American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-11-27
MULTUM IN PARVO.

GREENLAND girls wear pantaloOns and
Overcoats, according to New York Her
aid correspondent.
LEMONS can be kept for several weeks
by placing them in clear water. The
water should be changed every other day
MIR. FRAZER, of Virginia, had his coat
tails set on fire by hot stove, and his
wife became so frightened that she
dropped dead.
Col. GILDERsLEEvE, one OF the crack
shots of the American rife-team, has
been elected Judge in New York for
fourteen years, with an annual salary OF
81, 900.
IT MAY be interesting to teachers out OF
employment to know that very high wages
are paid in the Cherokee nation of Indians,
namely: 1925 per month for males and
5000 for females.
THE Louisville Courier-.Jouraalo objects
to exchanges which have been run through
the press three or four times, as it mixes
up the tax sales so that they can't be dis
tinguished from the leaders.
A GOOD old lady living in Detroit was
around among the grocers yesterday ask
ing if they had any fresh fall sugar on
hand. She didn 'twant any that had be-
come old and lifeless.-Free Press.
THE tickets admitting people to the
Moody services in the Brooklyn Rink,
which were intended to reach those unac-
customed to religious worship, in some
cases fell into the hands of Spectators,
their market value being seventy five cents
each.
A THIEF entered the cellar OF grocery
store in a Canada town the other night and
ingeniously contrived to steal several gal
Ions of molasses by boring hole through
the floor of the salesroom above and let
ting his auger penetrate the bottom of a
cask, whose position he had carefully as
certained in the daytime.
MASSACHUSETTS is warmly agitating in
her mind whether the property owned by
religious corporations shall be taxed, as
some people want it. 1t will make a diff
ference to taxpayers, as the church prop
erty in that State is by no means ircon-
siderable. In Boston alone there is over
$40, 900, 900 in that kind of property.
A REMARKABLE article called fish flour
has been brought forward in the last few
years. 1t is not as yet manufactured in
any great quantity, as the article is still
new in the market, and consequently there
is no great demand for it. The flour is
prepared from dried fish of the first quail
ity; it is thoroughly desiccated and then
ground in mill.
IT is good thing to have tools marked
permanently, and if it be desired to place
the marks on iron it can be done by run
ming thin film of wax over the place for
the mark and then drawing the initials
with point. Run little strong muri-
attic acid into the grooves and in few
minutes you have mark that cannot be
effaced and can be easily recognized.
A DAsHING young broker, beloved of
women, admired by men, was unable to
nov hic bopoct dohfS Whom Trooaa6 Inv
friend who had assisted" him to change
his too profuse mode of living, said he:
81 can't live for less than $1,000 year;
must live like a gentleman" Mot at
my expense" was his friends reply.
This is essentially phase of New York
city life.-Ne,o York World.
THE Grafton wv. Va.) Sentinel states
that one night lately the fireman of a To-
connective on the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road noticed that the engineer did not
blow the whistle on passing a station, and
box with his hand on the throttle, unable
to move or speak. The train was stopped
and the engineer was transferred to pas
senger- train, when he was found to have
been stricken with paralysis.
AN American lady not long ago made
a good answer to an English lady who,
shortly after Webb's swim across the
was good naturedly INVITING her
and asking: "Where were the Americans
now =" and that they must admit that Boy
ton was outdone. "On the contrary" was
the reply of the daughter of Columbia,
g there is no comparison between the two
cases. What Capt. Webb has done is
simply an interesting exploit OF personal
and endurance, but of no partic-
ular use to any one, while what our Capt.
BOyton has proved is in the interest of hu-
mainly"
THE Bangor Commercial gives the fol-
lowing story illustrative of the intelligence
of the horse: MIR. w. H. Pritchard has
in his stable grain chest which locks
with spring: The boy who takes care
raise the lid. Wednesday morning Mr..
Pritchard heard loud humping in the
stable and, going out, found the horse
initiating the boy by pounding with his
fore foot the top of the grain chest lid, en-
to get it open. The knowing
animal was returned to his stall and re-
ceived an extra quantity of oats for his
endeavors.
OLD AUNT JANE, a newspaper-carrier
of Charleston, s. c., died a few days since.
The Nesos and Courier says of her: cat
the commencement of the late war she en-
tered upon the business, and during the
four dreary years of war and strife which
followed the fall of Sumter Aunt Jane
regularly made her way over the island
every morning, carrying the paper to the
boys in camp. To the residents of the
island she was as well known as anyone
in the city. Of late years she has had al
most the entire charge of the delivery of
The Ne,cs and Courier to the island, and
she has never failed to fulfill her duties.
In all kinds of weather Aunt Jane was
at the delivery-room for her pa
pers, and the hundreds of newsboys who
crowded the room every morning before |
daylight to get their papers all paid her
marked Difference. Although she was
seventy years of age, she attended regu-
arly to her work up to within few days
If her death"