American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-03-28
CURRENT ITEMS.

A MILWAUKEE horse has died of a
broken heart.
THE Patti is the name of one of the
new bonnets.
THE crack of base ball clubs will soon
be heard in the land.
MOMENTS of triumph are not always
moments of happiness.
"THE Order of Enoch" is new society
established by Brigham Young.
BosToN's new Postnffice is called Il
magnificent heap of ugliness.''
MEMORY is the only paradise from
which nothing can ever drive us.
A MARYLAND miller has owned and
tended one mill for forty-eight years
No Northern man who goes to Florida
can rest until he has shot an alligator.
AN old sinner grumbles at the govt as
precious leg-acy''-only it isn't aisy.
1T is very ruinous to move, but
especially expensive to move in the best
circles.
THE Siamese twins, it appears, are not
to be allowed to rest either in peace or in
pieces.
SEE what 1t is to live in warm country;
the little boys in Texas are going to the
circus now.
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and if man hasn't gold and silver he is
rated "B 3"
THE first and only Grange in Arizona
was a few days ago organized at Phoenix,
in the Salt River Valley.
A NEW YORK Shaker shook 81, 900 out
of the colony the other day and then
shook himself far, lar away.
\ MAN has discovered how to live well
on twenty cents per day, but this won't
help the tiftecn-cent people.
GLASS will sustain 1000 pounds to the
square inch, ii is said. just threw a two
pound stone at plate lass window and
see.
JONES says that the difference between
his wife and the Pope is that she possesses
temper-all-power and His Eminence
doesn't.
A COMPANY has been formed on Bear
River, Cal, for the purpose of manu-
featuring butter from the tat of the seal
and sea lion.
A WEDDING took place at Cairo few
days ago in which the ceremony was per-
formed by telegraph, the clergyman being
in Memphis.
A New HAVEN paper has finally admit
ted that there may possibly be one we'll
learned man and one we'll bred lady out
side of New Haven.
FOURTEEN fathers in Quincy, ILL.,, have
signed IA pledge moi TO allow their daugh-
tiers to take music lessons until they know
how to make good bread.
A TENNESSEE father has got himself be-
hind the bars for thrashing one OF his sons
almost to death because the young man
would not go 10 a protracted meeting.
MORE than hundred people are drink
ing warm blood at the Brighton Mass
abattoir, for various diseases, and there is
talk of bu lding hotel to accommodate
the patients.
A CLERGYMAN writes to the Baltimore
.4merfcyn that its attempts at crIticIsing
Mrs Van Colt are as ridiculous as the ct
forts of IA mouse to nibble OIL the wings of
an archangel.
THE Palatka (Fla) Herald says that
Florida has been talked of South more
Economically, and examined less accu-
Iately, than any other section of country
on the continent.
A MONTREAL paper, speaking of re-
cent dualin explosion, says, In Il most pa
thetic style, that the bodies of the victims
were spread over many rods, here Il piece
and there a piece"
MUNICIPAL INSANITY" is what they
call it III Chicago. In New York and
Brooklyn it is called municipal rascal
ity." 10 doctors of law it is known as a
complication of ring-round.'
A MAN.named Gail petitioned the Mis-
sissippi Legislature for leave to hang
himself, but they refused to report favor
ably on the document and he still lives,
desiring, he says, TO abide by the laws OF
his country.
THE Maine Solons have curious notions
about the care of the poor. The Legisla,
ture is seriously considering a bill to
AZ,
they have brought to towns, if they be-
come paupers.
TIE Terry Island Second Adventists
stick To it that the end as coming pretty
soon, in spite of the recent miscalcula-
ton, and Rev. c. G. Barker devotes four
columns of the Watchmd,.'s Cry to an
argument on the point.
Interference to distinguished surgeons
opinion that Chang and Eng might have
been safely separated in lite, the New
York Conamercia: Aduertisfr thinks that
OF all sad words to a Siamese twin
The saddest are these: II might have been.
A CAT in the Louisville Courier Journal
Office lived in drawer for nine days
without food, light or drink, and IN three
minutes after being let out she was play
ing base ball with a paste cup. This, it
must be remembered, was a Kentucky
cat.
A YOUNG lady graduate of the medical
department of Iowa University has won
the first prize for The best performed dis
section in surgical anatomy, from class
consisting OF twenty four young men and
one other young woman.
A CONFIDENCE woman of rare beauty
and adroitnesS has swindled almost every
merchant in Virginia City, and gone off
with $4,000 of net result. The victims,
however, admire her cleverness so much
that they refuse TO attempt her capture
and punishment.
THE young ladies of Petersburg, Va,
have organized a secret association, of
which the emblem is a golden heart worn
over the left brea-t t, bearing the cabalistic
inscription of ''B 0. u" What it means
nobody thererabout appears to know, but
the Interpretation is simple enough
Beware of U.s."
THE filial tenderness of Mary Kane, of
New Haven, is truly touching. She de-
sired 10 eiope with n p irty already orna-
mented with q wife, but would not bulge
until she had seen her old and feeble
mother provided for. And SO she had
her placed in the aims house.
NARNIsH FOR GRATEs.-To one pound
common asphaltum, fused in an iron pot,
add half pint hot boiled linseed OIL;
mix well, and boil an hour. When par
tally cooled add one mart oil of turppn-