American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-12-20

uann, a.vvuur v4;uuU, and he feels
proud of it.
OF man who married his fifth wife,
the Boston 1rdreller says: mo one can
say that he is not laying up his treasures
In heaven"
AN Iowa widow wouldn't sell $500
pounds of wool during the war as she
wanted So per pound, and she has it in
the barn yet
MUsCATINE, Iowa, has the boss potato /:
it IS q inches long, Is in circumference,
about pounds in weight, and has more
eyes than Argus.
A PHILADELPHIA bookkeeper added the
year 1872 to his column of figures, and as
he couldn't account for the deficiency in
receipts he was arrested
A YOUNG man in Missouri shot him
self the other day while going to church
on horseback. The first instance of the
kind, perhaps, ON record
Miss GODFREY, of Bennington, VT, is
under arrest for dragging her father down
stairs feet foremost, because he opposed
her dancing round dances.
In the coal mining regions of Illinois
they cure whooping cough by taking the
patients down the shaft The subterra-
mean air is said to be a curative.
A YOUNG man in Scranton, Pa, has
four breach of promise suits on hand.
His anxiety "to be an angelo is described
as enough to wiring the stoutest heart
! A QUERILoUs Bostonian objects to pay.
ing the gas company's bill of $18 for the
frivolous reason that there were no burn
ers In hrs house during the time charged
for.
A PENNSYLVANIA auctioneer sold a
muH worth about $40 for 1922, and drop
w ulI 10 fa Hin fIo
doctors try to make out that he had heart
disease.
THERE is graveyard near Shelbyville
KY, on which potatoes are raised every
year. The tOmbstOneS are taken up in the
spring and replaced after the crop has
been dug up.
= A YOUNG girl in Troy who became exas-
perated with her family, took her revenge
by stealing shawl, that she mi ght bring
them into disgrace. She was sent to jail
for ten days.
A LARGE number Of ladies in Spring.
field, Mass, have been poisoned while
gathering forest leaves this fall One
physician has twenty cases of poisoning
by alder leaves.
JOHN CARPENTER, of Jersey City, said
that his daughter shouldn't go to party
and she got up and informed him that she
had been married for eighteen months and
was her own boss.
A REPORTER of the New York World
has discovered restaurant where dinner
can be had for five cents, and now the
staf of that paper breathe easier, and hope
70 winter it through.
THE citizens of Waterford, N. Y, were
recently alarmed and indignant at the
TACT that boat containing fifteen and a
half tons of nitro glycerine was lying in
the canal at that place.
MYRA GURNEY, of South Abingdon
Mass, has put, in six months time oveI
400, 600 stitches, and no one knows how
many ounces of worsted, into picture OF
the father of our country.
A CHICAGO lawyer told a jury that he
seemed to see band of white-robed angels
lowering about the head of his client, who
was up for horse-stealing The Jury
brought in a verdict of guilty.
DULUTH, that q zenith city of the un
sailed sea, ~ has closed for the winter. NJ
business is being done, and the keeping O
the city is left to one officer, the polio,
force having been discharged.
THE editor of the Vicksburg Heral,
spent $500 on a church fair, hoping to ge
the prize of $4,000 in gold, and drew ;
Washington. This world has no furthe
pleasure for him.
ANTRIM, N. H, has voted to exemp
from taxation for a term of two years an,
person or company investing $4,000 o
more in any additional buildings o.
improvements for manufacturing pur
poses in the town.
THERE are many reasons for not sleep
ing in church. In North Adams, Mass
somnolent young gentleman upon awak
ing found his false teeth lying upon hi
bosom, with many heartless neighbors en-
Joying the spectacle.
A Boston drummer, who sent a badl,
spelled note to one of the waiter girls a
the Weldon house, st. Adams, solicitin,
an interview, was granted one, and me
half a dozen of the girls, who plasteret
him from head to foot with flour
In Richmond, Va, firm of colore,
persons manufacture sassafras oil on
large scale. Forty thousand pounds o
the root are used every week, producing
eight thousand pounds of rectifying oil
1t is used for seeming toilet soaps, flavor
ing tobacco and the like.
If all the men who have lost money b,
gambling in Wall street on the strengtl
OF 'pints" furnished by Uncle Dan'l Dire,
are now going to turn around and sue tina
suffering elderly saint for its recovery,
is safe bet that he won't found any NOR