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

from the west, l infer that it's native
home is in the far South, where it ma
lures early in the season, and gets here
in time to raise second brood the same
year
Rev. Cyrus Thomas good authority
upon grasshoppers, gives it as his opin-
ion that the native abode and breeding
place of the insect is in the mountain
valleys and canons;" but he thinks that
they do not cross the plains from the
mountains in one season." He seems
to think that they cross by successive
broOds, but certainly no brood from the
west could have arrived here as early as
did that in the spring of '13, or the indi-
viduals that | saw May 30, IA. Those
that went north in the spring of '73 and
those that came from the north in the
fall of the same year deposited fertile
eggs; and, as one of these bToods must
have been the parent of the other, the
theory that broods reared on the low
lands are barren is destroyed. The
young go back ON the same route taken
by their parents and are therefore not
lost. Another popular error is that the
course of this insect is determined by the
wind. 1t, indeed, always flies with the
wind, although it rises against it, but it
always determines its course by migra-
ton independently of the wind, and then
waits for Il favorable breeze before
taking fight. For instance, if the grass
hoppers desire to go south, they wait for
a northerly wind, and until such wind
arises not grasshoPper will travel.
They may frequently be seen high in the
air when adverse winds are blowing, but
they only fly wildly about for short
time and then descend. In like manner,
if they halt while on their way north,
nothing but south wind will move
them on.
1t would be interesting to learn how
far south these grasshoppers go. Cannot
some of your readers who reside in
Texas enlighten us upon this point?
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-10-03
A Tree That Keeps Standing Army.

! HERE'S a story that a bright little
humming- bird told me the other day.
! AS it started from somewhere in the
tropics, it grew to be pretty long ac-
count by the time it reached me here in
New York State; but it is founded
strictly upon fact:
"What makes you live in such
| thorny tree?" said the humming-bird to
one of her neighbors who always builds
her nest on the bulPs-horn thorn.
| It's capital place." said her friend
1.-The thorns keep the monkeys away
from my babies, and the army drives oil
all the crawling pests that make house
keeping so troublesome to little birds in
| other trees"
Army! What army?"
Why, orr army" said the little bird
Don't you know that our tree keeps an
armv?"
7 You may be sure the humming-b bird
was surprised to hear that. Twas. And
| if | didn't know her SO well L should
have suspected her of spinning travellers
yarns But she's honest; what she says
can be depended on.
To make long story short, I'll tell
you about that armykeeping tree. It's
IA thorn-tree, you must know, and as the
thorns grow in pairs, curved out ike
bulls horns, the tree gets its name from
them When the thorns are green they
are soft, and filled with a sugary pulp,
which is greatly liked by a kind of small,
black singing ants, which are never
found except on these trees, and the
trees, it seems, cannot live without the
ants, at least in that part of the world.
The ants bite small hole near the tip
of one of each pair of thorns, then
gradually eat out the interior of the
two The hollow shells make capital
houses for their young ones, and never
90 without tenants.
How do the ants live after the houses
are cleared of food? The tree attends to
that. On the stem of each leaf is
honeywell, always full, where the ants
can sip to their hearts content. These
wells supply them with drink The
leaves furnish the necessary solid food,
in an abundance of small yellow fruits,
like little golden pears. They do not
rpen all at once, but one after another,
so that the soldiers have a steady supply
of ever-ripening fruit to cat, and are
kept busy all the time running up and
down the leaves to see how their crops
come on. When an ant finds pear
ready for eating he bites the stem, bends
back the fruit, and, breaking 1t OH, car
ries it in triumph to the nest. .
1t would be a cowardly ant that would
not fight for Il home like that, and these
ants are no towards. Just touch Il limb
so as to jar it, and the valiant little sol
dicrs will swarm out from the thorns IN
great numbers and attack the intruder
with jaws and stings Not Il caterpillar,
leaf-cutter, beetle, or any other enemy of
the Tree can touch one of its leaves with
out paving the penalty Thus the tree
thrivcs where 1t would otherwise be de
stroyed; and the ants find their reward
in snug houses, with plenty TO drink and
to eat The small birds, which hurt
neither the ants nor the leaves, also find
protection with them, and, let us hope,
pay good rent in morning and evening
songs.
Isn't that "A profitable partnership
"JacL-ia-the- Pulpit" 81 Nicholas for Sep
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-10-03

