American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-11-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
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singly.
ALL up with them whenever it rains
Umbrellas.
A WHOLE bushel of wheat is made up
of single grains.
Who is the first boy mentioned in the
Bible? "Chap. l."
AN old-fashioned note paper still in
use-Promisory.
A WOMAN who tells fortune sfrom tea
cup need not be a sauceress.
WHY is a ladder like prize-fight? Be-
cause it is made up of rounds.
A PARTY of gamblers cleared So, 600 by
attending the DOylestown (Pa.) fair.
SwEETENING ones coffee is generally
considered the first-stirring event of the
day.
a wELL-KNoWN young man at CorInne,
Utah, has ears like gunny-bags and a
voice like a northern blast.
A Fort PLAIN merchant advertises his
goods at oxyun That man has always
steered clear of newspapers.
A LADY reporter, sent to an agricultural
fair, wrote of lot of pigs: "They look
too sweet to live minute"
SMALL bouquets worn loose in the hair
on the right side, is new and pretty Ger
man fashion just introduced in New
York.
THE modern bridal bouquet is small
bunch of uncut flowers, tied together
with wide white satin ribbon, edged
with lace.
UNDREssED kid gloves are said to have
a more extensive sale this autumn than
ever before. Possibly it is because they
are cheaper.
TIE girl, who for eight consecutive
days sat on the roof in the sun to bleach
her hair, is disappointed to hear that
blondes are out of date.
A NEW kind of stairs are shown at the
Chicago Exhibition, which are warranted
never to squeak when the gentleman of
the house returns home late.
OWING to its abundance, petroleum is
now onehalf the price it was two years
ago and its use has greatly increased, both
tor illuminating and lubricating pur
poses.
THE courts of Illinois are reported to
have already over 5000 divorce cases on
their dockets, with accessions of new APP
picatiOns at the rate of g, 900 per
annum.
TELEGRAPHING is game that prairie
chickens do not understand, and in con-
sequence many of them are killed by
coming in contact with the wires in their
flight in large tiocks.
STILL are they fading away. Four of
the once proud Indian tribes of Delaware
are reduced to but four persons each. But
the sixteen consume as much whisky as
did the four tribes in their palmiest days
A Roy eight years old, in one of our
public schools, having been told that a
reptile ais an animal that creeps," on
being asked to name one on examination
day, promptly and triumphantly replied,
"A baby"
IT is reported that costly goods are
being re-shipped to Europe, because there
is no market for them in this country at
present. Silks, satins, velvets, laces and
ribbons are chiefly among those re-ship-
ments.
AN Illinois Judge has decided that
principals of schools have no right to
dictate to pupils what they shall or shall
not study, and that the parents of schol-
ars are the proper persons to assume such
a prerogative.
THE Boston Traveller remarks that for
real unauthorized sensation, for tragic
and blood curdling reading- to a person
fifty miles from the locality, there is moth
ing that compares with list of premiums
at IA county fair.
GRAND Master John NJ. Price, of the
Masonic order of Kansas, has decided
chat Master Mason who keeps dram
shop should be suspended or expelled,
and a saloon-keeper is not suitable per-
son for the degrees"
A CARD posted in the observatory on
the top of Mount Kearsarge announces
that visitors are requested not to write or
cut in the structure. 1t adds: writing
materials and sticks for whiting will be
furnished on application at the office"
NOTHING brightens a true woman like
no I,
thing, suffer ANYTHING for the sake of a
husband who truly and devotedly loves
her. and whose heart is one with hers.
Where such love ends widowhood be-
gins.
IT is now proposed to have a universal
tea drinking on the 18th of December, in
honor of the throwing over the tea in
Boston century ago. From our eX-
perience, we should judge that the drink
ing of tea is universal now, and probably
will not cease before that day.
A STRICT Scotch woman of Presbyterian
education was induced to attend services
one Sunday at Trinity, New York, this
being her first appearance in an Episcopal
Church. After service was over. she was
asked how she liked it, and gave answer
that at war vara fine; but it war awfu'
wark for the SABBATH dee"
A WESTERN editor complacently OBJ
serves: "a persevering contributor to
this journal, who properly writes only on
one side of his paper, has furnished ma
teTial for the editor to write his editorials
on for the last six months-on the blank
side of said paper, furnished postage pre-.
paid. If economy be virtue, we viii
certainly be blessed"
HERE is another of those delightful
facts of science: "Feeling is Il much
slower sense than sight. If man had an
arm long enough To reach the sun, and
were to touch that body with the tip of
his finger, he would never find out
whether it were hot or cold, as he would
be dead before the sensation arrived at
headquarters, which would require 100
years"
WHEN I heard Mrs Blackwell talking
of the mothers rest being broken by the
restless baby wriggling all night long in
his cradle, | thought that when we can
have mothers educated properly we shall
have no more of these wriggling babies.
We shall have fine, vigorous animals that
will lie down and sleep soundly simply
because mothers will know better than to
try to produce these conditions with sooth-
ing syrups, advertised in all manner OF
newspapers, as at present. III you Will
have your children sleep, strip them naked
ut night, give them a good bath OF water,
and air and keep the house quiet, and
then they will lie down and rest and no
longer wriggle-Nrs. Cady Sta'aton.
TIE origin of "foolscap" paper is not
generally known Charles |. OF England
granted numerous monopolies for the sup
port of the government. Among others
was the manufacture of paper The
voiprmark of the finest sort was the