American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-11-14
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AT Il railroad station.
ALA-BA-MA means, in the aboriginal
tongue, here we rest.
TIE song which is sung in heaven
must be learned on earth.
SOMETIMES coal does not burn as wei
of an evening, because it's slate.
Coop temper is like a sunshny day: i
sheds brightness over everything.
a FEELING of revenge is worth so little
that no one should care to keep it.
WHEN is money damp? When it i.
due in the morning and mist at night.
NEARLY all the billiard balls now in
use in the United States are made il
Connecticut.
A MEMBER of the Junior class of Dart
mouth College is IA clergyman fifty years
old and married.
IT is not the height we have attained
that makes us giddy; it is locking with
contempt on those beneath.
THE largest plate glass ever manu-
featured in the United States was recent
ly cast in Indiana. 1t is 1874 by 81
inches.
60 TO grass" is swearing when used
in New Hampshire. At least they are
churching deacon down there for using
the expression.
A BosroNIAN ridicules that other Bos-
! tOnldn utnDTclld, dStu SOW CIT -SiA, ny
/ holding up for public vencration one
| that he owns over whose buckhorn han
die 107 autumnal equinoctials have
passed
TIE Chicago Temperance .H0nth,y is the
title of Il new forty-cight page illustrated
magazine, to be devoted to the cause of
temperance, and the first number of
which will be issued in January next, by
Mrs. c. Augustus Haviland, of the Gem
| Of tie West.
| A LIVELY lad swung with SO much en-
ergy in a San Francisco pleasure garden
that he threw himself into a conserva-
tory thirty feet distant, cut an artery in
his arm, ruined several hundred dollars
worth of rare plants and frightened the
women into panic.
NINETEEN years ago a Tennessee
father refused to let his young daughter
go to IA candy-pull, and she disappeared.
The other day she returned, lifted eleven
children out of the wagon, and entered
the house and took Off her things as
coolly as if she had not been gone over 4
day.
CYRUS LAFKIN, of Peabody, Mass,
caught his foot in the railroad track, the
other day, and, being unable to release
himself, was held fast for half an hour,
when train of cars came laundering
down upon him. The poor man saved
his life by throwing himself one side, but
lost his foot the cars running over and
cutting it off
A CoLoRED gentleman residing in
Louisville, Ky, went for his bride at the
appointed time, but she was missing.
Subsequently it was discovered that she
had eloped across the Ohio and been
joined in the holy bonds of wedlock to
one Scott Thompson. This disappointed
groom is out not only n blooming bride
but about $500 in cash, which he had eX-
pended on her outfit.
The McConnellsburg (Pa.) Republican
says: a couple of Sundays ago, during
services at the Reformed Church, Il
snow-white pigeon entered the church,
and after describing Il couple of circles
in the holy sanctuary rested on the min
ister's head-Mr. Shade. He drove his
strange visitor away with his hand, when
it calmly took position on the Bible and
serenely surveyed the congregation until
its removal from the church"
AN American inventor has discovered
/. new motive power to supersede steam.
1t is the result of twenty-five years
labor, and by its operation water is trans
formed by mechanical process to vapor
without the application of heat, and yet
the transformation produces motor far
more powerful than steam. 1t is said
that the new motor can be used at any
rate of pressure desired, from ten to Il
thousand pounds to the square inch.
PLEASANT bit of romance from Balti
more: Young Englishman applies for
work to Superintendent of factory and
narrates his history, whereby it appears
that he was reared by his mother, his
father having abandoned her in the in
fancy of his son; Superintendent of fac
tory recognizes his boy; learns that wife
has never ceased to mourn the untortu-
nate difference with husband, and finds
lad excellent employment; gets leave OF
absence, passage for England and goes
for wife.
THE trunk was large, dilapidated
Saratoga, and on the lid in large letters
appeared this touching legend: ''I've
been through the war Gentlemen,
handle me carefully, as l am old" The
baggage-smashers gathered around the
old trunk and read the recommendation
carefully; then reverently removing
their hats they took it up tenderly, and
aiming about three inches below the car
floor gave it Il gentle toss and baggage
mans blessing. 1t went in--all but the |
bottom, and the old trunk saw its last
battle as well as its contents strewn |
over the dusty surroundings.
\ VERY Jealous Cincinnati lady lately |
- woke up the wrong passenger" y
gentleman and his wife were promenad
ing the street in the twilight. we'll |
dressed lady rushed up suddenly behind
the pair and dealt the wife sharp blow
on the temple with an iron poker. The
woman fell, and then the assailant ran
frightened away. The male member OF
that promenading pair was amazed at
the little incident. He carried his wife
into drug store, where she was restored
to consciousness, and wondered what it
was all about The residence of the as
sailant was known, and she explained
that she thought the gentleman was her
own husband, and she knew the woman
he was walking with was not her nus
bands wife. She was exceedingly sorry
for the painful mistake, and begged oil
Owing to the respectability of all the par
ties the matter was smoothed over and
the poker laid away for the present.
THERE is a curious prescription in
England for the cure of drunkenness, by
which thousands are said to have been
assisted in recovering themselves. The
recipe came into notoricty through the
efforts of John Vine Hall, father of the
Rev. Newman Hall and Capt. Vine Hall,
of the Great Eastern steam
ship. He had fallen into such habitual
that his utmost efforts to
regain himself proved unavailin@. AT
length he sought the advice of an emf
ncnt physician, who gave him presCrip-
ton which he followed faithfully for
several months, and at the end of that
time he had lost all desire for liquors,
captive by most de basing appetite. The
wi no .tffarkNnrI unfinished.