American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-01-09
CURRENT ITEMS.


CURRENT ITEMS.
SUGGEsTIvE-Mr. Bean has opened
hotel in Concord.
KID gloves are now made to lace t.
the elbow, sans buttons.
IF you want to feel warm all Mroug1
give some poor family the means to keel
warm.
| A THREE-LINE advertisement, 405 time.
repeated, recently appeared in the Lon
don Times.
REMEMBER that troubles are like babies
they only grow the bigger for being
nursed.
KALAKAUA is forbidden by his ply
stefan to venture out after night during a
cold snap.
BEWARE of friendship with surgeons
| When you require their services they
will cut you.
! ANNUAL Towering plants resemble
whales, because they come up to blow
don't you see?
| Tom THUMBS fortune is estimated at
$500. 900, more than enough to keep so
small person and fixings.
| PoMERoY, the young Massachusetts
murderer, is now said to have acquired
his thirst for blood from hearing Indian
| stories.
THE shipme nts of machinery from the
ports of the United States to South
America and to Europe are steadily
| growing.
Two HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINE persons
were killed last year by jumping on and
off moving trains, but there is still room
| for all who come.
EXCELLENT calico dress material sells
| at the leading dry goods stores in New
York at the unprecedentedly low price
of six cents per yard.
ONE by one the roses fade. 1t is now
boldly denied that men who wear long
hair are possessed of any more talent
than men who have it shipped close.
SOME Western grain shippers have a
habit called plugging" which means
the spreading of screenings an inch or SO
| deep on the floor of a car.of wheat.
A NEW LONDON (Conn) man was re-
| Gently given some money to relieve the
wants of his family and forthwith went
out and bought a dog that he fancied.
A CALIFORNIAN contemporary puts in a
| good word for the much abused MOngo-
| liam, rem arking that no Chinaman has
| ever yet become a book canvasser or a
! life assurance agent.
'SITTING on the eastern bank of the
| Mississippi, and bathing her fair feet in
| the tide of that magnificent river" is the
| way in which Tennessee correspondents
speak of Memphis.
ACCORDING to the Milwaukee Nescs, a
young lady asked booksellers clerk if
| he had Festus" ono" was the an
sxer,' but Pm afraid a boil is coming on
the back of my neck"
!,
| was the trembling reply of a chubby lit
tie boy whom King Kalakaua took up in
his arms and asked for kiss, in the cor
ridOr of San Francisco hotel.
THOSE persons who are SO foolish as to
use hydrate of choral as sedative will
| do well to make a note of the fact that
the number of deaths which are caused
by it is largely on the increase.
FIFTY dollars was the fine Massachu-
sets man had to pay for kicking dog.
The present of a pup to the Judge from
the dog-owner could hardly have brought
about a more satisfactory ruling.
A FELLOW is selling ffty-cent specta-
cles for $3.50 pair in the towns about
Boston, warranting them to cure deaf
ness and blindness by means of "galvan-
ism,' with which he says they are
charged.
AMERICAN cities pay roundly to have
their streets poorly cleaned. Paris re-
ceives 100000 year for the privilege
from contractors, who manufacture the
refuse into compost and sell it for
5000 Goa clear profit of $3.50, 600.
SAN FRANCIsco's attempt to create a
park out of the forbidding sand-hills be-
tween the city and the Pacific Ocean is
meeting with promising success. The
ground set apart alre ady embraces 600
acres of land, and much of it has been
improved with divers shrubbery. Lupine
is used to cover the sand with vegetation
and to prevent it's blowing back and
forth.
Mr.. MILLS, south Side School Super
intendent, makes out examination ques
tions for teachers in way peculiar to
himself, winding up every question with
elf SO, Why" or "If not, why not?"
One of the teachers tells this story about
him: She says she boarded once at the
same place where his "girl" boarded
One night he came, rang the bell and
asked the servant: "Is Miss - in,
and if so, why? Is she engaged, and
how" Then he went in and the little
heard him say: my darling, do you
love me? If not, why not?' After a
while Give a synopsis of your employ
ment during the week. Analyze thor
oughly and completely the state of your
sentiments toward me-" When he left,
after kissing her, he remarked: BE
prepared on next Sunday at halfpast
two p. m. to state, accurately and con-
cisely, when, where and by whom and
| under what circumstances our marriage
shall be performed. "-Indidnapolis Senti-
nel
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