American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-08-15
CURRENT ITEMS.
The autumn silks will be striped.


prairie, eating grass.
| SIX men recently caught 900 grow
trout in one day in Montana stream.
| THE latest "charm" for watch chains
is a stick of caustic TO cauterize do:
| bites.
| a MONTGOMERY Gnd) squash vim,
grew three-ieet and four inches in tw,
and a half days, by actual measurement
FRENCH mIlliners are already at worl
upon the autumn bonnet. They hav,
promised to produce Il . perfect love"
THE kid glove for full dress now come
within three inches of the elbow and ha
the unusuai number of fifteen buttons
\ BRooKLYN girl claims to hav,
changed her dress and completed he
toilet in three minutes, the other after
noon.
Ir is shrewdly observed that sawdus
pills would cure great many diseases il
the patient would only make his own
sawduSt.
A GUN standing in the corner of ;
room i'll house at Monrovia, Ind, was
fired Off by electricity during Il recent
thunderstorm
WHEN "A man saves his cigar money tC
buy his wife new bonnet and the chill
dren new shoes, it indicates a spell OF
sunshine.-Dan6ury NeUs-
AN old maid is not without power. A
writer observes that he has known one
such to turn a steamboat excursion into
an occasion of gloom and dependency.
A BRUSSELS telegram says the Wash
ington Government has given notice to
terminate the treaty of commerce and
navigation with Belgium the LIST of July,
1915.
ANOTHER idiot plays with rifle, and
his lovely and accomplished sister is
thercupon dressed in a shroud He
should now be made to play with Il noosed
rope.
THERE are no bouquets about "A news
paper office, but sometimes the contents
of the paste-cup acquire maturity
which by any other name would smell as
sweet.
A SCIENTIST announces that human
being has 100000 of pores through
which perspiration and exhausted parti-
Giles of the system escape. We are all
pore creatures.
KATE FIELD writes from Spain that if
nature would economize on fleas, and
disburse the extra energy on the men OF
that country, she would be doing a thrifty
piece of business.
IT is said that the Transatlantic
the award of the British Admiralty
Court, in the case of the abandoned
steamship Amerique.
\ TRAVELLING circus company has sued
the village of Great Falls, n. H., for
damages incurred through the unre-
paired condition of its roads, whereby
several of the troupe got great falls.
THICKER than the surrounding foil
age, with wings like Apollyon's, beak
like an artesian auger, and u voice like
the sound of many waters" is poetic
description of the New Jersey mosqui
toes
Miss McIIENRY, of st. Stephens Church
Philadelphia, sets II noble example to
women who wish to be of real use in the
world. She has raised 100000 for
three church homes, which care for 600
children.
AN awful animal, ten feet long, with
yellow eyes, switchy tail, cream olored
fur and shrieky voice, is what some rail
road laborers say they saw in the night
on Dresden Mountain, VT Probably a
combination of cat and imagination.
A STREET BEGGAR in New York says
that the panic has ruined him. His col
lections have dropped to So day; rents
have fallen 30 per cent, and he has two
houses and three stores empty even at
this reduction.
ACCORDING to the census, there are
only two men in America who make a
specially of the manufacture of hand
organs. Just think how easy it would
be to kill those two men, and yet they
still live.-N. y. World.
THIS is the way in which an observer
classifies them: The Comanches have
Il concealed look; the Kiowas more fear
Loo ha hos DIV
set. The Sioux have all three of these
looks and more to suit occasions
THIsTLEs are growing thriftily in the
streets of Victoria, and the papers are
ciamoring for the enforcement Of the
ordinance against noNious weeds They
say in effect: Thistle never do."-.San
Frdncisco Chr0Htcle.
TINE seems to be duh with the doctors
also Recently little girl with Il can of
kerosene was followed six squares by five
physicians. They were sitting on the
fence in front OF the house late at nj ght
awaiting the Observation-Disclosures Sen
ttuei.
A MARRIAGE took place in this city yes
terday, which, on account of certain cir
cumstances in the case" should not go
unnoticed The bridegroom, we under
stand, is uwenty-six, the bride about fifty.
The present happy man is her fifth hus-
band; No. was buried between one and
two months ago.-CumberldHd (Vd)
Ne,rS
SOME sharpers in New York have been
persuading Western farmers into send
ing them money for Alsatian cabbage
seed, the seed being guaranteed to pro
duce cabbagcs weighing from forty to
sixty pounds. They have done lucra-
tive business, but the police are looking
after them and their harvest is over.
THERE is nothing like neighborly sym
pathy. A Boston baby fell out of bed
the other morning, and during the next
three hours eight women in the neigh
borhood made twenty-three inquiries
concerning its health and its mother had
to drop it twenty three times to go to the
front window to answer.-Bost0H Giobe.
A YOUNG lady stopping in Brattleboro,
VT, for few days sent friend OF hers
to the store to get "a pair of shoes. She
told her friend to get number fives, but
her friend, being anxious to secure good
fit for her, ordered the storekeeper to
change the mark on a pair If sevens.
He did so, and the lady said they fitted
better than any she had had in Il long
time.
ANOTHER brutal father has turned up
in the person of William n. Bates, OF
South birmingham, Mass, who, after
having forced his wife to leave him, three
years ago, at the instigation of his
mother, began a systematic abuse of his
three children, keeping them upon short
rations all the while, and binding them
to post in the barn when he was par
ticularly mad with them. He was i'm
prisoned by the State authorities.
y CURIOSITY of the polecat persuasion