American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-01-23
CURRENT ITEMS.

| The school ma am may net be a mind
reader, but she makes readers mind.
| NEWSPAPERS now prepay postage. Yes,
and a Kansas editor says that this is
the grasshopper that will chaw us up"
Miss ANNIE PAYNE broke through the
ice while skating the other day in New
| Hampshire, but was rescued in season to
avoid Annie Payne-fuu results.
| DIR. WILLIAM E. RossETER, of Bridge
port, Conn, has just died frum the eff
| fects of inhaling ether which he was adj
ministering to patient four weeks ago.
1t produced symptoms similar to those of
typhoid fever and diphtheria.
A FASHIONABLE author took novel to
| the Paris Francdis for publication, and
was cordially received. Calling again
his manuscript was coldly returned to
| him. The editor told him to look at
page thirty-seven, which he did, and
| found the following: Here he was
seized with an irresistible tendency to
| slumber. Was it surprising? He had
just perused two columns of the
| Frdncdis."
TALMAGE again: "a woman who
gives herself up to the indiscriminate
reading of novels will be untitled for the
| duties of wife, mother, sister, daugh-
| ter. There she is, hair disheveled coun-
tenance vacant, cheeks pale, hands
| trembling. bursting into tears at mid
night over the fate of some unfortunate
| lover. In the daytime, when che ought
| to be busy, she stares by the half hour
at nothing, biting her finger-nails into
the quick"
In Springfield. Mass, recently, young
married woman became possessed with
the idea that her proper vocation was
| that of novelist. So she secretly began
81 hill sp1, thn
to be strangled by his jealous wife. Into
| the murder scene she determined to pour
her whole soul, and in order to properly
describe it she went to the bedside of her
sleeping spouse and, placing her hands
about his neck, CHI oked him into insensi-
biiity. He knocked her down with chair
as soon as he revived, and the novel went
into the stove.
THERE recently died in the north of
France, at the age of eighty-three, miser
who lived alone, and whose hut, VIII en-
examined by the authorities after his
death, proved sort of gold mine. His
pillow alone contained 10000 francs in
gold pieces of the time of Louis XIV and
XVI. He had taste for old pieces. He
had been robbed many times, and the
| thieves were generally detected through
the antiquity of the money they stole.
The total of the sums robbed from him
victed and sentenced, reach 100000
francs.
ONLY the female spiders spin webs.
They own all the real estate, and the
males have to live a vagabond life under
stones and in other obscure hiding places.
If they come about the house SO often as
to bore the ruling sex they are merciless-
ly killed and eaten. The spiders skin is
as unyielding as the shells of Holsters
and crabs, and is shed from time to time
in the same way to accommodate the
animals growth. If you poke over the
rubbish in female spiders backyard
the jackets of the males who have paid
for their sociality with their lives
trophies of her barbarism as truly as
scalps show the savage nature of the red
man.-Prof: e. s. Horse.
THE annual report of the International
Executive Committee of Young Mems
Christian Associations reports the follow
ing list of Young Mems Association
buildings, with their valuation: New
$780, 600; Chicago, ILL.,, 1916, 900; Boston,
Mass, $50, 900; Cincinnati, Ohio, SAC, 900;
San Francisco, Cal, 100000; Montreal.
Can, 100000; Washington, D. c., $780,
600; Newark, N. J., $4,000; Cleveland,
Ohio, $50, 900; Jersey City, NJ, S35 900;
Toronto, Ont, $4,000; Indianapolis,
Ind, $4,000: Syracuse, N. Y, two chap
els, 5000; Halifax, N. s., 49,, 200;
Portland, Me, chapel, $500; St. Johns,
n B., $40, 600; Dayton, Ohio, two chapels,
81, 500; Newburg, N. Y, $1,000; Pough-
keepsie, N. Y, $4,000; Poughkeepsie,
n. Y, chapel, 81, 500; Chelsea, Mass,
Sd, 900; Omaha, Neb, S., 900; New Bruins
wick, N. j., 81, 900; Germantown, Pa,
$45, 900; Aurora, Ill, $1,000; Charles
town, p. f. l., $4,000.