American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-04-05
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

OF THE hundred good things in thi
4 life, ninety nine are health.
MISS LIZZIE Colt is frisky belle o
Washington, and has said neigh to hun
, dred oifers.
! PEOPLE who have luxuriated on buck
wheat cakes all winter are backing vi
against door jambs and gate-posts with
good deal Of pleasing activity. -Dan5ur1
Nescs.
, A YOUNG lady having read about maj
having invented q stove which consume,
its own smoke, hopes he will devise
method whereby tobacco smokers can b,
run on the same economical principle
AN OLD bachelor says if girl wants te
know when she looks most charming il
the mems eyes, it is when she wears
} simple muslin dress, with frill of lace
around the neck and at the waist, and nc
} ornaments but youth and freshness.
HAVE known vast quantity of non
sense talked about bad men not looking
you in the face. Don't trust that cOnven
tional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty
out of countenance any day in the week
if there is anything to be got by it,
Dickens
THIS was Mrs. Poyser's remark to the
young ladies who thought her farmhouse
was beautiful: eyes; farm house is a
fine thing for them as look on, an don't
know the liftin' and the standin' an the
worritin' o. the inside as belongs tot"
A MAN recently broke off marriage
because the lady did not possess good
conversational powers. A cynical friend
commenting on the fact. SAYS: HE should
have married her, and refused her new
bonnet, and then he would have dis
covered her conversational powers!"
THE Lawrence American says there is
a 'boardiDg marin" in that city whose
economical tendencies lead her to place
her bOarders upon an allowance of
matches. Every evening at tea she goes
round and places single match at the
plate of each boarder, and should that
match fail, there is no appeal to the match
safe.
A COUPLE of Yankee girls put bull
frog in hired mans bed, to see if they
could not get him to talk. Daniel threw
the frog out of the window and never
said word. Soon after he put half
bushel of chestnut burs in the girls bed,
and about the time he thought they would
make the least shadow Daniel went to the
j. or and ratified it furiously. Ont went
OF candle, and in went the girls; but
| thny didn't stick, though the burs did.
THE Willamette Farmer contains long
description of the dairy farm of Mr..
Henry Ankeny, near Salem, Oregon. The
maintained 800 head of cattle, besides
swine During the past season, the pro-
ducts of 200 cows were made iatO cheese,
of which there are now on hand, ready
for market, some 26 600 pounds The i'm
provcnnents rco- the farrr, dcrcrihad
at length, and with the land are stated to
be worth seventy thousand dollars.
MONEY was so scarce in 1851 that the
price of days work was fixed by act of
n 4 hn
allowances of the chaplain to the Scotch
bishops Chen in prison in England) was
three half pence per day. At this time
twenty-four eggs were sold for a penny,
pair of shoes for four pence, fat goose
for two and a half pence, a hen for
penny, wheat three pence per bushel,
and a fat OK for six shillings and eight
pence.
CANINE MAIL CARRIERs.-It is said
that the officers of the Signal Service on
Mount Washington are trying to teach
dog to carry the mail to and from the sta
ton. There is tradition that, previous
to the year 1860, the mail between Ports
mouth, N. H., and Wells, Me-, for seven
years was regularly carried by dog.
The mail was carefully made up, tied to
the animals neck, and carried safely
through, until, at last, on one OF his Jour
news, the faithful creature was killed by
the Indians
LANGUAGE AMONG ANMALs.-M. Hou-
zen maintains that not only does each
group of animals possess a language
which is understood by other members OF
the same group, but that they can learn
TO understand the language of other groups.
His dogs, for instance, perfectly under
stood his poultry. Cocks and hens have
one danger signal for the approach OF
bird of prey another for that of terres-
trial animal or for a man. When the lat
ter was sounded, the dogs would rush out
and bark, while to the former they paid
no attention whatever. He therefore
concludes that fowls have the power of
expressing slightly different but closely
allied ideas, and dogs can learn to under
stand these differences.
A MONKEY, finding heap of cocoanuts,
gnawed into one, then dropped it, gag
cling hideously 'tNow, this is what I
Call perfectly disgusting, said he. 81
can never leave anything lying about but
some one comes along and puts quantity
of nasty milk in itr' A cat just then hap
pening to pass that way began rolling the
coeoanuts about with her paw. ''YeowH'
she exclaimed; ''it is enough to vex the
soul of cast-iron dog! Whenever l set
out any milk to cool, somebody comes
and seals it up as tight as a drum!" Then
perceiving one another, and each think
ing the other the offender, these enraged
animals collided, and wrought mutual
determination, whereby two worthy con-
sumers were lost TO society, and a guam
tity of excellent food had to be g iven to
the poor.
A LITERARY SELL.-The Spring
field Republican, has the following:
A good story is told in literary
circles in New York of an enthusiastic
Carlyle Club of ladies and gentlemen of
Cambridge and Boston, who meet period
ically to read their chosen prophet and
worship at his shrine. One of them, not
imbued with sufficient reverence to teach
him better, feloniously contrived to have
the reader en- certain evening insert
something of his own composition into
the reading, as though it came from the
printed page of Carlyle's hand. The in
terpolation was as follows: 'Word- splut
tering organisms, in whatever place-not
with Piutarchean comparison, apologies,
nay, rather, without any such apologies
but born into the world to say the thought
that is in them-antiphorial too, in the
main-butchers, bakery, and candlcstick
makers; men, women, redants. Verify
with you, too, it's now or never This
paragraph produced great applause among
the Gevotees of Carlyle. The leader of
the club especially a learned and meta
physical puDdit, who is The great AmcTi
can apostle Of Carlyle, said nothing Car
lyle had ever written WAS more Teprcscn-
tatiye and happy. The actual author of
il attempted to ask some questions about
il and elicit explanations. These were
not wanting, and where they failed, the
stupidity of the puostioner was The sub
sti'ute presumption, deiicntely limited.