American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-02-07
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has six perfectly formed toes on two of it
feet.
THE Nashville Union and American
truthfully says that dip-theory is a Bap
fist disease.
A NEWBORN babe of the "Prodistan
sex" was registered recently by an Ulster
County On. W physician.
New YORK is trying hard to rival Lon.
don in the matter of impenetrable fogs
and is succeeding beautifully.
THE newest name for a hog is root
grubber, corn-sheller, apple grinder, gate
litter, double-action back spring sod
pillow.
WHILE carrying a fence post, a Center
vile tWis.) farmer stumbled and fell, and
the post fractured his skull, causing
death.
A CHICAGO paper SAYS that it is wonder.
full how quick the t!ird beggars of tina,
city can tell the difference between ten
cents and a quarter.
WHAT is the difference between farm
er and bottle OF whisky? The farmer
husbands the corn and the bottle OF wills.
ky corns the husband
APRONS of light-colored silk are worn
indoors by the young la lies, with dark
dresses The aprons are cut round and
trimmed with small ruff1es and lace.
A YOUNG man in New Haven has sub
sisted for two years on three quarts OF
milk daily, and quantity of lemon drops,
diet made necessary by chronic dis
ease.
/ IT Is fashionable nowadays to have
your initials embroidered in the center of
( fine handkerchiefs instead of the left or
right hand corner, as heretofore the
! style.
/ THE reason a boy gave for being late
at school was, that the boy in the next
( house was going to have dressing down
with a bed cord, and he wanted to hear
him howl.
WHAT is a more exhilarating sight"
asks a Vermont paper, than to see eight
cen handsome girls sliding down hill on
an OK sled?" "Nineteen,'' says the eXpe-
rienced editor of the Boston Post.
THE Normandie cap, which used TO be
worn by babies and little children, has
been modified and worked over into 4
dainty bit of head gear for newly married
ladies. 1t resembles an injured kite.
Another horse suicide. He was sold
on execution and felt the disgrace so
much that he laid himself down in the
water and died The sensitive eouine's
late residence was in Wareham, Mass.
PRETTY bad under foot" said one cit
izen to another, as they met in the street
Yes; but it's fine over head" responded
the other. True enough;- said the first;
but then very few are going that way"
In his will, the editor of the London
Hour, who died recently, provided that
that paper should always be held by h
kin, should never change its name, and
that the price should always remain the
same.
FASHIONABLE ladies in New York are
Just now taking milk baths to improve
their compilations. The cost is 50 per
bath. 1t has not transpired what is done
with the milk when it has served their
purpose.
PAT NAUGHTON, fireman on a loco
motive, was convicted in the Cincinnati
Police Court recen:'v of throwing live
dog into locomotive furnace, and burn
ing it to death. He was fined 800 and
sent to the worlhouse for six months.
The pet failing nova days, for newspa-
per writers, is a plan for improving the
currency" The Detroit Free Press re-
ceived IN one week 331 articles bearing
that caption. Why this hesitation, this
holding back, this lack of suggestions?
THE Washington Cdpital, over whose
destinies Dom Piatt presides, disguised
at its lack of paying lads" says that the
leading merchants of that town do as
much in the way of advertising as "a re-
lage.
THEEE is no animal worse treated than
the rat, and no animal oftener has his lit
tie revenges. For instance. a rodent
gnawed recently hole in IA Dubuque ele-
vator, and before the mischief was dicov-
cred 600 bushels of wheat Streamed into
the dock.
A DOCTOR at Preble, Courtland County,
N. y, according to the Hamilton Repu5
lican has mania for pulling sound teeth,
and number of instances are given
where he has robbed children of their
pretty teeth during the absence of their
mammals.
AT recent golden wedding in Manga
tuck, Conn, the old compile showed the
Young folks how "courtin' was done,
fifty years ago, and those of the young
folks who know how it is done at tie
present day couldn't see that the method
had changed much.
THE Pittsburgh Internationals are get
ting warlike. At a recent session they
resolved to 20 in body to the municipal
authorities and demand work. One of
them remarked: If they don't help us,
there are plenty of lamp-posts around
here; we'll hang them"'
THE other day, in Ohio, a young lady
died of what a thick headed old doctor
said was heart klot, or embyolism of the
main Hue of the heart" She revived in an
hour, however, and it was found she had
been temporarily choked by piece of
gum she had been chewing.
A SPECIAL fund was collected in the
United States, n few years ago, for the
erection of n Bible house in Constantine
pie. This building is now finished and
in use. 1t is a light yellowish stone, is
eighty feet long by seventy-one deep,
fire proof, and cost about $4,000.
SMALL Pox is rapidly spreading through
out San Francisco in the most con- agious
FORMS The Health Officer has been
authorized to post printed placards in the
streets of the city warning citizens OF the
threatening epidemic, and to have printed
five thousand circulars conveying similar
information to the Chinese, and urging
them to report each case to the Health
Officer.
TIE meanest thing lately reported was
perpetrated by New Haven manutactur-
err, who on the last day of 1878, told his
bookkeeper that his salary of $1,000 must
be reduced 5000 per annum, and dated
back one year, thus bringing him in debt
to the company 5000, and that if he
worked for the company another year he
must work for $500.
A PHYSICIAN runs many perils that are
not suspected by those who may envy
him his practice At Rochester, n. Y,
the other day, doctor attended II snake
charmer who had n bad cough. The
medicine man examined his chest care
fully, put his ears to his lungs, etc, and
Just as he was ending his examination