American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1863-12-09


And caedit Andrew Turner.
THE VERITABLE "BId THING. "A
pair of Government shoes was last week
made in Boston for aNorwegian, man of
gigantic proportions. The size is No. 20,
and the measure as follows heel, lG inches;
ankle, II inches; instep, II inches; toes,
| 3-4 inches He is color-sergeant in
an artillery regiment of the Army, and is
at present at Fort Hamilton, New York
Harbor
"IIIs LAST LEGS" We are told by
persons recently from Paris, that the ac-
complished and elegant young men sent
out by the Rebel Government as diners
out and to influence opinion in French So
ciety, have been leftquite without money.
Mr.. Slidell refuses to advance any more
of his own funds, and the Northerners re-
fuse to lend.
CELESTIAL PHoToGRAPus.-Doctor
Draper, of New York, celestial photo
grapher, has constructed rejecting tel
escope that magnifes the moon to 320
times its size as seen with the naked eye.
Photographs have been taken, represent
ing that body on scale of seventy miles
to the inch and showing with great dis
tinctness mountain-ranges, volcanic era
ters, and streams of lava.
A PLEASANT LITTLE AFFAIR,-The
Aissa Outra, about the maddest of the
Mohammedans, have celebrated the birth
day of their prophet at Algiers in very
oltre manner. Some burned their tongues
with red hot irons, some did the trapeze
W sword-blades, some ate scorpions, some
gouged out their own eyes with pieces of
steel, and some were even so religious as
to swallow the prickly leaves of the cac-
tus.
GA LITTLE RELISH" The Burgund-
ians like large vine-snails. They are serv-
ed, in good houses, seven or eight on ahot
little silver plate, and silver two-pronged
fork is the instrument with which they are
pulled out of the SHE'LL the entrance of
which is covered with sort of light
pastry. They feelinthe mouth something
like piece of bcefsteak The plateful
is enough for one dinner, the snails are so
big and the meat is so strong.
A ROMANTIC REALITY.-The Virgin
ia City (Nevada) Bulletin says it is abso-
lutely no figure of speech to say that the
streets of that place are paved with silver.
Thousands of tons of rock which, in other
countries, would pay well to extract the
silver from, are used to level and macada-
mize the streets. Rock that viii not pass
through the screens at the quartz-mill, is
carried on to the roads, though some oft,
in many other places, would be consider
| ed rich.
Ds1~ The following, upon Vulgar Ma
tures is admirably true and does not IN
clude line that could be well spared:
Tender-handed, stroke nettle,
| And it stings you fir your paiBs;
Grasp IL like a man Of nidtic,
And IL sof a. silk remains.
'Iisthe with Yrlfag natures;
Use them kindly, tIay REBEL
BE as rough as batlnes graters,
And the resnss obey you well
Wells luxurious TO THE EYEs.-Ia-
dies before you expend the sum-be it
seyenty-Gve cents orseventy-fye dollars
fora bit of gossqmer, with which to en-
nance your beauty by partially conceal
ing it, pause and think. Curtis, cele-
brated scientific writer on humaa sight,
objects In toto to the practice of wearing
wells, as the continuous endeavors of the
eye toadjustitselfto to the caseless vibrations
of that too uncommon article of ladies'
dress, results in its serious injury. The
hrtful tendency of the custom, if not felt
Immediately, viii sooner or later be made
apparent. Some phrsiciansgo 50 far as to
ascribe much of ta.s aear.sightedness Of
children and adul1szo the fact that their
mothers we're inthe constant habit Of wear
ing lace wells.