American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-06-12
MULTUM IN PARVO.

4 MULTUM IN PARVO.
e A NATURAL revolutionist-thee Garth
t PAUL BoYroN does not walk upon tn
Z water. He lies.
THE delicate-minded Boston bell
! speaks of Spotted Tail as Mr.. Variegate
l Narrative.
IT appears that coming copper is no
a profitable. The Government has no
made halfcent since 1857.
From arrests recently made in New
, York it appears that the servant girls O
that city have to a large extent been CO
operating with burglars.
AN old farmer was once asked what
politician was. He answered: Well
he is a man that serves God as far as h,
can to not offend the devil"
EIsHTY-sEvEN big bags of American
newspapers reach England every weel
and there is hope of being able to civil
ize that country after while.
THE rural papers of North Carolin.
announce that the failure of a circul
concern down there was entirely due tt
lack of advertising, and sternly remark
Let this be a warning to Others"
A VIRaINIAN brought home some ar
senic and told his wife that it was poison
She had to taste, of course, and his moth
erless children don't have their faces
washed from one weeks end to another,
THE intellectual superiority of the
Bostonian over the rest of the world is
accounted for by the fact that Boston
mothers wean their children at nine
months and feed them thereafter ex.
clusively upon fish.
DR. HALL says: .'The longer one
puts off drinking in the morning, es-
pecially in the summer, the less he will
require during the day. If much is
drank during the forenoon the thirst
often increases, and very unpleasant
| fullness is observed, in addition to me-
tallic taste in the mouth"
| A HUSBAND demonstrated with his other
half about wearing spring clothes when
| the weather was SO chilly. She silenced
him thusly: You just tend to your own
af:irs. 1t is the season of the year when
light goods are fashionable, and-do you
| suppose Pm going to be dictated to what
l shall wear?" Tina. settled it.
A CURIOUS freak of lightning has &C.
| CURED in Morristown. Canada. The
| fluid struck the limb of large tree,
passed into the body and down into the
ground. 1t then took the root of another
large tree, passing up the trunk, tearing
the body into splinters and telling the
tree, leaving its whole top. An acre of
splinters.
A NEGRO at Jones' Bend, on the Cum
berland River, Tenn, is creating good
deal of excitement by his belief that he
has discovered silver mines. Whenever
he is over a deposit he is seized with a
trembling and Immediately begins dig
ging. He has made the negroes believe
in him, and with their aid he has sank
four immense shafts twenty feet deep
through the solid rock.
TnE paw-paw. or forbidden fruit"
grows to the weight Of three pounds or
more N Florida. 1t is of light yellow
color when ripe, and has a flavor similar
to q muskmelon. The juices of this tree
Itend to separate the fibers in meats
when immersed therein, and the vapor of
the tree answers the same purpose.
The toughest joints ofmeat, poultry, etc.,
are rendered tender by being hung among
the branches.
Ii things go on about Boston as for
year or two Judge Lynch will find it
convenient to hold a short term of court.
The Judge is very decided and thorough
when once he begins. Well, he deserves
to succeed, is a genuine fiesh-and- blood
sort of a man, hearty, bluff and tender.
A great, strong, broad shouldered fellow,
who with words paints charming pict-
ures. In word, is a good fellow, and
success to him, say we.-BOst0n Nescs.
THE two Boards of the Boston Gov
eminent are at loggerheads over the 4th
of July appropriation, and deadlock is
imminent. The Councilmen at first voted
$15, 600 for the celebration; then the Al
dermen non-concurred and voted 81, 500,
and now, again, the Council has consid-
cred the referred order, repudiated it
with insinuations that the Aldermen are
men of illiberal ideas, and again voted
the original appropriation of $4,000.
THE Philadelphia Press says: "The
officers of the United States Centennial
Commission desire to say that an erro-
neOus report is in circulation concerning
the selection of orators, poets and mar
shals for the opening celebration next
year. No selection has been made and
no programme adopted. A partial and
imperfect plan was offered at the meet
ing of the Commission last week, which
was Immediately recommitted for re-
vision"
AMONG the passengers on the train at
Harrisburg was a lady who carried a
large basket. The conductor decided
that the baggage was entirely too cum
bersome to be allowed in the car, and
politely informed her that she would be
obliged to remove it to the baggage-car.
As he was about Selling the basket the
lady showed him picture, the sight of
which had magical effect in producing
a change in his feelings. Before him
were pair of twins a few months old,
who seemed to be supremacy happy in
their basket-bed.
THE story of Elijah and the raven is
equaled by an Eastern exchange, which
relates that in the town of Putnam, N.
Y, recently, young lady, lying upon
her death-bed, expressed a desire for Il
boiled partridge; but her friends, know
ing that it was almost impossible to pro-
cure one at this season of the year, en-
deavOred to persuade her out of the no.
ton by offering to obtain squirrel. This |
did not seem to suit her, as her appetite |
craved the partridge alone; and, strange |
to say, during the same day a partridge |
flew against the house, and, becoming |
disabled, was readily caught and cooked |
for the dying girl. 1t was about the last |
of earthly qualifications she was per |
mitted to enjoy, as she soon after ex-
PRED.
CARRIE MADDERN, twelve years old, |
and a resident of Oakland, Cal, fell more |
seriously in love with a schoolmaster |
than her parents and friends suspected |
She boldly avowed her passion for him;
but she was by nature in odd girl, and |
her declaration WAS regarded as an I'M |
usually strange freak. She begged the |
schoOlmaster to marry her, but he only |
laughed at what he supposed was a joke, |
and told her that he was already matri- |
monially engaged. One night she wrote I
a sentimental note, saying that she had |
been SO grievously crossed in love that |
she did not want to live, and then hanged |