American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-05-16
CURRENT ITEMS.


If you are buying carpets for durabilit,
t. choose small fgufes.
WHEN Jerseyman dies of app1ejac
II the papers call it appleplexy.
KEROSENE oil will remove rust fror
# knives. Emery paper is also good.
q A REPORTER, in depicting a wreck q
. sea, says that "no less than thirteen unfol
, tunates bit the dust"
= THREE Shakeresses at birmingham, N
: H., have fallen from grace by taking t.
: themselves husbands.
p; A KEOKUK poet says he "lies enfoldet
in his mothers arms, all wrapt in early
childhood's spotless charms"
!, A MACHINE in the Winnipiseogee MILL
, at Franklin, N. H., runs off thirty fv,
miles of newspaper day.
BUTTONED shoes with patent leather
tips and scallOped ankle tops may be con
sidered now the most fashionable.
BRIDES are gradually coming back tc
white tulle for their wedding dress-pret
tier than silk and more appropriate.
THERE is more shipbuilding going on
at the present time on the Connection,
River than in any previous year since
1861.
A MUscATINE Qowa) dog committed
suicide by hanging himself between two
day.
A LITTLE girl of Reading, who saw her
mother take medicine, gave some to the
baby. The corpse was covered with
| flowers.
THE bitterest words ever uttered are
said to have fallen from the lips of man
who mistook persimmon for a green gage
plum.
A PETRIFED rattlesnake, so perfect that
six rattles were distinctly visible, was re-
Gently found in block of marble at
Burlington.
! AN editor has placed over his marriage
notice a cut representing trap sprung,
with this motto: "The trap down-an-
other ninny caught"
AN old man in Kenosha, Wis, has
ruined his health sitting up in a cold
room next to where his daughter and a
young man were sparkling
A MEMPHIS man sat in the gas works
an hour day for 142 successive days be-
fore anyone told him that he couldn't
cure agne by inhaling gas.
AN explosion of powder in Pennsyl.
vania mine lifted a miner into the top of
large shade tree without removing his
hat or hurting him in the least
THE Albany Journal never has less than
eight columns on a hanging affair, and
sometimes reaches twelve, and a marked
copy is always sent to the widow.
A GENTLEMAN bought piece of land
on the outskirts of Providence, r. l.,
thirty years ago for S4O0. He recently
refused S75, 900 for the same property.
MAINE is going to sell all the public
lands to which the State has an unques
toned title-about 100 900 acres-in Sep
TENDER, and close up the business of the
land office.
A DUTCHMAN in San Francisco, in try
ing to reach the ferry-boat fell into the
water His first exclamation on being
hauled out was: Good gracious, let
have a bridget"
A CHICAGO pork packer whose pew rent
was raised to $50 exclaimed: Great
Caesar! here's a nice state of affairs-the
Gospel going up and pork going down.
What's to become of us? ?"
ROBERT Dow, of Salisbury, N. H.,
awoke his wife the other morning and re-
marked to her that he thought he was
dying. Soon after he became unconscious
and died in a few hours.
A CORRESPONDENT wants to know our
opinion concerning the disposition of the
de ad. AS far as we are acquainted with
them the dead seem to be of quiet dis
position.-S. Louis Democrat.
As rule our leaders of fashion are
dressing very plainly this season-a fact
to be hailed with satisfaction and delight. |
1t has come to this that lazy is known
by her costume.-N Y. Graphic.
In Armenia, N. Y, there is an old-fash-
toned house, now nearly century old, |
which contains twenty-eight rooms ex-
elusive of closets, and has seven brick |
tire-places, three brick ovens, and six out |
side doors.
A PARTY of men have purchased 600 |
acres of land in Wisconsin for the eX-
year they captured 1000 of the animals,
and anticipate a take of 5000 this year
The skins sell at thirty cents each.
A GEORGIA paper says: every viii
lage and borough in the State is project |
Ing the erection of factories of various
kinds. We never knew a period in the
history of Georgia when so much money |
was put into manufacturing business as |
at present"
THE Supreme Court at Providence, r. |
l., has awarded Emile f. Brown $40 800 |
against the city for injuries received in
1872 from a blast fired in street, the |
employees of the city having failed to |
warn her until it was too late.
VIRGINIA is rapidly becoming a wine
producing country. Vineyards are being |
established in the vicinity of Richmond, |
and the profits are said to be great, while |
the quality is reported to be very much |
like the imported claret, Madeira and |
white wines
NEW BEDFORD, which ranks No. 1 on |
fish stories, reports that Mr.. Seth Thomas
caught a Goldfish measuring five feet in
length and two feet in circumference, and
weighing fifty pounds. In the stomach |
of the fish were found eleven herring,
four fiatfish and two crabs. This is a
clear case of initiation, either in the fish OF
the story.
MARIA F. GRosvENoR sued the United |
Society of Believers, body of Shakers
at Boston recently, asking $4,000 |
damages, charging that she. having
Joined the society in 1919, was expelled
in 1865. The defense was that she pro
mulgated heresies and that she went
away voluntarily. Judge Endicott rem
dered verdict for the defendants.
A CURIOUS story is told in a Natchez,
paper about ii. Polkenhome, ST., of that
place. who, while walking out on Il warm
day, felt something burning him in the |
side His clothes were on fire, and on
examination he found that his eye glasses
in his waistcoat pocket had caused the
mischief. The suns rays penetrating
burned hole through the pocket and
scorched his under-garments.
In the Supreme Court at Taunton
Mass, a few day $ ago, Margaret Black, of
Fall River, obtained verdict for
$4,000 against Andrew S. Weeks, of the
firm of Weeks Il Potter, Boston, on ac-
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