American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-13
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CURRENT ITEMS.
| A SAN FRANCISCO steamer threw IL, 90
boxes Of matches overheard to light'e
up a little.
IT is with word as with an arrow
the arrow once lOOsed does not return t.
the bOw-nor a word to the lips:
JOLLY times in Florida: The pro
gramme of each day is sleep, eat, fish o
shoot, and then little more sleep eAnt
eat.
| A MAN may be properly said to hav'
been drinking like a fish when he find
that he has taken enough to make hi
head swim.
| THE power of love receives fresh illus
tratiOn in the case of Montreal girl who
sold her new bonnet SO that her love-
might buy pair of skates.
BULLY for the Connecticut boarding
house keeper who splintered her pudding
mixer over the head of chap who
slandered her female boarders. He
| won't dough it again.
Coop resolutions are an honor to every
heart that may form them. But that
that heart is nobler still when these reso.
buttons are not broken.
THE paragraphers are sympathizing
with Virginia man who has spent $40.
600 for morphia for his wife in the last
twenty years. But think of the quiet
nights that man has had.
HENRY STANTON says: "There is no
open door for the moneyless man." Per
contra, Dobb says that whenever he is
mOneyless everybody seems disposed to
show him the door, and ask him to step
out to boot. .... ....s
A LECTURER, addressing an audience,
commended with tiresome prolixity that
art could not improve nature until one
room in roar by exclaiming: How
would you look without your wigs"
""TRUTH," says a sage, "never gets its
votaries into tangIes; it imprisons no
man in the network of his own words"
Perhaps not. But if man told the
truth when asked where he gets his win
ter's wood it might imprisOn him in
something worse than network of his
own words.
= WENDELL PHILLIPs can, by calling on
Mons. De La Bastie, gain some valuable
information. After six years of expert
ment the Frenchman has solved the
problem of making malleable glass,
which can be beaten or bent like copper
anu can Dc uSeu LOT COOkluS uIcuSllS.
One lost art is therefore restored.
A ST. LOUIS girl who received New
Years calls describes tie misery she suf-
fered because people would talk about
the weather. For twelve hours" she
says, 60 heard over and over again the
se1f-same platitudes, and before night i
felt like a Signal Service Bureau, and
was SO stuffed with weather that I was
sick"
.IF.you should invest in a lottery, al
ways dream three nights in succession,
preceding the day of draw
ing, that your number drew the capital
prize. A Bridgeport man did this and
the very next day he saw an announce
ment in the paper that-the drawing had
been postponed for three months.-Nor-
rist0,1n Herald.
BALTIMORE oysters were never better
appreciated than they were by the
hungry passengers of a snow-bound train
ON the Kansas Pacific Railroad lately.
After being twenty-fOur hours without a
20 square meal" it was discovered that
there was a car on the train loaded with
oysters bound to Denver. 1t
is needless to say that the freight was
shifted with great expedition.
"THE champion dead-head has been |
discovered in legislator who, having |
pany, and not having occasion to use it, |
actually called at the Superintendent
office and asked if they were willing to |
give him the value of the ticket in m on |
ey?" We might believe this story if the |
relator had mentioned that the legislator |
informed the Superintendent that he had |
made arrangements to borrow the pass |
IF his colleague, and so didn't need his |
1wn.-MiisoAukee Sentinel.
DURING the last six or eight years, ac-
,ording to the Army and Macy Journal, |
July one-half of the recruits received
into the army have deserted. There has |
been an Improvement, however, during
he last two years, the number of deser.
ions falling off some so per cent.
The change is attributed to the Army
ill of 1879, by the provisions of which
are offered to men to remain
n the service. The pay was increased,
portion being retained until the final
discharge, and savings banks, wherein
he thrifty might lay up store of cash,
we're established.
THE luster and cleanness of English
made pins have a reputation SURPRISING
hose made in any other country. This
s owing, says the Scientific ReUie,o, to the
peculiar treatment to which the better
of the article are subjected.
They are first cleaned by boiling for half
IN hour in sour beer, wine lees, or So
ution of tartar, after which they are
Washed. They are then whitened or
inned by being laid in strata, in a COM
non pan made of copper, alternately
With grain tin in the proportions of about
TX pounds of tin to seven pounds of
,ins, until the vessel is filed. Water is
low added and heat applied, and as
oon as the water. gets hot its surface is
prinkled with four ounces of cream of
artar, after which it is allowed to boil
or an hour. This operation is repeated
,nce or twice, the pins being washed in
old water between each boiling. After
inning the pins are polished by agitation
n a leather sack filled with bran, and
4fter the bran has been separated by
the pins are collected in
'owls for papering.