American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-03-21
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are the newest head ornaments.
OLDFAsHIoNED mits are to be revived
next summer for dowagers and spinsters
ONE of the new collars is called tn,
Empress. 1t is of linen edged with lace
ALTHOUGH the father of our country
never told a lie, he could be at times very
cutting.
| VALENCIENNEs lace is so cIeverly imi
tated nowadays that only experts can de
tect the real article.
A MISSISSIPPI Postmistress has dis
charged her husband from d clerkship fol
non-attendance to duty.
LINIMENT labels are said to circulate
freely among the Indians of the North
west, who take them for greenbacks.
SPELL murder backward and you have
its cause. Spell its cause in the same
manner. There it is-cause and effect
STEPS have been taken in India which
| bid fair to fuse all, or nearly all, the re
.s,lts of mission labor in one organization
or combination.
MANY a man thinks it's virtue that
keeps him from turning a rascal, when it's
only full stomach. One should be care
full not to mistake potatoes for principles
IT is vain to put your finger in the
water and, pulling it out, look for hole
and equally vain to suppose that, however
large a space you occupy, the world will
miss you when you die.
A POOR unfortunate who was " assisted
out of doors the other night says he has
no objection to his wife putting her foot
| down, but he wishes she wouldn't take it
| up.
| A CHICAGO man wrote to AgaSSiZ that
| he had an apple which he had preserved
! for fiity-three years, and when AgassiZ
| wrote for it he said it was the apple of
his eye.
| THE cerebro spinal meningitis, or spot
ted fever, as it is called, has broken out in
the western part of Barton County, Mo-,
and number of deaths are reported from
its effects.
JAPANESE silks will be more fashionable
next summer than they ever have been.
Some of the new patterns are exceedingly
pretty, and for evening dresses will make
up lovely"
In Chicopee, Mass, farmer has Sc
cured an ice supply for next summer at
lutte cost. He dug a pit, boarded it up,
and allowed it to fill and freeze full of
spring water.
The Catholic University of Georgia 10
to be established at Macon. A splendid
tract of land studded with oak trees has
been donated by Macon, and an endow-
ment of 100000 has been guaranteed.
THING of beauty is a joy forever, but
Dover, N. f., was broken by the fall of q
board she poisoned herself to avoid car
rying that nose in public.
In Jewish synagogue in London, re
Gently, a scroll of the Law accidentally
slipped from the Ark and fell to the
ground. There was much excitement,
and fast was Immediately proclaimed,
the congregation volunteering to abstain
from food for three days.
THE smallpox that has been prevailing
in the vicinity of Cascade, Iowa, is about
at an end. 1t was spread by the careless
patients, mostly Germans and Irish, who
wandered about the place after being ex-
posed, and even after they had broken out
with the disease.
A MILK PEDDLER at Glen Falls, N. Y,
lately glided gracefully down fifty
feet embankment, horse, cart, cans, milk,
water and all. He was unhurt, and there
was nothing to cry for except the spilled
milk, for which, of course, it would have
been contrary to the proverb to cry.
WALLER, Chief of the Quapaw Indians
of Central America, was bitten on the toe
recently by large tarantula. The insect
second bite in the back. Medical aid
could do nothing, and after lingering
few hours in intense agony he died.
Indy JOHNSON, colored woman, aged
either liz or 113 years, has just died
in Hartford County, Md. She dis
dained the use of spectacles, and the ira
ditional fine cambria needle, it is said,
was threaded by her with neatness and
dispatch until within week of her
death.
THE next thing to the elixir of life for
all practical purposes is to find out how to
live on little or nothing. A Boston man,
fifty years old and sound of limb, AYERS
that he can square this circle. He lived
two weeks on ten cents day, and gained
a pound and a half in weight-not 81 los
sterling. Crackers, milk and eggs.
A LITTLE misunderstanding as to who |
should kindle the fire in the morning, re-
Gently, blasted the joy of a hastily married |
couple on Hospital Hill, Northampton, |
Mass, and the bride went home to her |
father in disgust Her husband, having
tried Intellectually to win her back, guz-
zled large dose of laudanum to end his |
but the doctors pumped him out
and at last accounts he still lived.
NEAR Mcmillan, Wis, is curious bluff, !
known as the Silver Mound. 1t contains !
about 800 acres, and consists principally |
of hard quartz rock, being circular in I
form, about 200 feet high, and having a |
depression of about sixty feet in the cen |
ter There is evidence of ancient mining |
about the mound. At the top shafts were |
sunk fifteen or twenty feet, and drift |
runs from the bottom of one of them per |
haps forty feet. Hieroglyphics are carved |
in a sandstone ledge.
AN Iowa farmer recently made his son /
turn grindstone sixteen consecutive !
hours for going home with an old maid |
from spelIing-school If the farmer had |
a proper appreciation of old maids, who
are often among the best women in the |
world, he would have blessed the young |
martyr and given him new suit of
clothes. And then the young martyr |
have had the old rascal brought !
before magistrate and fined $50 and
costs, which was the way the thing ended.
Courier. Journal.
A SERIES of experiments made by Prof. |
Vile, in France, show that the dis
eases that attack the potato are in part the |
result of deficiency in the supply of
ression the Professor planted potatoes in
the same soil without any fertilizer; to I
other plats of ground he added fertilizers
that did not contain potash. In all these
cases the fruit became diseased in the
month of May, while on the other plats
where potash was supplied in sufficient
quantity the plants were healthy and
yielded an excellent product
In Springfield, Mass, an Italian vender
was robbed of several plaster images in
a tenement house. He went straight
across the street and put the remainder of
his wares in a safe place. He took of his
coat, rolled up his shirt sleeves above the
elbows, drew a long knife, and pulled his