American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-06
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS.
| WHEN is a fowls neck like a bell
When it is wrung for dinner.
One important result of the man,
costly Improvements made by the leadin:
railway companies within the past two
years is that broken rails are now com
paratively rare.
A NEW HAMPSHIRE woman, when dy
ing, made her husband swear, on the
| blole' he'd never marry IA woman with {
sharp nose: And yet a sharp nose is MOI
nall so bad as sharp tongue.
The famous pretty girls of Providence
must beware. The Providence ,Jouru1
says 1.-The amount of beauty and bank
stock which has gone out of this town
through marriage is enormous"
IT is a curious fact that sewing ma
chimes can be purchased in Europe and
brought to this country for just one hall
of the price they cost here, including all
costs Of freight, duty, etc, the reason
being that they have no protection there
anyone being allowed to make them.
A WESTERN paferfdmilids, who has
raised two families, has disc ,vered that
children grow far more between January
and July than in the other half of the
year. His theory is that the growth OF
humanity is governed by the same laws
which prevail over the vegetable king
dom.
If boy is walking along the street
accompanied by big dog, and a boy
with small dog comes out of a side
street, it is just as impossible for that
big boy to resist urging his dog to chew
the small canine up as it is for boy to
pass sugar box and not feel of the
Jumps.
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supplies for the Polar expedition should
be included a few pounds of mustard and
cress-seed, for the purpose of obtaining
green salad. These seeds will grow if
sprinkled in a damp piece of flannel or
a bed of moist ashes, and the plants have
long been esteemed for their antiscor-
butte properties.
A RECENT California letter says:
Flowers are blooming in all their varie-
gated beauty in the gardens on every
hand all kinds of green sauce abound in
the marketplaces. Strawberries grown
in the open air are selling at twenty-five
cents per quart The hills and wales are
covered with grass, affOrding the most
luxuriant feed for stock"
THEY gave Massachusetts woman a
narcotic, and she did not wake until
after the time in which her dream had
Though she is now safe and thankful
there is away down in her heart of hearts
just a speck of disappointment that the
dream was not fulfilled; it would have
created such stir among the neighbOrs.
A LIGHT BOAT at New London, Conn,
having taken to leaking from some mys-
FERROUS cause investigation was made,
which resulted in the discovery that the
was caused by hammer which
had been left in the bottom under the
floor when the boat was built thirteen
years ago Moved with the continual
motion of the vessel it had worn through
planking and keel to the copper plating,
which alone had kept the vessel from
THE Dallas Tex) Commercial says in
recent issue: "A lady now resident
of our city, and one of the finest writers
in the State, lost her husband some six
years ago; she knew his life was insured
for $40, 900 but could not find the papers
and did not know in what company it
was She went to New Orleans and
spent the winter there in trying to ferret
out the matter, but was at length COM
PEELED to give it up in despair. She was
engaged yesterday in writing New
Years address for the Commercial and
was looking over some old papers for an
address she had written some years
previous when she came across the lost
paper"
A BUTCHER of this city, who is the in
ventor of a new kind of sausage con
aiming a vast amount of nutriment in a
condensed form, named the same
he Multum in Parvo sausage" A few
lays since he employed a painter to
paint him a sign bearing the above name,
% be erected in front of his market. |
yesterday the sign was completed and
brought to the butcher for his accept
lnce Judge of the surprise and indigna |
ion of the inventive butcher when he |
ully realized that the great flaming YER
Million and blue letters on the sign before |
lin read: Mutton in Porko sausage!" |
The painter swore that that was what |
he butcher told him to put on the sign, |
md said that he Thought it very APP |
,ropriate name" When the painter said |
his the butcher seized a cleaver, and it |
ook three men to hold him, so DESTROYS
vas he of splitting open the head of the
'oor, trembling artist.-Vtrginia City
Ne0.) Enterprise.
THE fact is well known that when two
buildings are illuminated
With gas derived from the same source
t frequently happens that the extinction
# the lights in one building causes the
'ressure of gas in the other to become
realty increased, and sometimes to re-
ult in accident. AS an alarm to give
warming of this overpressure. French
inventor proposes a bi-sullkate of mer-
ury battery, in which the liquid is COM
nunicated with the gas by means Of
iphon, SO that the pressure of the gas,
n varying, raises or lowers its level. II
Is pressure is above a certain fixed
init the liquid is raised so as to come
n contact with the metallic portion of
ne battery, establishing current which
ounds an electric alarm. The inventor
f this device also suggests that simple
lethod of determining leaks in gas
ipes throughout a building is to force
ONE strongly-odorous smoke into the
upply-pipc. The fumes of incense, for
escaping in any room, would be
eadily distinguished from gas.
A Singular Dream.
PSYCHOLOGICAL wonders being the or
or of the Anv yhnt RI b1a |