American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02
KULTUM IN PARYO.

LOTS of troube-Lots which are mort
gagged.
NEAL Dow says that taxes should be
paid in installments.
In war times people kill each other; In
hard times they kill themselves.
In Summer County, Kan, watermelons
are considered dear at two for a nickel
ONE-FoURTH of the total valuation of
the real estate of New York city is under
mortgage.
BEGIN to buy oxen and learn which is
gee" and haw'; the epiZootic is COM
ing again.
A GILMER COUNTY (Ga) man found
eight hundred and odd dollars in an old
log the other day.
THE devil still finds work for idle
hands to do, and the wages of sin have
not been reduced.
If there is ever place where man
feels the need of "checks," it is when he
is on the down-hill side of life.
A oNE-LEGGED beggar'' was picked
up drunk in the streets of Sacramento,
and found to have $171 in his pockets.
Two MILES south of Gilroy, CAL, tobacco
grows six feet high with leaves thirty
inches in length and 1000 pounds to the
| acre.
MIR. JACK FROST is making early morn
ing calls among Our Western farmers, and
they rayther wish he wouldn't come so
early.
CAPT EADs' jetties, at the mouth of the
Mississippi River, suffered but little by
the recent great storm in the Gulf of
Mexico.
A DOG in Peru, Ind, has the fever and
ague. He shakes, tail and all, every day
at ten O'Clock. He takes an occasional
| bark, but Peruvian bark seems to do him
no good.
If you have boy, name him William.
Statisticians say that there are now only
2, 600, 000 Williams in the United
States, without counting the little
"Willies."
THERE is nothing man will look at
more frequently, and resolve to do every
cellar, and yet invariably leave it for his
wife to do.
| A PENNSYLVANIA paper is constrained
to remark: "A good many of the chickens
that come to this market look as though
they had been Matched out of egg-plants
and then allowed to wither."
THE city of Brooklyn has spent an
average of IS, 100000 per annum for the
past ten years. The Argus thinks there is
something wrong, and it does look as if
there were screws loose somewhere.
| HE ScSt lODStcI WHICH, HIS DcCu
| Drought into the Boston market for fifteen
years was caught at Eastport, Me-, the
other day. 1t measured three feet five
inches in length and weighed nineteen
| pounds.
A BUTCHER at Weaverville, Cal, while
dissecting Il beefes liver few days ago,
found an Indian arrow head in a we'll
preserved state, that had to- all appear
ances been imbedded in the liver for a
| long time. ..e..
DIR. HoNEYMAN, an Acadian naturalist,
obtained number of armyworms and
| kept them under a glass case to note their
| development. They turned into brown
moths, each having two white spots on the
| back.
THEY arrest and fine people who throw
banana and orange peel on the sidewalks
| in Augusta, Ga. Such measures are nee
essary, considering the cheapness of these
| fruits there; otherwise Augusta would be
rapidly depopulated.
AT Delphos, Ohio, few evenings ago
Mrs. Andrew Evans placed her jewels in
the stove for fear the house would be
robbed, and before she got up in the morn
| ing a servant built a fire. in the stove and
completely ruined them.
MIR. CRowELL, the driver of the stage
| from Oroville to Buckeye on the Pacific
coast, has been presented with an elegant
gold watch and chain by Wells, Fargo Il
Co. for his services during a recent at
tempt at robbery on that road.
SOUTH DEERFIELD, Mass, is genuinely
shocked at the discovery that the late
George w. Bardwell, member ofthe Leg
islature of 1873, and man long prominent
in the church and community, had been
guilty of forgery in several cases, and of
| the gravest business deception, his irregu-
larities extending for several years.
Eyes, SIR promptly replied the boy,
as the grocer asked him if he wanted any
thing. 81 want two ounces of XII and two
ounces of pepper" HI? ki?" queried
told me to get XII and pepper here, and
some corset strings on the corner" 1t
was good while before the grocer got
hold of the right article.-Detroit free
Press.
THERE is nothing new under the sun.
Mention is made of a simple check for
valuable packages at a Saratoga hotel.
The name of the owner is written on a
square of paper which is then torn in two,
one part attached to the package and the
other given to the owner. 1t is impossible
10 tear apart paper so that two pieces of
ragged edges will be exactly alike. This
is only a clumsy eitation of the old way
OF identifying legal documents of two
parts.
JUST above the depot, the other day,
man caught the heel of his boot in a jaw
of the track. A long train of ore cars
were coming down the grade toward him
only few rods above where he was, and
there being no engine attached it was APP
parent they could not be stopped for sew
eral minutes; but as they passed HIM on
another track, some forty or fifty feet from
where he stood, he had plenty of time to
loosen his foot and walk on about his
business: If the man had been crushed to
a most satisfactory jelly his obituary
would scarcely have made a more pleas
ant and breezy paragraph than this
Marquette Mining Journal.
The Communists of the Wallingford
Comm Community have discovered a
very simple remedy for fever and ague.
For some years past the disease has been
so prevalent in the region that, two years
ago, the Communists seriously thought of
abandoning their property and fiourishing
business in that place. But the idea was
suggested of trying heated stove i'll a
small room, inducing a profusc perspira-
ton, followed by a shampooing and thor
ough cleansing of the body with both
warm and cold water, and these simple
means were found to be IL thoroughly eff
fective remedy. Not only the Commu-
nists themselves, but the people of the en-
tire region round about, have resorted to
this remedy and have been thoroughly
cured.
THERE are said to be four little girls in
Milwaukee who are employed by "a certain
wcll-known wealthy tobacco dealer to
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