American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-09-27
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
BEAR CfYILITY-A hug.


THE BONE OF CoNTENTIoN.-The jaw
bone.
To THINK what we do not feel, is to lie
to ourselves.
A BARBER and surgeon don't difei
much One lives by his heads the Other
by his heals.
WHY is a young lady like bill of ex
change? Because she ought to be settled
when she arrives at the age of maturity.
THERE are four tribes of Indians re
naming in Delaware, and the aggregate
number of the four is only sixteen per
SONS.
AN irate man who was disappointed in
his boots, threatened to eat up the shoe
maker, but compromised by drinking a
tobblc-
WHAT is the difference between a tenant
and the son of widow! The tenant has
to pay rents, but the son of u widow has
not two parents:
A GENTLEMAN reading newspaper, a
day or two ago, asked a friend: What's
the meaning of the Bohemian Diet, about
which we hear so much of latef'' Free
lunches" was the reply.
A NEW ORLEANS juryman was asked
by the Judge if he ever read the papers.
He replied: "Yes, your Honor; but if
you'll let me go this time, I'll never do so
any more"
4 GLASGOW manufacturer has turned
out a palanquin umbrella thirty-two feet
in circumference. 1t is designed to keep
the sun off an African chief.
IT is estimated that the number of Ger
mans who have emigrated to this country
during the last decade will reach 900, 900.
1t is also thought that this number will be
increased during the present decade:
An Irish gentleman of a mechanical
turn took off his gas-meter to repair it
himself, and put it on again upside down.
AT the end of quarter it was proved with
arithmetical correctness that the gas COM
pahy owed him eight dollars and fifty
seven cents
THE coalmining interests of Kansas
are rapidly becoming important. Dur
ing the mining season of ~ and '13 AGO.
600 tons of coal have been taken from the
Carbondale mines. From 300 to 500 per
sons are employed, and the payroll is
$4,000 to $4,000 month.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen.
tle0lan has discovered that, as a law of
nature, every spotted dog has the end of
his tail white, and every spotted cat the
end of the tail black He says he has ex-
amined many dogs and cats in France,
England and America, and always noticed
Two MILEsIANs were standing at the
Paramount Water-works in Philadelphia,
watching the big wheels splashing the
water in every direction, when one of
them remarked: Mike, isn't this a
quare country, where they have to grind
their water before they use it?"
AN elastic apparatus has been lately in
vented to signal the entry of water by
leakage into holds of vessels. When the
water enters it establishes Il current, and
a communication is thus set in operation
which gives notice to the officers on deck.
A RHODE ISLAND blacksmith has sue
ceeded in changing the gait of pacing
horse to that of a trotter, by simply fast
ening an extra pair of shoes heavier than
usual to the fore feet, whenever he wants
the horse to trot, and taking them off at
all other times. The sudden change of
weight on his fore-feet forces the horse to
change his gait.
LIKE many good things, the flute is a
very old instrument The Egyptians
played upon it more than four thousand
years ago, and the ancient Greeks, espe-
cially the Spartans, loved its strains The
name flute comes from the Latin tuta, a
lalnprey or kind of eel inhabiting the
waters of Sicily, whose side is perforated
with seven holes, as the flute was in prim-
tive days.
THERE is a singular natural curiosity
in IA lake in Vermont, consisting of one
hundred and fifty acres of land floating on
the surface of the water. The tract is
covered with cranberries, and there are
trees fifteen feet high. when the water is
raised or lowered at the dam of the pond
the island rises and falls with it. 1t at
fords fine shelter for fish, large numbers
of which are caught by boring hole and
in winter
In n Naples museum there is a relic
from Pompeii exhibited in the shape of a
small vessel for heating water, foot high,
in which all the principles of our modern
vertical boiler are combined; it has the
fire box, smoke tlue through the top, fire
door at the side, and a water CRATE made
of small iron tubes crossing the fre-bOX
at the bottom. It's last idea has been
patented a score or more of times within
the history of the modern steam engine.
How many or rather how few of our
modern patents are really modern inven-
tions.
In the instructions which general
manager of a leading railway has issued
to his subordinates, he says: " Treat peo-
pie as if you appreciated and were willing
to acknowledge their custom. Try to &C
commodate and please. In short, act as
any good business man would toward his
customers Don't treat people as If you
were comforting favor on them by letting
them ride. Rather seek to make the line
popular, because its business is dependent
on the good will of the people. You
need not be ashamed to let people under
stand that you acknowledge this"
A BOY only fifteen years old, in Black
hawk County, Iowa, whose father died
three years ago, leaving his widow and
son an eighty-acre farm burdened with a
$1,000 mortgage, has taken whole and
sole charge of the farm, hiring help only
in seed time. harvest and threshing, paid
off the mortgage, purchased a harvester, a
sulky pillow, Il wagon and Il set of harness,
besides sewing machine for his mother,
and is now out of debt. He is a member
of the Cedar Valley Agricultural Society,
and attends school three months each
winter.
a WRITER in the Overland Monthly re-
lates the following: This tradition which
| tell YOU" said Refs Hassan, "is many
centuries old. 1t states that there was in
Paradise IA temple built of precious
stones. Man dare not utter its splendors.
Deep in the midst of Eden it stood, angel
built-a dazzling sanctuary. Our pa
rents sang their vesper songs in the twi-
light shadows of its courts; fer there were
pillarcd halls and cloisters of emerald and
pearl, where fountains sprang aloft IN the
silent moon; and long, luminous vistas,
where, hand in hand, these two lovers
walked in sinleSs beauty. Then there
were pinnacIes and domes of sapphire,
blazing in the sunlight by day, and gilt
tering in the starlight by night. From
court and terrace, waters welled out, and
the ires-crested cascades fell down to cool
shady dpIIs of asphodel below for the