American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-23
MULTUM IN PARV0.

ONIAwGARAH was the original name of
Niagara.
A FARMERS crib is a gnawful place for
rats.
A KIND of tobacco all men chew-ses-A
pretty girl with money to-back-her.
WILL the spelling mania, like the cpl
zootic, break out again this winter?
EPITAPH for the tomb of American Girl
-" A kind hearted creature, but very
fast"
THE " National Air" according to the
intelligent foreigner'')-T American
spit-toon.
ACQUIRED oratory is as a moth to an
eagle as compared to the eloquence of
sincerity.
JET is entirely out of fashion, not so
much as a bead being admissible this sea-
son.-Paris Correspondence.
THERE are those that think we should
take care of the poor Indian because he is
SO willing to take hair of US.
DEER are so numerous in Ell Dorado
County, Cal, that complaint is made that
they are running the vineyards.
IT was observed of deceased lawyer
that he had left but few effects, to which
lady remarked that che had but few
causes.''
A MILWAUKEE lady who paid fifty dol
lars to have a wart removed from her
nose now wants to know what has become
of the nose.
THEY met; that is, she went to the store
And made him turn his department DER,
Till he vanished behind the goods, and then
She pleasantly said she would call again.
"ARE you the mate of the ship;
asked an emigrant of the cook, who
was an Irishman. "No, sir" was the
reply, 81 am the man who cooks the
mate''
MARTHA JANE finds in her Bible that
the ant is held up as a pattern of industry.
She therefore Indignantly wants to know
why lazy, idle schoolboys should be called
tru(e)ants.
ADETRo1T mother can't understand how
it is that her girls can play croquet half a
day and not feel tired, and yet if one of
them is asked to wash the dishes she
reaches for the camphor bottle.
MY articles do not receive a very
warm reception of late" "Our fair cor
respondent is Mistaken" replied the edit
or; they meet with the warmest recep-
ton possible. We burn them ALL"
THE Butte (Cal.) Mercury tells of
band of sheep being brought down from
the mountains and turned into wheat
field. Over 100 head died in one night
from eating wheat and drinking water.
THE Boston Journal sees in the sea-ser-
pent a fraud, and alludes to the singular
feature in the habits of the creature that
he never visits our coast except when
boarders are desired at the seashore re-
sorts.
az WASN'T so very late-only a quarter
of twelve" How dare you sit there and
tell me that 1 lie? l was awake when
you came in, and looked at my watch
it was three o'clock" Well, isn't three
a quarter of twelve?'
A LEAvENwORTH paper says that if tur-
nips were bread and cabbages were meat
Kansas could take contract to winter the
paupers of the world at two cents per
mead, and make enough on the contract to
pay the entire State debt.
AN old author quantity remarks: "Avoid
arguments with ladies. In spinning
yarns among silks and satins man is
sure to be worsted and twisted; and when
a man is worsted and twisted he may con-
slider himself wound up"
A PENNSYLVANIA parent named his
daughter Malaria; and now, when the
unfortunate victim has grown to be
young lady, she is avoided by the gentle
men, who fear the results of being ex-
posed to Malarial influences.
A SPRINGFIELD (Mass.) milkman has a
boy in his employ that is too honest for
the business. When one of his custom
ers accused the lad of watering his milk
from a brook he very earnestly assured
her that they got the water from well.
IT'S said the world grows wiser, day by
That mind is climbing to perfection's
peak;
Yet, after all, tits but childish play
Mans chief dependence seems to be his
SHE used to keep bits of broken china
and crockery piled up in convenient
corner of the closet, and when asked her
reason for preserving such domestic lum-
Der she shot a lurid glance at her hus-
band and merely remarked: "He knows
what them's for"
THE Picton Gazette says Mrs. Rorke,
wife of the mate of the schooner Union
Jack, which sunk in Lake Erie recently,
saved her preserved peaches, although the
vessel sank in five minutes. The woman
who, with jar of preserved peaches in
each hand, can calmly await death is
worth having, although sugar is ten cents
a pound.-Ossoego (N. ~ Palladiua
A MOUSE in the wainscoting of the
Western Union Telegraph office at Gin
cinnati recently wrought mischief, as
mice generally do. The wires, insulated
by coating of cotton, soaked in paraf- |
fine, ran close together inside the VAIN |
scCting, and said mouse gnawed the in |
sulatlon and so brought the wires together
and connected some of the larger batteries. |
The wires became thereby heated and set
fire to the insulating composition. Happily |
the smoke of the incipient fire was seen, |
the wainscoting torn away, and serious |
averted.
THERE is in California a well-known
plant called rattleweed," which causes
a species of madness in animals that eat
it. A San Francisco paper describes the
effect of it upon herd of fifty horses on
rancho in Monterey County. They be-
came crazy, went off one by one, and were
too muddled to seek water, many OF them
dying of thirst. Although untamed they
allowed persons to approach them, and ON
being struck would leap into the air.
Their sight appeared to be unaffected, and
vet they would turn aside for nothing, and
would apparently walk over a preciplce
without any fear or hesitation.
THE story about Conductor Mckinney,
of the Hartford & New Haven Railroad,
and his 81 600 bill is again on its travels.
Five years ago he called upon sleepy
on a night train for his fare,
when the latter handed him $1,000
Thinking it a 800 bill he
went into the baggage car to change 1t and
there discovered its real value, but when
he tried to return it the passenger denied
having given it and claimed to have given
him a ticket, statement which his COM
panion corroborated. The conductor final
ly concluded that the men were thieves,
and after keeping the bill awhile and no
owner appearing put it into bank, where
it still lies.