American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

| tween TWO Jackasperaleu lnOlViuualS.
A GERMAN colony has purchased 100,
600 acres of land OF the Atchison, Topeks
x Santa Fe Railroad.
THE inmate of a boarding house in
Hoboken describes the programme of his
breakfast as ''bells tangled out of tune
and hash"
A CINCINNATI belle, upon being asked
her fathers profession, said he ''em
balmed pork, she believed" He was a
| hog packer
| THAT nervous youth in Louisville who
by lI.e;ake slipped a nickel five cent
| piece into the parsons hand instead of a
dollar gold piece which he had ready
in another pocket, after three weeks of
welded bliss, thinks he paid pretty dear
for his fun after all, and regrets that the
nickel was not a suspender button.
| \ JAPANESE ten cent note is thus de-
ser Dec; The note is made of heavy vel
! iei4- silk paper, about 2lf by / = inches,
| and is printed in black with '-tea-chest
letters" in q very tasteful manner. Upon
| one end is stuck a peculiarly shaped ad-
| hesive stamp, printed in purple, with a
| curious arabesque design, in which the
words Imperial Treasury of Japan" Tin
English) are frequently repeated. Three
seals are imprinted on the note in red ink.
| A KENTUCKY editor received the fol-
| that false notice of his death might be
corrected: "Sir, l motifs a few errors in
the obituary of myself witch appeerd in
| your paper of last wensday, l was born
in greenup co. not caldwell, and my re-
| tirement from bisnes in 1869 was not OWN
to il helth, but TIL little truble l had in
connection with horse, and the cors of
my deth was not smallpox, pleas make
corrections for wich l enclose so cents"
THE politeness of street-car drivers
! will never become proverbial. edo you
want to ride?" yelled one of these
worthless yesterday to a lady and gentle
man who were standing on a cross-walk
as the car dashed up. "No," was the re-
ply. "Then why didn't you say sop
Nep York TrGune.
A BIRD SONG
It's year. almost, that have not seen her;
Oh last Summer green things were greener,
Brambles fewer. the blue sky bltier-
It's well nigh Summer. for there's a swallow;
Come one swallow. his mate will follow,
The bird race quickens and wheels and thickens.
oh, happy swallow, whose mate will follow
Ger height, DER holIowl I'd be a swallow
To build, this weather. one nest together
Jean Inge5osn.
THE Union and american says: GA
lovely Nashville girl went into shoe
store yesterday to buy pair of shoes for
her pretty little footsie-tootsies. The nice
young man who parts his hair in the mid
die and who stands behind the counter
because he desires to occupy his mind
with something, asked her what size she
Wore, to which she replied, Number
twos,' The nice young man handed her
the desired number. Young sweetness
made a valiant effort to put them on, but
finally confessed they were a little too
tight She finally contrived to squeeze
on a pair of number fiEes."
IN 1870 citizen of Baltimore insured
his life against accidental death. Suisse
quently, desiring to visit Europe, he OBJ
tanned permission from the company, on
coalition that the policy should be for
feited if ne died from any accident oc-
curing in hunting or exploring expedi-
ton. While in Europe, he made the
ascent of Mont Blanc, was ovcrtaken by
a snow storm, and frozen to death. The
company now ciaiIns that lie forfeited his
policy, because he died while engaged in
an exploring expedition, and the courts of
Baltimore are now trying TO determine
what an ''exploring expedition" is.
THE latest phase of servant galism was
developed in Cleveland. A lady in tina.
city advertised for "help,' and among
those who applied was one who subjected
the advertiser to severe catachism as to
the desirability Of the situation offered.
The questions were all satisfactorily an
swered, until the young woman inquired
how many tunes a week the man of the
house changed his shirt The lady OF the
house was obliged to give it up, and the
visitor departed without an engagement.
AN immense canal is being built
through the San Joaquin valley, in Cali,
fornia, for the double purpose of irriga-
ton and navigation. The canal will eX
tend from 1ulare lake, at the upper end
of the valley, to tide water at Antioch,
near San Francisco distance of two
hundred miles. 1t will have various
branches and feeders, and will supply
water for manufacturing, domestic and
irIigating purposes to the towns along the
line Forty miles are already completed.
A STONY HILL party has rooster
whose wings are sivered by the frosts of
thirteen winters. Its head is almost bald,
and about its neck are the marks of the
fingers of the many who have attempted
to adapt it for the pot by wringing its
head off The aged grandsife, the man
in his prime, and the prattling child have
each taken hand at that rooster, but it
is no go. AS soon as it is dropped, it
shakes its head, winks few times, and
steps off with a martial tread, licking its
chops, and appearing to consider the
whole affair as a good jolSe.--Danbu1y
NeHs.
GEORGE III. BEARD, M. u, writes OF
"Overtaxing the Brain" in the Itdepend
ent. He says: "The motto of the over
taxed brain worker should ever be-more
sleep, more sleep, and as much as posi-
bic of the folding of the hands TO sleep.
BY day or by night, after meals or before,
early or late, in the horse Car or on the
ferry boat, we should welcome each
desire TO doZe as an angel from heaven.
The habit of early rising which, under
the old d;spensation, before the era of the
telegraph, steam power, the press and
other agencies that rob us of our nerve
force, was a virtue-we, IN this year,
1873, should, with all our might, avoid.
Early to bed and late to rise makes the
modern brain-toiler healthy and wise"
A REMARKABLE discovery has recently
been made by Professor 0. G. Marsh, in
the upper cretaceous sEale of Kansas,
from which it appears that the long eX-
pected link between birds and reptiles
has come to light. The skeleton of ii bird
was first found, which was about the size
of pigeon, and had the remarkable char
acteriStics of Il bird skeleton, with bicon-
cave vertcSr;r, belonging only TO reptiles
On subsequently, removing the surround
ing shale the skull and parts of both jaws
were brought to light, bearing undoubted
reptiiian peculiarities, with other parts of
the skeleton entirely avian in type. That
all the parts belong to the same individ-
ual is uuquestiOnab!e, thus furnishing
the Darwini;sns another proof of their
theory. 1t was an aquatic bird, carniv-
orous, and it is the only one. thus far
found. exhibiting these double character
istics of bird and reptile.