American citizen., 1879-04-19
FACTS AND FANCIES.

in the army.
No one is more profoundly sad than
he who is oblighed to laugh.
ABSENCE is the greatest of evils when
it isn't the best of remedies.
WHEN fortune caresses a man too
much she is apt to make fool of him.
TEXAS contains 10000 more acres of
land than the entire German empire.
AN application of cold, wet common
whiting placed on Immediately is an
invaluable remedy for burn.
A LITTLE cheese taken at meals helps
other food to digest. Cheese taken in
large quantities is very indigestible.
For roughness of the skin: Mix two
parts of brandy with one part of rose
water and wash the face night and
morning.
THE man of "big words'' may not
have realized that the simple prayer of
Now Lay Me Down to Sleep" has
opened the gates of Heaven to millions
of children.
A NEW HAMPsHIRE manufacturer is
sending machinery to Apopka, Florida,
to test the starch-making qualities OF the
root of the cassava.
THE frontier of Texas has advanced
100 miles in the last two years, and an
area of 4O,0 200, 900 acres of land has been
reclaimed from the wilderness.
To soften the hair: Beat the yelk of
one egg in pint of warm rain water;
rub the scalp and hair well with this;
then rinse the hair thoroughly and dry
it with towel. Use very little oil If
the hair becomes too dry.
TENDERNESS is the genius Of simple
minds. If passion knows no obstacles,
tenderness knows no bounds. Passion
is the attribute of a soul which no Ion
ger controls itself; tenderness that of
heart which no longer belongs to itself.
THINGS are great or small according
to the end of the microscope through
which you look. Some people manage
to look at their troubles through the
upper end, and so incontinently magni-
fy them, and at their good fortune
through the lower end, and SO minimize
them.
DIME novels realize millions to their
publishers. Herbert Spencer lately testi-
fed before parliamentary commission
that he lost $4,000 in Is years on his
works, though during all that time he
lived in the most economical way. It
took him "a years to get even again.
His books have a larger sale in America
than in Great Britain. Ten years ago
he began to publish his Descriptive
Sociology" On this, perhaps his great
est work, he has thus far spent SIS, 900,
and got back $4,000.
BISMARCK, according to DR.. Busch's
book, did not share the general venera-
ton for William Tell. I" From my boy
hood" said he, "I never could bear
him-frst, because he shot at his son,
and then because he murdered Gessler
in such a cowardly fashion. 1t would
have been more natural, as well as no.
bier, had he, instead of shooting at his
son-whom the best marksman might
have hit in place of the apple-shot
Gessler dead at once. That wo6id have
been Just wrath for such cruel demand.
1 do not like the hiding and lying in
wait; it does not become heroes-no,
not even franctireurs."
THE great tobacco factory at Seville,
| Spain, where cigars, cigarettes and
snuff are made, is Government estab-
lishment. It is two story and attrac-
tive looking building. The top floor is
devoted to the manufacture Of cigars,
| and 5000 women are found at work
there daily, while at the tables on the
lower floor, where cigarettes only are
made, there are $500 more women.
mostly gypsies. There is room where
the youngest or feeble babies of the
women are taken care of during the
working hours, although the majority
have their children close by them, either
in cradles, lying on mattresses, or strap
ped in chairs. The most noticeable
feature of these women is their hair,
which is most elaborately dressed, and,
excepting the very old ones, decorated
with red or white flowers.
| MR.. WALT WHITMAN is quoted by
the Progress as describing the pic
turesque appearance on Pennsylvania
Avenue, long time ago, of Francis
Preston Blair and his wife. Some
friend had given them couple of long
wooden stats; and finding these wands
serviceable the venerable pair used them
in their walks. Their steps were slow,
their costume was of ancient, by-gone
style; Mr.. Blair wore broad brim
Quaker hat. As they plodded along,
the moderate-sized, bent form of Mr..
Blair, in his snuff-colored suit-Mrs.
Blair's erect and tall form, gown with
out hoops, and pleasant face-assisting
their steps with those long, quite con-
spicuous, unvarished, yellow staffs-
they made a picture, Mr.. Whitman
SAYS, which remains distinctly in his
recollection to this hour.
EXPERIMENTS in London have not re
suited favorably for the electric light
The Holborn viaduct was lighted in thi.
way with 16 Jablochkoff candles. These
were burned for seven hours every nigh
from December ii to March Q. The to
tai cost for Ga nights rs reported by th'
engineer of the commission charged
with the lighting of the city was some
thing over f7S5. At the same rate tn
lighting by electricity for the year woul'