American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-08-01
CURRENT ITEMS.


| ALABAMA is calling attention to her
{ ne wlv-discovcrcd coalbeds.
I AIPHoAsE kARR defines dyspepsia as
the remorse of IA guilty stomach.
In San Francisco Sunday is as much Il
holiday rs at Paris or New Orleans.
SCARLET FEVER is prevalent among
children in the vicinity of Waukegan, H.
ALTHOUGH woman's age is undenia-
bly, her own, she does not always own it
| \ WESTERN exchange complains of
two legged hyenas in the village grave
yard.
4 RICHMOND negro killed himself by
partaking of pounded glass and jelly
cake.
EUROPE consumes about two-thirds of
the petroleum produced in the United
States.
| A PRECoCIoUs Ohio boy tried to kill a
cat, and shot his grandfather with II ten
penny nail
| Nor so many people are abroad this
year as last, and Europe complains of
I hard times
\ LOUISVILLE lady has recovered
$4,000 for being dragged and injured by
Il street car.
served censure and Inundated by unde-
served praise.
Two CoLoRED men in Georgia had
little theological difficulty, and settled it
with bird-shot.
CALIFORNIA is largely cultivating, be-
sides the grape, oranges, lines, cltrons,
figs and walnuts.
a SALEM (Mass.) woman ate a rose and
died. 1t is supposed the leaves covered
poisonous insect.
CREMATION is prospecting in Germany.
There are now eightytwO cities with
cremation societies.
NATURALIsTs claim for the crow that it
is one of the brayest of birds, because it
never shows the white feather.
Mrs. MARY STRAIN, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
has married three brothers in succession.
She believes in brotherly love.
BURLINGTON is now the largest city in
Iowa, having, according to the new di-
rectory, over % 900 population.
THE Young lady who mistook bottle
of mucilage for hair-oil has been too
stuck up" to go to parties since.
MUSCLE rs. Brains Thirty-two candi-
dates passed their intellectual examina-
ton at West Point, and ninety-tive the
physical test.
GOLD may be hammered into sheets SO
thin that 2S2 900 of them placed one
above the other will only occupy the
height of one inch.
a PIoUA (Ohio) girl who had quarrel
with a lover remarked to Il friend that
she wasn't on squeezing terms with
that fraud any more"
AN unsophstocated person once de- |
clined "A plate of macaToni soup, with |
the remark that they couldn't palm off |
any billed pipe stems on him."
. MAINE book-agent has been disabled |
by the kick of a horse, and the PROPOSE |
tion to give the horse a public testlmo- |
NAL creates no little enthusiasm.
IT has been calculated that if Chicago |
and St Louis keep up their competition |
in directories at the present rate each |
will have a population of ten millions by |
the year 1884.
A SCIENTIFIC friend who had been
reading, with great patience, an exhaust
i've treatise on the velocity of light"
SAYS that he now knows how 1t is that
his gas bill runs up so rapidly.
THE fashion of wearing the wedding |
ring on the finger next to the Ii tie finger
originated in an ancient superstition that
there was IA mysterious connection be-
tween that finger and the human heart.
A STORY is told of remarkable sympa-
thy existing between little boy in
Northern New York and his severed arm,
so that when the latter was roughly |
handled the child would scream with
pain.
A LITTLE son of Thomas II. Sheldon,
cashier of the First National Bank ut
Ohio, recently sat down in Il
bucket of boiling water, producing in
juries which resulted in death the day
A sNOB in Saratoga complains of some
cheeky members of the crews in can
vas shoes and blue uniforms intruding
in the parlors and bathrooms
among ladies and gentlemen who are in
evening dress.
By THE falling in of part of the roof
of Il coal mine at Newcastle, near Hang
ing Rock, Ohio, the other day, Francis
King. a miner, was terribly crushed, so
that his recovery is very doubtful. No
one else was injured.
WHAT do you know of the character
of this MANI" was asked of IL witness at
Il police court the other day. What do
| know of his character? L know 1t to
be unbleachable, your Honor" replied
he with much emphasis.
A YOUNG lady engaged to be married,
but getting sick of her bargain, applied to
a friend to help her unite the knot before
it was too late. "Oh, certainly" he re-
piled, it's very easy to unite 1t now,
while it is only bow-knot-"
ANXIOUS newspaper QucTlStS WANT "
know if the comet has any hand in this
warm weather. In 1861 they were equally
curious to know whether it caused the
cold nights But the comet of 1861 wasn't
such IL red hot one as this fellow.
A PENNSYLVANIA paper says that milk
from four Crawford County cows made
% pounds of butter in a week" Over
iftv-siX pounds of butter to cow.
Such flight of fancy must have been
arrived at by gazing into the milky
way"
The advent of the grasshoppcr causes
our entire social fabric to tremble.
. Naria," writes young Minnesota
farmer to his girl down in Maine, " I'm
,traid we can't get married this year; the
threaten to clean out my
crop" ,
CHARLEY, what makes your cheeks
50 red:' asked his sisters admircr of II
title ive-ycar-old "'Cause | put some
If sisters paint on. She puts it on every
lay" 1t was a painful disclosure for
least Charley thought so
,fter the visitor had gone.
SAN FRANCISCO is going to try a little
AIR of her own, representing the indus
rial development of the Pacific coast
md also of China, Japan and Australia.
san Francisco is unusually happy in the
promise that her Pacific telegraph cable
will bring greatly increased trade from
he East.
a YOUNG fellow in Western town was
med $40 for kissing girl against her
will and the following day the damsel
sent him the amount of the fine, with Il