American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-06-26
MULTUM IN PARYO.

A NEW YORK personal inquiries for
lady with ''biue eyes dressed in black.
THERE is some talk of re-establishins
the Government ordnance works a
Harper's Ferry.
PROF. II. r. PALMER's Musical Insti
tute at Dunkirk, N. Y, begins July 10
and holds four weeks.
"IN word" says the Texas papers
"there is a premise of year of plenty
such as has never been witnessed"
CALL loans are so low in New Yorl
that when, between friends tamong the
brokers, small balances are wanted fol
overnight use, the consideration il
"cigars for two"
| MAJ. PHINNEY, of Barnstable. Mass
denies that the Pilgrims landed OF
Plymouth Rock. They came ashore al
Provincetown, he affirms; and he wants
| O monument there.
THE conductor of one of the grammar
schools in Nashua, N. H., has discov
cred useful method of teaching gram.
mar and rhetoric. The pupils are award
ed two marks for every error in a local
newspaper.
MARK TWAIN, apropos of a new porta-
bic mosquito net, writes that the day is
| coming "when we shall sit under our
| nets in church and slumber peacefully
and take it out of the minister"
THE Walnut Valley (Kan) Times says
that "23 1856, 7S9. 745, 1898, 574 342 ,9S4 ,436,
659,27 grasshoppers passed over Butler
County last week on their journey North
and East. A few camped over night and
left their sick behind, but they are Lot
able to do any damage"
THE Danbury Neaos tells story about
| a woman in that town who sent to the
grocer's for half peck of tubers. The
grocer thought that she must have meant
tuberoses and sent the boy to the seeds.
man, who filled the order, and waxed
| savage when the woman explained that
she wanted potatoes. The woman was a
Boston woman who had married Dan
bury man.
| four times by police officer in Philadel-
phia, refused before his death to tell the
name of his murderer, and in Brooklyn
| a similar case has occurred. A rowdy
| was stabbed fatally three times in the
lungs, and, when asked to tell who was
his assailant, replied: I'D die with the
name of the fellow in my throat before
I'd give him away"
GREENHoRN LUCK" is legend in the
mines. An incident illustrative of its
meaning occurred in Nevada County re-
Gently. A young man from the East, in
poor health, thought he would exercise
his muscles by digging little. They
sent him to Deadman's Flat as the near
used. He went there and began to dig.
He took out $50 that day, and has done
well since.-Alta California.
THE London Lancet, discussing foot
ball as cottage sport, says that while
it is perfectly safe when engaged in by
boys who are sound and healthy, yet
with grown-up men the case is different.
Football is essentially rough-and- tum-
BILE game, and a man does not fall as
lightly or as cleverly as a boy can. A
collision which simply "knocks the wind
OUT of the latter may seriously injure
or even rupture some important organ in
the former.
JAY COOKE is credited with this mode
of fishing at Put Inlay, for a descrip-
ton of which all lazy fishermen will be
thankful: {" He had large glass jar
filled with minnows in the place which
he frequented. The big fishes would
swarm around the jar, seeing their COW
eted prey, and hungry for the expected
feast. He would drop his hook among
them and haul out the victims of his
novel delusion with the utmost ease and
readiness until tired of the unsportsman-
like sport"
THE water furnished to the residents
of Washington must be in a condition
which would shock even the least fas-
tidious stomach. A recent cleaning out
of the sediment of the main reservoir
from which the citizens derive their sup
ply of water developed the fact that
thirty-one bodies of dead infants had
been deposited there. Other complaints
are made that the bodies are filled with
small dead fish, and the fear is expressed
that If the pipes are not flushed or
will break out in that city before two
weeks, as it did in Norfolk in 1858.
THE Christianburg (Va.) Messenger
county, and is about sixty years of age,
married young couple short time ago,
and thereupon was challenged by the
bride for foot-race. The distance was
measured, and the old parson and young
bride took position, and upon the drop Of
hat the race begun. The young FLY,
though encountered by her surround
ings, fairly flew ahead of the old stager for
moment. When, however, the SPAWN
got the use of his limbs, and fairly under
way, he caught up with the nimble
gazelle and passed under the pole well in
the lead, to the amusement of all.
Nor very long since the wife of the
professor, Mrs. Agassiz, rose one morn
ing and proceeded, according to custom,
to put on her stockings and shoes. At a
certain stage of this process little
scream attracted Mr.. Agassiz' attention,
and not having yet risen he leaned anx-
iously upon his elbow, inquiring what
was the matter. "Why, Professor,
little snake has just crawled out of my
boot" said she. Only one, my dear?"
returned the professor, calmly lying
down again; 'there should have been
three" He had put them there to keep
them warm. Pleasant man to have in the
house, particularly in ones sleeping
room.-Neao York Letter.
A New ORLEANS lady had her sleep
oddly disturbed one night lately. She
was lying quietly in her bed when she
was disturbed by a noise in the vicinity
of her child's cot in the same room.
She raised herself and peered intently
| into the darkness, when she discovered
a black object climbing up the bed-post
SummOning up all her courage she
sprang out of bed, when the black OBJ
ject leaped toward her, and the next in
slant she felt the sharp fangs of some
sIstance seemed but to enrage the beast,
and it climbed up her body, fiercely
burying its sharp teeth deeper at every
move. Finally assistance came and a
light, and then the quality of the mon
stcr appeared-it was a huge raccoon,
one of the largest ever seen, aud in ap:
parently frenzy of rage 1T sprung for
ward to attack another woman who en-
tered the room, and dying only after a
hard fight. The injured lady was found
to have received twelve deep wounds,