American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-07-26
FACTS AND FANCIES.

A HOPELESS person is one who de.
serts himself
HE who blackens others does not
whiten himself.
IGNORANCE has no light; error fol.
lows false one.
A FINE coat may cover fool, but
never conceals one.
THERE is no grief like the grief which
does net speak.
GENIUS is sometimes arrogant /;
knowledge is always diffident.
WE are never so proud and 40 hum.
BILE as when we are praised.
Go to the dishonest grocer, consider
his weighs, and be wise enough to avoid
him.
CUTTING the hair short to make the
head cool is tonsorial delusion. The
coolest ground in summer is found I'm
der the tall grass, and not on the crop
ped lawn.
A FRENCH newspaper, the other day,
had the following heading in its police
intelligence: "Suicide of two persons
statement of the one that survived"
"How do you like my new hatp''
said Augustus to his fiancee. "Oh,
that's nobby !" exclaimed she. And now
Augustus wants to know where that
aposttophe belongs, and what she really
meant.
The mind is nourished at cheap
rate. Neither cold nor heat nor age it
self can interrupt this exercise. Give,
therefore, all you can to possession
which ameliorates even in Its cid age.
Nd one biames a business man for
wanting his sign to convey big idea of
his business, but Michigan blacksmith,
in hamlet Of 400 people, rather over
does the thing when His sign reads {:
" Foreign and domestic horses shod
here"
NOTHING sets so wide q mark s'be-
tween the vulgar and noble seed" as the
respect and reverential love of woman
kind. A man who is always sneering at
a woman is generally q coarse profigate,
or a coarse bigot, no matter which.
"tooK at that little creature!" the
friend said. "By Jove, that's the small
est man ever saw in my ife!" ''Real-
ly!" his companion carelessly rejoined.
"Yes, really and truly, too" "Do you
mean to say you have ever seen q small
lerP" said the friend, and he soon had
his answer. "My dear friend, know
3 man so small that if he has q pain he
can't tell whether he has . sore throat
or q stomach-ache."
THE young woman who desires to
have herself published in the newspa-
pers as fascinating, beautiful and ac-
will please pack up her
clothes in q dirty towel. crawl out of the
ng night, and elope with the man who
,urries and feeds her dads horses. It's
\ big price to pay for compliments, but
It will bring them just as certain as
iirty rain-water barrel will beget mos
4uitoes in July.
COOP manners have this advantage
over good morals-that they lie more on
he surface; and there is nothing inclines
Is to think so highly Of the understand
ngs or dispositions of others as thor
ough absence of all impertinence. They
,an not be the worst in the world who
habitually pay the most attention to the
feelings of others, nor those the best who
arc endeavoring every moment to hurt
Them.
TIME, with all its celebrity, moves
slowly to him whose whole employment
is to watch its fight. am forced upon
q thousand shifts to enable me to endur'
the tediousness of the day. When
have heard any thing that may CRAFTY
curiosity, am busted for while in
to relate it. I form many
of employment which may ex-
empt me from the ignominy of living by
sufferance. Twenty years have passed
since have resolved q complete amend
ment, and twenty years have been lost
in delays.-Johnson.
WHATEVER you do, never set up for
q critic. We do not mean a newspaper
critic, but one in private life, in the do
nestle circle, in society. 1t will not
do any one good, and it will do you very
great harm, nyou mind being called
If you do not like any
ones nose, or object to any ones chin,
do not put your feelings into words. If
any ones manners do not please you,
remember your own. People are not
all made to suit one taste recollect that.
Take things as you find them, unless
you can alter them. Even q dinner, af-
ter it is swallowed, can not be made any
better Continual fault finding, con-
tinual criticisms of the conduct of this
one, and the speech of that one, the
dress of one, and the opinions Of anoth-
Or, will make home the unhappiest
place under the sun. If you are never
pleased with any one, no one will be
pleased with you, and, if it is known
you are hard to suit, few will take the
pains to suit you.
A MISSION school in Philadelphia has
n its basement a large bathing and
department. There are four
,reat tubs, in which the dirty little chill
lren are free to cleanse themselves and
o take aquatic exercise under prescribed
Each tub accommodates
nearly two dozen children at time
The surrounding floors and walls are of
,rick and concrete, so that no restriction