American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-05-24
FACTS AND FANCIES,
THE woman who rejects an offer of
marriage practices slight of hand.

THE woman who rejects an offer of
marriage practices slight of hand.
A WEALTHY Philadelphia spent ST.
400 in collecting rare china cups. They
have just been sold at auction for $3.50.
A MULES head does not contain a
brain capable of culture and refined
rearing, but it is wonderful to what an
extent the other end of his form can be
reared.
Mrs. GEORGE KING of North Brook
field, Mass, is carrying on an immense
corset manufacturing business. She
employs between 200 and 800 girls in
| the work.
A Mrs. BRUFF, of Oakland, Cal, has
asked for legal separation because, as
her petition states, Mr.. B. leaves her
"to run around with the McCracken
boys and do things she afterwards re-
grets."
MISS MoEGLER of Chicago has won a
position as assistant physician in the
County Insane Asylum, by her success
in competitive examination. This is
the first case in which a woman has OBJ
tanned hospitable position where both
sexes have entered into competition.
A PIckPocKEr taken with his hand 10
some one else's pocket endeavored to
invent all manner of impossible explana-
tions of the phenomenon. What's the
use of your trying to lie about it so
clumsily?" said the Magistrate, benevo-
lently; "haven't you lawyerP'
A DOCTOR well skilled in the medical art,
| 'Mong others, for Europe resolved to depart
And leave his domestic concerns.
| "But what will become of the patients the
| whiles"
"Oh, fear not" a neighbor replied, with a
smile;
| "They will live till the oc.or returns"
THE female drummer is abroad, and
is said 10 be q om5ination more ter
rifle than the lightning-rod man, the
white wire clothes-line agent and the
sewing machine salesman. A Tennes-
see cotton firm, comprised of women,
has sent out one of its partners, who is
said to sell twice IS much as any man
on the road.
A SAN FRANCISCO woman married q
coachman, believing him to be Mexi-
can nobleman. They parted after an
unpleasant honeymoon of week.
"Had known that would only get
morning breezes for breakfast, trade
winds for dinner, and fog for supper"
she wrote, " would have told you that
my constitution couldn't stand it,
THE chemistry class of Milwaukee
College gave a recent entertainment, in
which the tendency of education toward
the practical received a striking Illus
tration. The refreshments consisted
largely of bread in various shapes and
modes of preparation, made wholly by
the young ladies of the class. The
young students are on the way to make
well-bred wives.
GENTLEMAN, being threatened with
an infectious fever, said to his little son.
who in an afIecti onate mood wished to
embrace him, I" You mustn't hug me ;
you'll catch the fever" Willie, stand
ing back, looked in amazement upon his
papa, who, by the way, is pattern o.
propriety, and quickly asked, Why
papa, who did you hugP'
MRS MARY b. TREAT is an American
botanist, who, in the study of carnivor-
GUS plants, takes rank with such men as
Darwin and Bennett, in England, and
Ziegler, in France. Her discoveries
among insect-eating plants are of the
greatest interest. She found that the
leaf of such growths undoubtedly has
power to distinguish between animal
and mineral substances. If she placed a
little insect or piece of meat upon such
leaf, fluid exuded from its surface
and held the foreign body fast. Then
the leaf itself began slowly to roll up,
closing completely in several hours.
Next a process very like digestion takes
place upon the body of the inclosed bug.
II she put bits of lime, or sand, or
grains of corn upon the leaf, no effect
was perceptible. Is not the line be-
tween reasoning and nonreasoning life
becoming very hard to draw?
A GOLDEN girdle, presented by Ma
poleon L. to the Empress Marie Louise,
is in a London auction room It is
formed of two narrow bands of open
work, set with pearls in the form of the
Greek honeysuckle at the edges, and
joining at the center with large an
tique onyx cameo of Apollo and a muse
from which hangs long pendant. in
creasing in width down to the lowest
edge, where it is ornamented with five
imperial crowns, each having tassel
of loose pearls. The pendant, being
flexible, is made of broad open-work
links of two patterns. repeated alternate
ly, and gradually larger and larger
from the waist downward. The one of
these is sort of true lovers knot, in.
closing a wreath, with star of gold );
the other q wreath with the Napoleon
Bee. The edges are ornamented
throughout with honeysucke ornament
in peals set a jour, giving the utmost Ell.
egance and finish.
A True Tale of Horror.