American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-05-01
NO.. 49,.
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

The original greenbacks-frogs.
-Furrin' parts-Alaska and Hudson's
Bay.
-Pie-plant and spring suits are again
in vogue.
Men who never do wrong seldom do
anything.
The latest thing in front-door locks
night-keys-
Occupation is the great safeguard /;
idleness is sure to run to weeds.
Prosperity is no test of character; it is
adversely that surely finds us out.
The smallpox and affectation both
ruin many very handsome faces.
! While we are inclined to forgive too
little we are apt to forget too much.
He was Warm Spring Indian the
moment he sat down ON a hot stove.
Big Cow, one of the sub-chiefs of the
Arapahoe tribe of Indians, stands seven
feet high in his moccasins.
"A Kansas naturalist claims that the
grasshopper plague was caused by the de-
struction of prairie chickens.
In answer to a correspondent we state
| that the reason why Cardinals wear red
| hats is the same that makes millers wear
white ones, namely: to keep their heads
warm.-IOledo Blade.
| Don't sit up nights to see how long
| that young gentleman stays with the young
4 lady across the street. If she thinks him
worth the oil burned it is none of your
| business; he isn't making love to any of
! your folks.-Yonhers Gazette.
Was it the Philadelphia Ledger which
recently contained this?
Our little Johnny's on the shining shore,
He doesn't wear his little pants no more;
His little peg-top now he never huns,
He died cutting of his little gumsl
-Wah Lee. the Chinese Jay Gould, who
owns two laundries in Philadelphia, two
in New York, one in Boston, four in Chi
cago, one in indianapolis and one in Pitts
burgh, Pa, derives an income from the
! nine of ZOO a week, or $SS, 400 year.
"A Milesian, having returned to his
native land, asked to give an illustra-
ton of American enterprise. The Ire
lander replied: :" If a Yankee was ship
wrecked on an uninhab!ed island the fol
lowing morning he would be selling news
papers to all the inhabitants"
MIR. James T. Fields proposes to men
who have failed in their ambitious pur-
suits in other directions "a new ambi-
ton" for them-namely, that of becoming
difficulty in the way is that ambitious peo-
pie are generally so selfish that they never
care whether they are pleasant to other
people or not What they want is that
other people should be pleasant to them.
He stood alone at the bedside of his
departing wife, and seemed the very pict-
ure of woe. "John, you'll do the right
thing when I'm gone? You won't send
me off to cheap country churchyard-
you'll bury me in Greenwood, John ~
TO Jane, Jane, how could you doubt it ?"
nose in the folds of his pocket handker-
chief and wringing it as if his heart would
break. BLESS you, bless you, my hus-
band-and let it be in a fashionable quar-
ter of the cemetery"
-" Mark Twain used to run . boat
down here, didn't he:" inquired trav-
eler of Mississippi pilot lately. "Mark
Twain 9" repeated the old riverman, Mark
TwainP Do you mean him as was Sam
Clemens. Wal, yes, he did try pilotin'
yer awhile but he couldn't do it, couldn't
do tall, hadn't the genus. But l tell We
what" continued the grizzly veteran, CIV
ing his wheel twist, :" if ye'd a-gin him
boats 'nough while he was a-practicin'
he'd a-clared the river of snags, for
shuah.''
Docs it spoil children tC praise them?
Judicious praise is sunshine to the child,
and there is no child that does rot need it.
1t is the high reward of ones struggle to
do right. Thos. Hughes says that you
can never get mans best out of him
without praise. You certainly can never
get child's best out of him without praise.
Many a sensitive child dies of hunger
for kind commentator. Many child,
starving for praise that parents should
give, runs off eagerly after the designing
flattery of others.
Some mothers, writes . physician,
think when their children get beyond two
or three years of age the frequent entire
bath can be dispensed with. If some of
the main facts of physiology were well
known and understood every one would
perceive that cleanliness of the skin is one
of the conditions of good health. 1t hap
pens when bathing is disregarded that the
lungs, kidneys or bowels have more than
their apportionment of work. If these are
strong and healthy they may bear the tax
with little apparent injury, but in most
cases lowering of the vitality and tone
of the system ensues. Large bath-tubs
are pleasant and convenient, but not in
dispensable to the proper cleansing of the
skin. A speedy sponging of the body in
pure water. followed by friction in pure
air, is all that is necessary.
line 100 tNaI.) MdN, some DAYS De-
fore the LIST of April, told the following
goose story: while hunting in the tules
near the sink of Cache Creek on Monday
last, Abe Green, an old hunter, discovered
a petrifed wild goose, standing upright,
with legs buried about one-half in the
adobe soil. He thought at first it was liv-
ing, and, creeping closely up to it, fired
his gun at it, but the bird did not bulge
an inch He thought it very strange and
walked up to it. lie found it dead, and,
in trying to pick it up, was astonisAed at
its immense weight. 1t had turned to
stone, and mark on its wing, near the
forward joint, showed where the shot had
struck it, knocking piece off. He man
aged to raise it up ont of the ground, and
when he laid it down piece dropped from
its breast, disclosing a hollow inside, from
which pure, clear water commenced run
ming. Its feathers were very natural, and
its appearance was calculated to deceive
so liiclke. He took it to his cabin, down
the canal, few miles back of Washing
ton, where it can be seen by those who
wish TO see such strange and unusual
sight,