American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-12-18
MULTUM IN PARVO.

| Null U M In FARfUs
I A GOOD wife is good thing, but bad
husband beats her.
THE health of Jenny Lind is said to be
rapidly giving way.
Nor big words, but big ideas, mark the
speech of great men.
FURTY Farmers will take seats in the
next Ohio Legislature.
| j. r. LANE, Texas stock Imam, recent
ly purchased 5000 sheep.
ROCHESTER,, N. Y, had a boy on trial
the other day for stealing cent.
"SwEET HAWAII GRIMES" is a sign dis
played by Troy IN. " fruitdealer.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer of the Isl
talks about these glorious autumn morn.
ings.''
| A sIGNAL-sTATIoN has been established
at the summit of Mt. Kearsarge, in New
Hampshire.
Mrs. TURNER, of Hampton, Ga, fell
dead the other day while making deed
to some property.
A FEATURE of the Sunday dinners al
the California State Prison is a 1900
pound bread pudding:
HARRY MEIGGs, the Californian and
South American railroad king, is dying
Of softening of the brain.
THE late Senator Ferry is to have a
statue; plaster of Paris cast of his face
was taken after his death.
THE too, too solid flesh of the Boss
probably thawed and resolved itself into
adieu.-ROchester Democrat.
THE Pennsylvania girl who coughed up
a shawl-pin the other day is now trying
to raise a cancels -hair shawl.
THE Albany IN. " Penitentiary is
| tn NIT oil
most every available spot being in use.
THE Marysville (Cal.) appeal desires
the passage of a law making robbery a
capital offense, at the option of the jury.
| IT has been discovered that buckwheat
poetic minds. They also produce an
eruption; but they are good.
THE New Haven Journal thinks the
Bankrupt law "a direct incentive to
roguery and premium on crime" Well,
that's vigorous language, anyhow.
LUCY STONE remains firm in her oppo-
sitiOn to the Centennial. She says it is
| an insult in the men to ask women to have
| anything to do with the Centennial.
THE Undertook Rough Notes says that
the late William B. Astor was the rich
| est man in America except one, whose
name modesty forbids us to MENTION"
WHEN a relative with simple tastes dies
| it is always well to remember and respect
his fancies. 1t will save you good deal
on the monument.-St. Louis Republican.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has reduced the wages of the laborers en-
ployed on the New Jersey division to
ten cents per hour, or ninety cents per day
| of nine hours.
THERE is a compositor on this paper
who invariably spells Jerusalem with a
G, and all the angels in heaven couldn't
convince him that there is such letter as
J.-Rochester Chronicle.
A BLACK duck flew against the light
house at Sankaty, Nantucket, the other
day, with such force as to break large
plate-glass window almost half an inch
in thickness, killing itself instantly.
BENJAMIN p. AVERY, our Minister to
China, whose death is announced, was a
California journalist, and at one time ed
itor of the Overland Monthly, and a gen.
tleman of culture and modest merit.
A FELLOW named Sam: Ryan was sold
at auction at Las Animas, Col, the other
day. There were but few bidders, and he
was finally knocked down at fifty cents,
which was considered an exorbitant price.
WHEN Michigan father pounds on the
stair door and informs Sarah that it is
time to go to bed he means business. The
next time he gets up a wild-eyed lover
goes for the gate on a gallop.-Detr0it
Free Press.
ONE of the queerest contests on which
the new House will have to pass is that
from the Thirty third New York District,
where MIR. Augustus NJ. Lowry claims
the seat: To be sure, he received exactly
votes against 10, ITO for Mr.. Norton and
Mr.. Cary 8, 139; but he insists that he was
the only man who was voted for correctly
as Representative in the Forty fourth
Congress - and hence that the 5 Lowry
ballots are the only ones that can be
counted.
A CURIOUS will-case has just been set
tied in Providence, r. 1. Almoran Har-
ris, Of Cranston, worth about 100000,
Irishman named O'Rourke, whose ante
cedents were not of the best kind, but who
was rather good-lookIng, and Almoran's
rage knew no bounds, for he hated Irish
men, He refused to be reconciled to his
daughter, and made a will leaving all his
property to two old maids not related to
him, except $500 to Mrs. O'Rourke. The
daughter appealed from the will and, after
litigation, the old maids have settled the
case by handing over 800, 900 to the
THE attorney in Denver COW case con-
cluded his argument as follows: " May it
please your Honor, this is a stupendous
question. Its decision by you, on this
day, will live in judicial history long after
you and shall have passed from this
scene of earthly glory and sublunary
vanity; when the tower of Pisa shall be
forgotten, when Waterloo and BOridino
shall grow dim in the distant cycles of re-
ceding centuries; when the names of Eu-
gene, Marlborough and Napoleon are no
longer remembered; when the pyramids
of the Pharaohs shall have crumbled into
dust; when the hippOpotamus shall cease
to inhabit its native Nile; when our own
rock-ribbed territory shall no more grow
800 pound squashes, even then your ruling
upon this demurrer will still survive in
the antique volumes of legal lore, as
fresh, green and imperishable as Big
Thompson grasshopper or IA Colorado po-
tato-bug."
WOMEN who wish to be we'll dressed
must give particular attention to the selec-
ton of their gloves and shoes. Gloves
are now made with stitching on the back
of the hand. As many six rows are
used in some styles. Heavy gloves in
dog skin lined with fur are also imported;
but for full dress the long wristed kid
glove in light tints is the most appropriate.
The dark cOlOrS so much worn in dress
material seem to demand gloves of light
neutral tints, and undressed white kid has
been very much used. For evening wear
eight, ten or twelve buttons are fashion
able. Boots, in which the material of
the dress is used, or something to match
it in color, are made by our fashionable
shoemakers, the heel and tip being of kid.
Slippers with high Louis XIV. heels and