American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-11-20
MULTUM IN PARyO.

| A REGULAR beat@The heart beat; still
| the heart is never dead-bcat
| IT is not so much trouble for a man t.
| get rich as it is to tell when he's got rich
| A STOCK man at Austin, Tex, is raising
camels, and has sold lot of young onei
| for $3.50 each.
WHY is prosy preacher like the mid
| die of wheel! Because the fellow.
round him are tired.
AFTER marriage a woman gets broader
views and broader pronunciation. Frs
it's "coddle," then it's caudle.''
| If the names of the States were all oil
the same length an important source o.
political pleasure would be wanting. i
| would be impossible to construct ''pyra
mids. "-Detr0it Free Press.
THE explosion of kerosene lamp set
fire to the house of T. Mack, in Toledo
clothing set ON fire, and before the flames
could be extinguished was fatally burned.
RICHARD GRANT WHITE calls it "hete
only two gills in a pint; but he dOesn t say
what kind of q" phemy" it is for a grocer
to treat a pound as it there were only four.
teen ounces in it.
It's burning shame that he didn't
cut any kindling," she muttered to herself
as she took up the kerosene can to start
the fire, and "A burning shame'' was
what they chiseled on the tombstone
which stood over her cinders.
IT is stated by the Bird Fdaciers' Jour.
nal that a carrier bird which flies $50 miles
an hour is under training for the pur-
pose of forming d mail line between
America and Europe, the whole distance
to be traversed between sunrise in one
hemisphere and sunset in the other.
THE Glasgow Times would appear to
have figured out the thing pretty accu-
rately when it remarks: "The man who
is curious to see how the world could get
along without him can find out by stick
ing cambria needle into mill-pOnd, and
then Withdrawing it and looking at the
hole.''
THE Waco Erd'ni ner of O recent date
speaks in terms of severest criticism of
the murders which have become so fire.
quent throughout the State, and closes
with strong appeal to its readers and con-
temporaries to " make Texas too hot to
hold man who wantonly takes the life Of
a fellOw-man."
THE latest instructions published on the
subject of table etiquetten contain an
admonition to see that those about you
are helped before you commence eating
after you commence a" eating yourself you
will be unable to see that others are helped.
Detroit Tribune.
"WEAK, unconscious criminality," is
what the New York Prison Inspector spe-
cities as the cause of Frank Walworth's
parricidal act. This is quite as good as
emotional insanity, provided the g weak,
unconscious criminals are so restrained
of their liberty that the rest of the CON-
mtlnity shall not suffer from their weak
ness or Inconsistencies Free
Press.
HERE is a warning for men too mean to
advertise: One of this description wanted
to sell some land, and so he put a written
notice in one of the hotels the other day.
A man who was inqufring for a small
farm was referred to the written notice,
when he replied: ~ can't buy land at a
fair price of any man who does his advertis-
ing in this way. He'd steal the fence, the
pump handle, and the barn-doors before
he'd give up possession"
A YOUTH was rushing around the
corner, saying: All want in this world
is to lay my hands on him!' He present
ly came upon boy weighing about ten
pounds more than himself, and rushing
at him he exclaimed: " Did you lick my
brother Benz" Yes, l did" said the
boy, dropping his bundle and splitting ON
his hands. WELL" continued the other
lad, backing slowly away, she needs a
lickin' once week to teach him to be
civilt'
The other day Vicksburg negro was
drawing big dog around the street by a
strap, and citizen inquired: lis that
your dog" yes, sah.'' DO you want