American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-08
GENERAL ITEMS.

FIVE live fishes were recently sent by
mail from Naples to the Crystal Palace
aquarium
FEMALE prisoners in Tennessee are EN-
ployed i'll breaking rock for street pave
ments.
CANADA experiences growing desire
to become annexed neighbOr to the United
States.
The Providence Star asks, s. if state
prison convict takes the smallpox, can
he break out with it?''
CARDS and birthstone make the best
matches. as the clergyman said when he
married gamester to shrew.
The young ladies of Vassar College
have formed an ''anti-faliing- in-lOve-be-
fOre-you-are-out-o fschool club"
A NEW railway company in Maine has
1ncOnsistently cut down two walkers OF
timber to make sleepers for its road.
Eff wise men never made mistakes, this
would be a hard world for fools-of
whom great many are which.-Josh
Billings.
A BRITISH zoologist has tabulated fifty
four varieties of fleas, all of which are,
however, traceable to the same phleboto-
my.
OUR henpecked, when twitted with his
want of shrewlness before marriage.
s.; div observes that he's been shrewed
enough ever since.
A TEuToNIC teetotaler is shocked to
hear that the faculty of a certain wo-
mans college have choice spirits in their
Vassar.
THE public school authorities of Gales
burg, ILL.,, have refused TO admit colored
girls to the schools and the question will
be brought before the courts.
"SORCERER is another name for muir
derer in Bombay. With knowledge of
this fact came the discovery that the Par
sees had revived the society Of Thugs.
The North German Lloyd Company,
which already has a fleet of sixty-five
line direct from Havre to the West In
dies.
LOUISVILLE astronomers are going
into ecstasies over French snails, which
the more conservative portion of the pop
ulation characteriZcs as the antic-limax
of epicureanism.
DIR. GREEN, the Boston City Physician,
has had already thirty-six cases of per-
sons who had the smallpox the second
time, and five or six cases that had taken
it for the third time.
SYDNEY SMITH once commenced a char
ity sermon by saying: 8" Benevolence is a
sentiment common to human nature. A
never sees in distress without asking c
to relieve him."
PLAIN things may be as cheap and
humble as one chooses, or ones purse
compeis, but anything like luxury must
always be good. Cheap necessaries are
respectable. Cheap finery is low.
THERE was one divorce granted to ev-
cry fourteen and a half marriages in
Rhode Island in 1871. A fractional mar
rage in little Rhody'' must be small
affair, but perhaps it is better than none.
THE young ladies of New Haven never
say, :. AS thick as leaves in Vallambro-
sa;" they think it sounds affected, and
accordingly substitute, s. As thick as pho
tographs of Yale Students
ONE of the prettiest compliments we
have heard of lately, was that paid by a
gentlemen the other evening who object
ed to playing cards with lady, because,
he said, she had such winning ways about
her.
A DRUGGIST is much troubled with little
boys running in and asking the time OF
day: In answer to one he replied ''Why,
1 told you the time but a moment ago.
"Yes, sir,' said the boy; ''but that was for
another woman"
CALIFORNIA eclipses the centenarian re.
cords of humanity with a live frog lately
set free from the center of a stratum OF
sandstone which. according to Sir William
ThOmpsOn's chronology, must be several
million years old.
The ''New Boston" which is to rise or
the ruins of the old, is to be built on five
avenues, radiating nearly like the sticks
of a fan when half opened, the avenues
cOnverging SO as to enter into the square
around the pOst-Office.
THE difference between defaulting rev
enue collectors in Tunis and in this coun
try, acc ording to the Louisville Courier
Journal, is, that in Tunis they are impalet
on stakes, while here they usually wall
off with the stakes.
A LADY with very unmusical vdDe in
sisted upon singing at recent party
"What does she call that ?'' inquired
guest. 1.-THE Tempest, 1 Think an
swered another. ''Don't be alarmed,
said a sea-captain present. Its only ;
squall, and will soon be ovcr.'
A RURAL editor, lamenting the death o
zone of the best advertisers and subscri
bers we ever had " thus touchingly con
cludes his obituary eulogy: ''He pos
sessed the love, confidence, and esteem o
all who knew him, and some who did not
and. save slight poker debt to Mr.
did not owe cent in the world"