American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-02-27
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THERE are sixty-three widows in Vel
sailles, KY, and the stranger who passe
through the town is told to run for hi
life.
NEBRASKA mas chosen April IA as tn,
day to be observed as "Arbor day." ant
the people have petitiOned the Leglsla
ture to make it a legal holiday.
A WASHINGTON man who was treated
to a "twenty-tive-center" slipped bacl
to the cigar store the other day and eco
nomically exchanged it for three for
quarter"
A VERMONT lumberman recently haC
the misfortune to have log roll upor
him and break one of his legs; yet he
loaded his wood and drove home. Il
| was a wooden leg.
MONTANA hasn't been able to show
over forty degrees below zero this
winter, and her leading citizens are quite
down-hearted. They thought they had
| some winter out there.
| A BEAUTIFUL answer was given by a
| little Scotch girl. When her class at
school was examined she replied to the
question, "What is patience." Wait
a wee, and dinna weary"
A WORTHY old farmer, who was being
worried in his cross-examination by a
| lawyer, in Portland, Me-, exclaimed
Look here, Squire, don't you ask a
good many foolish questions?"
A MAN who won't complain when his
wife c-awls out about midnight and
takes the heaviest comforter off the bed
to wrap around her plants is lacking in
all the noble qualities of free agent.
THERE is said to have been discovered
in North Carolina a breathing cave"
the suction of which is SO great that it
dra in livin To
have sucked in newspaper man.-Bos
ton Globe.
SAYS the Rochester Chronicle: "In
Colorado the other day strong wind
blew over a train of cars three times"
Didn't it also blow under them? The
wind may blow over house and not
blow the house Over-eh?
MIR. ALEXANDER XERMUs, of Dunn's
Lake, Fla, has found skeletons of a by
gone race in the mounds on his planta-
ton nine feet long, and, what is of more
Importance to MIR. Xermus, traces of gold
also.
WHEN an express company is robbed
of $4,000 the first thing to be done is to
lie the sum down to six shillings, under
the idea that the country will revolution
ize if the truth comes out.-DetrOi Free
Press.
A TENNEssEEAN sent ten dollars to
New York to be turned into a gold
watch worth $780," and them ten
dollars" was never seen no more. Any
carpenters apprentice would have known
more than that.
THE San Francisco Chinese don't seem
to be troubled much by the death of the
Emperor. Only few of them appear
to understand the position of an
Emperor, and they say: No care
noder man all the same good"
GRANVILLE STUART, of Deer Lodge,
Mont, suspecting cold weather, sent
to New York for fine spirit thernome
ter. To his surprise it never marked
more than thirty degree below, and then
he found that was its utmost limit. He
says it will do for a summer thermome-
ter, but is too short by forty-eight inches
for a Montana winter.
A DISTRICT COURT in Texas has made a
decision worthy of the sharpest days of
special pleading. The respondents were |
indicted for stealing onions. This fra |
grant fruit was converted while growing |
in garden and had not been detached |
from the soil previous to the taking. 1t |
was held by the court that while grow |
ing the onions were part of the realty |
and not an object of larceny, while as
soon as detached they were in the pos
session of the respondents never having |
ant after becoming personal property. |
Hence the respondents were simply |
guilty of trespass on real property.
THE following story is published by a |
Connecticut paper: There lived in New |
Haven County, few years ago, a man |
whose wife Tabathy was widely known |
for her strictness in observing the Chris |
tian Sabbath, as he was for his remarka- |
BILE patience in bearing with some of her |
unpleasant ways. One Sabbath morning |
Il barrel of flour stood in the front hall, |
which had been left there late Saturday |
evening, and to the good man seemed to |
be in the way. He thought it would not
be very wrong to put it in its proper
place before going to church. So, after
breakfast was over, he proceeded quietly
to roll the barrel to its place, which was
up one flight of stairs. No sooner had
he reached the stairs and commenced to
ascend than his wife came out and for
babe him going any further, declaring
if he did that God would withdraw His
blessing from them, and the whole blame
would rest upon his conscience. After
pausing a moment to think he resolved
TO proceed, and let the consequences be
what they would. Having succeeded in
getting it half way up the stairs Taba-
.hy, determined to have it her way, as
usual, reached up and took hold of his
'eet pulling them from under him, when
ne and his barrel OF flour came tumbling
% the bottom, causing the head of the
barrel to come out, covering him with
he contents As soon as the poor man
Gould remove the flour from his head
,uffi ciently to speak he looked up at his
wife meekly and penitently, and said:
TIA hafhv let rs nrav'o |