American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-03-13
CURRENT ITEMS.

A PAIR of tights-two drunkards.
A FINISHED gentleman dead one.
How MANY'sleeves has coat-of-arms
STEALING with scissors is cliptomania
Why did Freedom shrek? Kos-ciuskt
fell.
| A DETROIT boys composition: 9TH,
horse runs; SO does gazelle; so doe!
my nose"
SENATOR RANDOLPH, of New Jersey
has invented Il stitching machine and one
of the best plows in use.
Mrs TRAsK has completed a pamphlet
commenced by her husband and
launched at Surgeons nicOtian proclivi
ties.
VERMONT husbands will sit up all
night to keep the fire going under the
soap-kettle and then rock the baby all
next day.
AN English newspaper says eggs, not
| fish, contain most phosphorus and are
the best food for those persons deficient
in brains
In some parts of Louisiana, when a
girl sets the marriage day, she counts up
her ague days SO as to have the ceremony
come on the off day.
your poetry and to be anxious to secure
| it, always start off with: "He faded
away like a summer flower"
| THE seals have, in many instances, be-
| come disgu with the extreme north,
and sought a more cOngenial latitude in
the neighborhood of the New York
coast.
! SOME one sent a Delaware man by eX-
press paving-stone weighing thirty-siX
| pounds, and as he opened the box after
| paying eleven dollars charges his voice
| was heard clear over in the next county.
THE newspaper reporters of Chicago
propose TO give theatrical entertain
ment at an early day for the benefit of
the poor of that city. 1t will not be
advisable to marry into poor family,
though, on this account.-.Hiloauhee
Neus.
Mrs. KENDALL of Maine, acted curl
ously for long time, and when she died
the other day and a post mOrteDl was held
they found seven pins in her stomach.
Mr.. Kendall now forgives her for those
sudden fits of frenzy which used to make
his life a dreary desert.
In Boston the simple vulgar notice
Post no bills never mars the surface
of a dead wall. There is posted up in
stead the elegant legend: "Please at
tach no distiguring paragraphs of mer
cenary literature to the virgin face of
this perpendicular plane"
A NEW kind of bird has made its APP
pearance at Hartford, Conn, in large
numbers. The descriptions of them say
that they are similar in color to the cat
bird, bigger than the bluebird, but not
quite the size of a robin. Every flock of
them has several beautifully tinged with
red.
A GERMAN named 1hachtman, residing
at st. Louis, is the victim of singular
form of insanity. The playing of music
eXcites him to frenzy and at certain times
he expresses Il desires to murder the per-
forming musician. He is not the first
people were performing.
MARX GRAYsoN, of Richmond, Va, is
backed for $4,000 to walk round the
route-in 600 days, which makes his av-
erage thirty-two miles day. Duringhis
shipboard travels he will walk his dis
lance regularly. He is twenty-eight
years old, five feet seven inches high,
and weighs 139 pounds. He starts from
the City Hall, New York, April 3, 1873,
and agrees to walk back to it Nov. %,
1876. He will not stop at lunatic asylums
on the road, though he would grace one
immensely.
ONE of the most important railway
lines in Bavaria has for many years been
worked with turf, or peat The material
is obtained from the boys of Haspel-
moos, abundant in quantity and of the
best quality attainable. The method
pursued in it's preparation is that de-
vised by M. Exeter, and which is alleged
to possess superior advantages on the
score of adaptation and cheapness. The
turf, as dug or dredged, appears com
mingled with considerable proportion
x.f tt,rr ~,
ed by grinding up, large dilutiOn with
water, and decantation of the water
bearing the light peat PARTICLES still i'll
suspension from the heavier earth matter
which has deposited. This is left to dry
in layers exposed to the air, and com
pressed in molds by power.
As you cannot support your wife's re
lations and all the rest of your troubles
much longer, and as you are thinking
about the thing any way, you may as
well know now it will feel when You
come to do it. Having attempted to hang
himself, but having been prematurely
cut down, young gentleman of Paris
has survived to Z i've this account of his
sensations: As l kicked away the chair
and fell | had the sensation of receiving
blow from hammer on the top of my
head. | did not feel the rope, and the
only defined sensation succeeding that of
my head. My head seemed heavier and
bigger than the great bell of Notre Dame.
1t was night all about me, and then there
came Il terrible cold in the lower part OF
my body, and then sharp pain where
the rope was tearing my neck, and then
nothing"
THE Meadviile pa Joa,5iM saws.
There is being built at Franklin, by the
Galena Oil Company, miniature oil
farm for exhibition at the coming Cen
tcnnial Exhibition at Philadelphia. 1t
will be complete and accurate repre-
sentation, upon reduced scale, of "a sec
ton of the oil region. There will be
rocks, bluffs, hills and ravines, creeks and
rivers There will be railroads with
trains in motion, moved by miniature
engine There will he four oil wells in
the process of drilling, other wells pump
log, horses and drays transporting the
oily product overland, pipe lines, tanks,
IL village containing costly residences OF
the successful operators and the pine
board shanty of the pumpcr, and in the
foreground the Galcna Oil Company's
works, including tanks, stills, engi nes,
agitators. .storehouses, e'c. The whole
feet squA Z, and will cost many hundreds
of dollars. There viii be several small
engines 20 run the wells, drills, railroad
tr9ins and refinery. This ingenious con
tfivBnCe Is constructed in sections and
can he easily taken apart for transporia-
ton"