American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-09-18
MULTUM In PARvO.

ARE not curtain lectures species of
lay preachings
WHY is great bore like a tree Both
look best when leaving.
PIRATES generally charge all a ship is
worth for boarding it.
| ALL honest men will bear watching. 1t
! is the rascals who cannot stand 1t.
GREECE will participate in our Centen-
NAL That insures its running smoothly.
ASPIRING politicians at this time are
| the most nom committal fellows to be
found.
| SuK-PLAITINGs for trimming skirts of
dresses are not made SO full as they were
| formerly.
| A PENNSYLVANIA hen catches mice. A
hen of the Cotchin' China breed, proba-
bly,.
WHAT does the grocer do with all his
things before he sells them? Gives them
a weigh.
A NEW doctor has made his appearance
at Pompey, N. Y. They call him Pom
pey's pill-er.
Why might carpenters believe there is
no such thing as stone? Because hey
never saw it.
| SKIRTS of French dresses are made
longer in front and on the sides than for
merly, cOncealing the foot entirely.
Why must the letter "d' be the most
| wonderful letter in the alphabet? Be-
| cause it is the center of wonders"
THERE is town in the State of New
| York called Busti. The man who starts
| a bank there will be an individual of iron
nerve.
SHoE-DEALER-If find we have no num-
| Der twelve shoes, sir; but here is a pair OF
large mines. Customer-Nnes! Do yer
take me for Cinderellar?
DURING the approaching cold weather
the Detroit Free Press thinks all the other
men who murdered Nathan had better
come forward and confess.
The compositor who substituted an I'm"
for .sw,"s in speaking of lady troubl
with " swelling of the feet" accomplished
/ the worst typographical feat on record.
w THY talk a good deal about " trials"
and = clews" and +" traces" but it is gen.
orally understood that the detectives Noe
nothing about the guilty party in the re-
cent NeM York assassination case.
IT is a notable fact that any criminal
who IS liable to be tried either in Canada
or the United States always prefers much
to take his chances here. In slow Canada
they still not only talk justice, but admin
lister it..
AN unknown philanthropist has taken
up Gilmore's suggestion OF firing 100 can
non at the opening OF tie Centennial. he
proposes, however, that they be loaded
with grape and canister, and all pointed
at Gilmore.
SOME Pennsylvania workmen recently,
engaged in excavating, found a gold watch
several feet below the surface. They
thought they had found the original bank
wherein the wild time grew.-St. Louis
Republican.
WHEN Pennsylvania farmer sold his
farm to an oil company he went to town
the day he got his cash and bought his
wife 200 dozen clothes pins and twenty-five
clothes-lines. He said he'd had growing
and jawing enough about that house.
HERE is puff of an advertiser by an
editor: Mr.. -, the. distinguished
decorative painter (see advertising col
umn), informs his patrons that his imi-
tation of hardwood is superior to the nat
ural article; the latter, for instance, being
yellow oak, his yellow oker."
IT was an old bachelor who declared
that the conventional representation of a
clrerub was his idea of model infant.
:" No nasty little.lungs to scream with, no
dirty little hands to NEEDLE with, no hor
rid little legs to run about on-just
dear little pair of fluffy wings and
head"