American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-01-17
CURRENT ITEMS.

ed in Norristown.
A HAPPY couple living at Adams, N. Y.
/ have been married over seventy-foul
years.
| MEMPHIS hopes to become " the
great radiating center Of European i'm
migrants"
An Oshkosh man has built a steam
wagon, with which to haul wood on lake
| WInnebago.
| In Hazleton, Pa, there are seventy
| liquor saloons seen in the face of pro
hibitory law.
| Do not run in debt TO the shoemaker
| 1t is unpleasant to be unable to say youI
| sole is your own.
| BENDER proposes to use the velocity OF
sound to determine the density of gases
and their molecular weight.
THE season is SO spring-like in Califor-
mia that the people OF San Diego were re-
Gently digging in their gardens.
FIVE Philadelphia merchants who on
the 1st of January, 1873, were worth
$3.50 900 each, are now bankrupts.
AN exchange calls its items d" Tail-feath-
ers'' 1t is unnecessary to add that
they are plucked from its contempora-
rles.
A RICH old lady in New Haven, Conn,
keeps her hens in the parlor, and feeds
them with jelly-cake and English wal
nuts.
a COMPANY is organizing in London
for the purpose of purchasing large tracts
of land in the mineral region of West
Virginia.
SMALL children. dressed entirely in
white fur, with blue ribbon trimmings,
are a conspicuous feature of New York
promenadeS.
A MONTANA man has been eXiled from
the Territory under penalty of pitch and
plumage, for the crime of marrying a
China woman.
THE wooden nutmeg business has de
clined; but homemade eggs of white
maple are now being manufactured at
Bakersville, Conn.
THE snow in the San Juan mines, Utah,
on the 1st inst, was from two to fifteen
feet deep, ard the miners were pulling up
stakes and emigrating.
A POEM appeared in Boston paper
lately, written by servant vino lived
twenty years in family" Such a cele-
bri'y should give readings.
THE Philadelphia carpet weavers have
formally resolved that they will ''unitedly
resist to their latest breath the proposed
reduction of two cents on their wages.
A SCRANTON paper, in giving an &C
wounded man Is expected to recover, as
the pistol ball lodged in his dinner pail.
ONE of the Washington correspondents
looks over the Senate and pronounces the
purest American type to be Il thin, dark,
intelligent face, bearded only on the chin.
THE saloon-keepers at Lawrence, Mass,
did rushing business in selling shop
tonic" but the State police came down
on them like wolf on the fold, declaring
that it was as bad as ale.
ALDERMANIC work in Fort Scott, Kan
sas, is onerous, and doesn't pay. Mrs.
Guernsey fired at some burglars one
night, and the pext day one of the Alder
men had his arm amputated.
HoRsEFLEsH is selling remarkably
cheap in Vermont. A span of horses was
recently sold for nine dollars, and in two
or three cases Il two-d dollar greenback was
all that was necessary to conclude bar
gain.
A BANGOR gentleman sent his servant
to kill a fowl for dinner the other day,
and was somewhat mortified to find that
the fellow had sacrificed the life of a pure
blooded Spanish game cock, for which
$50 had been refused the day previous.
A swINDLER is going around soldering
tinware. 1f he can get hold of piece of
tinware, he will punch two holes in it,
one large and the other small. He will
then mend the small hole, and if the owner
refuses to buy his solder he will leave the
large one unmended.
In Castro Valley, Alameda County,
California, there is forest of Australian
gum trees covering over one hundred
acres. The trees were planted only three
and half years ago, and some have at
tanned height of fifty feet and diane
ter of twelve inches.
THE meanest man is always coming to
the surface, but it is too bad that Christ
mas should develop him this time. He
lives at Salem, Mass, and is landlord.
He raised his rents on learning that
charitable society was about TO assist
some of his needy tenants.
SNow-BIRps are esteemed a great deli
Cacy in Nevada, where the Indians shoot
them with bows and arrows. These
birds, though small, are exceedingly
plump, and seven or Ell ght of them skew
cred ON a cambria needle and broiled on
thimbleful of Goals make delicious
morsel.
A WOMAN confined in New England
lunatic asylum managed to obtain
Zor, and, pushing out her tongue us far as
possible, cut it off even with her teeth.
As this did not produce death she jumped
out of the second story window, but was
picked up with no bones broken. She
was then taken to hospital, where she
will not annoy her nurses by talking.
a CoNNECTICUT man, while eating fish,
got bone in his throat which irrltated
and panied him excessively. For forty
eight hours he tasted, in the hope that the
bone would leave the throat, but it did
not. A friend suggested that he should
swallow an egg. He tried the experiment
and felt the bone move; he then swallow
ed another egg, and it was gone entirely
A VESSEL of 600 tons recently got both
of her anchors entangled with the Allan
tic cable in the gut of CanSo. The cap
tain offered to cut his chains for $1,000,
or on condition of receiving new anchors
and chains and $50 a day demurrage
while he was detained waiting for them,
otherwise he would raise his anchors,
which would almost certainly break the
cable. The telegraph company would
probably ACCEPT his terms.
A Boston firm prints its card on small
section of the backs of postal cards, and
then sells them to very economical people
for 81 cents on the hundred. The Gov
eminent has decided the practice is all
right The cnterprising firm which does
the business gets its card abundantly cir
culated for Isl Tooth of II cent per Giro;
the sendeTs of the cards save that amount
on each of the precious missives; the
Government gets its regular cent all the
same, and everybody is happy.
A CHURCH fair device in Troy rather
knocks the mock marriage chip off Tai
madgc's shoulder A ragged colored
man and vom IN entered the crowded
rooms and pleaded for aims. They said
they We're starving, and their plight
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