American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-05-22
MULTUM In PARvO.

AeUE without fever is no great shakes
THE cheapest motive power is polite
ness.
MorTo FOR THE ARABs-Up and Be
douin.
STRAWBERRY short cake, this year. will
be berry short.
DoN'r talk about this worlds bright
ness and sunshine TO man with tight
boots.
SETH GREEN claims that the principal
reason for the death of fish in aquaria is
the use of zinc-lined pipes.
The man who, with his sweetheart,
eats strawberries and cream at this sea
son has the dear things all together
If you are between two evils, don't be
SO foolish as to choose the least, but stay
just where you are until one of them de-
parts.
The English propose to move street
carriages by clockwork. 1t is said that
all practical difficulties have been re-
moved.
WHEN q market-man offers you a two
pound hen and calls il a spring chicken
fold your tent and steal silently away
Free Press.
TIE Pope talks of canonizing Chris
topher Columbus, and now it will be in
order for Mrs. Partington to ask what's
the use of cannonading that great dis
coverer?
By q recent statute in Tennessee the
losing party in a lawsuit has to pay the
jurymen's fees, and now the jIries in
vsrisbly render the verdicts against the
richest litigants.
WHEN are stockings like dead men?
When they are men-ded; when their
soles are departed; when they are in
holes; when they are past healing; when
they are no longer on their last legs.
IT is statistically computed that 1O0,-
000, 900 nuts of various kinds are annual
ly eaten IN this country. Which ia ct
the New Orleans PicdyuNe thinks may
account for the prodigious number of
colonies.
FRANK MASON and Miss Candies Cliff
ford, of Owen, KY, eloped on horseback.
Their steeds dropped dead with fatigue
before they could reach the parsons
house and they finished their flight on
foot But they succeeded
Now THE future looks brighter. The
Treasury Department acquiesces in the
are exempt from duty under the special
provision for Bolt gina sausages, and,
therefore, no appeal will be taken to the
Supreme Court.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN said: at is hard
for an empty bag to stand upright"
This great truth is robbed of its sadness
when we know that there is no necessity
for bag or anything else to stand up
when it would look better lying down.
". o. Republican.
AT Cincinnati they have inaugurated
rival movement to. the spelling
matches "a pronouncing-match. The
words are written on blackboard, and
the competitors are required to pro
nounce them. Both these movements
will do much to help the people to write
and pronounce their own language cor
rectly.
CENTREvILLE, Md, contains prodigy
in tie way of q citizen aged eighty-one
years, who never attended school twelve
mouths in his life, but whose natural
talent for mathematics is SO great that
he has yet to find problem which he
cannot solve. His rules are entirely of
his own devising, and many of them are
said to be curiosities of their kind.
TIE fight over the will of Capt. E. B
Ward, of Detroit, wakes strong in the
couft His elder children now claim
that the Captain never signed the will
and codicils, and that the old gentleman
was osazy. Here is comfort for the
-ey-getter, and knowledge that what
make when alive will be scat
he courts when he is dead
you die win your property
,s = 80 yyers.
g use ribbon is now
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placed