\ SINGULAR and affecting trait is re-
corded of the bison when young. When
ever COW bison falls 10y the hand of the
hunter, and happens to have a calf, the
helpless creature, instead of attempting
to escape, STAYS by its fallen dam, with
many expressions of strong affection.
The mother being secured, the hunter
makes no attempt on the calf, because
this is unnecessary, but proceeds to cut
up the carcass; and then, layin" it on
his horse, he returns home, followed by
the young one, which thus instinctively
follows the remains of its parent y
hunter once rode into the town OF I'm
cinnati, between the Miamis, followed in
this manner bv three calves, all of which
had lust lost their dams.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-10-03
Om Hops and Girls.
LITTLE THINGS.
NO.. 40.

SUPPOSE the little flowers should think
That they are much too small
To be of any use to US
And so not bloom at all
How much that's pleasant we should lose;
For as we pass them by.
Every little flower that blooms
Is pleasing to the eye.
Suppose the little raindrops thought
That they were much too small
To be of any use on earth,
And not rain ut all
Then the fruits would never grow,
Nor roses in the bowers
For all the little raindrops help
To make refreshing showers.
And so shall little children think
That they much too small
To be of use to others here,
And do no good at all:
All! dearest children. think not so,
For little acts of love
Are pleasing in the sight of God,
And counted up above.
-Chiidrea'S Friend.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-10-03
Selected eHisreHany.
THE NEST.

NDER the apple-tree somebody said.
- Look at that robin nest overhead
All of sharp sticks. and of mud and clay
What a rough home for a summer day.
e'aunt stood the apple tree. gaunt and bare.
And creakrd in the winds which clustered there
The nest was wet with the April rain:
The clay ran down in an ugly stain:
Little II looked, | must truly say,
Like lovely home for a summer day.
Up in the apple-tree some body laughed.
= Little You know Of the true home-craft.
Laugh. if you like. at my sticks and clay:
They ii make good home for a summer day.
MAY turns the applc-trce pink and white.
sunny all day- and fragrant ali night
My babies Will never feel the showers,
For ram can't get through these feathers of ours
Snug under my wings theywiIl cuddle and cree D.
The happiest babies awake or asleep.
Said the ohin-mother.ilying away
Alter more of the sticks and mud and clay.
[ nder the apple-trec somebody sighed
. All me- the blunder OF folly and pride
The toughest small house of mud or clay
Might he Il sweet home for a summer day
sunny and fragrant all day. all night
Win only good cheer ics fragrance and light;
And the hittereSt ~tc:fl< of grief and pain
Will beat and break on that home in vain
Where a true-hearted mother hrUods Away
And m3kes the whole year like a summer day"
ST. Nicholas for october
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-10-03

SAIMoN-FISHING must be superb in
Cascapcdia River, Canada. An Albany
editor states that one afternoon he took
two fishes weighing more than thirty
and twenty pounds respectively. OF
trout he writes: THE trout here are
very large and very abundant, but we
won't bother with them. | gave an hour
to it Saturday and caught forty-one of
four pounds and four that weighed
twelve pounds-insidc of twenty min
utes. We lose ourpatience when a trout
strikes
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-10-03

fire out and his wife visiting, it is likely
to be cloudy. When man promises to
take his wife to party, and changes his
mind after she is dressed, you may ex-
pect shower. When a man saves his
cigar money to buy his wife Il new bon
net and the children new shoes, it indi-
Gates spell OF sunshine. When a man
dies and leaves a nice young widow with
plenty of money, and you see her walk
ing out with the executor on Sunday
afternoon, Il change is imminent.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-10-03

As very pretty girl asked a young
man on the Maine Railroad the other
morning if the vacant seat by his sids
was engaged, after saying: " No, miss
he, highly approaching her beauty, I'M
consciously said: :" Are you?" She SO
pleasantly and promptly replied: No,
sir" that the agreeable conversation
which followed for ten miles leads him
10 hope for better acquaintance before
his season ticket expires.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-10-03

The custom which express companies
have of selling of, every now and then,
unclaimed packages, which are unopened,
is declared by the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania to he Illegal, and II fraud
upon the rights of the owner, for which
the company is liable in damages
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-10-03

y SOMEWHAT unusual but interesting
spectacle was recently witnessed in War
rem, Mass, when an aged lady, now in
her ninety-sccond year, rode up and down
one of the streets on horseback with all
the confidence and agility of "A young girl
only complaining that the young horse
would not move faster.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-03-07

