American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-02-21
CURRENT ITEMS.

Georgia.
A NEW paper in Hudson county, N J :,
is called the Highland Fling.
A HUNTINGDON CTenn.) negro claims to
be the father of siXty-five children.
FEMALE voices in a choir are dangerous
to religion, says the Archbishop Of San
tiago.
THEY say that Memphis is no cleaner
now than before the cholera epidemic last
summer.
A WESTERN paper says that recently a
work mans head was blown from between
his two ears.
A PAIR of sparrows, having a family to
bring up, will consume over 3 900 cater
pillars week.
A PHILADELPHIA merchant advertises a
grease extractor that will be "useful to all
who wear clothes"
"HE's dead, but he pays just as well as
ever he did," was the reply publisher
received to Il dunning letter.
BETWEEN fifty and one hundred saloons,
all told, have been closed in Ohio by the
woman's temperance movement.
A TOPEKA girl has been left quarter of
a million dollars by her uncle, and now
all through trains stop at Topeka.
Mrs. CHANDLER, of Clinton, Iowa, has
just ndu Il CdHCcT Ulpuldteu tndI UuedSuE
ed twenty inches i'll circumference.
A TROY woman says that if death loves
a shining mark, it is singular that it has
not aimed at her husbands nose before
this.
AN Easton pa gOurmand ate fOrty-five
fried oysters and a quart of chicken salad
at one sitting, and still lives to make a hog
of himself.
CARLYLE says "discourtesy originates
in dizziness alone" so. when a man calls
you an ass, you can console yourself that
he's stupid.
A HOPEFUL little LatterDay Saint neal
Ogden, Utah, aged twelve, got drunk the
other day and killed valuable horse with
a pitch fork.
THE highest newspaper Office in the
world is at Cerro de Pasco, a village on
the slope of the Andes, $4,000 feet above
the level of the sea.
THEY wear the bonnet very far back on
the head, and great many people spend
their time wondering how it is kept on
the feminine head.
DIAMONDS were never so common as
now. Every cook and washerwoman in
the land has her Solitaire" while ladies
are putting theirs away.
Ice can be nodded into any shape from
round to square, drawn into bar, and
even tied in knot, if we had suitable ap-
paratus, yet ice will not stretch.
GAN epigrammatic female says that
male is only mule spelt wrongly" This
is nonsense, when everyone knows that
if man is a mule, a woman is muller.
TIE Naval Court declares that "the
sinking of the Nirginius under the cir
cumstances was unavoidable" 1t has
been supposed it was under the salt sea
waves she sank.
THE ladies of Leavenworth, Kansas, are
discussing the adoption of the Ohio plan
of assault upon the outworks of the evil
one, by visiting and holding prayer
in saloons.
ONE of the very best letter carriers in
New Haven is woman. She is neither
NEEDLES ONE nor inquisitive. Sweet
hearts are always delighted to receive
their little billet-dOux from her.
a SCUPPERNoNG grapevine on ROa-
noke Island, N. G., covers an acre and |
half of ground, and yielded last year
forty-siX barrels of wine. Another one |
in Terrill County yielded sixty-three bar
rels.
THE London Times says that ''Englan d |
has never produced great man who |
wasn't always in debt up to his ears"
Which doesn't amount to much, after all. |
DO it.
A SPAN of horses were killed and a
sleigh was smashed to smithereens by a |
train on the Northwestern Railway, near |
KenOsha, recently. The driver was inc
briated, but knew enough to get out of |
the way.
A CHAIN of compressed cakes of gun
cotton tied around the trunk of large |
tree and exploded will cut it down in
stantly by the violence of its action. The |
cut through the trunk is as sharp as the
keeneSt ak.
A YOUNG author reading tragedy per
ceived his auditor very often pull off his
nat at the end of line, and asked him
The reason Il cannot pass very old &C
luaintance," replied the critic, without
4 civilitv.''
LYNDEBoRO, N. H., has no lawyer, no
ioctor, no tavern and no grog shop, yet
within the limits of one school district it
mas twenty three sewing machines and
)ne knitting-machine. This Is a city
getting on sew sew.
A CoLoRED lad in Des Moines, a pupil
If the colored school, applied to one of
he Directors for the privilege of attending
he other school, on the ground that he
wanted to study "algeberry," which was
lot taught in his school.
MIR. JOHN LEE, of North Carolina, had
very severe cough, and Mrs. John Lee
,ured him of it permanently by giving
lin mixture of sugar and arsenic And
low they threaten to hang Mrs. Lee;
hOugh we can't imagine what for, unless
t is for practicing medicine without IL
THERE is a woman in Indianapolis who
las broken up the peace of heretofore
happy home, by her implicit belief in
ortune teller. She lost COW, and the
cow was found according to the directions
siven by this fortune-telling swindler.
Since this, every cent she can get hold OF
goes into the hands of this woman, and
PRAYERS and threats from her husband are
to stop 1t.
THE Pekin Ull.) Bulletin relates that
he coffin of a little child who had been
buried several weeks was taken up and
opened recently, and that the body twas
lot only in state of perfect preservation,
,ut actually so improved in appearance
IS to resemble the most beautiful wax
work. A rich rose color tinged its cheeks,
placid smile lit up its countenance, and
,nly the icy GOODNESS of its flesh, and the
act that it had lain for weeks in the grave,
ould remove from the mind The impress
ion that it was not dead, but only enjoy
ng "A refreshing sleep"
A WONDERFUL occurrence took place
n Colorado recently. A gentleman walk
ng down the street heard a noise behind
i'm 1t sounded like a railroad tram
rossing a bridge Stopping to ascertain
that it was, "A whirlwind travelling n
aster than IA spirited walk picked him up.
Is force was sufficient to invert the tails
# his coat above his head, notwithStand |
NO the pockets were loaded with spcci-