American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-01-02
CURRENT ITBMS.

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In building the Masonic Hall, Rock
land. Me-, somebody forgot to stop up a
gas pipe terminating in the attic, and
80, 700 cubic feet of gas was wasted be-
fore the leak was discovered.
THE Massachusetts Dental Society has
passed resolutions emphatically con-
demning the use of chloroform as an
anasthetic, and declaring any member
administering it liable to expulsion.
YOU'VE AMERICA is very forward. In
put head on you," said little gamin
quick reply, land your mothers monkey
will be cherub in less than ten sec
onds. "-Winers' Journal.
THE farm-houses in Iceland-so a re
cent traveller informs us-are ventilated
by means of halfinch hole, usually
plugged close with cork. A minute
with the cork out to let in the air is con-
sidered a very long time.
THE New Jersey Court of Appeals has
decided that an agreement by a railroad
company to carry goods for certain per-
sons at cheaper rate, under the same
conditions, than for others is void, as
creating an illegal preference.
ADMINISTRATORS are liable to account
for interest on funds in their hands, al
though no profit should have been made
upon them, unless the eXigencies of the
estate rendered it prudent that they
should hold the funds uninvested.
A POPULAR clergyman says it is inter
esting to observe how many people go
to the circus Just to please the chill
dren," and very curious to notice that
sometimes it takes several able bodied
nvx1 90 aft
one little boy or girl on such an occasion.
SCORE another for Chignon! After the
latest attempted murder in New York
the surgeons found that the bullet had
struck the large chignon worn by Mrs.
Lindenstruth and that this saved her
life by causing the ball to glance and
preventing it from entering her skull.
"GIvE u.s." says the New Hampshire
WOrkingmdns AdUOcate, 1.-THE man with
brown hands, smut on his nose and sweat
on his forehead" All right-sent him
last night; also a woman with a long
chin and n wart on her nose to keep him
happy.-Detroit Free Press.
SAYS the Berlin Germany correspond
ent of the Woman's Journal: 81 must
tell you something of woman here
whom l consider it an honor to know.
She keeps a woodward, perhaps the
wood. She is very much of lady, and
has paid her husbands debts and
brought up three children we'll"
A CORRESPONDENT of the Scientific
american states that cribbing is caused
by some "foreign substance being
pressed between the teeth, or by the
front teeth growing too close together,
thus causing pain" The same authority
further states that "tO remedy this
fault it is only necessary to saw between
the teeth with very thin saw"
AND now. as the story goes, the Span
ish authorities are getting our people
drunk in our seaboard cities, shipping
them off to Cuba, putting them into camp
the United States to fight against free
Cuba" This is queer story to tell, but
jefferson Clay, of Georgia, says it is So
for he was there and knows how it is
himself.
ABOUT the LIST of December every year
a man has called at the office of Burden
& Son, the great iron manufacturers of
Troy, and demanded one-tifth of the
profits of the preceding twelve months.
He brings account books, etc, and be-
lieves he is member of the firm. This
year he was earlier than usual with his
demand, and was so bOisterous that the
police removed him to the insane asylum.
A LIBEL suit in Lowell, Mass, involves
the question of how much publicity is
given, in the eyes of the law, to matter
written on postal card and sent through
the mail The defendant wrote letter
to the plaintiff on postal card accusing
him of forgery, and his defense is that,
as the POstOf1ce clerks arc enjOlned to
secrecy, there was no more of a publica-
tion than if the matter had been sent in a
sealed letter.
The Troy Times relates this: "a.
young lady in a neighboring village ac-
cepted an invitation from young gentle
man to ride, and when the gentleman
came with his horse and buggy the lady
found it impossible to get in, so closely
had she adhered to the prevailing fashion
of drawing her dress tightly about her.
She asked to be excused, and going into
the house let out two or three reefs in
her dress, when she was enabled to get
into the buggy"
TOLEDO, Ohio, finds itself in a curious
quandary over case of mistaken identi-
ty. A citizen disappeared some time
since very mysteriously, and few days
afterward mans corpse was found
floating about near the docks. There
upon a Coroner impaneled a jury and
held an inquest, the body was identified
as tHdt u the mlssluS AudH, NeIulCI re-
turned in accordance with the facts, and
the funeral was properly solemnized.
Subsequently the missing man returned,
much to the surprise and delight of his
friends.
WORCESTER, Mass, has the latest in
telligent dog, and his penchant is for
baby tending; he is a Newfoundland,
and his charge and playmate six
months old youngster. Baby was up
stairs the other day, when, its mother 60
ing away, the little fellow set up pitt
full cry, to the great distress of the dog,
which barked and whined. No relief
appearing, doggy took the matter into
his own charge, and, picking up the
baby, carried it down two flights of stairs
into the kitchen, where he deposited it
safely at the feet of its terrified mother.
THERE is a village in Mexico called
Chihuahua, from which number of
babes and young children have from
| time to time been missed. Now the
Alcalde of this village was gay and
| festive youth, whose constant care it was
| to meet party of his friends at mid
night, have good supper of the gentle
kid and the trichinn-producing pig. But
| suspicion was arouse The Alcaldes
quarters were searched, and there, in the
twilight cold and gray, were found the
| bones of thirteen cooked infants, upon
which the Alcalde and his friends had
fed.
A CONGREGATION of worshipers in
Bucks County, Pa, met with comical
mishap a few Sundays since. The pews
of the church had been newly painted
and vanished, and it was not good dry
| ing weather. Everything was lovely
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