American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-05-09
CURRENT ITEMS.

tralt painters OF that city don't go to sa
he ing flat boats and make a reputation.
L New Workers. are still bowling f
X rapid transit, and they wouldn't be sati
ned II shot from the mouth of Il cannon.
A YANKEE wanted the Bridge of Sigl
pointed out to him, and then offered
bet America had several bridges twice IL
size.
# RHODE ISLAND and Massachusetts, al
IS negotiating in real estate. The former hs
|. factory to build, but is crowded fc
b | room.
y SUITS of black silk and grenadine con
e blned will be one of the summer fashion
this on the authority of Monaieu
: Worth
A CHINAMAN can swallow a dose G
! Cayenne pepper without looking r,d il
: the face, and he chews red pepper withou
; a wink.
. The objection to amber ear rings is tina
, they cast reflections upon the face ant
cause the fair wearer 10 appear to hav
the jaundice.
! The Postoffice Department has decide,
f that female officials are more honest thai
males. Now let Susan &. jump up anC
swing her bonnet.
AN Iowa woman got mad and left he
husband because he washed his feet in The
dishpan, and the neighbors don't sympa
thize with her bit.
A CONTEMPORARY wants all its exchanges
to warn women to jump into a creek wher
they discover that their clothing is on fire
Jump, ladies, jump!
AN old bachelor editor has discovered
that girls are plenty in Baltimore, but
stifled sigh when he learned that "a mar.
riage license costs 81 80.
A MARRIED woman in Brooklyn is suing
IL .,..I,
committed eleven years ago, and her hus-
band is her main witness.
| A NEW YORK Custom House man writes
that he has heard ladies of refinement,
wealth, position and education, lie a Gus
| toms officer out of cOuntenance.
| RICH gold mines are reported TO have
| been discovered in the mountains on the
north fork of the Ouachita River, near
the Choctaw line, in the Indian Territory
A WEST NEwBURY (Mass) man has won
a wager of $15 by eating twelve boxes
| of saIdines, a quart of raw pea beans
and pound OF bar soap within three
days.
The latest is described as "trimmed
inside with gold fringe and tassels, with
| very snowy urns on the top, drapcd with
gold and plumes." This is Hartford
hearSe.
BUFF colored linen travelling suits
trimmed with a darker shade of the same
material will be much worn during the
season and are cut and made in the polo
naise style.
THE Hill Brothers, farmers of Windsor
Locks Station, Conn.,, are the proud own
ers OF cow which turns the scales at
5000 pounds. She is six years old, and
was raised by her present owners.
A LOUISVILLE boy wanted to leave a
cold world in which his mother would
only give him two pieces of pie for lin
ner, and so he swallowed several percus-
sion caps, but they didn't kill him.
Two Detroit girls have been arrested
for getting on a locomotive, opening the
throttle-valve and starting the machine.
They then jumped off, but the engine ran
through Il freight train doing 800 dam
age.
AN East Lyme Comm man, who had
got sick of harboriHg tranps, took one of
them before trial justice, the other day, |
but what was his astonishment when the |
vagrant produced bank book with 81 300 |
to his credit IN it.
A STATE fish law recently enacted by |
the Pennsylvania Legislature provides, |
among other things, that " no person shall |
have in his or her possession, after the |
same has been killed, any black bass,
ing other waters"
A NUMBER of nervous invalid ladies in
Columbus, Ohio, recently published
card complaining of the excessive tolling
of church bells on Sundays and during
the week. This had the effect of stopping
the tolling of bells altogether, except to
call meeting" twice on the Sabbath.
THEY have sharp lawyers down East
One of them marketing for a dinner, asks
a poultry dealer, is that turkey young
oneg' "Yes, sir" "Will you take your
oath on it," Certainly, l will" Law
yer administers the oath, charges 81 for
the service, and takes his pay in poultry.
A HARTFORD man put valuable clus-
ter diamond pin in a little box and hid
it in the stutfing of a lounge for safe
keeping, some time ago; few days since
he carried the lounge to a furniture man
to have it repaired, but didn't think of
the precious gems; they have disap-
peared, but the furniture man says he
doesn't know anything about them.
THERE are a dozen Irish women in
Boston who are " boss" workwomen and
scrubbers, who hire hundreds of persons
to clean the places of regular customers,
and who have become rich at the bust
ness. One of these boss" scrubbers has
succeeded in buying a S25 900 house on
kneeland street, and rides in her gay
carriage in imitation of Beacon street
ladies.
KENTUCKY comes to the front with one
of the greatest marvels of the present
age. In a town of considerable size in
that State there resides a lady who makes
ii her boast that she has had but one new
bonnet in forty years, has made but two
calls on neigh bOrS in eighteen years, and
has taken but one meal away from home
in all that time. And yet she is well off, |
in good health and all her limbs perfectly
sound.
THE conduct of State Constables Max
well and Skinner in making seizure of
liquor at Wildes' Hotel, at Chicopee
Falls, Mass, recently, while the proprie-
or's daughter was dying in the house,
and another shortly after when the prep
irations for the burial were being made,
excited IA wide and deep feeling in the
and n petition, signed by
more than 400 residents of Chicopee Falls !
md Chicopee, was sent TO Boston asking
or their removal.
TIMOTHY WHEELER, of Waterbury Cen
err, VT, has some remarkable ideas about
God and drink. He has confined himself
. vegetable diet for ten years, and, 7
i've years ago, he got it into his head that |
people in general drink too much; &C t
.ordingly, he went thirty eight days the i
irst year without taking any liquids into '
lis system, the second year seventy days, /
he third year one hundred and thirty, the I
ourth one hundred and seventy, and, up t
o the 10th of April, he had gone two /
hundred and overweight days in the !