BEST TINE TO Cur TIMBER. Har-
tig, who has made numerous expert
ments to determine the point. states
that March and April are the best
months in which to cut timber for
building purposes, as it then contains
its lowest per cent. of moisture, which
he states to be forty-seven per cent.
During the three previous months it
has fifty-one per cent, and the three
following ones, forty-eight. He fur
ther states that properly seasoned tim
ber should not contain more than from
twenty to twenty-five per cent. of mois-
ture, and never less than ten per cent.
If the moisture is removed to still
greater extent, the wood loses strength
and becomes brittle. An English adt-
thority states that if trees are felled as
soon as they are in full leaf, and allowed
to remain undisturbed until the leaves
dry up and fall off, the timber will be
found we'll seasoned, the leaves having
exhausted all the moisture.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-03-07


A SKETCH OF MILLIoNAIRE.-W. y.
Astor has walked Broadway for three
score years without indicating any SYM
pathy with mankind. II you wish to
make trial call at the Office in Prince
Street. 1t is we'll understood that char
ity is not tolerated there. Mr.. Astor's
property enabled him fifteen years ago
to pay tax of $4,000, and at present
he pays about $65 900, which is small
sum in proportion to his immense es-
state. When he was boy his fathers
property was worth about l ,000, 900.
The old gentleman died in 1848, leav-'
ing S20,000,0 900, and the estate has
much more than doubled since that
time. Six hundred houses acknowledge
Astor as landlord; but, with all his
wealth, why just try him for charity {!
Thirty thousand women have been
driven by poverty into prostitution dur
ing the time that Astor's property has
thus grown into colossal pile, and now, !,
while poverty grinds the masses more
bitterly than ever, the golden mountain
increases still more rapidly under its
owners careful management. What o
contrast to behold $50 900, 900 in the
hands of an old man just on the verge
of the grave, while the direst poverty,
reaching even to starvation, is the lot of
thousands.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-03-07

P1cK1Na AND STEALING. The New
Herald says:

Herald says:
"The investigation of the charges
against Acknowledgment Williams
promises to bring to light practices in
nearly if not quite, all the executive
departments, which are certainly not
consistent with strict economy, II IN.
deed they are with honest administra.
ton. The payment of 81 600 for q car
riage for the Attorney. Generals fami.
ly is but an ordinary affair. In the
Treasury Department some Of the ex.-
penditures are of the most extravagant
character. Our Washington cores
pondent instances $4,000 for tempo
rary clerks, $50 900 for stationary, $40, :
600 for furniture and carpets, $50, 900
for coal, wood, gas tunblers, hatchets,
pitchers, towels, &c., $65 900 for news
papers, repair of wagons, care of horses,
brooms, brushes, matches, soaps, &c. +,
and it is stated that the names of pri-
vate servants are borne on the pay rolls
of the Government. There seems to be
a complete system of picking and steals
ing, high and low. Is it any wondsr
that Congressman speculate in Credit
Mobilier and vote themselves backpay
in such an atmosphere? Or that Boss
Shepard is confirmed? Or that every
day brings news of the absconding ci
defaulting officials"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-03-07
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Self-oblivion is Gods remembrance.
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when
we stoop than when we soar.
The heart makes the man, and the
outward life is only the fruit of seeds
sown within.
Since we are exposed to inevitable
sorrows, wisdom is the art of finding
compensation.
The daily life of good man is a
fountain that enriches and refreshes all
that come near.
BE noble minded! Our own heart,
and not other mems opinions of us,
forms our true honor.
lie is incapable of truly good nc
ton who knows not the pleasure in con-
templating the good actions of others.
1t is one sign of the tendency of hui
man nature to goodness, that it grows
good under thousand bad influences
We sleep. but the loom of life never
stops; and the pattern which was weav-
ing when the sun went down will be
weaving when it comes up tomorrow.
Conscience is great ledger book, in
which all our offences are written and
registered, and which time reveals to the
sense and feeling of the offender.
We cannot too strongly attack super
stition, which is the disturber of society,
nor too highly respect genuine religion
which ID the support of it.
We are rcformers in spring and sum-
mer; i'll autumn and winter we stand
by tho old-reformcrs in the morning,
conservers at night. Reform is aflirma-
tive, conservatism negative; conserva-
tism goes for comfort, reform for truth.
There are people who tell you our age
is pro-occupied, that men no longer
read anything or care for anything.
Napoleon was occupied, we think, at
Beresina; he, however had his Ossian
with him. When did Thought lose the
power of being able to leap into the
saddle behind Action? When did man
forget to rush like Tyranus to the com.
bat. sword in one hand, the Tyre in
the other? Since the world still has a
body, it has soul.
Time is never more mis-spent than
while we declaim against the want of it.
All our actions are then tinctured with
peevishness. The yoke of life is GER
tainly least oppressive when we carry it
with good humor; and in the shades of
rural retirement, when we have once
acquired resolution to pass our hours
with economy, sorrowful lamentations
on the subject of time mis-spent and
business neglected never torture the
mind.
Be and continue poor, while others
around you grow rich by fraud and dis
loyalty; be without place or power
while others beg their way upwards;
bear the pain of disappointed hopes
while others gain theirs by fattery;
forego the gracious pressure of the
hand for which others cringe and crawl.
Wrap yourself in your own virtue, and
seek friend and your daily bread. II
you have in such course grown gray,
with unblenched honor, bless God and
die
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-03-07

