American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-01
GENERAL ITEMS.

TEXTS FOR sINNERs-pretexts.
The worst of madmcn is saint run
mad.
GEK-wHOA-LOGIcAL- testimony OF
the Observation-Disclosures OK.
PUNCH defines woman as a creature en-
dowed with self-ornamental instinct
If Adam is accountable for . cOnse-
luential damages" he will have rough
line of it.
"a BUMPER at parting" as the drunk
ell man said when he ran up against the
post.
The popular notion of genius is-of
one who can do almost everything-eX-
cept make living.
IT is one of the curiosities of natural
history that horse eats best when he
has not bit in his mouth.
THE latest definition of gentleman
is a man who can put on a clean collar
without being conspicuous.
CHICAGO is still celebrating whether
less beer would improve its mOre-ale on
Sundays.
The bounty of Is cents on gopher scalps
is said to have cost Nebraska 81, 600 in
two years.
The wine product for Los Angeles
county, Cal, this season, is estimated at
1000 gollons.
The Atlantic is the only power on the
earth that can make a woman Indifferent
TO her personal appearance.
The Governor of Wisconsin runs
afoul of Church fairs on account of tn. ir
tendency to foster spirit of gambling.
PHILOsOrHY of the future: MOralist
Who knows what tomorrow will bring
forth? POsitivist- day after.
The lowest thing a Southerner
says he has read lately in Northern jour
nal, is the thermometer record for some
time back.
BLESSINGS from the Dominion of Can
ada-thc epiZooty and the bitter weather.
Talk of annexing such a country. Pre-
pOsterOus
British sailor is to be abolished, and the
navy is to have neither grog nor bare neck
tar.
IT is a strange question, but a rather
pertinent one to ask, whether or not some
of the hOmicides now so frequent are not
gotten up in order to advertise the patent
revolver they are committed with.
The French census enumerates 81
$50 more married men than married wo-
men. How is thiss Do that number of
French wives keep duplicate husbands
or are the men widOwers?
STATE Superintendent Fallows, of
Wisconsin, reports that one-third of the
children of school age (between and 21)
in that State. did not attend school during
the year 1879.
CAN it be said that the Chicago police
are insurgents simply because they are
not inclined to obey the orders of the ser
geants who have been detailed to COM
mand them in lieu Of their regular cap
tains?
BOARDING-HoUSE chicken soup can be
made, it is said, by hanging up a hen in
the sun SO that her shadow shall fall into
pot of salt water. The only trouble is
that on cloudy day the soup is liable to
be weak.
The contributions to the printers type
metal statue to be erected in Greenwood
to the memory of Mr.. Greeley, have been
SO numerous that the movement is an en-
tire success. 1t will be made as speedily
as possible.
The whalers of San Diego captured two
whales on the 22d of January, but one of
them sank in deep water, and now the en-
tire population of the village are standing
on the shore waiting for that whale to
come up.
A WESTERN paper acknowledges the
receipt of Chicago sheet called Hearenly
Iidtwgs, asking an exchange. 1t denies
the request for the reason that it is g not
in the habit of looking to Chicago as the
source of tidings of that nature.h
SOME questions very naturally sug-
yest themselves to a inuuiriug mind An
amateur farmer wonders sswhv on ali
this fair earth, the ground is bottom side
up, SO that it must be turned up with u
pillow before corn can be raised? ''
''DO you think I am fool ?'' a violent
man asked the late Rev. DR.. Bethune.
Really" replied the doctor, 81 would
not have ventured the assertion, but now
that you ask my opinion, must saw that
am not prepared to DENY it,
DuRrNc tho Last tom veare tho non,,l.-
t;on Of New Iarsov hos ;ne,oos ao ~ ti'a
rate Of tf;rtv,f;vo nor Cont ti,at NJ ID Pen ue
svIvania at fuenty|o p. rvi,,,a she y, ,,o,,,in-
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