American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-14
FACTS AND FANCIES.

THE Spanish Government is prepar-
ing a bill fer the abolition of slavery in
Cuba and other colonies, and will soon
submit it to the Cortes.
Two men started out on a wager to
see which could tell the biggest lie. No.
1 commenced: ga wealthy country
editor" Whereupon No. 2 stopped
him right there and paid the forfeit.
AN East Sagina W (Mich.) grocer has
ordered so short-line telephones for use
in his business. He will by this means
connect his store with the houses OF 5O
of his best customers.
EXTRACT from the note book of
distinguished person, lately deceased,
who was at once a gormand and dys-
peptic. "Heaven is the place where
people eat; hell is the place where they
digest"
A NEGRO preacher described hell as
ice-cold, where the wicked froze to all
eternity. Asked why, he said: Cause
[ don't dare tell them people muffin else.
Why, if say hell is warm, some OF them
old rheumatic niggers be wantin' start
down der de very fus' fros'.'
OH maiden fair, with eyes OF blue'
With tangled curls of amber shades
Whisper It softly, tell me true,
Of whom are you dreaming. pretty maid?
She lifted her hoof, and whistled. "Whew !!
Thar's pesky gravel got inter my Shoe"
Huntington Hasckeye.
ENGLISH and Scotch farmers COM
plain of the GOODNESS of the spring,
which has an unfaverable effect on
crops. In Scotland, particularly, the
outlook is reported to be discouraging,
while in England the chance of a fair
harvest 10 admitted to depend on a
speedy Improvement in the weather.
AT last witty woman has built a
"God bless 'em'' toast to the men.
Mrs. Dunway, at a literary reunion at
Salem, Oregon, toasted them in these
words: "God bless 'em! They halve
our joys, they double our SORROWS, they
treble our expenses, they quadruple our
cares, they excite our magnanimity,
they increase our self-respect, they
awaken our enthusiasm, they arouse
our affections, they control our prop
erty, and oht-maneuver as In every
thing"
THE scholars in Binghamton On.
Y. school having been given the dan
gerous privilege of writing about any
person in the room, one little chap was
smart enough to get hit at the teacher
in behalf of his fellows in this wise
"Miss is small woman,
about half as tall as Barnum's giant.
She jerks the boys around and thinks
she's smart, but she don't get there. -
The privilege has been rescinded.
ALLIaAToRs, though not unknown,
are not very common in the rivers OF
China, where, in many places, their ap-
pearance is held to presage some watery
disaster. One has recently been dis
covered at Chin Kiang by some laborers
employed in cleaning out small canal
When the scales of the monster were
observed above the mud in which it had
buried itself, work at once ceased. The
mandarins were at once informed of the
unwelcome presence, and came in force
to the spot, burning incense, unsuccess-
fully, to induce the visitor to depart.
KENTUCKY whisky, according to the
Louisville Courier Journal, owes its ex-
cellence to the superiority of the grain,
the quality of the limestone water, and
the slow process of distillation. Bour-
bon generally contains 20 per cent.
corn, Is rye, and 10 malt, while rye
whisky is made of rye and malt. The
ingredients are stirred into mash in a
huge tub, and then put into fermenting
vessels. Yeast is used to hasten fer
mentation, except for sour-mash whisky.
The process is not much unlike beer
making. The liquid is next distilled
twice, and becomes whisky in about q
week from the start.
THE eruptions of Mount Etna, though
less frequent than those of Vesuvius,
are far more violent. Its great size
the height of the cone being nearly H.
900 feet, and its circumference 81 miles
renders the overflow of its lava very
formidable affair. During one of the
earlier eruptions the lava, when check
ed by the walls of Catania, so feet in
height, accumulated till it actually over
flowed them and devastated the entire
town. On this occasion a peasant, cut
off by stream of lava that encircled the
rock on which he stood, escaped by
leaping upon a bowlder that had fallen
into the burning stream and thence
springing on to the other bank, with no
other injury than the loss of the whole
skin of his face by the intense heat.
The earliest recorded eruption of Etna
is one mentioned by Diodorus Siculuz,
as coeval with the Trojan war. The
next are three cruptions referred to by
Thucydides, 1926 and 475 B. c., and one
at an earlier time not specified. These,
added to the later recorded eruptions to
the present time, make 20 in all. The
most important are those of 1859, 1869,
1855, 1887, 1892, 1852 and 1868.
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