WHAT THE BoYs KNow.-A stolid old
farmer talks thus about his boys: From
JIG to 20 they knew MOI" than he did:
at 25 they knew as much; at 80 they
were willing to hear what he had to say;
at 35 they asked his advice, and he
thinks when they get to 40 they will
actually acknowledge that the old man
knows something.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-03-07

@ Tom Benton left two daughters
besides Mrs. Fremont. One, Madam
Boileau, is now living in Paris, her hus.
band being in prison for his part in the
Ell Paso Railroad affair; the other, Mrs.
Carey Jones, is teaching school in San
Francisco.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-03-07

@ An old rough clergyman once
took for his text that passage Of the
psalms, ~ said in my haste ali men
are liars" Looking up apparently as
if he saw the psalmist standing before
him, he said, You said it in your
haste, David, did you? Well, if you
had been here, you might have said II
after mature deliberation.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-03-07

90 An embryo poet, who is certainl,
close observer of human nature, re-
marks: Time marches on with the
slow. measured tread Of a man working
by the day."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-03-07

* Don't strain your voices scold-
ing your children. The little wretches
won't appreciate your sacrifice.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-03-07

q Eighty thousand unmailable let
ters are posted every week in the United
States.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-03-07

@ In the assurance Of strength
there is strength; and they are weakest,
however strong; who have no faith in
themselves or in their powers.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-03-07

@ California agriculturists arc 60
ing largely into the cultivation Of gin
ger.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-03-07

~ The men who do the most for
their kind are generally forgotten in
giving out rewards.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-03-07

p1r The whole number OF synagogues
in the United States is about two hund-
red and fifty. The first was built in
New York city in 1721.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-03-07

E The new style of collar, said to
be intended for gentlemen, is the near
est approach to the kind worn by end
men" in minstrel companies yet seem.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-03-07

81 Telegraphy is now taught in
some OF the public schools.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-03-07

81 Evil is like the nightmare-tho
moment you bestir yourself it is endsd.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-03-07

