullet-wounds which had
caused her death. The coroner showed
the jury exactly how it was done, but the
position of the garment did not correspond
with the wounds. He had put on the cor
set bottom upwards. Then he tried it. the
front placed behind. Then he thought it
laced upon the side. The jurymep then
tried it unsuccessf1lly, and the doctor
present also failed. A reporter was re-
quested to solve the mystery. He, know
ing something about everything, explained
it so that the doctors scientific descrip-
tons were proved by ocular demonstra-
ton.
BOYHOOD IN SPRING-TIME.-Raftin is
the prevailing popular amusement this
month. The boy whose parents own the
pond is generally chosen captain of the
raft The raft quite frequently consists of
a couple of boards the captains father
hand laid away to season. The captain
stands at the bow and hollers, and the
other officers, whose claim to the berth
rests on the fact that they have
dry pants at home, stand at the stern, and
spattcr water on the outsiders who stand
on the shore with their hands in their
breeches pockets and guile in their hearts.
They thus navigate for hours at time,
and then fight over the distance they have
made, and finally go home to see their
parents about it, and are dried with bed
cord, and are put to bed, where they can
feel of their injuries without molestation.
-Danbury Ne,os.
How THEY GET OVER IT.-The threat
ened Indictment of persons lending money
on Wall street at usuriOus rates is develop
ing new capabilities in the enterprising
borrowers and lenders. Several of the
latter are making restitution of their I'M
lawful gains, and many of the former have
discovered a method by which they can
get all the money they want at lawful in
Jones, I'll bet you $50
you won't lend me $4,000 for two days at
seven per cent. per annum." Mr.. Jones
his moustache and musing)--"I'H
take that bet I'll lend you the $4,000"
Mr.. Brown-'LOst again, by Jove! Here's
the $50" N B-Fifty dollars is exactly
the interest on $4,000 for two days at one
half per cent-Ne,o York Sun.
LANGUAGE OF ANIMALs.-Certain all |
animals have mode of expressing their |
feelings to others of the same species. |
Wolves arrange attacks, hunting together |
in packs They are all animated by the |
same thought, and therefore travel with |
energy for hours to accomplish design |
Of which each member of the enterprise |
has rational understanding. Deer and |
buffalOes act in concert in regard to seek |
ing food or water. Perhaps the govern |
nent of wild horses, through signs which !
my horse in a group of hundreds instantly |
as an imperative command of |
)ne individual, who Frances up and down |
he line like one in authority, is about as
perfect and as mysterious as anything in |
natural history. Birds and dogs are ex-
,eedingly sociable, enjoying the society of |
heir kith and kin as much as country |
cousins when they visit city relatives. |
Rats and MICE too and even insects, are |
supposed to have the faculty of communi- |
Eating their wishes and opinions to each |
)ther
THE Pacific slope has yet hero unsung |
If Bret Harte or Mark Twain. He re
tides on the Humboldt river in Nevada, |
md his name is Poker Brown. 1t is the |
popularity of this individual that he is
successful in every conceiv-
lble branch of industry except that to
which his name associates him, and in that |
lie is as strangely and consistently unfor-
innate. At mining, farming, freighting,
md stock raising he has made about IA
loZen large fortunes, which he has lost at
in speedy consecution. Some
ime ago he was the possessor of farm
md 500 hogs, when couple of profession
lis dropped in on him. Straightway they
lad little game, with pig for blind"
md hog for straddle," and in a few
hours poker" sailed forth, hogless and
to make another fortune for the
'ampires who subsist upon him. Surely
lie deserves an idyl
A WANDERING Snowman in Indiana
ound the ugliest and most misshapen man
he ever saw, and engaged him for a
GORILLA in his show, said gorilla
o look as much uglicr than nature made
lin rs possible, and keep his mouth shut,
md receive his board and S25 week into
lis paw paid. He agreed to become a
lumb beast for these tempting considera-
IONS and made a great success in playing
GORILLA in looks and manners and gorilla
epulsiveness generally. The Snowman
made a pilgrimage to Chicago
With his fat woman and emaciated man. |