American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-09
MULTUM IN PARvO.

MILK is selling at Idaho City at on
dollar per gallon.
Don PEDRO, of Brazil, who is comm.
to visit us, owns the finest diamonds in tn
world.
INDIANS are no respecters of color; the,
had Just as soon take a blond scalp as
brunette.
MOTHER NATURE has spread the bed O
the ocean with sheets of water. DAM
sheets, Ell?
WHEN a man winds up his clock he eX
poets it to go, but it is different with bust
ness affairs.
che strained at a gnat and swallowed
a calomel," was little Johnny's version o.
a recent text.
FAST friends are good to have abou
when friends are needed, but they should
not be too fast.
| A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is moose
paper which almost every man subscribe.
Tor, sooner or later.
No MORE ten-cent scrip. Secretary
Bristow is sending out silver ten-cen
pieces in their place.
| INDIAN real-estate motto: If any com.
missioner attempts to beat down the price
shoot him on the spot"
THE fast time made by the new postal
trains is accounted for by the fact that the
wheels of the cars are not tired.
| THE philosopher of the Lowell Journal
| says potatoes are SO cheap this year il
| makes one feel mean to be caught eating
| one.
WHEN man listens to you very atten-
| lively, either you are telling him some
thing he knows or something he does not
believe.
THE time is slowly, but surely, coming
when the woman without will look with
bitter envy upon the woman within a seal
skin cloak.
A YANK is going to lay car-tracks in st.
Petersburg. That's blessed despotism,
and there1l be no crowding cars there,
you may be certain.
THE prisoners in the Nebraska State
Penitentiary publish a newspaper. The
round of the local reporter is said to be
somewhat contracted.
THE good do not die always early.
There is Mrs. Finch, of Rutland, VT,
who has had but one bonnet in twenty
years, and never complained.
PRESIDENT GARRETT. of the Baltimore
Il Ohio Railroad, says when the winter
comes the fast maiftrains will come to
grief on cracked rails. Letter rip.
IT seems that undertakers are all in ia
vor of cremation. Probably because they
will urn so much more than by the pres
ent method of disposing of the dead.
A CHURCH at Colchester, Conn, now
uses bass-drum to regulate the time of
the singing, and the man who used to
play the bass-viOl looks on the innovation
as base violation of precedent.
THE Fairplay (Col.) Sentinel says that
peaches are worth SAT per bushei in that
market and that when man decides to,
indulge in grape he just cuts a coupon
off one of his 81 900 bonds.
How MANY accidents might be averted
did people generally understand that the
Englishman was right when he said that
the man who makes newspapers is an
GO -hitter.''
MANY a woman who is too feeble to
peel dozen potatoes for dinner will walk
four miles past rivals house to display
a new dress, and prance back home like
two-year-old filly.
THERE is poor encouragement for
man to d" die rich" while we hear so many
instances of the relatives of dead rich
men scrambling like hungry pigs over
division of the property.
A SLAB of quartz-rock was recently
shipped from the Greene mine, New, con-
tanning more than two square feet, through
which there was a streak about four inch
es wide that was nearly or quite one-half
gold. The piece was estimated to be
worth at least 81 500.
A sEA-GULL of the largest size recently
swooped down on a crab in Lake Pont-
chartrain, imbedding the lower part of
his bill in the crabs back, but the crusta-
cean seized and crushed the upper por-
ton in his saving claws and a boatman
rowed out and caught the crab and the
bird.
u 10
usual to say that he saved himself by
the skin of his teeth" In the most splen-
did of all compositions (see Book of Job,
chapter xix, verse 20), it is written: g My
bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh,
and am escaped aoith the skin Of my
teeth."
AN old man named William Yately has
just died at the alms-house in Trenton,
n. j., who had not tasted any kind of
food for twenty-seven days before his
death. During that time he subsisted en-
tirely on small doses of whisky, given to
him periodically. He had been an in
mate of the institution for two years.
THE last words of young Philadel-
phian, whose full soul loathed the obitu-
airy column, ere he went to meet his
grandfather were:
When 'fictions sore bear no more
And doctors do despair,
Don't let G. w. write me up
At ninety cents square.
THERE is curious double oak tree in
garden in South Beaver, Pa, which be-
gins at the root with one trunk. This di-
vides into two about a foot above the sur
face of the earth, continues thus for ten
feet, and then becomes united again.
Each of the twin trunks, at the point of
division, measures about foot in diam
eter.
HYDRoPHoBA communicated by paste
board dog is the latest medical novelty.
Two months ago mad dog was killed in
house after having bitten at nearly every
thing in the room. One of the things in
which he buried his teeth was little
boys toy dog made of pasteboard. Sub
sequently man used this pasteboard dog
to stop the blood from a cut in his hand,
and SO the virus went into his wound and
he died.
WE learn from our genial friend, Con-
ductor S. X. Slawson, of the Savannah &
Charleston Railroad, that Il day or two
since the train coming to this city was
stopped by monkey while in rapid mo-
ton. 1t seems that the train was bowl
ing along at the rate of twenty-five miles
an hour, when suddenly down brakes''
were sounded, the engine bell ringing
vigorously at the same time, and the loco
motive came to a stop as the brakemen
sprang to their posts. The conductor was
rather mystified, and at once proceeded to
invest gate the matter. 1t was discovered
that monkey, which was confined in the
baggage-car, had broken loose md was
amusing himself swinging on the bell
rope, and the engineer was thus signaled