American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-12-11
Notifications Extraordinary.

Notifications Extraordinary.
AL the Year Round gives some amusing
instances of what it calls Notifications
Extraordinary:
In the time of Napoleon Ill a notice
was placed at the entrance to the Pavilion
Henri Quatre, at SHERMAN, setting
FORTH The persons hereunder mentioned
are not allowed TO enter: 1. Men in work.
ing-clothes; 2. Women without bonnets;
8. Servants without their masters or mis-
tresses; 4. Children without their parents;
5. Wives without their husbands; 6. Dogs
without their muzzles." Somebody blum
dered, but that somebody has the cOnsOla-
ton of knowing officials of the new regims
are just as fallIble. When the Project OF
Lyons decreed that cafes and wine-shops
must close their doors at half-past eleven
he thought 1t necessary to warn all per-
sons CHANGING to be in such places at that
time of night that they must leave without
being compelled to do SO. His brother of
Grenoble capped this by announcing-No
burial without religious rites would be
permitted except with the expressed wish
OF the deceased-displaying as much con-
sideration for the defunct as the officials OF
the War Department did in ordering that,
whenever a soldieRon half pay shall die,
or whenever a soldier shall be placed upon
halfpay, he shall be informed of it by the
easily made; it is not so easy to mako q
regulation defying evasion, feat accom-
plished by the authorities of Denver when
they notified all travellers over the town.
bridge that mo vehicle drawn by more than
one animal is allowed to cross this bridge
in opposite directions at the same time.''
A clerical landowner, finding his war
rens were poached while he preached,
sought to insure his game quiet Sunday
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member the Sabbath to keep it holy. Be-
ware, my friends; your names are all
known. If you trespass on these fields, or
touch my rabbits, you will be prosecuted
according to the law" The reverend
rabbit preserver was not inclined to make
nice distinctions like the turnip- grower,
who politely intimated: Ladies and gen.
tlemen are requested not to steal the tur-
nips; other persons, if detected, will be
prosecuted" And he might have taken a
lesson in liberality from gentleman who
put up board inscribed Ten shillings
reward! Any person found trespassing on
these lands or damaging these fences, on
conviction, will receive the above reward
1t may be questioned if he would have
been as true~to his word as the Aberdeen
factor who was wont to jog the memory
of laggard tenant with
To avoid all proceedings unpleasant
beg you will pay what is due;
II you do. you'll oblise mo at present;
fyou don't why, I'll oblige You.
No writer of stories with purpose ever
succeeded SO thoroughly as Foote when
jandrum for Macklin's discontinue,
which remains unsurpassed as piece of
pure nonsense; but Lahore hotel-keep-
er's notice to his customers would serve
equally well as a mnemonic test, for we
might safely "bet our pile against any
of his patrons finding a place in their
memory for such wondrous example of
English composition as this: "Gentle-
men who como in hotel not say anything
about their meals they will be charged
for, and if they should say beforehand
that they are going out to breakfast or
dinner, ETC., and If they say that they
have not anything to eat they will be
charged, and if not SO, they will be
or unless they bring it to the no.
tice of the manager of the place; and
should they want to say anything they
must order the manager for, and not any
one else, and unless they not bring it TO
the notice of the manager they will charge
for the least things according to the hotel
rate, and no fuss will be allowed after
ward about it. Should any gentleman
take wall-lamp or candle-light from the
public rooms they must pay for it without
any dispute its charges. Monthly gentle
men will have to pay my fixed rate made
with them at the time, and should they
absent day in the month they will not be
allowed to deduct anything out of it be-
cause take from them less rate than my
usual rate of monthly charges"
Not long ago the girls of Maine factory,
rather than submit to a reduction Of
wages, gave the mill-owners a months
notice, and at the same time issued no.
tice to the public in general, and the mas
culine public in particular, in these words:
d" We are now working out our notice;
don't like to be idle, but determined not
10 work for nothing when folks can afford
pay. Who wants help! We can make
bonnets, dresses, puddings, pies; knit,
roast, stew and fry; make butter and
cheese, milk cows and feed chickens, hoe
corn, sweep out the kitchen, put the paf-
lor to rights, make beds, split wood, kim
die fires, wash and iron, besides being re-
markably fond of babies; in fact, can
housewife is capable of doing, not forget
ling the seedlings on Mondays or Satur
days. For specimens of our spirit we'll
refer you to our overseers Speak quick!
Black eyes, fair forehead, clustering
locks, beautiful as Hebe; can sing like
seraph and smile most bewitchingly. An
elderly gentleman who wants a good
h0use-keeper or nice young man
in want of wife-wllling to sus-
ain either character-in fact, we
are in the market. Who bids? Going,
going, gonel Who's the lucky man 81 II
.hese Maine girls be ordinary samples of
he American factory girls, no wonder
Sam Sticks friend put a notice over his
gates at Lowell" No cigars or Irishmen
admitted within these walls''-and plead
I'll in justification that 1.-the one would
set flame a-going among the cottons,
and the other among the gals"
AnecdOte Of o Trout,