American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-07-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

a WOMAN'S mOdeSty is like her color
extremely becoming if not put on.
PEARLS require airing as much as horses
and babies Unless they are constantly
worn they change color and finally crum-
bic to pieces.
A YOUNG LADY in Nashville is changing
her views somewhat relative to the queS-
ton of matrimony. They say that when
she came OUT in society she determined
that she would not marry Il man unless he
was an Episcopalian. Time passed on,
and she did not get married, and then
modified her views and concluded she
would marry no man who was not Il Chris
tian. That young lady is still unmarried,
and says now that all she is looking for is
man that don't drink whisky.
AN exasperated Bostonian is rushing
around with an unshaven face, and de
handing to know if these women will
never learn anything. The slight cause
for all his mental disturbance is found in
the fact that one of his daughters had used
one OF his raZors to cut maple sugar with,
and another had taken It's mate to sharpen
her lead pencil with, while his wife had
rendered his shaving brush somewhat too
stiff for its original purpose by using it in
gluing some broken furniture.
CHRISTOPHER SHEARER, a fruit farmer
near Reading, Pa, has probably the larg-
est refrigerator in the country. 1t is 55
feet square, and holds, when filled, about
140 carloads of ice and 1000 bushels of
fruit Last fall Mr.. Shearer placed in it
LOO bushels of apples, $50 bushels of
Bartlett and 60 bushels of Lawrence pears.
His brother, who is the owner of an ad-
joining farm, also stored 100 bushels of
apples in it, some of which are still there
and us solid as when they were taken from
the trees.
THE New York practice of using re-
Hector and throwing ray of rose-colored
light upon the brides cheek as she passes
up the aisle of the church was sought to
be introduced in San Francisco, but the
man managing the reflector was Il little
nervous, and directed the rays upon the
nose of the bridegroom, and the conse-
quence was that those who Assem- bled to
witness the marriage, and were not N the
secret, thought the bride was throwing
herself away on magnificent rum bios
somed nose.
On one of our Eastern trains, the other
day, newly married couple starting on
their wedding tour, after comfortably ar
ranging themselves in their seats, gave
vent to their emotions as follows: Hus-
band cleaning over tenderly toward the
partner of his joys and sorrows( -"'Oose
little pet lamb is our" Wife with re-
sponsive tenderncssH "'Os." Husband
800 does 'ou Iove?" Wife-''Ou" The
individual who heard this conversation,
being Il single man, was completely over
come at this point of the conversation, and
Joined the euchre- playing crowd in the
smoking-car.
ENDLESS BURNING LAMP.-Among the
lost arts is that of the endless burning
lamp. 1t is said that in the time of Ed
ward VI. IA lamp was discovered in the
4 Va n orb yrr1, J,.h 1,I
been burning since his burial to that time,
period of twelve hundred years. Also,
in the grave of Tulia, daughter of Cicero,
was found Il burning lamp, which was
lighted at her death, fifteen hundred and
fifty wears before. 1t went out as soon as
daylight was admitted. Yet it is certainly
a clever device Of the ancicntS to invent Il
lamp which would illuminate through all
time the home of their dead.
THE usefulness of 'Old Probabilities ~
has been shown in one way by the Allan
tic Yacht Club of New York, which tcle-
graphed to Washington for Il forecast of
the weather for next day, when regatta
was to come off The answer being salts
factory as to the probable force and direc-
ton of the wind, arrangements for the re
gatta were completed and the race came
OIL satisfactorily, the prognOs.ication being
fulfilled to the letter Coming down to
domestic and individual use we know
families who consult the Probabilities ~
before putting their weekly wash out
doors to dry, and persons who carry an
umbrella or leave it at home according to
the suggestions from Washington.-Ciere-
ian3 Herald.
THE story is told of "a woman who
freely used her tongue to the scandal of
others, and made confession to the priest
of what she had done. He gave her Il
ripe thistle top, and told her to go out in
various directions, and scatter the seeds
one by one. Wondering at the penance,
she obeyed, and then returned and told
her contessor. To her amazement, he
babe her go back and gather the scattered
seeds; and when she objected that il
would be impossible, he replied that it
would be still more difficult to gather up
and destroy all evil reports which she had
circulated about others. Any thoughtlcss,
careless child can scatter a ha.-diul of
thistle seed before the wind in a moment,
but the strongest and wisest men cannot
gather them again.
\ WEDDING Tour on THE ERIE CA
MA young man residing ut Castleton
eloped with a grass widow recently. Ar
irving at Albany the bridegroom fell short
of funds; but This mishap was rcmcdicd,
however, by Il hearted canal boat
captain To whom they had related their
misiortuncs, and the nuptial not was duly