American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-06-20
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS.
| INTEREST ING MANA bank clerk
A MAN is thinnest when he's shaving.
MANY a man with means is mean
man.
THE love for office is the root of much
evil
To KEEP food on aweak stomach-Bolt
it down.
MOONLIGHT is merely the beautiful old
age of day.
DEEP waters make still noise. So
do deep men.
RATS are known for the cellarity of
| their movements.
DARK rooms are unfit for the dwellings
of human beings.
AN unpleasant sort of arithEietic-Di-
vision among families.
HAPPINESS is where it is found, and
| seldom where il is sought
No matter how ignorant a man is, he
can at least make his mark.
THE season for sleeping on window
stills and rolling off is here.
MONOGRAM buttons are introduced on
some of the new walking suit.
WHY should magistrate be very colds
| Because he represents justice.
A PORTLAND (Me.) railway crossing is
called 1.-THE grldiron of DEATH"
LITTLE girls should remember that
murderers die of dancing rope.
GREENFIELD Mass girls have taken
to "the national game" with success.
CoLoRADo claims to yield sapphires,
one of which was sold recently for $780,
LAWS, like sausages, would fail to in
spire respect if all people knew how
they were made.
THE jackson Wing and Tribune has
been presented with a hens egg which is
the perfect shape of a walrus.
IT is proposed to try cremation on the
dogs Well, they would burn easily on &C
count of the quantity of bark in them.
AN Atlanta child, only three years old,
makes its parents proud and happy by
carrying forty-eight pounds of meal fifty
yards.
proved that on that night and at the hour
of the murder he was at home mauling
his wife, and this fact saved him. A
| word to the wise is and so forth.
| THE Grand Trunk Railroad authorities
have decided to change the line to narrow
gauge east of Montreal in September. 1t
will then be of uniform gauge through
out, and correspond with its American
| connections
|
| River sufferers was taken in church in
an adjoining town, few evenings since.
Among the articles contributed was new
clothes-line from lady, labeled, ITO be
| used in hanging the contractors OF the
reservoir. ''-BostOn IrdUelLer.
ON a recent Saturday afternoon George
Mead, nine years old, while playing with
several other boys in front OF black
smith shop, near Boston, accidentally ran
against piece of wood which was prop
ping up wagon, and, knocking it down,
the vehicle fell upoc him, killing him in
stantly.
A NOVELTY, is the handsome $3.50
| field Croquet Set that the ErcelssOr Mag
azine is giving to new subscribers for 80
cents, through a special arrangement with
large manufacturing company. They
furnish sample copies of the Magazine for
% cents, from their office, Room SO, No.
157 La Sale ST.. Chicago, Ill.
THE Detroit Free Press says that recent
ly, while a runaway horse was going up
Michigan avenue, having saddle on his
back, a horse and buggy crossed the ave-
nue. in front of him, and he made flying
leap over the horse and continued his
flight. One of the flying stirrups
knocked off the hat of the man who was
driving, but he forgot to get frightened
until the runaway was block distant.
THE historic $1,000 package which Col
York t1Ourished in the memorable JOINT
convention of the Kansas Legislature is
again engaging public attention. MIR.
Francis, the new State Treasurer, has re-
ceipted for it, and reports it among the
list of valuable papers in his keeping.
What to do with it is the all-absOrbing
question. York. who surrendered it as
bride money, will have none of it. Pom
erOy claims that it was given to York in
trust for Page, who has relinquished all
claim to it. Hence there appears to be no
owner.
STRAwBERRIEs-Nev wash straw
berries if it can be avoided. fit must be
done, do it before they are hulled Use
large bowlful of water, put in few
berries at IA time, stir them lightly with
the hands until clean, skim them out and
hull them at once, putting them into the
saucers in which they are to be served.
Sprinkle sugar over them if needed, and
send to the table without further hand
ling, or leave them to be sugared by the
cater. Every time they are handleItakes
something from their freshness, but if it
is preferable for other reasons to place
them in one large dish on the table put
them at once into the dish as you take
them from the water and hull them,
sprinkling on the necessary sugar as you
proceed, so that they will need no stirring
itltcI Wdlu Iu|y HtCu Ho dlHlHg uc
little water that clings to them will melt
the sugar, and with the juice of the fruit
will make an exquisite dressing.-Heratd
Of Health.
a GEORGIA paper describes a Southern
beauty as follows: Among the many Wis
itors who came to our city on Saturday
last to sell their country produce was
| young lady from an adjoining county
who had chickens, eggs and butter for
sale. Her beauty was of transcendent
excellence. Bright, flashing, intellectual
eyes and face round aud rosy, while her
calico dress was plain and neatly made
and fitted beautifully. Her rich, black
hair flowed in luxurious richness High
| ly educated, she conversed fuently, ard
deported herself with becoming modesty
| She wore no purchased complexion; had
no top knot on her head, but stood in the
majestic beauty of created intelligence
that would not yield to the dcspotic die
tates of frivolous fashion. 1t has been IA
long time since we gazed upon such II
sight. The young men crowded around
her wagon with curiosity in their eyes and
admiration in their hearts The old men
wept for joy that there was one who had
not bowed to Baal She sold her country
produce, went home, MIXED the COWS,
cooked supper for ten farm laborers, and
went to church that night with her sweet
heart"