American citizen., 1875-03-20
CURRENT ITEMS.

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, ten times to where a well man swallow:
once.
THERE is one thing about peanuts,
observed a man who was helping him
self from his friends pockets, and thai
is the shells"
DOUGLAS JERRoLD used to say of fem
mime writers: g If you once dip a won
ans finger in the ink-pot she will go on
writing forever"
l IT MUST be unpleasant for a suffering
man in Berlin to hail street car, be
cause there they call a street car pier
Observation-Disclosures, for short.
! A DANBURY man being asked to con-
| tribute to the fund for Kansas said that
with hard winter like this and straw
berries at twelve dollars quart he did
rot feell giving anything =
! AT Charitable fair in Boston, one of
the things for sale is a calf six months
old. He is a fine fellow, of valued
breed. The young ladies have decorated
him profusely with flowers and ribbons
and parted his hair in ehe middle.
New ORLEANS announces the advent
| of the first ice-cream cart of the season.
We have all the requisite material for ice
cream, but don't. want it. 1t may do
very well for New Orleans, but it is quite
too ordinary for this locality y.-ROchester
| Democrat.
It's getting pretty near time for the
| Oldest Inhabitants to predict that there
will be no apples next fall, the frost hav-
| ing killed the buds. This is great
comfort to our aged citizens, but it
doesn't seem to discourage the apples
worth a cent.-Fulton IN. ~ Times.
a MOTOR he's recently been. invented
for running sewing machines which is
likely to supersede steam. 1t is Il ma
.,l. u, Il. l.
| clock-wOrk is operated by weight or
spring, SO that by connecting belt a
| sewlng-machine or any other light ma
! chinery may be driven.
| EVEN as in America this season has
| been exceptionally dreadful" in the
South, just SO has the usually "sunny
cline" of Italy and Southern France
been cold, damp and uncomfortable in
Europe. 1t has been perfectly eX-
cruciating'' everywhere, ana there's no use
for anybody complaining anywhere.
The Brooklyn Argus gives the follow
ing description of woman's way of
signing her name in book: "She de-
posted her gloves directly on the page
where she intended to write her name
Then she turned over the leaf and left
her muff on the next page. Not finding
place for signature she turned leaf
in the other direction and left her veil
| as book-mark."
a LADY on the east shore of Maryland
happened to make sausage meat and
mince pies on the same day. Being called
to the parlor to receive company she re-
turned TO find to her sorrow that the cook
had put the wine, spice, sugar and plums
into the sausages, while the mince meat
received its complement of sweet herbs,
salt and pepper Tne lady magnani-
mously bestowed the whole stock on the
poor, since which she has never been
troubled by the sick and demoraliZed
paupers who were her victims.
In Schaghticoke, Rensselaer, County,
n. y, is an extensive gunpowder manu-
factory. The successive buildings in
which the drying of the powder is done
have been blown up at the rate of one a
year for ten years. Three men are re-
quired to operate this part of the works.
In the ten years five men have been
killed and seven mangled by the explo-
sions, the last accident occurring few
days ago. Yet, Notwithstanding the dead
ly risk of the employment, more men are
constantly offering their services than
are needed, and the wages are low
The fascination which danger has for
some temperaments is the only eXplana-
tion of this strange fact.
SAYS the indianapolis Journal: "There
is on the Virginia street car line a driver
whose name should be handed down to
posterity as a second Chesterfield. Yes
terday afternoon a lady in his car pulled
a strap for him to stop at the first crossing
of u street, but the bell did not strike
She did not notice this, but rushed to
the door and began to use her tongue
lash on the driver quite freely. She want
ed to be set off at the first crossing, and
he had driven nearly to the second. With |
out word he promptly stopped his car,
hItched his horses to the rear end, and |
pulled it back to the first crossing, much |
to the amusement of the other passengers |
and the chagrin of the virago
BOYS will be boys, thought the. occ
pants of Boston horsc-car who listened |
to the story of u mischievous young lad, |
who was telling an old gentleman why |
he liked the.new master of one of our |
schools. The master, he said, was a |
trstrate fellow, and then he had dis |
missed the scholars twice lately at $50 |
O'Clock in the morning "Why, what did |
he do that for?" asked the elderly gentle
man., After the youth had had good |
laugh he managed to explain that one Of
the boys had put piece of ice under the |
thermometer, and sent the mercury |
down to forty, and the master thought |
pupils to remain in. And the way the
old gentleman laughed and shook to'ti
plainly enough that he had once been
one of that kind of boys.
a LADY residing in the extreme south
ern part of tie city few years since
was left widow with family of small
children. Of course for a while she was
inconsolable, and religiously taught the
little ones that papa was Cup in heav-
en-" She is to be married again in a
month, and, while not allowing the chill
drrn to forget their father she irstructs
them to view her intended husband as
their father in IA secondary sense. Yes
terday a gentleman called at her house.
He is very intimate with the widow and
the little ones. So he ventured IA ques-
ton. Muriel," said he to the young
est, n blue-eyed, ruddy checked five
year-old girl, "where is papa?" Saidth
little thing abruptly: Up in-down
own."-CAicdg1 Inter- Oce0H
IT IS an old notion that sunlight les
sens the intensity of fire, and may even
put it out, and the theory was that the
suns heat by expanding the air caused
IA diminished supply of oxygen to the
coal This and all ether explanations
are now condemned and the fact is de
MED. One writer says that if IA few
pieces of charcoal are ignitcd in a chauf-
fer and placed in sunny room pro
vidcd with close-ftting shutters the fire
will appear to die away in the suns
light. But if the shutters are closed the
Goals Will be seen to be in full Combus-
tion There is no phenomenon at all,
but only the appearance of one, which
is due, not to the suns heat, but to the
fact that its light, being stronger than