American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-16
MULTUM IN PARVO.
THE leaves are taking their leavings.
rC,r o,,;zootic boS onnnornd in Roefon

makes trumpet OF his nose In public.
A MILD winter is predicted because
Jack Frost has been sent to the Kentucky
Penitentiary.
MANY a haunted heart is hidden behind
a diamond pin and a marble front shirt
| bosom.
A RESIDENT of Harrisburg, Pa, has a
collection of 500 copper coins, no two of
| which are alike.
An exchange philosophically remarks
that the most eloquent man is the man
who means what he says.
THE average human will tchasc a dozen
miles to discover a bad deed, and not raise
his eyes to see good act.
A HIBERNIAN horticulturist exemplifiest
the multiplying powers of nature by point
ing out how pears grow into threes.
KEROSENE, buzz-saws, guns and
Neutrality-suspicious. are all pulling togeth-
er to make this a busy world-for the Cor
Oncr.
"MtsH and milk festivals" and apple
| butter parties are social events frequent
ly chronicled of late in Pennsylvania
papers.
ISN'T it strange that while Nature
clothes the trees with thick foliage in the
summer she makes them go bare in the
winter.
If carpet-tacks were not so much given
to the acrobatic feat of standing on their
heads they would save a great deal Ofpain
in this world.
| A PENNSYLVANIA, to prove that potato
bugs are not poisonous, swallowed hand
full of them. The last articles he vomited
up were his socks.
EVERY young woman contemplating
marriage should studiously prepare her.
self for that condition by learning how to
split kindling-wood.
In the fall livelier color comes the bonnet
top above;
In the fall a young gals fancy turns to
| strings that match her glove.
Boston Traveller.
THE Herald Of Health announces the
remarkable scientific discovery that
% freckles indicate a defect in digestion"
which is really something new under the
sun.
THE Detroit Free Press has heard that
| a certain woman is writing lecture on
| Woman's Duties,'' and cruelty suggests
that her first duty is to burn the manu-
script.
A MAN can see more bad things in a
circle of humans in a minute, after he has
been kicked out of it, than he could have
| seen in year had he been permitted to
remain.
TWENTY-FIVE and in some cases so per
cent. has Dccu tdkcil OH lTOHl tut price vi
rents in New York city and suburbs, and
yet there are hundreds of tenements stand
ing idle.
A CHOOSE TRoT'' came off at Ottawa,
Ont, the other day. The animal is said
to be perfectly domesticated, exceedingly
kind and docile, and one Of the squarest
trotters in the world.
A GEORGIAN local editor is taken across
the knee of the Columbus Enquirer for
rushing into print about the ''extreme
felicity'' with which he sampled some
sorghum sirup."
THE wedding season is now fairly open,
with the supply of brides fully equal to
the demand; bridegrooms Shaky, with a
disposition on the part of maternal OPP
orators to bull the market.
THERE is nothing more dangerous than
telling moral truths; it is like handling
rusty pistol-you never IAN tell which of
your friends it will hit, after it has
glanced off yourself.
Miss SOPHIA ARMS, of Springfield,
Mass, in a somnambulistic freak cut all
the hair from her head one night recently.
To avoid similar mistakes, young ladies
should take off their ringlets and frizzes
before going to sleep.
Miss ANNIE WYATT, of Shady Dale,
Jasper County, has a wonderful pet
pigeon, which alights on her piano
while she is playing and goes through the
and grace.-SaUanndh (Gd.) Neucs.
che builded better than he knew" re-
marked shoemaker's wife about two
O'Clock in the morning, as she nervously
grasped one of his pegged sole boots in
her right hand and patiently waited for
the sound ofhis football on the stairs.
IF our horses are to have the epizooty
this season, now is good time for Mr..
Kelley to trot out that motor ofhis. By the
way, those thirty days, the expiration of
which was to see train of cars drawn
from Philadelphia to New York by the
mysterious power, have passed, and twice
thirty days back of them.
A ST LOUIS reporter was sent Unto the
country to gather crop statistics. About
dusk he reached spot where the horse
power of threshing- machine had been at
work, and he patiently followed the track
nearly all night. When walked up from
a slumber into which he had fallen ex-
hausted, he said that it was dreadful
long distance between houses.
A JACKSONVILLE Qll.) physician, hav-
ing successfully removed one-half of pa
TENTS tongue, has been overwhelmed with |
applications from suffering husbands for |
miles around to operate upon their wives. |
InOSt VI lllcIH SuSSCSt tldt III uCCu UC
particular to leave one-half of the tongue
for use, but that one-sixth or one-tenth
will be quite sufficient.-ChtcagoT Times
In Kansas City, Mo-, few days ago,
an Irishman named Pat Whilen saved the
life of an old man, snatching him from
before a locomotive which would have
run over him. Pat was paid for thus
within away his time by the magnificent
gift of two dollars from the old mans
old fellow killed just then for twice the
money-he couldn't spare time for the
funeral.
No LONGER will the crafty resident of
Troy, N. Y, order the succulent oyster
stewed, nor roasted, nor fried; nor will he
hereafter indulge in the steaming fragrance
of the savory oyster-pie; nor yet in the
mysterious compound of cscaloped Oys-
tiers will he ever indulge. But none the
less will be the consumption of the
luscious bivalve, though it will be taken
only on the half-shel. A strictly truthful
newspaper relates that pearl worth $ $50
was found in a Troy oyster served up raw,
while another pearl worth $500 was found
ruined by having been stewed. And the
rush for raw oysters on the half shell in
Troy is becoming mania among all
classes.
AN eXpressman named Queal, of Os-
wego, N. Y, went out sailing with two
friends last June, who returned wet and
Queal having been drowned
when the boat capsized. Queal's wife,
whom he had recently married. was