American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-07-11
CURRENT ITEMS.

THE ladies' drcss-reform question is
now agitating the country to IL greater
extent than ever.
| THE Anthropometrical is the name OF
a new association This is the scholastic
way of saying journcymen tailors.
\ NEW stone has been discovered neal
| Frankfort, Ky, which when ground and
| mixed with linseed oil makes an excellent
paint.
THERE is an old maid in Lowell, Mass.
who shows the documents to prove that
she has refused over forty offers of mar
| riage.
Two girls have gone into the green hide
business in San Francisco, and are max
ing money. Neither of them is over
seventeen.
A GIRL arrested in Boston the other
day for stealing an apple was so weak for
want of food that she tainted away in the
court room.
In Missouri the fall of honey dew is
heavier this season than has been known
for many years. This is said to be Il sure
indication of a heavy corn crop.
JACKSON GERARD, of Benton Me-, went
to sleep soon after leaving the breakfast
table Il few days ago, and at last accounts
all attempts to awaken him had proved
unavailing.
DOROTHY WILLIAMS, of Wyoming, start
ed to walk three miles to church the
other day, and they found her torn into
about fifty pieces, the result of meeting
a grizzly bear OF low moral character.
GEN THOMAS EWING, of Ohio, proposes
to donate tract of land for miners
school or school of miners. and measures
are under way for the establishment of a
National institute for practical miners.
A CONVENTION of wOrkingmen, dele
gates from trades-unions, factory opera
tives and labor refOrmers generally, will
be held in Worcester, Mass, about the
middle of August, to nominate State
ticket.
IT is understood that a number of lady
students are to enter the Boston Meth
odisD School of Theology next fall
the Trustees having assured candidates
that the doors of the seminary are open
to all, without respect to sex.
SAYS a broken-hearted Pennsylvania
farmer: d" If the new Constitution had
had a clause inserted outlawing sewing
machine and lightning rod men it would
have been carried by majority that
would have been unanimous"
A New ENGLAND philosopher has dis
covered that the dull times are IA bless
ing in disguise, because there is prob
ably no other way of checking the
fcverish intensity of American business
life and compelling the busy workers to
take it easy"
A LITTLE girl in Rowley, Mass, has
earned Il dollar and a quarter by catch
ing woodchucks at twenty-five cents
apiece. She snaps them up as they put
their heads out of the hole. Such IA live
steel-trap will not be particularly safe to
meet one of these days.
SOMEHOW or other, Pennsylvania folks
do not like Marylanders. When they
hear man talking about COW and pro-
nouncing it keOw," they just step out
right lively, murmuring as they go,
" Poor fellow, he must have come from
the eastern shore of Maryland. "-Brook
Ign Argus.
THE Dallas (Tex) Herald records the
story of two young men who, while out
riding, saw pockct-book lying in the
buggy to get it. The hurry broke "A
finger of one of them and dislocated the
ankle of the other, and the pocket-book
contained nothing.
A Boston boss scrub-woman," who
has in her employ hundred other
women, has regular work for all, and has
become rich, recently bought $4,000
house on Il fashionable street, and rides
in her carriage in imitation of the fash
lOnaDle ana wealthy LADIES.
BECAUSE he had been sued for SO, a
Barton (Nt) man committed suicide, de-
claring that if he had got SO low that his
name was not good for 500 he did not
want to live any longer. Such sensitive
ness is extremely rare in America, and
our friends in England must not be mis-
led by an isolated case like this.
SOME Iowa farmers cherish the fond
hope that the sevcntecn-year locust, SO
long promised, will really make its ap-
pearance this year, for they are tired of
being eaten out of house and home by
the slow operations of the forty varieties
of bugs now at work, and want the job
finished up at once.-N. Y. World.
CORREsPoNDENCE from Hastings, Mich,
relates fatal accident to little child
of Robert Mitchell. The mother was
washing and had left pail of hot water
moving backward, sat, scalding it ter
ribly. 1t fingered two or three days be-
fore death relieved it of its suflerings.
THERE was very sad occurrence late
ly, near the residence of Jonathan Her
rington, few miles northwest of Hills
borO, Mo. Elijah Burgess with his fami-
ly were visiting Herrington's, and the
boys were out on a steep hill side or bluff
They had been amusing themselves roll
ing stones down the hill, when two of
them concluded to go to the foot of the
bluff to see the rocks jump off. a large
stone was started from above and warn
ing given to the boys below, when Il little
son of Burgess, nine years of age, stepped
out from behind IA tree and the rock
struck him on the head, smashing his
skull and killing him instantly.
THE Japanese have taken sudden
fancy to the German Language. They
learn rapidly, but they are fond of
change and have no perseverance, so
that the teachers are obliged frequently
to alter the subject of study. Moreover,
the best pupils leave them just as they
are beginning to get on; directly il
Japanese understands Il few words of
German he goes to Yeddo to seek en-
ployment. Fortunately the number of
pupils is very great. Since the Emperor
himself has taken to study, and Govern
ment appointments at 1eddo are only
given to educated people instead of
being sold to the highest bidder it has
become fashionable to go to school.
IT is now decisively demonstrated in
science that colds are the
effect of arrangements of the stomach
and the blood. When" says writer
its prime, with youth, vigor, purity, and Il
good constitution on its side, no degree
of ordinary exposure to cold gives rise to
any unpleasant effects. All the ordinary
precautions against colds, coughs, and
rheumatic pains may be disrcgarded, and
no ill effects enSue. But let the blood
become impure, let the body become de
ranged from any acqu ~ disorder,pr let
the vigOr begin to wand, and the lnflrml-