American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-08-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

: | Never forget IL.
THE hardest agricultural work on
1arm-ltaising a mortgage.
NEVER court the favor of the rich b,
, tlattering their vanity or their vices.
THERE is a US difference between
yearning for money and earning it.
| A HEALTHY man who consents to liv,
upon others doesn't deserve to live at all
By the side of n regular dronc, tn,
convicted criminal looms up as an angel
IT GOES against the grain to call ;
chiropodist corn dealer and Il disciple o
Bunyon.
ECONOMY is one thing, parsimony
another. And they are as different as
black and white.
| MATRIMoNIAL-It is not good nova
days for Il man to offer his hand if there's
nothing in it.
THE light of friendship is like the
light of phosphorus-seen plainest when
all around is dark
THE superiority of some men is
merely local. They are great because
| their associations are little.
CHEERFuLNEss makes the mind clear
er, gives tone to thought, and adds grace
and beauty to the countenance.
| WHEN we are alone, we have our
| thoughts to watch; in our families, our
|
FIREs-What Shall We do with
| Them?" queries the Chicago Times at
the head of its leader. Put 'em ou-ut,
| stupid.
| THE new fawn- colored fabrics are
somewhat expensive. But Dora Bella eX-
pected that. She knows that fawn is a
| little deer.
| A SUFFERER who experiences nightly
torturcs desires to know how to prevent
| nightmare. The answer is short and SIM
ple-eat less for supper
THE belle who originated the Grass
| hopper twist is stopping at Congress Hall,
| Saratoga. Remorse is painted on her
once cheerful countenance.
A FIRM of wooden boot makers have
| started business in Minnesota. All but
! the leg is made of wood, and those who
have worn them find them easy and dry
LITTLE Gussy sprinkled her mothers
new ninety-dOllar hat. She thought it a
"tunnin' flower darden." Howls were
heard in that ncighborhood for the next
half hour.
THE Minneapolis Tribune says
Happier is honesty in a hickory shirt
and an oilskin cap than discrimination in
a plug hat and shirt that buttons be-
hindu
been discovered in the gum of milkweed
and kindred plants, which is mixed with
flax and other seeds by Canadian inven-
TOR.
IT is a remarkable fact that the moment
a woman writes a letter she is frantic to
put it in the pOst-office, although she may
have been putting off the writing for six
months.
If you tell a man that the third convo-
luton of his left anterior cerebral lobe is
atrophied, it is equivalent to saying in
the United States that he can't talk IA
tionally.
THE superintendent of Georgia rail
road was asked for half-fare tickets to
those wishing to emigrate to Texas He
replied: Not once cent for migration
thousands for immigration"
THE Toronto Globe is making vigor-
Gus assault upon hereditary titles in Can
ada While titles may be well enough in
the old country, here it thinks, that every
tub should stand on its own bottom.
By intense application it has been dis
covered that the divorce case between
Ann Eliza and Brigham resolved itself
into purely business transaction, a
matter of prophet and laws, as it were.
A BOARDING. oUsE fiend tells the story
that in a recent thunderstorm the warning
of the clements was so awe-inspiring that
the hair in a dish of butter in the pantry
turned completely white during the
night
A CANADIAN editor announced that che
had keen rapier to prick all fools and
knaves" His contemporary over the
way said he hoped his friends would
take it from him, for he might commit
suicide.
irt1f to n
"that the plaintiff resorted to an ingenious
use of circumstantial evidence. State just
exactly what you mean by that" "Well,"
said the witness, "my exact meaning is
that he lied"
WATER from wells still remaining in
crowded cities is wholly unsuitable to
drink The sources of these water veins
have become vitiated by percolating
through ground impregnated with the
drainage of cutters and sewers.
AN exchange gives this timely warming:
"Look not upon the water melon when it
is red, nor the stewed cherry when it
giveth its color in the cup; at last it
biteth like soflshell crab, and stingeth
like the cholera morbus.
ADVERSELY exasperates fools, detects
towards, draws out the faculties of the
wise, puts the modest to the necessity of
trying their skill, awes the opulent and
makes the idle industrious. Much may
be said in favor of adversely, but the worst
of it is it has no friends.
THE Boston Globe states that the girls
of that city wear hanging to the Russian
leather bands which encircle their slender
waists eight articles, namely: Sun UNI
brella, vinaigrette, pocket-book, fan,
bunch of keys, glove buttOner, small case
for thimble and scissors, handkerchief,
and on Sundays an ornamental prayer
book.
THE servants right to be politely treat
ed is just as absolute and indefeasible as
that of the Queen. She is child of the
law, according to the Scripture, ''Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as myself" That
law, which is the highest of all, surely in
cludes polteness.
A DEGREE of privacy is impaired to
correspondence through postal cards by
the use of invisible ink, the direction to
hold to the fire. being written with com
mon ink This checks the inquisitive-
ness of Post Office clerks who have not
the time to make the application. In
France invisible ink is sold for this pur-
pose.
A PORTABLE travelling bed which can
be rolled up like Il shawl in Il cylindrical
package about two feet long is one of the
latest inventions of this progressive age.
1t consists of a light hair mattress,
single or double air pillow, a fine wooden
coverlet, a campstool and attachments
and cords for arranging the whole con
trivance as a hammock.
A CORRESPONDENT residing at Santa