American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-07-25
CURRENT ITEMS.

broad brim
In parts of Switzerland minors cannot
use tobacco.
AT White Pine, New, mahogany i,
used for fuel
THE ore richest in iron is the magnetic
or black oxide.
Hone KONG has about forty small
steamers for harbor use.
LARGE bands of elks are reported il
different parts of Oregon
ABUNDANCE of ozone is what makes
| Alpine resorts SO healthy.
DENMARK is out of rabbits and has
sent to France to buy $4,000.
THE Franklin Hotel at Wort hington
Ind, was burned down recently.
THE Compulsory Education law of Cal
ifOrnia went into effect LIST July.
A RICH vein of copper has been discov-
cred at Ricc's Point, near Duluth.
As rule, the rates for board every
where are lower this year than last.
BRITIsH house painters harden their
hands by washing in Oak-bark water.
THE submarine cable between Con
stantinople and Odessa has been laid.
WOMANs glory is in her hair, but it is
a good plan to tie it up when cooking
A VEIN of coal twenty-five inches thick
has been discovered near Louisville,
Kan.
DOES anybody know why there is
more dust inside the horse-cars than out
side:
THESE are the days in which to ask
favors. Everybody is in melting
mood.
THE work of arching the Hoosac tun-
mel is well under way and progressing
finely.
THEY sell land in the region of Lake
George, not by the acre but by the
| island.
| ETHAN ALLEN, the famous trOtting
stallion, was sold recently in Kansas for
So, 200.
| WHEN man parts his hair in the mid
! die the crease is very apt to strike into
! the brain.
| 4 WOMAN at Lowell, Mass, who weighs
1911 pounds is running the hack business
in that place.
! A WISCONSIN book agent has been
| killed by the kick of hOrse-man's most
faithful friend.
| AN old business sign in Philadelphia
many years ago read: civilian Shot and
Jonathan Fell"
IMAGINE how they exist in Florida
without daily paper. No wonder ALI
gators are plenty.
JOHN LANE, of Omaha, Ncb., is so tall
that he can seize hold of a bar placed
twelve feet high.
BEAUTY and bashfulness are often
united, yet the loveliest maiden is ad-
mired for her cheek.
THE Italian Government proposes to
establish monopoly of the tobacco rails
ing business in Sicily.
REFUSAL on the part of a husband to
push the perambulator is to be made
ground for Il divorce.
UNFAsHIONABLE persons say Lawng
Br'nch, just as of yOre; fashionable per
sons say Lung Branch.
\ KENTUCKY man was arrested and
fined five dollars for making an unsuc-
cessful attempt at suicide.
A GOOD way for parents to encourage
cremation is to leave the matches where
the children can get them.
a FAN with a watch on one side of the
handle and strong cye-gass on the
other is the last thing out in Paris.
THE cotton factories of Columbus, Ga,
have taken 6,442 bales of cotton thus
far an increase of 1 ,742 over last year.
PHILADELPHIA needs dry dock. The
American steamship India has had to go
to New York to get her bottom painted
A MAN in Boston, in his hurry to assist
fainting lady, got Il bottle of mucilage
instead of camphOr and bathed her face
with it.
The last excuse that young men Offer
to her mother is: Want to take her
over to the park and show her the comet,
ma 'am."
THE prize poetry in the French Acad-
envy will be awarded in 1873 to the
author of the best piece of poetry on Liv-
ingstOne.
AT last accounts over two thousand
people were distributed among the Thou
sand Isles. That would be two persons
to each isle.
THE minis of the United States and
those of England, France and Germany
won't use any but Lake Superior copper
in the manufacture of coin.
4 LECTURER APPLY demonstrates the
theory that heat generates motion by
pointing to Il boy who accidentally sat
down on piece of lighted punk.
THERE is a man in Indianapolis who
declaims the Quarrel of FitZ-J ames
and Roderick Dhu" in such Il way as to
make the stitfest shirt collars wilt.
AN Iowa paper predicts that in five
years every barrel of Western flour will
be sent East in barrels of paper, made
from the straw the wheat grew on
DURING game of base ball at Mem
phis recently negro and ballist had u
controversy, in which pistols were USED
on both sides and the negro was killed.
\ SURVEY for a branch road to Hot
Springs, Ark, leaving the main line of
the Cairo & Fulton Road thirty one miles
south of Memphis, has been completed.
\ DISPATCH from Brownsville, Tex,
reports the first bale of cotton shipped
to New Orleans few days since from
the rancho of J. Hyncs, at Santa Maria.
A BOILER in the Eagle Iron Works at
Terre Haute, Ind, exploded the other
day, badly scalding VIM. Fisher, the en-
gineer. He will probably die of his in
jurics
AT Lebanon, Ind, recently, Eliza J.
Peckham, aged seventy-tive years, while
engaged in picking cherries, fell from Il
step ladder, and striking upon her head
was instantly killed.
PLEASE, sir" said a little girl who
was sweeping a crossing for living,
you have given me bad penny"
g Never mind, little girl, you may keep
it for your honesty"
CD HATE to be in your Shoes" said Il
woman of the East Side, recently, as she
was quarreling with ncighbor. - You
couldn't get in Them sarcastically re
marked the neighbor.
THE Chicago doctors arc trying with
lambs blood to feed the lambert flame
of life in "A consumptivc patient Doubt
full if they succeed thus in pulling the
wool over the fell destroyer.
HAVE you seen my black faced ante