American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-10-03
CURRENT ITEMS.

nent sward is deep soil.
Battle often, but at proper times
never after meal or directly after vic
lent exercise.
LET your motto he Destruction to al
kinds of weeds, in all places, and at al
seasons of the year"
AN attempt was made to burn the Ne
braska State Insane Asylum the othel
day, by a crazy woman.
BUTTERMILK is an almost unfailins
cure for scurvy in hogs. Merely pour the
buttcrmilk over them IA few times in the
pen
IT is estimated that England will wan
but $40, 000, 900 worth of wheat this
year, against the 5000 900 paid last
year.
| A TENNESSEE man wrote his will on {
paper collar, and it passed safely through
the courts, although little unhandy fol-
filing.
THE only thing that it bothcrs grass
hopper to swallow is a tour-legged table
a well-developed hopper can worry it
down, but the legs tickle his throat.
MEERsCHAUM is likely to become an
article of the toilet, as it is found that
the chips, when ground to powder, make
a delicate and very effective cosmetic.
THE EYEBRows-Thc growth of the
bing in IA little glycerine and bay rum.
Also brush them occasionally with Il
small brush.
| SALTS of lemon will take ink stains
out of cotton, and spirits of ammonia
out of wooden goods. Acid stains may
be removed by applying, first, ammonia,
to neutraliZe the acid, and then using
chloroform.
| BLUING FOR CLoTHEs-Take an ounce
of soft Prussian blue, powder 1t and put
it in a bottle with one quart of clear rain
water, and add half an ounce of oxalic
acid. A teaspoonful is sufficient for Il
large washing.
| To MAKE ARTIFICIAL HoNEY-Mix eight
pounds of refined sugar and twO-thirds
of an ounce of alum in one pint of pure
soft water. Add to one pint of alcohol
five drops of oil of roses. Four table
| spoonfuls of the alcohol and oil of rose
mixture is sufficient for eight pounds of
honey.
EXCELLENT paper pillows may be made
of old letters-the sitter the paper the
| better. Newspapers will not do. The
paper should be cut into slips and rolled
round an ivory knitting needle. 1t is
| then almost like spring, and makes a
much better cushion than the torn paper
being more elastic.
II
at Lincoln, the capital. The State adj
vanced money on the church building for
school purposes and, the debt falling due,
the property was offered for sale. There
being no offer high enough to pay the
debt the church was bid in in the name of
the Commonwealth. 1t is probably the
first instance in the United States of
State owning church building.
TOBACCO which contains great guam
|
meerschaums. The pipe is most beauti-
fully colored when done so gradually by
never allowing it to get very hot, and
thus eNpelling the wax from the meer
schaum by degrees. When you first use
the pipe only half fill it with tobacco,
| and on every occasion after smoking al
low it to cool thoroughly before you use
it again.
STRAWBERRIES, when grown in hills
the most laborious but most productive
method of growing them-should have
runners cut off as they grow, and the
surface soil kept loose by shallow hoe
ings occasionally. Short litter, half
rotten, as Il mulch, is also beneficial.
Lawn mowings are often applied, but
with little benefit. Where they are
grown in beds they should not be too
thick, as they starve one another, and
the crop next year will be poor.
NEAR Summit Hill, an eminence in the
neighborhood of Mauch Chunk, Pa,
there is IL natural cave two hundred feet
long, seventy-five wide and thirty high,
in which the temperature is so low that
the water of the mountain springs trick
ling through the roof is quickly changed
by it to ice. Hence floor, walls, and
ceiling of the cave are perpetually COW
cred with ice of crystal clearness, and in
beautiful fantastic shapes, though the
temperature outside may be glowing in
the nineties.
A COUNTRYwOMAN went into a store on
Hanover street, Boston, the other day,
and, putting four dollars on the counter,
remarked to clerk There; fourteen
years ago, twill be fifteen this fall, 1
bought something next door and gave
them a dollar bill, but they couldn't give
me change; so they sent a boy into the
next shop, and he brought me back the
change for five dollars instead of one
dollar. l took it; but faint no use |
amt going to keep it no longer; so there
it is, all back again." and before the as
tonished clerk had time to make any in
quiries she was gone.
IT is frequently urged, as an argu-
ment against the ordinary method of
muzzling dogs, that it closes the mouth,
and thereby prevents perspiration,
which, in the dog, is said to take place
only through the mouth. This, accord
ing to Lana and Water, is an error,
perspiration going on through the skin,
as in other animals. The idea of per
spiratory glands in the tongue is charac-
terized as absurd, these organs being
only found in the dogs skin, which is
abundantly supplied with them. The
real cruelty of the close or strap muZZle
is, that it hinders free respiration, rather
than free perspiration.-Pop Science
Honthly for October.
A HIT.-It liz hard work to distinguish
between a sukcess and hit, but thare IL
just about the same difference between
them that thare liz between two frogs,
one may be Il little quicker on the jump
than the other. a boy throws a stun ut
a rooster and knoKs him over-he makes
a hit. He didn't mean to do it, and
therefore il may not be called II sukcess,
and he IL just about az mulch surpriZed as
the rooster IL. Sukcess IL the result
IA plan, but hit IL often Il pure acksi
dent. Hits and successes both are about
az skarzc az to hav the mcaZles twice.
But | don't want to be understood that !
konsider two krops ov the meazles mulch
ov Il hit.-Josh BUings
SELLING berries by the foot is Il new
idea, the offspring of IA Milwaukee girls
brain The young lady, who was on
marketing expedition, desired to pur-
chase some berries whcrcwith to add Zcst
to her evening repast, but she wouldn't
trust the fraudulent little boxes which
the grocers with pleasing fiction call
quarts She wanted fun Scriptural
measure, and proposed to the dealer to
adopt her shoe MS the standard of quaint
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