American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-09-11
MULTUM IN.PARVO.

MULTUM IN PARVO.
DIsCOURsING sweet music-Blowin
your own trumpet.
HUMPTULIPs is the name of river il
| Washington Territory.
-VUBCANIZED rubber pavements are un
der trial at Pittsburgh, Pa.
II WHAT'S become of Weston? Has hi
sole stopped marching on?
THE extra sleep obtained by the use O
mosquito canopy is net gain.
WHEN do teeth unsurp the tongue
prcrogativc? When they are chattering
TAxIDERMY for parents-f you want t.
preserve your children do not stuff them
DELAWARE peaches are being shipped
10 England this. season. thing nevel
done before.
T WHEREVER three or four thieves are
banded together there may you find q
rifle" team.
"THE only way to look at lady's
faults, y exclaimed a gallant, "is to shut
your eyes, e
A NEVADA paper speaks of an urchin
that had been playing with mules tail
as "a spoiled child"
| IT looks as if Mexico was TO have an
other revolution. She ought to have-it's
a month over time now.
ONE chcese-manufacturer in Central
New York has seen his whey to clear
profit of eli 900 this year.
! DEER are very numerous in Virginia
now, having greatly multiplied since the
| war, especially in the lowland region
"WAs not her death quito sudden?'
said a condoling friend to a bereaved
widower. " Well, yes, rather, for her,"
STEWART says it is the hardest thing. in
the world for lady to purchase goods and
not try to beaa the clerk down or ask for
credit. -.
) PRoF. TIcE says. that we shall. have
thirteen days of rain in October, and now
get your tubs and pals ready to catch
rainwater. = -
ALMesr anyone can start daily news
paper, hut it sometimes keeps man
scratching around pretty lively night and
day to keep il going. 80.
THE next thing to perdition is an East
ern poor house or lunatic asylum. This
assertion is based on the reports of UNI
biasedslOcal newspapers p "a $3.50 .
A TRAMPaarrested in. New York State
the other; day declared that fhe'd rather
loaf around on one meal Per day than
work for 81 600 per minute.
IT must make a woman feel mean to
take poison, write two or three farewell
letters, upbFaid her husband and then be
saved by a stomach pump.
''TIs strange tn at I remain d maid, ~.sst
Though fifty SWANS have homage paidp
The reason you have told" says Fanny,
You have justforty-nfne too many
A LADY living at Easton, Pa, has had a
fly in her ear for ten months. Here is a
woman who herself knows what man
sometimes suffers from a constant buzz
ing. F,..z sass +.
CALEDONIA pays a. bounty of. fifteen
cents for squirrel scalps, and California |
girls borrow shot-guns, buy dollars !
worth of ammunition and go out and kill |
1.-The hired man. ~lsa 4
THE times are hard, but the Southern |
papers are nobly retaining their independ- |
dence. Says the Savannah, Mems: "a |
twenty five cent melon and a dollar notice!l
e.WHHNc4s ceme.our Aborigines y" stern \
ly demands the Baltimore Sun. IT'S easy
enough to tell where they are going They |
are, padding out into the vast unknown,
as it were, over hmitlcss ocean of cheap
whisky. s-f-7s
IF q man wants to be b: mean and show
his 4ittleness he will build his garden
fence SO high that no neighber's COW can
more than look over it and feel her mouth
water at sight of the cabbages.-Dctroit
Free Press
THE Popular Science Monthly wonders if
animals have a sense of humor. 1t
wouldn't wonder any after hearing the
horse-laugh Of an Oshkosh girl when her
gets back from the lumber
Louis Republican.
KEELY is said to be at work on some
machinery with which he will soon ex-
lhbft his great invention as thing ac-
This is said of him, but
there is u motor something in the public
eye, and people 'can't see it,
THE Norristown Herald speaks up
and says: "a Michigan stump
speaker recently announced that 'the
country is fast drifting into arnica' We
should think such speeches would soon
become drug in the political market"
IT must be humillating for the Erie
after handling nothing less than
millions for years, to be dragged. into a
dispute with another railroad about con-
temptible $50, 200. 1t has been, however
and thereis almost chance for a lawsuit.
THERE is no greater work on the earth
han that of developing everything in
man, of bringing it into harmony, of
holding it back from wrong-doing and
pushing it forward to positive excellence
He builds great thing who builds a pyr-
mid but he builds greater thing who
builds a character.
NEAR Knoxville, Tenn, the other night,
| young girl, who was unexpectedly in
eryiewed by the family as she was about
clipping with the object of her virgin af-
ections, knocked the old man down, laid
'ut two brothers with Il cistern- pole,
Kicked the hired man in the stomach and
got away with her. lover and made the
'iffle''
The statisticians are again advancing
heir well-worn theory that crime in.
,reases with the heat of the weather, and
showing, by figures which they assume to
'e incontestable, that July is more prolific ,
If crimes than any other month. II the +,
heory is sound, the present season fur +.
fishes capital test. The summer has I
been remarkably cool, and ought, there
ore, to show very light crime record as +
with warmer years in the past i
Will the figqre-meu examine the facts and c