American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-30
MULTUM In PARVO.
IT's bad omen to owe men.

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Suicide now within the reach of all
kerosene only ten cents gallon"
| VARIOUS sections of the country East
| West and South are suffering from ty
| phoid and bilious fevers and from feveI
and ague.
THE past summer has been noted by
meteorolOgists as being cooler by five de
grees than the average season for more
than eighty years past.
A GOOD many supposed rich people
who have nothing but real estate for de.
pendence, are worse off just now than poor
| people. They are land poor.
| A WOMAN is very like kettle, if you
come to think of it. She sings away Sc
| pleasantly-thens she stOps-and when you
least expect it she boils Overt
| TANBARK for bedding is recommended
for horses suffering from the epizootic. II
has been tried and found successful as d
| cure.-ChicdgO Ereni,ag Journal.
THE melancholy days have come,
The saddest in the year;
| Like frosts before the morning sun
The wood piles disappear.
TTTIENs is to receive 81 900 in gold for
every concert of the series of 100 in which
she will sing this season. This is the
| New York newspaper story, at all events.
THE success of the Sunday Lecture sys
! tenn in Chicago moves the New Orleans
| Republican to say: Chicago delivers
sententious lectures to ten centious audi
| ences.''
THERE never was but one woman who
| didn't believe that her husband would
take a second wife il she died, and that
woman got killed on the cars.-Detroit
Free Press.
"Now, PAPA, tell me what is humbug''
1t is" replied papa, "when mamma
pretends to be very fond of me, and puts
no buttons on my shirt till reminded of il
dozen times"
LADIES can shop to a great advantage al
this season of the year. All sorts of goods
have been reduced in price, and cheapness
is the prevailing feature. At least so the
merchants say, and they ought to know.
On appeal to the United States Circuit
Court, it has been decided that the benefit
of the Virginia homestead exemption
cannot be waived by single partner
signing firm note STIMULATING to that eff
feet.
A BOY who has just learned to smoke
inquired at a store yesterday for pack
age of Kinnikinnickerbocker Thus
early do the DEMONSTRATING tendencies OF
the weed begin to manifest themselves
Bruasaoicker.
In washing calicoes in which the colors
are not fast, be careful not to boil them
but wash in the usual way with soap and
rinse in hard water. For dark colored
goods add little salt to the water; for
light, little vinegar-Scientifc american.
IT is said that on various railroads, not
named, orders have been issued forbidding
the assault and battery practiced by train
peddlers in discharging their wares on
road issued orders of this kind some time
ago.
TIE collecting of monograms is the
latest wrinkle among the young ladies.
When large number are obtained the
young ladies paste them on their fans, and
the one who has the most and finest holds
her head in lofty scorn at everybody
else.
A MAN who has spent his early years in
the boiler business, holding his hammer
against rivets on the inside while some
body hammered them on the Out-that
man can pass through the collie period of
his first infant with comparative indiffer-
ence.
SOME apples of the maiden blush vari-
ETY. were teaAptingly displayed in a market
in New Bedford, Mass The. boy in at
tendance being asked what kind they were
replied: Il can't remembef-I believe
they are the widows smile or some such
name.''
Mas PAszINGyoN having heard her son
say that there were a great many anecdotes
in the new almansc, begged him to cut
them all out, as she heard that when any
body Wds poisoned nothing was necessary
but to give him an anecdote and it would
cure him.. A..
= In making wllGRetrees they will be
stronger if the front side of the whiffie-
tree il nearest the. heart timber and the
back side toward the bark; they will re-
tain their shape longer ifethe~ timber be
cut in this direction, across the grain of
the wood.-ErehsnQe. =
A REPORTER being called to accountfor
the statement that certain meeting I" was
large and respectable one," when only
one other person besides himself was pres
ent, insisted that his report was literally
true; g for" said he, T was large and the
other man was respectable"
The following is said to be simple but
sure way to tell good from bad eggs
Put them in water enough to cover them.
All that lay flat, as they would on a
smooth surface out of water, are good.
Those of which the big end rises are bad.
The vessel used should have smooth, level
bottom ..------------,--.
A LADY called upon her milliner the
other day to get the character of her
servant. The respectable appearance of
the latter was beyond questioning. But
is she honest?" asked the lady. 81 am
not so certain about that replied the
milliner - have sent her to you with
my bill dozen times, and she has never
| yet given me the money"
BUB, is your mother iE?" asked a
Vicksburg lady the other evening of lad
of ten who was lounging over his widowed
mothers gate. "No, she's out" he
answered. Gone up to visit your dead
fathers grave?' she continued Not
exactly" he smiled 4" she's gone after ice
cream with chap who has three inches
of fat on his ribs, and I'll bet ten to one
she'll halter him in less'n a month -
| Vicks5urg Herald.
A DETROIT boy surprised his father the
other day by asking: g Father. do you
like mother?'' g Why, yes, of course"
And she likes you?'' "Of course she
does" Did she ever say so." Many
a time, my son." did she marry you
because she loved you?" Certainly she
did," The boy looked the old man over
and after a long pause asked: Well,
was she as near-sighted then as she is
now? ''-Detroft Free Press.
ACCORDING to a report by Prof. Ginti,
it appears that the public is exposed to a
new source of poisoning from the use of
arsenical glycerine and the arseniate of
alumina mordants. He states that
these substances are now coming largely
into use, especially among the English
and Alsatian manufacturers of cotton
printed goods, as substitutes for albumen,
which is more expensive, some substances
being required to fix especially the ami
line celors, which are now SO much in de
m nIS boz,