American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-12-04
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they cell their honey.
NONE but towards habitualIy color
their boards. The brave dye but once.
GILL let you off easy this time" as
the horse said when he threw his rider
! into the mud
4 WITTY Frenchman defines universal
suffrage as the art of multiplying several
rogues by many fools.
Boston is all run over by female pick
pockets who wear eyeglasses and look
stupendously grave and literary.
\ LADIES' temperance crusade is in
progress in the towns of Meriden, Mid
dletown and Waterbury, Conn.
THE first of the season-Ezra Goodrich,
of Phillips, Me-, broke through the ice
and was drowned on the 10Th of November.
| A NEW YORK man is trying to make
out that it is not wrong to pick chrome
dealers pocket, because he has pict- lures.
| A WASHINGTON correspondent tells
| about woman who encourages her hus-
band in talking about his first wife's
virtues.
AMT this hard trials? A bill has been
introduced in the Wyoming Legislature to
prevent the carrying of firearms and con-
cealed weapons.
@ How DO you define black as your
hat p" said schoolmaster to one of his
pupils :. Darkness that may be felt" re-
piled the youthful wit.
| WHEN man thinks thing is so when
it is not so-that is not case of "heter-
ophemy;' no, it is little different, and
is called heterothinky."
BECAUSE an Indian woman is always a
| squaw, does it necessarily follow that an
Indian baby is always a squawling p
Ne,o York Commercial Adoerttse1.
4 Al,
SON of a poor widow has been ascertained
to be this: The tenant has to pay rents;
the son of widow has not two parents.
CROWN PRINCES, even, may not fall
from their horses with impunity. Here
is the heir to the throne of Denmark suffer
ing from the disiocation of foot in that
manner.
MR.. NJ. G. CLEMENT, of West Ames-
bury, Mass, has planted two acres of
land with chestnut and walnut trees, from
which he expects to gather crop in about
twelve years.
THE text of the defeated candidate will
be found in the words following, to-wit:
Yesterday he kindleth IA great fire upon
the altar of patriotism; to-day he stitch
down amid its ashes
THE Prince of Wales will hunt nothing
but the royal tiger. Such is the influence
of caste. Perhaps the royal tiger will
show his pride by hunting nothing but
the Prince of Wales.
MAN is sublimely progressive. Thirty
years ago it took the old man and all the
boys all day and half the night to kill,
dress and cut up little farm lot of six or
eight hogs. Now man can kill 1000
hogs day.
A CHESTER COUNTY (Pa.) woman
was recently convicted for stealing
eighteen ears of corn and sentenced to
forty-eight hours imprisonment. 1t cost
$15.0414 per ear.
AN Oregon paper says that clip from
the celebrated cherry tree cut by the father
of his country with his little Ratchet will
be exhibited at the Centennial. 1t may
be uncherrytreeable to say that paper lies;
but it looks that way.
''JoHN WELKIN, an English miser,'
says an exchange, g wanted to cheat his
mother; so on his death-beu he ate up
bills to the amount of $150,000. The
numbers were registered, and the old lady
got the money back from the bank
A CITIZEN of Detroit left town with his
wife lately, for short country trip, and
the Oldest boy, youth of thirteen, was in
structed to hail some farmer and contract
for a winters supply of potatoes. When
the father returned the boy net him at the
gate, saying: I've got them 'taters, pap
How manys' 90 Ninety bushels in the
cellar now, and forty more coming to-
morrowl'' replied the exultant boy.
A LITTLE fellow who was at a neigh
boris house about noon the other day,
watched the preparations for dinner with
a great deal of interest, but when asked
to stay and eat something he promptly re-
fused. "Why, yes, Johnny, you'd better
stay" said the lady. 'Why can't your
" Well, cause" said the little fellow,
INA said l mustn't unless you asked me
three times" They invited him twice
more right off.
You will observe from this word
pafer,'r SAID schoolmaster to his pupil,
the great feXibility of the Latin lam
guage. Pater is a father; and here we
have patruus, an uncle; and propat,uus,
u great uncle on the fathers side. Can
| you make any such change in our Ian
/ guage? Pdter, Pdtruus, pr0patruus-
father; is there any way you can change
father into uncle in English ~ 81 don't
think of any, replied young Hopeful,
% unless you can get him to marry your
aunt
| A SINGULAR accident which occurred in
Gretora, near New Orleans, recently,
came very near resulting in the death of
! Miss Estelle Durand. The young lady, it
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and, as Providence decreed, a butcher on
the premises shortly afterward entered the
place. Hearing n moaning sound he at
first attributed it to a goat in the yard, but
hearing the noise repeated he looked down
and saw human foot sticking out of the
fptid matter. He at once gave the alarm
to the girls parents, who tore the out
house down and rescued her almost in
the throes OF death.
THE Prince son of Martin, had, in
his early days, some habits not approved
of by his father On one occasion, while
his father was President, John visited
Washington and stopped at Wizards Ho,
tel. One morning the President called
at his ROOM and after Il kindly greeting
said to him: John, [ had hoped you
would some time prove TO be q worthy rep
resentative of our family, but / fear you
never will in fact | am convinced that
Won will bring disgrace rather than reflect
credit upon it" 81 Father" said John,
you may think because you happen to
be President Of the United States that you
are something more than an ordinary
man, bu. Permit n!o to say that you Will
never ho known in history cyeeps rs the
father OF tolin Van RHFcn"