American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-06-06
CURRENT ITEMS.

The largest room in the world is the
room for improvement.
CARPENTERS are not particular about
their food. They are used to boarding
houses.
EIGHT HUNDRED ma nageable young
ladies, for whom there is no visible pros
pective husbands, is what's the matter
with Eas.on. Pa
THE production of brick in the United
Statec in 1870, if laid in wall one foot
thick and ten feet high, would reach a
distance of over 2,90S miles.
A woMAN's club has been formed in
ST. Louis, for the discussion of social,
moral and philosophical questions,
and especially questions vital to women.
A BROTHER of Nathan r. Hull, of
killingworth, Conn, who was recently
killed by train of cars, has committed
suicide from grief by jumping into a
well.
DOMESTIC prints are so pretty this sum-
mer that housewives of taste are using
shilling calico for home wrappers, and
luxuriating in half dozen of the various
patterns.
A Dies MONIES genius who loves his
ease has 1 vented an automaton fire.
lighter. He lies in bed, pulls string
he hears the kettle singing he gets up.
A BosToNIAN keeps large standard
dictionary on slightly-inclined shelf in
his parlOr, which the children and adults
of the family can instantly and easily
consult for a definition Or a lesson in
spelling.
A TOWN in Kentucky has developed a
queer specimen of genus hom0 in the form
of a facetious dentist, who advertises that
he will pull teeth without pain to the
operator, and with very little to the by
ISLANDERS.
THE Columbus (Ga) Enquirer says:
" We are going to quit the newspaper
business; it doesn't pay to run a paper in
a town where business men read almanacs
and pick their teeth with the tail of a
herring"
THE Boston Common Council has voted
that the 4th of July shall be celebrated at
an expense to the city not exceeding
$25 600, while $500 has got to answer for
June II, the anniversary of the battle of
Bunker Hill.
OK the average of the last six years the
loss of life in English coal mines, by ex-
plosion and other accidents, amounts to
one death for every 100000 tons of coal,
serious character.
THIRTEEN years ago John Kendall, of
Alabama, called Arthur Spooner liar.
Spooner reflected, got mad, and the other
day decided to shoot Kendall for the in
suit, and did shoot him; and now his
honor shines like a new tin pan on a gate
post.
WHILE Prof. Watson has been fooling
away fifteen years of his life in the study
of astronomy, very common fellow in
Delaware has discovered that II turnip
t...I ,t.i, 10. !
prevent rheumatism from entering the
house.
THERE must be demand for sawdust
in Gardner, Me. A local paper says
that the sawmills in that city make from
fifty to seventy-tive cords of sawdust per
day, which sells readily for about as high
a price as though it were in solid long
lumber
A BALTIMORE paper tried to say some
thing about "Churches and Skeptics,"
and the writer of the article pleaded pite
ously for some one to put him out of his
misery when he saw his pious editorial
appear under the head "Crutches and
Sheeptics."
AT Qucchee, VT, the farmers were plow-
ing in January, and on May day had the
pleasure of seeing foot of snow on their
fields. Some of the hill roads were rem
dered impossible by snow-dritts. The
birds were starving, and many robins
were found dead.
LUCY c. DoNEGAN, of Dubuque, Iowa,
has sued Frank S. May for $4,000 dam
ages May had the small pox, and hung
some of the clothes he had worn upon a
fence near plaintiffs house, whereby the
woman and two of her children were in
fected with the disease.
MANY Cuban sugar-planters are emf
grating to Southern Texas, glad to ex-
change the comparatively quiet condition
of affairs in that State for the existing
troubles at home. The country between
the Sabine and the Rio Grandc is well
adapted to the sugar cane.
"a MAN in Pennsylvania lunatic asy-
lum," says an exchange, "imagines HIM
self woman, and for that reason parts
his hair in the middle" Several young
men outside of the lunatic asylum part
their hair in the middle because, it is
supposed, they have no reason.
NORTH HADLEy, Mass, is disturbed by
foul water in its wells, and an old astrol-
oyer, well known in that vicinity, has
traced, with his mysterious rod, subter-
ranean stream from the cemetery, few
rods distant, to the well at the parsona ee
and to others along the street which CON
tain foul water.
The editor of the San BernardinO
Guardian feels impelled to describe the
rival editor of that town as " an editorial
empiric-a newspaper quack; man
without education, without courage, with
out honor-a drifting, mental imbecile, IA
slandering falsifier, a rambling adventurer
"A creature-a thing-content to live on
family charity"
The coolest larceny on record recently
took place in San Francisco. A young
man from the country was riding in Il
street car when man next to him in
formed him that the back of his coat was
dirty, and kindly offered to brush it off
for him if he would take il off. He hand
ed his coat to the accommodating man,
and the latter coolly put it under his arm
and left with it,
TIE Syracuse On. " police authorities
are dealing severely with those little boys
who, in their anxiety for fun, play such
games as stump the leader" and follow
the leader" The games themselve. are
harmless when properly played, but the
Syracuse youths, in following their leader,
pull down fences, tear the roofs off houses,
trip pedestrians, etc, which is carryip z
the game too far.
THE preparations of the United States
for observing the coming transit OF
Venus are very nearly completed. Eight
parties are to be sent out from this coun-
try. One will go TO Siberia; another To
Central Asia; third to Nagasaki, i'll
Japan; n fourth to Pekin, China; and the
rest will go to the Southern seas by the
sloop-ofwar Swatara, which is now being
fitted up with all necessary appliances fol
that purpose.
As THE steamer Alexander Mitchell
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