American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-08-08
CURRENT ITEMS.

governed by cheek.
\ LITTLE ammonia in water Is one OF
the best head-cleaners there IS.
If Il man doesn't take care OF No. l, he
| will soon have to take care OF.
ROSE HERsEE is engaged to Albert
HowelIs, of the old Parepa Rosa troupe
| MISS MIDDy MORGAN, the cattle re-
porter of the New York Tribune, will lect-
ure.
Boston sent 1000 books to Iceland by
Dr. Hayes rs gift to her ,O0Oth celebra-
ton.
| MANY a mans vices have at first been
| nothing worse than good qualities run
wild.
| REy. DIR. TAIMADGE receives 10000 let
| tiers in year He finds time to answer
1000.
| HE comet is supposed to be a dog.
star run mad-a sort of rabid skye
| terrier.
THIS is said to be ministers leap year.
August, their vacation month, has five
Sundays.
In single day, recently, ,55S China
men were landed in California from two
steamers.
THE CITY of Chattanooga has voted to
give 500 900 to the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad.
THE poet Longfellow is to write life
of Charles Sumner, of whom he was a
warm friend.
ONE hundred rifles Il day is about the
present working capacity of the Spring
field Armory.
A BoRE-A man who persists in talk
ing about himself when you wish to talk
about yourself.
JOY and hope in the morning. gloom
and disappointment at night, describe
the average picnic.
MORE people have been killed in cele
brating independence Day than there
were in establishing it.
THE Connecticut Historical Society has
come into possession of Andre pocket
book and Arnold's watch.
THE wheat crop in many portions of
Iowa is already cut and the yield is bet
ter than for years previous
A STURGEON weighing 155 pounds was
caught few days since in one OF the
small lakes at Madison, Wis.
THE Watertown On. W Times says the
pear crop of Jefferson County Will
amount to almost nothing this year
Miss HAGGIE PRICE, of Norfolk, Va,
has duck which laid ninety eggs In
ninety davs, and then went to setting
his rides on horseback, said that all at
once the horse stopped, but l kept right
on"
ONE farmer in Monmouth County, N.
J.. who has six acres in blackberrles,
sold last season fruit to the value of
$4,000.
Iowa raises most of the eggs "whole-
sailed in New York city Fifteen thou
sand barrels have been forwarded since
January.
AT Hancock, on Lake Superior, the
form in procession and
march up the street following load of
potatoes.
A NEAPoLITAN composer, who was a
pupil of DoniZetti, is writing mass to
be sung on the seventy-siXth anniversary
of his birth.
HARD words are like hail-stones in
summer, beating down and destroying
what they would nourish If they were
melted into drops
THE New York Herald has been COM |
PEELED to remind the scenc-painter at
Niblo's that steamships do not sail stern |
foremost, as rule.
ROBERT WATSON was arrested few |
DAYS since in New York on the charge of
to pass forged $1,000 bond
at the Sub-Treasury.
DANIEL LAMBERT was the heaviest man
that ever lived. He exhibited himself In
London in 1906, and died in 1909, weigh
ing upward of 720 pounds.
THE largest room in the world under Il
single roof, unbroken by pillars or other
is at St. Petersburg; 800
feet long and $50 feet wide.
DURING a hurricane in Kansas County
Treasurer owned up that he had stolen
81 800 of county money, but after the
wind subsidized he denied it.
WHY is lawyer the worst sleeper in
he world? Because he first lies on one
side, and then he lies on the other, and
ne is wide awake all the time.
AN extensive open-air demonstration
against the money grant to Prince Leo
bold was made by the republicans IN
England, recently.
WHAT kind of sassages is them?"
,ueried an old lady of the young man of
literature and peanuts as he passed
through the train selling bananas.
A DEPUTY UNITED STATES COMMITS
HOMER OF FISHERIES is soon to place
70. 600 shad in the head waters of the Bra
os and Colorado Rivers, in Texas. .
THERE is no fruit in California tina
hrives so well as the fig. The orange is
Uncertain, and has ruined many cult
ators but the fig is never-failing.
YoUNG LADY" That piece just played
vas by Wagner-wasn't it too lovely for
nvthing?" Young gentleman" Yes;
nd amt his palace cars just gay"
A uoMELY woman in Auburn, n. Y, .
icing impolitcly accused of the fact,
aid she didn't see why woman hasn't
$ much right to be homely as Il man."
A DEAD eagle was found near Detroit {
" boys few days since-a very large | {
ne, which had been wounded by some
unter's bullet and had dropped there to
ie."
COLORADO is fine place for specula-
ions. paupcr recently escaped from
he Poor-House there and made 81 300 in
and spcculations before he could be re
aptured.
TIE tin-boxing of sardines has begun
4 California. These delicate fish
bound from San Diego to Pugct's Sound,
nd the boxers pay fifty cents Il bushel
or them.
4 HORSE named Chunk walked in the |
'ourth of July procession in New Bed
ord, Mass. He is twenty-five years old,
nd has been used by the fire depart
Icnt for fourteen years.
Mrs. MARY FEELY, of st. Louis, travel
lg on the Nandalia train, though she
ut her book in her stocking, was
Dbbed of it, her hose being cut open :
lille she innocently slumbercd.
THE editor ofthe Paducah HoetucaiaH, .
dving accepted nomination for the
flee of Coroner, says that many years
XpcIioncc within the precincts of Cairo
nudcrs him an excellent judge of Il dead
nan.