American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-01-11
GENERAL ITEMS.

QUERY.-Is the letter S female TIL,
author is.
COP pardOns like mother, who kisse.
the offense into forgetfulnGss.
The New Years question for New
1orkers-Will the gray Mayor prove The
better horse?
The following advertisement appears
In provincial newspaper: Two sisters
want washing. Address"
NINETY-FIvE thousand seals gave uI
their skins last year to supply the cloaks
for our bellies, and trimming for our
swells.
An inquirer who hasn't seen the ''Lily
of France" wonders how the dramatisi
could make light piece out of the Dare
war.
SAPPHIRE stone is an emblem of purity,
and Is made into rings on that account.
Mrs. Fair, Stokes, Thompson, and others
wear these chaste ornaments.
The Mormons are petitiOning heaven to
prevent the spread of the smallpox in
their lovely valley unless it can be con-
fined to the Gentiles.
A PHILOSOPHER, who married a vulgar
but amiable girl, used to call his wife
brown sugar, because, he said, she was
sweet but unrefined.
FIFTY colored citizens have returned to
the voting lists of Richmond, Va, being
disappointed with a years trial of the eli
mate of Liberia.
CANTON, N. H.. has no idea of getting
behind the times. The town has Just
voted to exempt from taxation, for ten
with capital of 5000 or more, which
may be located within its limits.
REFERRING to the close of navigation,
the Buffalo Courier states that vessel
owners have seldom had more profitable
year than the one just drawing to close.
Freights have been abundant and rates
higher.
1t is rumored at Washington that rep
bankers are ready to taSe the Whole Of the
four, four and halt, and five per cent.
funded loan for commission of two and
half per cent, leaving the Treasury free
of all expense.
THE ladies of Columbus, Ga, have re-
solved that foreign plaids are ''plaid out"
and that the importance of checks must
be checked, and accordingly pledge them
selves hereafter only to wear those pat
terms of a domestic manufacture.
TURTLE RAISING is a new feature of
trade to be seen in Texas. The insects
are kept in pens, fattened, and then
shipped North alive or in cans. No alder
man, no matter how poor, should fail to
cultivate bay-windOw on his stomach
now.
A CHICAGO reporter, who by some ac-
cident happened to stray into a church,
recites in artless language that during |
pause in the service Z" the silent solemnity |
was broken by an osculatory explosion in |
the gallery like the report Of letronel." |
Wouldn't hark-we-buss have served as |
happier simile?
A MISSISSIPPI burglar has lately been |
availing himself of an opportune attack |
Of smallpox to pursue his profession fear
less of molestatiOn from hOuseholders or |
the police, none of whom care to arrest
him until they can catch him alone with
out risk of catching his disease into the
bargain.
Mrs. VIRGINIA MINOR, who wants SlO,-
BOO damages from the official who refused
TO register her name on the list of legal
voters, must unquestionably be nonsuit-
I'd; for, however ambiguous the word
. citizen" NAV be under the fifteenth
the law is very explicit in
the right of suffrage from
minors.
A YOUNG lady writes to an exchange
giving receipt for having fun. She saws
invite half a dozen boys and girls to your
house when your pa and ma are away;
,ut half-dollar silver piece in dish with
nolasses an incn deep in it, and offer it to
he boy who gets it with his mouth. The
more the boys try to get it, the more fun
will there be. That girl surely deserves
! diploma.
The Ttusvile Press is thus prodigal of
Is pious wind 'sBy private advices from
i. Louis we learn that a prodigal son
hought he would quit eating husk and
,Ornstalk free lunches and go home to his
ather's mansion in that city. But instead
II having veal for dinner, and making the
Ioung mans brother take back seat, the
I'D man waited until he could get tight
nip on the young man, and then gave him
UGH a ''bouncing'i he won't 'sprodigal''
gain in six weeks. This energetic parent
avs he rejoices more over one boy that
uns away and stays, than the whole
amily who sponge their living off him at
lome.