American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-01-31

half a day, whereas it would formerly
give his teacher subject for conversation
f., d %eek.
THOMAS BAILEY AfDRicH puts 1t gently
to the shoddyites in this wise: Gone, Is
panied to find that the most exclusive
folks have frequently passed their early
manhood in selling tape or West India
goods In homeopathic quantities. This
is not an immoral thing in itself, but it is
certainly illogical in these people to be so
intolerant of those less fortunate ones who
have not yet disposed of their stock"
A CUNNING Detroiter plays game
which has netted him considerable money.
Having family Bible in his hand, he
would approach persons whose sympa-
thies he thought he could work upon, and
say that he was a laboring man, ott Of
work, with big family on his hands, and
was on his way to pawn the family Bible.
He would state that dollar would relieve
his present necessities and save the Bible
from going to the pawnbroker's, and in
many cases people have handed OFT the
money to him. Amy person liberal enough
to give the man money would not take
the Bible as security, and so it was saved
to play the game on the next one.
THE Louisville Courier Journal answers
a contributor as follows: "four commu-
nication, Junius Junior is declined. 1t
is quite too full of quotation marks and
italics. You should not honor with quo
tation marks every stale, hackneyed SEN
tence you choose to borrow; and you may
often write for half day without finding
the use for single itdlic letter. Give
your reader credit for some intelligence
for at least enough to know when a
having the fact thrust down his throat by
a tinSv cnnad of rpplinp 1fULIrS
A COMPLICATED case has made its way
up to the Supreme Court of Massachus-
etts. Mr. Perkins, a tardy traveller, want
ed to catch train that was starting out
of Boston sooner than suited his leisurely
convenience. He offered Mr.. Gage, a
hackman, two dollars to get him to the
depot in time. Mr.. Gage did it, but in
doing so drove faster than the ordinance
allowed, and was arrested. He argued
that the occasion and the extra cOmpen.
sation condoned his fault whereupon he
was also prosecuted for taking more than
the regular fare. Competent counsel have
fought his case to the COS. of 81 900, and
now The final decision is that he must pay
the fines originally imposed for charging
an extortiOnate fare and fast driving.
Miss JENNIE COLLINS, who is not
theoretical but practical assistant of
poor working women, gives in letter to
the Boston Globe a curious bit OF lnforma-
ton. This is that the women who have
rich relations have harder time, a more
desperate struggle, than others, simply
because they are obliged to keep out of
sight, the susceptibilties of the said re-
lations being tender in proportion to the
length of their bank accounts. She
instances the case of niece of a
United States Congressman, who, APP
plying for house-work, was asked
why her uncle didn't provide for her at
Washington, and answered "He edu-
Gated one of my sisters, and she is the
poorest of us all, because she cannot
work %
A SINGULAR marriage occurred in Ii
tusville, Pa, few days ago. The couple
presented themselves before justice to
have the ceremony performed. The bride
was rather elderly, say about fortyfiv
while the groom was but little out of
his teens. However, as ''Barkis was will
lin'," the squire had no objection, and
tied the two in that knot which binds for
life. Since the Honeymoon began 1t has
leaked out that the young inan was step
son of the woman he had taken as wife.
The statute books declare a marriage to
be illegal when contracted between wo-
man and her husbands son, but whether
this is void or not is the province of law
yefs to say The question of relationships
growing out of this event Is little curl
Gus. Should there be any children they
would be grandchildren to their own
inother, and the boys would be brothers
and the girls sisters to heir own lather.