American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-05-15
MULTUM IN PARyO.

MULTUM In PARVO.
| A MOVING TAIL-a hungry dogs.
! INTo each life must fall some stove
1 moving.
MANY editors are of such q peaceful
| nature that they will not put head on
| their editorials.
A CLOSE observer says that the words
which ladies are fondest of are the first
and last words.
ALBANY made $50, 900 out of her peni-
Tertiary last year, and one never sees a
line IN an Albany paper urging the
wicked to reform.
WHEN the evil one is going to and fro
| and up and down over the earth, can we
| doubt that he is imp-roving?-Boston I'D
Certtser.
A GENTLEMAN observing the sign OF
"Caswell" upon business establish
| ment remarked that it would be "as-aocll
without the c."
THE divinity that shapes our ends
doesn't seem to take hold very young
leastways, not until our mothers let up
On'us.
CONSUMPTION is an economical dis
ease" said John Henry, with a cold on
his iungs-"you can furnish your own
coughin'.''
THERE'S not much grief when fat
| man dies in Rhode Island, as it gives the
! survivors more room to stretch them
tselves--Brooklyn Argus.
fesTHEREAs aman in Philadelphia who
belongs TO fifty-two secret organizations
What memory for ponderous secrets"
he must have, and what a faculty for
"grips
A PRINTER out West, whose office is
two miles from any other building, and
who hangs his sign on the limb of a tree, ).
advertises for a boy. He says: "a boy
from the country preferred"
THERE have been a great many .ex-
cuses offered for suicide, but no person
OF tone, pride or courage would ever be
caught running away from the battle of
life.
PROF. WILDER, of Cornell University,
has a baby whale only two inches long,,
and he proudly claims that he can aay
of this baby what few parents can say
of theirs, that there's no blubber In it,
Brooklyn argus. t..sS
Two Irishmen travelling ON the 5Balti-
more 81 Ohio Railroad track came to a
mile-post, when one of, them said ::
Tread aisy, Pat; here lies man 108
years old. His name was Miles, from
Baltimore" a<-ssze
CARPENTER--Well, my young man.
how are you getting on with those tools?
Young Man-Pve ground all the tools
but this yer saw, sur, and can't get all
the gaps out O. he! -
PUDDING TIME is precious time:
Mamma-"Do you like this pudding,
Frankeys" (No answer.} you should
say, Yes, mamma, dear" Little
Frankey (who is three years and half
old)-"But you told me yes'day l
shouldn't talk when eating; sides, dis is
too good to lose time over."s s..zsz
"IsHoULD think you,drbe ashamed to.
pitch on that little boy" said a pedes-
TRAN yesterday, as he caught big boot
black cutting a small newsboy. "Ye-
would, hey?" sneered the lad, as he gave
his nosea wipe. "D'yesthink I'd go for.
aibig boy and get all pounded up2''-De-
f,,oit Free Press. 1865
TIE Washington Republican thus
speaks of Treasurer News signature: It
looks like combination of tea-chest HE
rogiyphics struck by lightning and
twisted into intermingling and confused
circles, braided together and twisted up
like the ringlets of curly headed
school-gi who has succeeded in accom-
plishing an incompatible friz.. z
THEY have had e spelling match down
on the banks of the tranquil Milpitas.
There were twenty-seven contestants,
and twenty-six went down on the word
" cat and the last man would have gone
down too only suffered, and couldn't
get in the second It" quick enough
Stockton Leader.
If WOMEN will insist upon transform
ing themselves into transportation COM
panteS for drawing men up and down
public halls and theater steps and clear
cut into the streets on siiken trains,
why in the name of all that is enterprise
ing don't they charge something for the
service? ..,,- - -s5s Il
MAY sits with chubby feet dangling
From the porches OF men once more;
Now greeting the world with coy, sunny
Now with threat,ning tear. :
at twelve O'Clock last night, all yelled,
- She knocked at Old Times fr"ntdoor,
And shyly lisping: :. May l come ?" came in,
While April stepped out at the rear. :
a, STRANGER entered one of our church,
es last Sunday evening and walked the
zeRtire length of the aisle without any
person offering him a seat, SO he started
OUT AS he neared the door man rose
and asked if he wanted seat. No."
replied the stranger, " l came merely to
look around. I'm going home now" and
he went. Franklin Conn. Citizen.
AN Ingenious Italian has invented an
earthquake indicator. 1t fires off gun
WHICH, tuc ctItn UtSluS W quahe, anu Iucn
every man who has provided himself
with an Indicator knows that an earth
quake is going on; while those who care
iessly neglect to provide themselves with
this useful invention have to guess at it,.
Worcester Press. .-...-.z.-..-..l "a ..-
AN eminent clergyman in Trenton,
N. J., sat in his study some time since
busily engaged in preparing his Sunday
sermon, when his little boy todiled into
the room and holding up his finger said
with an expression of suffering: 7" Look,
pop, how l hurt it. The father, inter
rupted in the middle of a sentence,
glanced hastily at him, and with just
the slightest tone of impotence said:
" l can't help it, sonny" The little fell
lows eyes grew bigger, and as he turned
to go out he said in a low voice: " Yes,
you could; you might have said Ohr"
There was a sermon in miniature.
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