American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-07-18
CURRENT ITEMS.

THE refreshment stands for the Ohio
State Fair were sold recently for S1,415
FIVE HUNDRED patients receive treat
ment in the Athens (Ohio) insane asy-
| lum.
| NOT more than two of the nine fur
naces in Sharpsville, Pa, are now in OPP
Grafton.
| THE expenses of the Holly water
works, Titusville, Pa, are but $1O,SO0
per year.
SIXTY THOUSAND quarts of strawber
rics were shipped from Milford, Pa, in il
single day recently.
AN inventive genius in Ohio proposes
| to furnish horses with false teeth, SO as
to conceal their age.
SEVERAL residents along the Mohawk
Flats, Pa, have engaged in the cultiva-
ton of sweet potatoes.
FIVE times John Happy, of Vermont,
has been engaged to one girl and he has
not made her Happy yet.
THIRTY-PIvE citizens of Center Town
ship, Boone County, Ind, have reached
the age of seventy years.
n BILL that everybody is anxious
should not be brought before the house
this SUMMERTIME mosquitoes.
A MERCHANT who has suffered from the
mOiety system styles the Government of
flcials g internal revenOOdles."
A PERFORMER at the coming circus is
styled :" the human ANACONDA 1t is to
be hoped he will not prove il boa.
A LEAvENwoRTH paper notes the death
of man of g thirty five years standing"
Chairs must be scarce out there.
FRANCE, notwithstanding her disturbed
political condition, produced more books
last oar han nj
A SPECIAL institution for the training
of women as teachers is to be estab-
lished by the Russian Government
This engine won't work." said fire
man to the chief of fire department
g No WONDER" said he, it was made to
play"
and it isn't necessary to have pass from
one of them in order to travel across
Rhode Island.
THE wind-mills introduced in the
CRANKY (Nev) mines to pump out water
have proved failure, and the idea has
been abandoned.
JOHN GRoGGIN, of Maine, has just got
mad about the ModOc war, and is com
ing West with fire in his eye and shot
gun on his shoulder.
a DETROIT boy propounds the awful
query: (which had you rather do, be
eaten up by tiger, or have all the ma
pie sugar you can swaller:'
COME, now, let's say no more about
Laura Fair When one remembers that
it was a lawyer she shot, the crime is
robbed of its rough edge.
COMMODORE VANDERBILT admits that
he isn't much on photography, but Blink
ers asks: "What in thunder does Il man
worth $751;, 900 900 care about spelling?"
DUBUQUE has just plated new Gene
terry with a racc-track around it, and now
if they would give chrome to every pur
chaser of Il lot the thing could be made
to pay.
WHEN man is found on the highway
in Missouri with two bullet-holes in his
head the verdict of the Coroner's jury is
that it looks like shooting, but may have
been suicide"
GEORGE II. AVERY, of Boston, who re-
Gently walked 100 miles in twenty-one
hours and forty minutes, is going to start
from Boston for Montreal, AGO miles,
Sept. l, intending to walk the distance in
eight days.
PROF HITCHCOCK, of Dartmouth Col
lege, will shortly receive from New Zeal
and two skeletons of the extinct bird, the
dinoris, or dodo, the first ever brought to
this country.
THE San Francisco trotting horse Sam
Purdy was sold by auction on the Oath
ult, for $21 800. Messrs. McCord and
Frank Malone, of San Francisco, were
the buyers.
A GRAPEsHOT probably fired during the
Revolution, was found the other day in
the heart of Il tree twenty inches in diam
eter, near the spot ut Center Rutland, VT, !
where the old fort stood.
h,I txun
and 81, 900 in lead mining at Joplin, Mo-,
has Just made II strike which will likely
repay him for his time and outlay. Re |
Gently he took out 10, 900 pounds
THE Joplin (Mo) BuUetin wants rail |
road from that place to Kansas City. 1t
claims for the town Il population of 5000,
together with 100 business houses and
twenty-five furnaces, which run day and |
night.
The son of an Emir had red hair, of
which he was ashamed, and wished to
dye it. But his father said: Nay, my |
son, rather behave in such a manner |
that all fathers should wish their sons
had red hair"
a CORRESPONDENT informs us that in
Germany, when the vote of the jury |
stands six against six the verdict is left |
to the decision of the Judge. y majority |
of votes either acquits or convicts the
prisoner.
\ PATERSON On. j. man who had
placed several lightning rods on his
house was delighted during IL recent
storm at seeing it struck in two places,
while the house of his neighbor, who was
too mean to pay for lightningrod, was
not struck at all.
The Trustees of the Worcester (MasS.) |
have received the sum of 81 900 |
from William Bucknell, of Philadelphia,
the income of which is to be applied to
sustaining scholarship for the most
Christian gentlemen among the |
students in the academy.
THE Bureau Veritas in Brussels re-
ports the loss during the month of April |
of 236 sailing vessels and % steamers of
different nationalities. In this number
are included 80 sailing-vcssels and steam
ers reported missing. Among the losses
were "a sailing-vessels and one steamer |
carrying the American flag.
4 New ORLEANS young woman who
writes pieces for the papers says that
whom she says: "On the barren shores
of Time, 0 my souls kinsman, l have
found in thee my pearl of great price
and there is nothing more precious out
of heaven" This young man does moi
grow in the North
PROF. ADLER, of the Cornell University, !
cannot see what the name of the shad
is derived from, unless from the German
word sch"de, signifying something like
our English word =" scathc"-to in ure or
infict loss The sIad has been described
contemptuously as the poor mans fish