American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-05-29
MULTUM IN PARVO.

IHE aspirations or those french Dal
loonists were too high.
MELODY is the inheritance of the pool
A rich man rarely sings.
JOHN BRoUGHAM reads it: "Come
gentle spring, diphtherial mildness
come"
THE saying Excuse haste and bat
pen" has been attributed to pig who
ran away from home.
| THEY are now laying the discovery O.
| gas on the back Of Volta, in 1776. An
other brilliant centennial.
POLICEMEN are forever being abused
but now, putting all prejudices aside
did you ever know one. that was not {
man of a-biilet-eh? -
| A LITTLE boy returning from the Sun
dayschool said to his mother: INA
amt there a kitty-chism for little boys,
This cat-echism is too hard for me-"
| A MAN is said to be absent-mindeG
when he thinks he has left his watch al
home and takes it out of his pocket to
see if he has time to return home an6
get it.
| THE San Francisco Chronicle calls the
highway robbers "a disgrace to the
State" That's right. Sit still and how
about it. In the meantime Chavez goes
right on doing large receiving business
| THE buffalo-gnat in the South is larger
and stronger than the New Jersey mos
quito. The latter only flies away with
ducks and chickens, but the former car
| ries off whole droves of oxen, mules and
! horses.
THE Chinese tailors of San Francisco
have struck, and have posted bills
throughout the Chinese Quarters offering
a reward of $500 for the. killing of any
| hoe toll yH1 r.
manded, and an additional reward OF
$500 for the killing of any tailor who con
sensyto work for less money.
AN Oregon paper says: "When a
young lady living on the line of the Cal
ifornia & Oregon Railroad wants to get
married she only takes one refusal to
give consent from her stern parents,
| and then seeks her lover true with the
| remark: 'Smithie, old boy, guess we'd
better canter down to the gospelshop
it's no use waiting for those idiots to be-
come sane again"
LET theresbe no further complaints
about the unemployment of their rights
by the women of Nevada The contract
for furnishing the iron fencing for Cap
itol Square, at Carson, has been awarded
| to the Misses Clapp and Babcock, Prin-
clpals of the Sierra Seminary. Their
bid ($5, $50 in coin) for the delivery of
the fencing upon the grounds is the low
est by some hundreds of dollars of any
submitted.
EDWIN z. DOYLE, a MINOR, by his next
friend, recently brought suit against the
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary for mall
practice, claiming 800, 900 for the loss of
his sight, which, it was claimed. was
caused by the physician in charge oper-
ating upon his eyes, affected with local
f4,rr srfo
with avirulent disease, which caused the
patient to lose his sight. The decision
of the court was in favor of the defend
ant.
"ARRAH, me darlint," cried Jamie
O'Flannigan to his loquacious sweet
heart, who had not given him the oppor-
tunity to get in a word even edgewise"
during two hours ride behind the little
bay nags in his oyster wagon. "are We
afther KNOWN why your cheeks are like
cause they're red. is it?" quoth the blush
ing Bridget. Faith, and a better raison
than that, mavourneen. Because there
is one O. them aich side of Vaughn
tongue"
THE way to WOO: Wealthy widow lin
answer to warm VOWS of undying love
and admiration)-"T Then you really think
me beautiful, Mr.. O'Dowd-candidly,
now?" Mr.. O'Dowd-" Beautiful? Indeed
you are. Not, perhaps, in that cut-and-
dried, regular and insipid fashion that
passes for beauty with the vulgar herd !;
but, Oh! your face has subtle charm
a-a-an ineffable something-a-a-a
certain 'je ne say kwaw,' you know,
which is far more rare and more pre-
cious than what the ignorant world
calls beauty "-Punch.
WurrrD for,,
house in Missouri traveller was aston
ished to see his hostess walk up to her
husband about every fifteen minutes
and box his ears or give his hair pull.
In the morning the guest, seeing the
woman alone, asked an explanation of
her strange conduct, and tie reply was:
You see, stranger, me and the old man
has been fightin' for ten years to see who
shall boss this ERE ranch, and have jest
got him cowed, but if should let up on
him for a day he would turn on me
again, and my work would all go for
nOthin'"
a Lacrosse street boy and gets bloody
nose he goes home fully prepared for
what he knows will follow "Fighting
again, eh?" Inquiries the Detroit father.
Well, I'll see you in the wOodshed after
dinner" Father" replies the boy,
tears in his eyes, I" it was that johnson
boy. He came along and called me the
son of a cross-eyed sheep-thief, and,
father, l couldn't stand by and hear you
spoken of in that manner!" The father
feels in his vest pocket for a nickel and
nothing further is said about the wood
shed business.-Free Press.
REV. MIR. WILLIAMS, the ancient pastor
at Dudley, Mass, was a man of godly
sense. One sultry summer day, when
midway in his sermon, rumble of dis
tant thunder heralded the approach of a
shower. Suddenly the preacher stopped
and, peering from side to side through
the church windows, as if observing the
tokens of a change in the weather, he
quietly said: Brethren, l observe that
our Brother Crosby is not prepared for
the rain. l think it our duty to help our
shower" With that he descended from
the pulpit and with several of his hearers
proceeded to Mr.. Crosby's bayfield,,
where they worked half an hour or until
the hay was housed. The staunch old
clergyman then returned to the church,
resumed his discourse, never emitting a
point from firstly to tifteentnly.
THE following story is very good but
rather apocryphal: A young. man out
West was counting pretty girl, but her
mother would not permit him to stay
after ten o'clock, greatly to his and her
daughters disgust. Last New Years
Day that young man presented the old
lady with a patent clock of great beauty
and ingenuity. The prospective mother
in-law was greatly pleased, and gave
her old ticker to poor woman who
lived in the neighborhood. Now that