American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-19
CURRENT ITEMS.

THE Illinois Supreme Court has recent
ly decided that when goods are sold for
cash and the buyer fails to pay for them
on delivery interest may be collected
from the time of the delivery of the
goods.
A New HAMPSHIRE family has used
| one stove for twenty-eight years, while
Detroit man has kicked three to pieces
within year. Some men, as soon as
they get a little down hearted, go for the
cook stove right away.
OMAHA boys prepare explosive car
| tridges, bed them into piece of meat
| and toss the meat to some ones dog.
That dog'll be humping along, thinking
of nothing in particular, when all of a
| sudden he is blown into coffee grounds.
MEN are engaged in cleaning the city
| sewers at Austin, New, for the purpose
| of recovering the quicksilver and ANAL
gam which passes down from the tail
| ings of numerous mills. Two men OBJ
| tanned about four pounds of quicksilver
and amalgam per day.
| WHEN it was said to an Arizona man
| that he didn't use good grammar he put
ON a mournful look and replied; Well,
I didn't have the chance some folks had
| We lived more'n ten miles from the
nearest tavern. '-Detroit Free Press
| IN paper, vas Sthieu tH;tt II
vinegar spring had been discovered
some where up in New York State. That
must be a fine place for an invalid to
recruet his health. An acidulous student,
| Mrs. Darlington thinks, may master this
joke after d few attempts.
| A SINGLE silver dollar, known as one
of the American SERIES" and very rare,
brought $500 at auction yesterday. And
yet many a matter of-fact poor man, ig-
norant of its value, would gladly have
| exchanged it over n corner stone counter
| for a dozen loaves of bread.-N. y. Com
mercial Advertiser.
| HELEN NJ. COOKE writes that " kisses
on her brow are the richest diadem a
woman's soul aspires to-" And yet fel
low who kisses young lady on her brow
| while her rosy lips are making motions
| like patent clothes-wringer is not the
man for the position.
| A New HAMPSHIRE baby only q year
old was recently sent by express from
Lisbon to North Concord, duly labeled,
| and propped up in a big chair with a
turkey and another express package be-
| fore it to prevent its falling out, and it
evidently suffered greatly from its I'M
comfortable situation.
THE Massachusetts Mutual has won a
suit in the Federal Court of a Western
circuit, establishing the important doc
trine that any falsehood in the answers
filed to the questions on which a life in
surance policy is based vitiates the claim
Of the policyh holder even when the &C.
casion of death was in no way related to
the precise points on which there was
ia school. The heirs of a policy-holder
who in the examination denied ever hav-
ing had q certain disease when in fact
he had had it failed to recover the
amount OF his policy, although his death
was not due to the disease whose exist
ence he had concealed.-SpriaQfsld
(.Kdss.) Republican.
THERE were seven gentlemen of Gin
cinnati who formed themselves into the
Last Man Society" on the 9th of Octo
Der. 1882, and vowed to meet annually
until death claimed them ALL A bottle
of wine was sealed up in a box, and it
was mutually agreed that the last man
should open the box and drink the wine
They met for four years together. The
first death occurred in 1887 and in Oc-
! tober, 1856, the last man sat down alone
The wine bottle was opened, and in
silence the last of the seven friends
drank the health of the departed COM
panions. Every year, on the 9th of Oc-
| tober, the last man holds the anniversary
| alone. He is yet alive.
BILLY BARKER, Sacramento sports
hunting and smoking. These two di-
versions seemed to be compatible, and,
with pipe in his mouth and gun on
his shoulder, he wore out many pairs of
boots tramping through the woods. See
ing a bird on a high branch, with it's
moving wings denoting an immediate in
| tention of flying away, he hastily took
sight, and he stuck the pipe in his pocket
where the powder-tiask was. Four things
went off in the order mentioned-the
gun, the flask, Mr.. Barker's leg and the
bird.
CHRISTOPHER SMITH, of Cincinnati
languishes in dungeon. He wOoed and
won the daughter of an opulent mer-
chant, but, alas for the bright hopes of
youth! she was only sixteen, and the law
did not permit Evangeline Maria to
marry until she was of age. What could
the young man do? He could not lie; to
beg he was ashamed; but love, which
laughs ut locksniths. came to his aid SO
he told his Dulcinea to put the figures
eighteen in each of her shoes and stand
thereupon: Happy. thought! She was
lover eighteen" A jury, assisted by
the stern parient, are now Investigating
the case. 1.-The course of true love-"
etc.
The story of the frugal wife who trades
hCi uusOduuS Oiu pdutdiOOuS lot CuIua
to find that he had left we'll filed
pocket book in the pockets is not a new
one, but Hudson, N. Y, furnishes a case
with an unusual ending. The wife of a
well-known grocer there made such a
sale in July last, and learned, when she
informed her husband of her bargain, :"
| that the pantaloons contained = wallet
in which were notes to the amount of
81 500 and other valuable papers. No
clew to the peddler was obtained until d
few days ago, when citizen who had
heard the story recognized the second
hand vender in the street. He was taken
to the grocer, to whom he at once &C
knowled that he had found a pocket
book in his purchased clothing, upon
| arriving home, but was not aware of the
value or ownership of the papers it con-
tanned. He said, however, that they
were safe, and that he would return them
if the owner would send a man with him
to Albany, where he resided. This re-
quest was complied with, and the papers
are again in the possession of their
owner.
A Sharp Trick by an Insane Woman.
A PRETTY sharp trick was played on
Wednesday bV an insane woman who