American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-07-12
FACTS AND FANCIES.

up Inc rear.
A STANDING nuisance-The loafers on
the street corners.
THE Waterloo Observer says the tenn
perance reformets should turn their at
tention to money; it is always tight.
WILHELM is only 81 years old.
"But," the musical Photographer Of the
| Buffalo Ernress remarks, d" he plays
like CO."
Brown" Can you break me S.
billP" Jones-"I should like to break
| e, hut unfortunately Pm broke myself. :"
BE very careful, if you regard Your
self as the guardian of your honor, that
you do not occupy the position of sim
eoura.
if every one WHO'S played the fool
| Had died and turned to clay.
| How many people would be left
| Alive and we'll to dayS
| SOME people talk hours ard say moth
ing; others there are who, by the mere
lifting of an eyebrow or the gesture of
hand, are comparatively eloquent.
A CITIZEN of Fleming, KY, fired at a
rat, struck keg of powder, blew his
house to pieces, and had to jump in the
river to keep from burning lip. The rat
remains unhurt.
LOVERS are like ostriches. They hide
their heads beneath the dim religious
light of the back parlor and fancy that
the old folks are not after them with q
sharp stick.
"No girl gets along well without a
mother" says a moral exchange. This
may be true; but hereabouts girls work
harder to get methers in law than they
do to get methers.
PLACES of difficulty prove man Is
weakness and want; but they are made
great blessings when the Lord comes
unto them to supply all that is wanting,
in the riches of his great love.
WHATEVER comes out of despair can
not bear tie title of valor, which should
be lifted up to such a height that, hold
ing all things under itself, it should be
able to maintain its greatness even In
The u,idst of miseries.
THE other day, as two friends were
talking together in the street, donkey
began to bray, and wheeze, and cough
in distressing manner. "What cold
that donkey has!' said one of the
men. "And, by the way, that puts mo
in niind-hcW Is your ccugEe"
THE Omaha Herald says that 8
woman from Lincoln, Neb., was alarm
ed the other evening on finding that q
man was following her through the
streets, and appealed to an officer for
protection. The follower was arrested,
ftt trcotfrted for his suspicious CON-
duct by showing that he had simply Beet
following the woman's track in the mud
to keep his feet dry.
T.tEsE IS floating idea in the minds
Of most of US, that great penis Ind grese
trials work a sort of charmed change
in our lives. This is seldom more than
a delnsior: The lessons eft life are for
the most part slowly leaTred. The paes
is often carelessly turned and hurriedly
passed by, on which is written much
that we should do well to study.
sHYLY he bent DER the dainty head
And Z" Won't you, won't your
He softly said.
| Begging from the sauey miss
Just for the loan of one sweet kiss:
The maiden tossed her pretty head
| And mo, I won't you, p
she saucily said.
How foolish he is" tho.ght the little miss.
He should not ask for, but steal the kiss.
An old man fell dead in Evansville,
Pa, one Sunday night recently, while
sitting In tie psrlcr where bis daughter
and her young man were sparkling. It
may be that the conduct of the young
couple sickened the old man and caused
his death, but it will do no harm, and
perhaps much good, to out this para
graph out and show it to tie old folks
who are addicted to sticking in the par
lor on Sunday evening, when their
daughters beau wants to tell her a
great many secrets and so forth.
AS sootl as the postal=ears which are
now in course of construction are i'm
ished, the Post-ofiice Department will
extend the fast-mail service in the South
| over two routes. One route will be
from Washington to Jacksonville, Fla,
by way of Charleston and Savannah,
and the other from Washington to New
Orleans, by way of Richmond, Atlanta,
Montgomery and Mobile. 1t is expect
ed that both routes will be putt opera
ton during the month of July.
A MAN living at Worth, Ga, bought
fine large Cotswold ram, and turned
the ram into a pasture with some other
sheep. Previously he had lost mum.
Der of sheep from the ravages of dogs.
One morning, few days after he had
received the ram, he saw the ram at full
tilt Lutting something on the gfound.
On approaching nearer he found dead
dog, with every bone in its body broken.
Near by was lamb, badly torn and
bleeding, which the dog had attacked.
A Bridegroom Up a Plum Tree.
A sable widow of Brunswick, Ga, is
a victim of mans infidelity. She had
allowed her affections to be entrapped
by dusky deceiver, and the time was
set for the wedding. She arrayed her.
self gotgeously on the appointed day,
and waited for the groom expectant.