It was certainly very lively settle
tlement. New settlements everywhere
are lively, and new mining towns are
particularly so, but Betmick, though
but few months old proudly held ita
own among the inviting neigborhoods or
q certain creek in California in the ear
ly days of the gold fever. All the min
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-07-18
OUR CHURCHES.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH Eighteenth street
between Washington and Walnut.
preaching every third and fourth Sunday
sunday school at p. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening.
Il Is TRIMBLB, Pastor.
,RESBGTERlAN-Eig Street.
trosching, sabbath at 10i am. and u =. m
prayer meeti'g Z, "Wednesday at "a y. m.
sabbath School, . pm. j. NJ. LausdeD, gu.
perintendent. XIV. II. THAYKR, Pastor
iErHODlST. Cor. Eighth and Walnut stB.
Preaching, Sabbath ut II ara, and p. Ia
prayer meeting, Wednesday, ~ pm.
sabbath School, 3. pm, l.. W. StllWsll,
1pohnt gndsnt Rsv. J. l.. WALLER,
"ast1r.
dURCn OF TIE REDEEMER-tEpisco.
Morning prayers. s.bbath lOi an.
Evening prayers, ~ pm.
-ab bath sch Ii .
> hEy. tHA-. -. GIiua..I. o. r.
4 'ATR1CK'5 CHURCH -.l.sa 81, and
y asningtOn Avenue.
jGhiiC service, sabbath $40 Gui 10. m.
NCspGrs, pm.
sabbath school, pm.
.Cryico every day, B am.
hEv. y. j. O'HALLopA.i, Pnost.
T. jOStpn's CHURCH-(0e rman,l cor.
uCr Of Walnut aud Cross streets.
Mas. eyory sabbath At 10 O'Clock a, IN.
Ma., during week days, O'Clock a. IA.
kEv. q. HOFFMAN, PTio-t.
iERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH--1sth
street between Washington Avenue aud
Walnut street.
Provoking sunday morning at 10 O'cleck.
sabbath School at = O'clock .. IN.
REV. q. DuKasCusEV. Pastor.
iGUNG MEMS CilRlsIIAN ASSOClA.
TlOS.-Kegular meeting second Monday
oAgli month At theit room over Rockwell
n COS book store, Commercial avenue.
Weekly Prayer meeting, Fridsy, q y ~. at
l.. ". sIuLwgLi.. President.
.ECONp MISSIONARY BAPTIST
CuURCu,-CDmer Sycamore and Fotty-
first streets. Preaching sahtata ~ ii
O'Clock n. m. and o'clock ?. u.
sunday school O'Clock =. IN.
The church u connected with the Illinois
Association, ~ the fifut Missionary bap-
ti-t Church OF Cairo.
REy. SOLOMoH LEOHARD, FastOr.
lHCAN METH pDlSr.-Fourteenth 30
tween Walnut and Cedar.
services, sabbath, IL A.tD.
sabbath SCHOOL Il pm.
gias meets At 3 pm.
s,OSD FREE WILL BAPTIST tti.
lIauih street, between Walnut aud Cedar.
services sabbath, u and p. III.
REV. \. KICKS, Pastor,
hGE W ILL BAPTIST HOME MISSION
-A9BATu sCHOOL.--C0rner Walnut
a.l Cedar streets.
sabbath school, y am.
n-r FREE WILL Baptist CHURCH
Curry BatTack.
'..y.las, sabbath IA SIN, Sp.m. 61tp. u.
hEv. NH. KELLEY, Pastor.
1854 MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHuECH.
,odaf, between Niuth aud Tenth 80.
!r.t-t - sabbath, lOi IN. and y Pm.
= . ebng, "Wednesday evening.
Pc, Lug, Friday evening.
sabbath School, q Pun. John NauBAgtcr
,Ii Nary -t,Phens, Superintendent.
REV. I. j. SHORES, Pastor.
E,pSD BAPTIST CHUKCu-Fourtocnth
street., between ,ciNT and Walnut. Tho
only bapH's shurch recognized b. the A..
ISOLATION.
SERVICES sabbath. - SIN. o I'm. 49, Z .. IA.
t.EI. JACOB BRADLEY. t.a-t.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-07-18
FO u n ID K Y,
NJ A c III | n h S II q i
FoRdEs AND PIPE FITTISo,
STEAM ENGINES, nlLI, SIE& N hOAI
Nj ACHIN ER Y

Nj ACHI N Eio Y
Manufactured anu repaired.
special attention given ~ light and heavy
forging, house, bridge, railroad and Jail work
and all work OF a similar character.
steam and gas lifting ia all its branches.
A fun assortment OF Morris, Ta-k"r ~ Coz
Philadelphia pipe and fittings. Brass goods
etr.. and gas fixtures ALWAYS on hand.
fIPING OF HOUSE FOR GAS
MADE a SPECIALLY.
Agent for Cameron special steam pump
and boiler feeder. The best Manufactured
Coils patent syphon pumps, and Judson'i
patent governor and governor valve.
The following engines, etc., for sale
Two steamboat engines, Is! inch bore al
cylinder; five feet stroke, and in good order.
one steamboat shaft and crank; wrot iron
one engine for hoi-ting freight, I!XlG.
One lON2O saw mill engine, with SHAFT and
crank for muly or gang saw, second hand.
One new 7Nl2 enginei my own manuiac'
turc.
Also. secondhand stGve cutting ma
chine and joiuter, and warehouse hosting
machine, in good order.
Engines and machinery of all kinds bought
and sold