American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15
MULTUM IN PARVO.

NJ DARK Is on inc polar wave, - Sa10
the maiden with cold.
Dom PEDRO will be the first reignine
I Emperor to visit this country.
NEW YORK Aldermen have passed an
ordinance against barking dogs.
CHARLES O'CONoR says that one more
doctor would have finished him.
HALLS Journal Of Health insists that
we should eat onions. Have one!
"PIE and cake have sent many strong
man to his grave" says Halls Journal.
Ii Tweed has not evaporated, he seems
effectually to have resolved himself into
adieu.
THEY are eating roasting ears freshly
plucked from the green growing stalks in
Oakville, Tex.
THE total value of the buildings erected
in Hartford during the past year aggre-
gates 81 1856, $50.
UNCLE SAM will keep open house all
this year. Look out for rush of callers
about next July.
A New YORK Coroner's Jury has act
ually censured q streetcar company for
| running over a man.
THE San Francisco Bulletin says seals
are as intelligent as dogs and may be made
to perform as many tricks.
THE Cincinnati Commercial says we enter
upon year of patriotic professions, pa
rades, pomp, puff and powder.
| HIGHWAY robbers in Oregon give a
victim back his watch if it is out of re-
pair, with money enough to have it fixed.
A Boston merchant says that if every
body will let business alone business will
revive. Now mind your business and
see.
The Cincinnati Commercial has come
to the conclusion that the only cure for
intemperance is more water and less
whisky.
a WANT you either to hit me or stop
making such a blamed racket" said
thief at whom Detroit policeman was
shooting.
In its list of important events for the
year 1875 the New York Evening Post
mentions for July LIST that it occupied its |
new building.
If correspondents do not lie worse than
ever the early birds already on the look |
out for next falls Presidential worm are
not less than fifty.
ANOTHER man, says the Denver Neus,
with three dollar nugget has arrived at
Cheyenne from the Black Hills The
trip cost him $500; clear loss $197.
THE Rothschilds could give eighty five
dollars to every man, woman and child
in the country. There, now. don't get
excited it isn't certain they wilfdo it.
A PHILADELPHIA body-snatcher defends
his business on the ground that the dead
are clay, and SO long as the spirit is in
heaven it matters not what becomes of the
mortal shell.
A PHILADELPHIA advertises for girl
who is sincere Christian and won't burn
the meat all up. This is centennial year,
and now, if ever, we must look for such a
paragon of a girl.
NEW YORK points proudly to the fact
that her Police Court cases for the past
year foot up "a $780, or one to every twelve
of her population. This is doing very
well for the close of a century.
A SANDUsKY man drowned himself the
other day because his wife would not lend
him thirty cents. He did right When a
wife's confidence gets shaken TO that de-
gree the husband might as well peg out.
Detroit Free Press.
A CHICAGO man got pair of ear-muffs
tor Christmas present, and thus was af-
forded one of the strongest examples of
wifely devotion on record. There wasn't
a scrap left of his wife's seal-skin cloak
st. Louis Republican.
THE printers of the Philadelphia In
quirer set up 1.-THE Night before Christ
mas" twenty-seven years ago, and the
poem has been kept standing ever since,
and was printed in that paper from the
original types first used in 1S4S.
THERE has been a sad loss of life and
property in the fishing business of
Mass, the past year-16 ves- ,
sells and 1913 men, against 10 vessels and
6S lives in 1874, and 81 vessels and ia
men in 1878, which latter record was I'M
precedented. ,
THE right of the Legislature to enact t
laws for the observance of the Sabbath t
H., ~ Al. =
mon Pleas at New York in the case of Mr.. ;
Neuendorff, whose Sunday night concerts t
At the Terrace Garden had been stopped i
by the police. /
" MY SON." said dying grocer to his /
probable successor to the business, never T
put sand in your sugar. Cherish repu- b
alton for fair and impartial dealings with b
your fallow-men, and use terra alba in t
stead; it's quite as heavy, and don't grit
IN the teethr' il
THE number of degrees conferred in the o
United States last year proclaims us the J
most fearfully and wonderfully educated L
people in the world. There were $500 l
iegrees in course; AL honorary; 1862 ag- .
563, female and $50 divinity a
,,859 degrees in all.
THE latest fraud in Georgia is man :
Who makes regular business of desert .
ng his wife and children among slrang-
is- 1hC idttCi give Iuclu ulOucy | u
nd needed articles, after receiving which :,
he family joins the husband, and they % .,
epeat the game in some other place. :,
A YOUNG lady of Rutland, VT, not lik- .,
ng the idea of her fathers spending all f.
lis own and her money for drink, tied ri
is hands and feet together with bed h,
ord, and, having considerable muscle, n;
him into an upper chamber
There he had twenty four hours to medi- h.
ate. 81
A MUsK-RAT worked hole through the OF
am of A. b. Farrar's Merrimack fish L.
onds at Nashua, N. H., recently, and it
ne fish in nine ponds, covering sixteen e,
ores, were pretty generally lost He had p
pent five years in breeding and preparing te
Or market, and the pecuniary loss is con ~
iderable. I'll
MARY MURDOCH MASON divides her sex I'll
nto three classes-the giddy butterflies, tr
ne busy bees and the woman's Fighters. sc
he first are pretty and silly, the second st
lain and useful, the third mannish and q
dious. The first wear long, trailing M
resses and smile at you while waltzing; in
ne second wear aprons and give you APP W
lie dumplings; and the third want your III
ianly prerogatives, your dress-coat, your in
honey and your vote. m
al
This may possibly be old, but it's I'M bI
eniably good: Every man fancies he W
an do three things-farm II small prop til
rty, drive a gig and write an article for a "
eview." | ii,