American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-04-11
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CUkkENT ITEMSs
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: YAoUINA BAY, Oregon, is to be geolog
lcally examined.
THERE is not a paper in Delawar
which wants the whipping post abolished
F PHILADELPHIA wants q few female bar
bers. How nice to be lathered by ,
pretty Quakeress!
THE Rochester Chronicle says that tn,
climate of that city gently wooes rheu
matte twinges from their lurking place.
New JERSEY quidnuncs mention as !,
rare phenomenon a native four years ole
who has just learned to chew tobacco.
The lady who was asked if her servant
was care taking answered that she Ger
tainly took everything she could carey.
| BRAVE men can term fair women
The "apple Of their eye"
| But when they come to Office,
| mo ladies need apply"
SOME boys at Biddeford, Me, found a
woman's head in the water and the whole
of Maine is being searched over to find
the body.
| A BURGLAR who was found under a
mans bed in Philadelphia excused him.
self on the ground that he was looking
for his dog.
| TEXAS cattle-drivers are busy gathering
herds for an early drive. Cattle are in
better condition than ever before at this
| season of the year.
Mrs. MARTHA DUFFY, of Atlanta, Ga,
| took morphine because she had lost in
business the money got on her dead hus-
| bands life insurance.
A DOCTOR writes to the Baltimore Sun
that the nervous disease known as hydro
phobia can be produced by the bite of a
perfectly healthy dog.
A MEDICAL journal says that it is inJu-
rious for one to drink water out of pools
and bitches. 1t is not as convenient as
drinking from glass, either.
THE New York Sun says that any man
can make fortune in ten years by raising
cabbages but Greeley's advice to young
men can't be covered up that way.
MARYLAND has new State law fining
barber s. for keeping his shop open
Sunday, but a saloon can remain open
all day and incur no prosecution
A GREEN BAY preacher rode thirteen
miles, married couple on the ice, took
fifty cents IS his fee, and returned home
without losing his bland smile.
A SAN FRANCISCO theater netted its
proprietor eleven cents profit in eight
months, and he wants to sell out to some
one who loves the drama for itself alone.
A SHOEMAKER out West, with a literary
turn of mind, has the following poetical
gem attached to his single:
Here lives a man who never refuses
To mend all sorts of boots and shoeses."
THAT is a smart boy baby in Oak Har
Dor, Ohio. He can walk, talk, speak
French and English, whistle and sing,
and all at the tender age of thirteen
months.
AT Fort Wrangell, Alaska, the average
temperature during the winter has been
thirty degrees below zero. The coolest
snap was in January, when the mercury
CONCEALED.
A BLIND and insane inmate of the Rome
On. W pOor-house became imbued with
the notion that everybody was trying to
poison him. He therefore went and
hanged himself.
THE Cincinnati Commercial says the
best way to keep the lid snugly on tea
kettle full of boiling water is to sit on it,
Few people would have ever thought of
that.
FEATHER CAKE.-One cup sugar, one
teaspoonful butter. one egg, three cups
flour, two-thirds of cup of sweet milk,
one teaspOonful cream tartar, half one OF
soda. Flavor with lemon.
LAMB.-Lamb should be roasted until
the gravy that drops is white; the fore
quarters are the best for roast; the leg is
good broiled or roasted; two hours will
roast the fore-quarters well.
WHEN you repeat the proverb, &c Frail- |
ty, thy name is wOman!" you must eX-
cept, hereafter, Mrs. Chloe Jones, colored,
of Raleigh, whose waist, at its slenderest
point, measures seven feet in circumfer-
ence.
In the stomach of Goldfish opened at |
Boston the other day was found stone |
full of ink. If the fish had only |
secured a pen and some paper the world |
might have had story Of life under the |
sea-
A CALIFORNIA newspaper, speaking of
a rich mine, says that on discharging a
blast a seam of rock about the thickness
of mans hand was displayed, so yellow
with the precious metal as to seem almost
solid gold.
ICING FOR CAxE.-This is easy to make,
and that's what we want to save, arm
ache. Take one egg and add nine heap
ing teaspoons of pulverized sugar. Beat
hut very little. Put this icing on when the
cake is cold.
OF all Jokes, says the Salem (Mass)
Gazette, that of the Legislature passing a
aw to prevent young men under eighteen
years hurting themselves by overwork is
he greatest Won't "Young America"
'njoy the laugh?
LIGHT FRUIT CAKE.-Three-fourths
pound butter, one pound sugar, one pound
,ggs, one pound flour, one pound raisins,
toned and chopped a little, halfpound
.iaron, small teaspoonful soda, no spice.
Will keep all summer.
THE St Paul Pioneer longs for some
preventive against breaking the point off
ead-pencil. A very simple and cheap
preventive is to roll it up in tissue paper,
lie with silk thread and then carry it
round in padded box.
CHERRY PUDDING.-Three cups butter
milk, three eggs, three cups cherries, one !
easpoonful soda, a pinch of salt. Stir I
veil, and thicken with flour, and bake. {
erve with sauce or sweet cream and
ugar. Any other fruit is as good as cher
les.
A NEW YORK court has decided in favor
f passengers on a crowded train occupy
ng seats in a palace car without paying
xtra therefor, and has awarded a man 1
400 damages for being put off a train be
ause he refused to pay for seat in such
car when there were none vacant in the
Their part of the train.
THERE is no use trying to arouse chill ,
rem in the morning, at this season of the