American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-12-11
lULTUM IN PARVO.

A WANING to travelers-the Pacific,
oh, shuni
THE public's cool question-What's the
prospect for the ice crop?
Strawberries grown in the open air
have appeared in the Georgia markets.
AN economical Japanese family can
live on three cents day if buckled down
to it.
A FRENcHMAN has discovered that the
foot and mouth disease may be prevented
by vaccination.
THE noblest reformer is he who, resolv-
ing to make a true man of himself sue
ceeds in his work.
WHOEVER it was that called sausage
"a ground-hog" has made the best pun Of
the current month.
JESSE PARRISH, of Linn County. Ore,
has q chair which has been IN the Parrish
family for IT'S years.
TIE Buffalo Courier says that furnaces
in dwellings are carrying thousands of
people to their graves.
ENGLAND calls its big cannon "the
Woolwich infant" because it i" bellers' so
frequently. The great babyl
MEXICO has girl at Jalapa with three
arms. Couldn't she make things lively,
though, at q domestic hair pulling?
II American soldiers get lost and cross
into Mexico and kill some cattle thieves
who can blame them?-Detroit Free Pres
GOODWIN SMITH has just married, and
has also ceased lecturing. It Is under
stood that he has resigned in favor Of his
wife.
IT is now suggested that, as an offset to
Thanksgiving Day, a Grumble day might
he appointed for those who are never
thankful.
SoME people are estimating the Astor
property at $500, 900 900, but, somehow,
no one steps forward and offers that much
for it in cash.
A NEWSPAPER bedded in gravel and
turned into stone was lately found in
Hartland, N. Y, the printing being PLAIN
ly visible to the naked eye.
THE st. Louis Globe Democrat would
just like to see q woman stoop to con-
quer" without breaking her back or de-
sroying eighteen yards of dress goods.
IT turns out that the steamship Pacific
shouldn't have been lost. but she was lost,
and three columns of theory as to why
she wasn't saved won't console the
mourners bit.
IT is said that the Missouri River In
dians, who comprise about 20 per cent. of
the Indians who have right to the Black
Hills country, have voted to sell their in
terest to the whites.
An English clergyman, who has recent
ly visited Salt Lake, has given currency to
the idea that the Mormons are maturing a
project to purchase the Holy Land, and
set themselves up in Jerusalem.
RIcHELIEU's remark, There's no such
word as 'fail,'" should be modified to
meet the present unpleasant times so as
to state about how many cents will be
paid on the dollar.-N. Y. World.
A scHoOL-TEACHER in Leandro, CAL, is
in trouble for brutal treatment of his pu-
pills. He compelled a boy to walk up
flight of twenty nine steps 100 times for
the offense of looking over his shoulder.
THOSE papers which are now publish
ing the best method of canning and pre-
serving blackberries are doing a noble
work and should secure at least 200 new
subscribers per week.-DetrOit Free Press.
THE world was created pretty near right,
after all. You never hear a poor man
with large family to care for ever com,
planning that half his winter supply of
potatoes had rotted in the bins.-FIee
Press.
As A FAILURE, Weston continues to be
an unqualified success. He comes out at
the little end of the horn in his pedestrian
contests with a regularity that makes such
a result among the things inevitable
Detroit Tribune.
SCORE one for Prof. Tice, the storm-pre
dictor. In the November number of his
magazine, the american Meteorological he
gives among the planetary equinoxes for
November the following prophecy: 23th
to 30th, cold to very cold"
PRoF. RILEY, State Entomologist of
Missouri, recommends that the State pay
a dollar q bushel for grasshopper eggs
and fifty cents a bushel for dead insects.
But he does not fear a return of the pests
for some years.
PIE Danbury Neps sees something
humorous in the remark of girl who
said she would take an afternoon nap if
she was not too tired. 1t was perfectly
sensible observation. People who are al
ready tired very naturally do not wish to
retire.
THE Albanians, of New York. do not
propose to establish any soup houses this
winter. The experiment was tried last
winter and found to work poorly, the I'M
worthy being fed, while the worthy poor
remained away.
A GOOD story is extant of Martin Van
Buren,, who, when a candidate for Office,
found his wife weeping over bitter per-
sOnal attack upon him in one of the news
papers. "Why, my DEAR" said the willy
sage of Undertook, 81 paid fifty dollars
to have that printed"
SPEAKING of names, the author of " The
Circuit Rider" tells us that there is fam
lily in Virginia who spell their name " En-
routy" and pronounce it " Darby" We
should as soon think of spelling a name
Smith and calling it Dunderanblitzen. -
LOuispile Courier-Journal.
Two LADIES got hooked together by
their clanking chains in a New York
street-car the other day. Its of no con-
sequence" said one, as she struggled
Don't mention it," said the other, as
she grew red in the face, pulling to get
| free. Then the chain broke, the pas
sengers laughed, the ladies smiled a smile
| of hatred, and the car moved on.
A CLERGYMAN of experience in the rural
| districts was last week offered 5000 year,
house rent, and a donation party every
fall to fill the pulpit of suburban town,
but demurred on the ground that it was
not enough. He was then asked to come
ON his own terms, and agreed to occupy
if they would give him $500 a year and
have no donation party.-Chicago Tribune.
| A VERY simple walking-cane, with a
candle inclOsed, which might be con
venIent for use in dark passages, or even
for reading in railroad cars, has been in
vented by a German. The top portion
consists of hollow cylinder screwed on,
and containing a spring to press upward
as fast as consumed a candle In it. 1t Is
closed by a screw cap, which forms con
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