American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-05-10
FACTS AND FANCIES.

FACTS AND FANCIES.
HURRY is the mark of a weak mind /,
dispatch of a strong one.
ABSENCE destroys trifing intimacies,
but 1t invigorates strong ones.
An exchange contains the marriage
notice of Mr.. and Miss Carr. We no.
tice it merely as an instance of Carr
coupling by a clergyman, which is
something unusual.
"YoU make me think" John Will
liam said, dropping upon the sofa beside
the prettiest girl on North Hill, last
Sunday evening, "of a bank whereon
the wild thyme grows" "Do n" she
murmured. ''It is SO nice, but that is
pas step in the hall and unless you can
drop out of the front window before l
get through speaking, you'll have lit
tie wild time with him, my own, for he
loves you not" But John William didn't
quite make 1t and now you can make
him grow wild time and time again by
simply asking him what makes him go
lame when he walks. He knows but he
want tell.-HaDkeye.
INGENIOUS is the American rogue. A
poultry speculator in Warren County,
Pa, buys chickens in the country and
writes out receipt for the farmer to
sign. The point of his pencil invaria-
bly, breaks off just before the signature
is reached, and he produces fountain
pen from his pocket. The body of the
receipt is written in pencil and the
farmers name in ink. When the spec
ulator goes to town he grasses all the
pencil-marks and writes out in ink a
promissory note for 800 or $3.50 and
has it discounted by bank.
MEN invariably put the same leg first
into their trousers-this is the survival
of memory in a residuum; but they can
not, till they actually put on pair Of
trousers, remember which leg they do
put in first; this is the rapid fading
away of any small individual impress
sion. 1t is on the same principle that
every act of growth of cells and organs
is said to be unconsciously remember
ed, when the same or analogous condi-
lions recalls it to the dormant memory.
Mature.
A COMMITTEE was appointed by the
Philadelphia Medical Society to consid-
er and report upon the best method OF
coping with the evil of intemperance.
As usual the committee reports in favor
of more legislation, and recommends
the passage of State law in Pennsyl-
vania, by which it shall be made posi-
BILE to place habitual drunkards in in
ebriate asylums under regulations SIM
liar to those by which the insane are
placed in asylums. 1t is claimed that
thus far "a per cent. of those admitted
to inebriate asylums have been cured,
and 40 per cent. benefited.
THE King of the Sandwich Islands
writes to Mr.. Armstrong, who has been
publishing in this country series of ar
ticles about Hawaii: "While the white
folks openly show their dislike of the
colored races, the colored races conceal
their dislike, but exhibit it in another
form; and should you continue the arti-
cles you should add that the Kanakas
(native Hawaiians) show their dislike
and prejudice in another form. As, for
instance, they call the white folks
haose, which being interpreted means
white pig or q white hog. So when
Capt. Cook first landed here, being
white, he was Immediately set down as
belonging to the grunting species. This
may be irreverent to the white folks and
to those who keep up the prejudice of
color, but they are facts with the Kan
akas; and when the passions are little
aroused in dispute with the whites here
they very frequently make the remark:
Ka! Kahi haole pupuka inc ugh!
what an ugly white pig. Speaking of
prejudice against color, although we
are very dark as q race, we have the
same repugnance to the negro race that
the whites have, and attribute it more
to the difference in species than to any
thing else. Aloha nui loa (the great
est affection to you). KALAKAUA."
THE GRADUATING ESSAY.
seminary graduate
Was Miss Samantha Brown
The wfsest, wittiest, prettiest girl
In all our lovely town.
Her graduation essay was
"The finest ever read
In East or West, or North or South,
Or anywhere" It's said.
Her dress was white pekay en- train
And built with fairy skill
Twas tucked and pleated, gored and trimmed
With many founce and frill;
The overdress was baby blue
Enwrought with laces fine
Oh. all the women folks declared
The essay was divtne
The basque was cut en- Persfenne style
With pipings all of silk.
The corsage was entwined with strings
OF velvet pale as milk;
The waist was cut decolLete
And showed a comedy form
That essay wrought the men folks up
And took them all by storm.
Samantha's father paid a mint
OF gold for that pekay-
He paid it, too, without a groan
And busted up next day.
Long life we say to that pekay
And to Samantha Brown
The essay is forgot, we wot
By all within our town.
st. Louis Times Journal
The South American Belliger-
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