American citizen., 1874-10-24
CURRENT ITEMS.

A MuLKMAN in Easton, Pa. hasn't
missed a day for thirty-t~o years.
An Oswego County On. " milkman
has been fined 5000 for watering his
milk
\ BUSINESS note: Paper mills are run
ming on reduced time and paper on eX
tended time.
A PERSON in Hardwick, Mo, displayed
the following inscription on his fence:
" Nobuddy hitch no hosscs to this fens."
A Missouri Judge has just decided
that a woman is not an old maid until she
is thirty five. The Judge has since be-
come very popular.
EIGHT drunken men were thrown out
of Il Detroit hack, recently, all of them
escaping uniniured The driver, who
was sober, barely escaped with his life.
THE strongest man in Cincinnati is a
doctor, who can hold man of equal
weight with himself at arms length in
either hand. He can also, with his
fingers, twist a ten-penny nail into a
screw.
A COUNTRY school-teacher in Center
County, Pa, has taught three terms in
one place without receiving dollar of
pay, and now threatens to prosecute him
self for living without any visible means
of support
A GEORGIA editor says that the Sunday
edition of his paper will carpet road
twenty-siX inches wide for fifty miles. a
great many lies would be trodden under
foot if his paper were devoted to such
purpose.-Nor7isto,on Herald.
THE State of Maine sold large lot of
its timber lands at auction the other day.
About 14O, 1000 acres were disposed of at
70
acre, and the right to cut timber and
grass upon about 100000 acres more was
sold at from 27t cents to $1.75 per acre.
The total amount realized was about
$3.50. 900.
A DECATUR man tried TO put his calf
back in the lot. He had it tied with a
rope and the rope twisted around his
wrists. His dog joined him in the at
tempt. His face had the appearance of
having been sand-papercd. He thinks
of sending the calf out 10 pasture. The
funeral services of the dog were very i'm
posing.-Dorer IN. J) MdH.
IT is only since the telling of the for
ests of Asia Minor and Syrene that the
locust has become so fearfully destruc-
tive in those countries; and the gra asshop-
per, which now threatens to be almost as
great pest to the agriculture of some
North American soils, breeds in serious
ly injurious numbers only where wide
extent of surface is bare of woods.
THE organ grinding business seems to
pay. A ragged and abject-looking pro-
fessOr of the hand-organ, accompanied
by monkey, after Il three days sojourn
at Staunton, Va, went to the bank before
leaving and got large notes for $500, so
that he could conceal it on his person.
In reply to the surprised inquiry of the
hav IL T. n I-a
it all"
WHILE Western journalist was writ
ing an account of a burglary his own
room was broken into and robbed by
thieves. A warning to editors not to
write up burglaries. And as the thieves
only secured four volumes of patent
office reports and seventy-five cents in
mutilated currency it is also warning
| to them not to break into editors rooms.
-NOrrssto,cn Herald.
A DETROIT lady, who has been in Cal
ifornia for some months past, started
for home the other day and one of her
relatives went to the telegraph office in
Sacramento and notified the husband in
Detroit, saying: Your wife starts this
morning" So far so good, but he didn't
have money to pay for the dispatch, and,
feeling little cheap over it, he added to
dispatch-left my money at home; will
make it all right the next time l write to
you" The twenty-five extra words made
a bill which caused the Detroiter to turn
pale.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Montgomery
(Ala.) Aduertiser, writing from Dallas,
Tex, says that upon entering the EX-
change Hotel, in that place, he saw "a
lady lingering the piano in really artistic
style, who, upon his asking for a lady
boarder, replied politely, "Walk in, sir
the hotel" and continued her difficult
music. This lady was Mrs. Reid, widow
of the chief of the gang of Western
| stage robbers. Her husband was killed
| recently by another of the gang for the
| $11 900 reward offered for Reid, dead ol
| alive, by the Texas authorities. Mrs
Reid (says the correspondent, upon re
ceiving the news, drew a six-shooter and
swore to take the life of the assassin
| The writer adds: "She is said to bt
highly educated; lives about nine miles
from Dallas, and frequently visits the
city, generally travelling as heavily
armed as the members of the gang OF
which her husband was chief"
WHEN a speculative horseman of tn,
period wishes to initiate the value of some
rapid steed that he has for sale, he gets
newspaper correspondent to print some
such exciting romance as the following
" Among horscmen it has been known
for "a long while that a Methodist minis
ter in Kentucky owned colt of which
marvellous things were told. The anima
was black as raven, and bore the nam,
OF 'Blackwood.' The value of the horse
in the estimation of the owner, may b,
seen by the pleasant little price that wa
Dut upOn him. The horsemen on til,
street laughed that Il plain Methods
parson, in the wilds of KENTUCKY
offered his animal for $60,000l A New
York banker heard SO much of this col
that he took "A trip to Kentucky to lool
at him. He saw him move. He describe
him as a marvel. His nostrils bccom
red as fire; his eyes dilate, and he seem
transformed The captivated Ney
Yorker offered $4,000 for the colt Tn
owner received the proposal with dis
dain. He did not even reply; ordere
the horse back into the stable, and wen
into his house. Another visit was mad
and the horse changed owners, $4,000,
is said, being the price."-Noo Ior
Graphic.
BAKED TOMATOES CANNED.-Select to
matoes of a nearly uniform size, or plae
the largest where the heat is the stront
est, so that all will cook uniformly. Tw
inches or two and "A half in diameter
the best size. Bake them in earthcT
ware-in large pie dishes if at hand. Le
the heat be strongest on the top, so tba
the juice will not cook away too fast. A
hours time ought to cook them sutf
cicntly. When tender throughout the
make delightful dinner dish, serve
hot If they are to be canned, the can
should be hot and everything ready be
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