American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-07-19
FACTS AND FANCIES.

FACTS AND FANCIES.
| OH rich and rare were the gems she wore
Purchased at co st at the dollar stored
FoNTENELLE thought that eating as
paragus was promotive of length OF
days. Voltaire also is said to have been
fond of that vegetable.
A FAT French woman despairingly
says: 81 am so fat that I pray for a
disappointment to make me thin. No
sooner does the disappointment come
than the mere expectation of growing
thinner gives me such joy that become
fatter than ever.''
AN English physician wants to know
how many medical men there are who
understand the sanitary condition of
their own houses, or have adequately
ascertained that those conditions are, as
far as our knowledge at present goes,
free from dangers to health.
A MASSACHUSETTS, woman was 50
jealous of her husbands first wife that
when he died she refused to allow him
to be buried beside her. She remarked
to the undertaken at the funeral, al
amt a-goin' to have that woman a-lean-
in on Jim's arm at the resurrection
lay if can help it, you bet"
A MAN with red face, and looking
rather shabby, called at a house one
Sunday and asked for drink of ale.
The lady of the establishment refused,
telling him that she could not accom-
modate him. He urged her, assuring
her that she had better do so, that some
persons had entertained angels una
wares. " Yes," said she, I" 1 know that !;
but ane els don't go about drinking ale
on Sundays"
By the confession of a " cheap John, -
one of the men who go about the coun-
try towns selling cheap dry-goods, it is
learned that these itinerant merchant
princes never go to town where mer-
chants advertise in their local papers
and show enterprise. But when cheap
John looks over a country paper and
does not see one advertisement of a
merchant he hires a team to take his
things to that town right away.-Boston
Courier.
A GLASGOW minister was recently
called in to see a man who was very ill.
After finishing his visit, as he was leav-
ing the house, he said to the mans wife !:
"My good woman, do you not 60 to any
church at all?'' e" Oh, yes, sir, we gang
to the Barony Kirk "Then why in
the world did you send for meP Why
didn't you send for DIR. MacleodP''
"Na, ma, deed no; we wadna risk him.
Do ye ken it's a dangerous case of ty-
phus?"
A CORRESPONDENT of the Augusta
(Ga.) Chronicle has met at the George
town University, near Washington, the
great-granddaughter of Lafayette and
daughter of the Marquis de Chambrun.
He describes the young lady, though OF
the noblest of our historical families, as
attired with simplicity that amounted
positively to plainness. She claims to
be American, and says that the Repub-
lie is far dearer to her than la belle
France.
RUSSIA has grasshoppers and locusts
in addition to her other troubles. A
Russian journal prints an account of the
experience of q detachment of troops
who were met by q swarm of the latter
near Elisabetpol, and actually forced to
retrace their steps. They settled so
thick on the soldiers faces, uniforms,
and muskets that the Major, driven to
desperation, ordered firing at them for
half an hour but this produced no effect,
and q march back was ordered. The
swarm covered an area of thirty five
square versts.
THE following are portion of the
brilliant answers given by young col
legians in recent oral examinations:
"Will you name the cheapest and most
common metalp" "Coal." "Do all
mosquitoes biteP" "No; only the fe-
males" How can you distinguish the
femalesP" "You can tell them when
they bite.' What is excusable homi-
cidep" "When a man kills himself in
self Defense" "What is a parental
heroP" "One that grows continually,
sut dies annually" evil you give
us the plural of forget-me-notP" "For-
get-us-not, sir" "Mention six animals
Of the frigid zoneP" "Three polar
| bears and three seals'
| A CORRESPONDENT of the Toronto
GLOBE has gazed into the tent of the
Princess Louise, now salmon fishing in
The wilds of Canada. "The ground"
he says, els covered thickly with fresh
spruce boughs, and on either side of the
mattress, which rests on the boughs in
the center of the tent, is strip of dark
Brussels carpet. A dainty little dresser
in the corner of the tent supports q
small handsome mirror and thu usual
variety of toilet converiences. The cot,
which, SO far as its original purpose
was concerned, the Princess discarded
on her arrival in camp, has been con-
verted into lounge, and this, with an
easy chair or two, completes the outfit
of this simple but CHEEKY little woodland
home of Her Royal Highness."
AT dance-party the other evening,
Nelly, after delightful waltz, being, of
course, very warm, her partner devoted
himself to cooling her off. Turning
around and facing him, she asked,
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