American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-08-22
CURRENT ITEMS.


AN affectionate sight-Barrels in tiers
rains hard.
THE centennial of oxygen must have
been Il gassy affair.
POWDERED meerschaum is now used
by ladies as Il cosmetic.
A SPEAKER is no longer in sympathy
with his audience, but he is en rappoTt
with it.
UNCLE JIr is Il Detroit negro who lets
the boys crack cocoanuts on his head fol
fifty cents apiece
ONE of the religious papers affirms
that practical Christianity is the great
need OF the times.
AN Ohio housewife sulicidcd the other
day because her kettle OF soft soap
wouldn't make
ALTHOUGH doubtful things are I'M
certain, il cannot be denied that certain
things are doubtful.
A SINGLE company has a monopoly OF
the ice business in Boston this year.
That's nice business.
A MAN with a scolding wife on being
asked what he did for IA living, replied
that he kept dollhouse.
A WORKMAN found in the Allegheny
River, the other day, gold ring, in
scribed Lafayette, 1924"
THE King of the Sandwich Islands adj
vises the negotiation of reciprocity
treaty with the United States.
THEY keep selling the Smith sisters
COW for taxes in Connecticut, and all
New England is in an excitement about it.
A New York man has christened his
daughter Glycerine. He says it will be
easy to prefix nitro if her temper resem-
bles her mothers.
WHEN the wife is detected showing
unusual affection for her husband, 1t may
fairly be expected that she will appear
before long in Il new bonnet.
A HARDIN COUNTY (Ky) farmer pro-
poses to fatten about sixty hogs on
onions alone, and for that purpose has
planted large crop of the esculent.
THE New York Commercial resents the
charge that women dress to please the
men Statistics show that the chief end
of woman's dress is to impOverish men.
IT may be interesting to know that the
autumn bonnet will have a huge box
plated crown and IL rim turning up di-
rectly in front, held in position by huge
bow
A CoLoRED Mrs. Partington, of New
Orleans, observed the other day that her
husband held the " stinguished position
of supplementary on the metropolitan
police"
Now is the time when the irresponsi-
BILE urchin glueth the house-ty's wings to-
gether and walketh him against time
around the nose of his sleeping grand
father.
NOBLE Lords are scarce at the water
ng-place hotels, and IA cruel Western
nan accounts for it on the ground that it
IS not time for the BARRIERS to take their
summer vacation.
THE following is a cerbatim ct Eterattm
copy of job brought into an office in
Ohio by minister: THE
vouse of tobacka is stricktly forbiton in
his gurch. Newspaper Reporter-
ILL-ExECUTED ccunterfeits of the latest
ssues of the fifty and ten cent currency
ire in circulation; ingenious enough to
De taken by the unwary but not enduring
very close inspection.
AN elderly malice in Lockport, n v,
purchased one of the Egyptian mummies
1t the Niagara Falls Museum the other
Law for ii parlor ornament. She said 1t
would seem better to have man around,
wen if he was advanced in life and
A FARMER in Wyoming County is think
ng of going to Colorado, and writes to "A
riend that he would like to find some
widow like the one named Ruth, who for
second husband married Il chap with
he absurd cognomen of BoaZ, and who is
eadv like her to say, Where thou go
Vest | will go
A GERMAN who wouldn't take Il dare
i.
ng off the st, Louis bridge. But on
ashore, with his head covered
With mud, he was welcomed by a police
nan, who not only wouldn't let him col
ect his hard earned wager but escorted
i'm off to the calaboose.
ONE for those who use tobacco: In
ecent number of the .HedtcaI Times is
he following: "A young girl suffering
rom severe and uncomfortable vomiting,
Indcr DR.. BeaumetZ' care at the Hotel
)ieu, was, after the Intellectual trial of
arious remedies, ordered to smoke :.
igarette after each meal This, SO long
$ its use was persisted in, seemed to
heck the vomiting entirely"
THE Lancet asserts that night work is
ot injurious to adults under certain
onditions. The hours of sleep should
ever be curtailed, and the light should
re white, powerful, steady and concen-
rated by Il shade upon the work. 1t
rgues that an insufficient, Pickering, or
90 ditfuscd light is one of the most
erious causes in producing brain irrita-
ion which troubles night workers.
TIE proverbial misery which visits
nybody who interteres between man and
life seems to have been happily averted
v public action in Il little Western New
'ork village. Therein resides young
entleman occupying, as the villagers re
ort, Il responsible and prominent posi-
ion, and this young, responsible and
romincnt gentleman has Il wife of whom
c is so fond that he constantly mani |
ests that fondncss by divers bcatings |
nd howlings at her. She being, like |
Hiss Miggs, IA mis'able orphing," public |
and Indignation Immediately |
cyan to wake themselves. Safety was
ought in numbers A mass meeting was
allied, the most influential citizens at
ended it, several fiery speeches were |
,ade and Il string of resolutions adopted, |
cnouncing the sweet domestic ways of |
his responsible and prominent young |
ian.
Nor while one human heart beats will !
he tales of woman's devotion to the OBJ
ects of her affection cease to be told. |
n the absence of our poet we Will at
empt to note in sober prose, though with
rofound emotion an instance OF this |