American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-05-30
CURRENT ITEMS.

To PLEASE a woman let her do as sh
pleascs.
DIAMONDS are cheaper now than eve
| before.
A SMALL gold hand holding a pearl i
| new in earrings.
EXPENSIVE marriage ceremonies ar,
pronounced snobbish.
WHAT three letters denote strength ant
activity" N. X. G.. (energy)
NECESSITY knows no law, but law
knows good deal of necessity.
THE spanking period is appropriately
called the palmy days of childhood.
AN anti-cremation philosopher living
near Lake Erie thinks the dead should be
| drowned.
| LEISURE is sweet to those who have
earned it, but burdensome to those who
| get it for nothing.
| ADVERTISEMENTS printed in Chinese
characters are beginning to appear in the
California papers.
| MAPLE-sUGAR is so plenty IN Vermont
this season that the girls are 20 per cent
| Sweeter than usual.
! A LADY lecturer believes that women
| ought to retain their own names when they
| get married She has retained hers thus
far.
QUIZ believes in cremation, for the
benefit of the soap trade. He knows lots
of people whose ashes would make splen-
did lye.
The business of swallowing needles,
long monopoliZed by human beings, re-
Gently commented itself to Vermont
heifer, which ate glove needle and
died.
The last smart Old man lives IN Au-
gusta County, Va. He is ninety one years
of age, and made his own coffin the other
day.
THE adventurous fellow who attempted
to steal a red-hot stove must take a back
seat, since William A Meyers, Of Pleas
antville, Pa, is on trial for stealing nitro
glycerine.
MR. JNo. s. JONES, of Stafford, N H.,
says that the fire in his house has not
gone out for forty-five years. Mr.. Jones
uses an open fireplace and covers the
fire at night
IT is an old saying that every pound
of sugar made from the maple in the spring
robs the farmer of bushel of wheat.
That is, good sugar making weather is
bad for the wheat crop.
LOVE your neIghbor as yourself-bOr-
row his pillow, hoe, or horses whenever
you can; but if he wants to borrow
yours. tell him that you are very sorry,
but you were just going to use it your
self
THE newest earrings in Paris are OF
bone. They are cut in the form of many
pointed stars tipped with different colors.
A small star fastens in the lobe of the ear,
and a larger one hangs underneath. They
are very odd and very pretty.
AND now it is Mrs. Betsey Hobbs, of
Clinton, Me, eighty-two years Old, who,
w
the assistance of her daughter, has made
between 900 and 900 pairs of pants, be
sides doing the work necessarily falling
upon farmers wife"
THERE is an elm eighty four years old
and about six feet in diameter at Frank
lin, n. H., and the man near whose house
it stands says that when he was boy he
pulled it up, which made his father SO
mad that he walloped him with it and
then set it out again.
THE public have got so accustomed to
hearing these disagreeable weather stories
that they won't mind somebody's recall
ing that sixteen inches of snow fell at
Middlebury, n. H., May Is, 1884, and it
showed all day at Brandon on the 18th of
June, 1912, the whole fall being five or
six inches.
A CONNECTICUT teacher, who has seen
the thing tried, Says that the best plan for
promoting good order, tidiness and ease
in conversation among the pupils in a
school is to place one of each sex at the
same desk, allowing them to assist each
other at their lessons and to select new |
partners at the end of each month if they
desire it.
A MAN recently visiting one of the Gem
eteries in Portland, Me, overheard a
thrice made widow, not yet old or home
1v w hn WAS stand mo- hes iNp rec mOunlS /
remark to a gentleman, who was known
to have been attentive to the widow in
her youth Joe, you might have been in
that row had you possessed a little more
A CLUSTERING stranger dropped in at a
Broughtnn street store yesterday, and,
after asking for number of articles not
in the stock, finally inquired of the pro
prietor if he had u goosey yoke. The mer-
chant returned negative reply, but in
formed the stranger if he would walt long
enough to have his neck measured he
would accommodate him. The stranger
simmered.-lSdUanndh Neacs.
THE sphygmiograph is the hard name
of a new Notwithstanding instrument. Its
presence is to mark and register the pull
sations of the wrist. 1t is very delicate
and intricate piece of mechanism, pro-
PEELED by clock work, and by the track ing
of a pencil on piece of paper the force
of the beats is recorded. 1t is
chiefly useful in sho wing the effect OF
different medicines on the nervous sys-
TEN.
THE meanest man in Newport, r. l.,
so far as heard from, is a landlord who
tried to drown out one of his tenants who
was sick with consumption. The tenant
fell four months in arrears but his friends
made up the money, whereupon the land
lord demanded an increase Of the rent,
and, on their refusal to pay, went into the
story above the sick man and deluged the
floor with water, which ran down into the
sick mans room.
MOCKING BIRDS can initiate human &C
tiOns as well as human voices, it seems.
A Macon ga paper says that two pets
of this stripe got jealous of each other and
undertook to fight it out in desperate
fashion. One OF them, getting enough OF
it, sang out, "Quit, quit" and followed
this up by crying Police, police" And,
oddly enough, there was policeman
within hearing who came up and stopped
the ght.
Mrs. WILLIAM DINsMoRE, of Sutton,
VT, has spent several years labor on a
quilt, which now contains . 334 pieces,
each of which differs in color and figure
from every other, and some of which
show the various fashions from Queen
Elizabeth's time down to the present day.
Nearly every State in the Union and
some of the Territories, the British Prov
inces, Mexico and most of the South
American States are represented in the
quilt, while the flags OF many countries
nil red nd If he.