American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23
WIT AND WISDOM.


ANOmaha sspersonaln reads: "Stare-
Every WoInan-in- the-Face, "a young
brave who loafs around the streets, has
not yet left for the summer. He be-
longs to the Idiot tribe"
THE Won,an's JON nal claims that
the sexes are equal. A married man,
however, always has the advantage of
being able to climb tree when the
argument assumes the form of roll
ing pin.-NorDich Bulletis..
NoruING will surprise married man
so much as to go home and see his wife
limping round the house with her little
toe bandaged, saying that she doesn't
see why he has to keep, such an Internal
edge on his razor.-N. Y. Jlsrdld.G u
PRESIDENT CHApBoURNE, of Williams
College, has received a patent fol ten
sion devices for twisting machines. 1t
Is supposed to involve a superior meth
cd of holding the pantaloons tight while
the operator has the head of the victim
under her left arm and is feeling aIuu d
for her slipper, and will be of much
value when the schools open and the
season for playing hockey begins.-Nor-
ristoaOn Bulletin.
A PROMINENT newspaper man of Nor
witch has been visiting the Centennial,
and during his -sojourn at that place he
When the bill for the meal was present.
ed to him he meekly intimated that his
boiled egg contained chicken. The
polite waiter said that he would have
the bill corrected, and soon returned
with a new bill, upon. which the charge
of SO cents for ''eggs'' had given place
to an item of 60 cents for ''chicken." -
Worcester Press. e+A1
are making their fall raids, and are par
ticularly lively just now, my DEAR"
said Jones to his wife, s'don't you think
it would be good idea to bring the
baby's crib into our room? We might
divert the attention Of the voracious in
sects little from ourselves. hate to
be broken of my rest, and baby can
sleep all day, you know" Mrs. Jones
went in search of the fre-tongs at once.
"A WEST HILL man was observed yes
terday whiting a pine stick with an
air of contented idleness aud satisfied
smile playing around the corners of his
mouth. Hain't at work to-day, eh?'
queried a passing acquaintance. 'No,"
was the reply. Made days wages
to-day, though, all the same" .'Why,
how's that? How much did you make ?"
"Made two dollars and a half clear
gain,' responded the whittier, the
quiet smile deepening and giving vent
to chuckle. ssWish could do as well
every day. /" How'd you make two
dollars and a half and not do, any
thing?'' ''Easy 'nough. Paid my poll
tax" "Paid your poll tax! How did
you make two dollars and half paying
your poll taxP'' "Easy 'nough, L tell
you. If hadn't paid it pretty soon it
would have cost me fifty cents more,
wouldn't ita'' /" Yes, of course it would.
But you had to pay two dollars. How
did you make that?'' co." the
whittier, brushing the shavings from his
clothes, 81 borrowed the two dollars. -
Burlington Ha,ok-eye. 800 e59I1
Library of Sardanapa1us. ~
The late George Smith, of the British
Museum, in his TRANSACTIONS of the As
syrian cuneiform inscriptions stored
there, and of those on the large number
of bricks which he gathered in his two
expeditions to the East, has thrown a
great deal Of light on the history OF
Babylon and Nineveh. Whole dynas-
ties of kings, hitherto unknown to the
most learned historians, were found re-
corded, and also very curious account
of the flood, bearing close resemblance
in some particulars to that described in
Genesis. The Assyrian-baked books
date from the fifteenth century, b c.,
when the first library was formed at
Kiiah Shergat, the ancient Assur. Six
centuries later the monarch Assur -nazir-
pal, the old and valiant Sardanapalus,
rebuilt Nimrod, the ancient Calab, and
had the clay-learning of Babylon col
lected for its use; and century or so
afterward it is gratifying to find that
Sargon had principal librarian who
had the zeal and sense to copy the in
scriptions he could not acquire. The
library at Nineveh, the present Kouy-
unjik,s hourished greatly under Assur-
banipal, the grandson and
successor of Sennacharib, the
second, or voluptuous, Sardanapalus OF
the Greeks, supposed not to have cared
for matters of that kind, but who really
added to his other loves those of litera.
ture and learning. From Babylon, Bor
shippa, from Cutha Akad, from Uruka
and LARA, from Nippur, and every
where, he begged, borrowed and stole
transcribed or collated,. the tablets thai
contained the myths, the histories, the
laws, the poetry, the learning, of ole
Babylonia. y. His library consisted O.
about 10000 titles, which were kept il
an upper story of the palace at Nine
veh, now the mound of Kouyunjik, op
posite Mosul, and one of the heaps o
brickbats into which the love of glory
the lust of conquest and the errors o
craftsmanship reduced the armed mon
archy of Assyria. There is reason t.
think that the originals of some of tn
transcripts are as old as twenty, ant
cert ainly not later than fifteen centu
rios bafora Christ Deriod w hirI