American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-04-10
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS.
| NEW YORK is seriously talking about a
scheme for importing domestic servants
from India.
AN indignant Jerseyman is going to
move to South Abingdon, Mass, where
| the town cannot have Il centennial until
1878.
| CORRECTLY is not a hard word, yet all
the spoilers that are worsted in the spell
ing-matches fail because they cannot
spell correctly.
THE block of Switzerland granite
which is to serve for a monument over
the grave of Agassiz has arrived at Cam
bridge, and is now receiving the inscrip-
| ton.
IT is said that nothing will cure a
| poets affection for his idol sooner than
to catch her at the dinner-table excavat-
| ing the kernel of hickory nut with a
hair-pin.
SOMEBODY in Baltimore claims to have
seen phantom dog one night recently.
| This is encouraging to those who have
| long wished to see phantom dogs super
sede all others.
A YOUNG lady while out walking heard
| for the first time of her mothers inten-
ton to marry again, and she was Obliged
| to sit right down and cry about it. She
could not go step farther.
THE eight-year-old boy in New Haven,
Conn.,, who applied croton oil to his hair,
installing it for hair oil. soon after dis
covered his great mistake by burning
| sensation which was more painful than
agreeable.
TEXAS talks of dividing herself into
two States. The worst thing about Texas
is that there is too much of her. You
could put four or five Illinoises into her
geographical. area and have a big mar
gin to spare.
IT is asserted that the proportion of
the married among the insane is smaller
than that of the single; but this may be
because an insane married person doesn't
show any thing abnormal in his misera-
BILE melancholy.
A GOLD knee buckle of good workman
ship was recently found by citizen liv-
ing in the vicinity of Braddock's Field,
in the western part of Pennsylvania. 1t
is thought to have belonged to one of the
unfortunate victims of Braddock's de-
feat.
The Berlin correspondent of Land and
Water says that if field infested by
thistles be planted with rape seed the
latter will thoroughly starve, suffocate
and chill the weed out of existence. The
experiments tried with different varieties
of rape seed have been completely sue
cessful.
A BRIDGEPORT Comm company have
Just finished a refrigerator-car to be used
in bringing strawberries from the South,
and the Standard says: "This is tie first
refrigerator-car of this kind ever built,
but will probably be soon followed by
thirty more to be used on the different
roads about the country"
A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. boy in Paris
recently induced a companion of eleven
years of age to steal 800 francs in gold
and then strangled him, threw him into
the Seine and walked off with the money
He was sentenced to twenty years in the
galleys, having escaped the death pen
atty" We are told, ION account of his
youth"
ADULTERATIoN of food is made penal
of1ense in England, and the laws are exc
cuted with great Iigor. In this manner
purchasers are protected from sharpers
and given good articles instead of spuri
Gus ones. In this country like reform
is necessary, for here, as in England,
adulteratiOn of articles of food is carried
on to a large extent
APPLAUSE: 1t spoils the child, it ruins
the youth and makes strong man weak.
Given too oft, it heats away the judg-
ment, unbalances the will and wrecks the
greatest minds. 1t fosters pride, cradles
selfishness and turns to curd the sweet
milk of the heart. 1t tears down what
adversely has builded up, and numbers
its victims most among the gifted.
WHY American girls prefer not to go
to service in respectable American fam
lilies where they would be sure of the
comforts of a home, and go into mills,
shops, factories and stores instead, sub
sisting nobody knows how, is one of the
problems which await solution. The
passion for so-called independence does
not explain it by good deal.-Massachu-
sets PLOuglman.
INAsMUCH as paper has been made
available for the manufacture of almost
every variety of furniture and articles
of dress, it is passing strange that paper
collins should have been left till this late
day unthought of. The undertaken is
certainly not an enterprising party.
Trunk makers have long been credited
with using all the unstable printed
books; but at the present rate of pruduc-
ton, were every traveller supplied with a
van load of these troublesome impedi-
mentd to travelling, such a stock would
remain that all the bOOkshelves in the
world would not contain a 1.-THE of them.
To further reduce the stock a manufac
turer out West proposes to supply every
jOurneyer to that bourne whence no
traveller returns with last trunk made
of pdpier mdche, waterproofed with
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