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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16
German Prejudice Against Potatoes.

In Germany there exists decided pre-
judice against potatoes, because they are
composed of three-fourths water, with but
ten to fifteen per cent. starch contained in
indigestible cells. The French, who make
a perfect science of the whole business of
-nourishment and cookery, rarely eat po-
tatoes except occasionally fried for the
second breakfast. They consume beans
more than any other vegetables and with
reason. for dried beans contain twenty
two per cent. albumen and fifty of starch,
and the common lentils twenty-six per
cent. of albumen and fifty-six of starch.
In the mOnasteries of France and Italy
great quantities of beans are used especi-
ally during the Lenten season. German
naturalists are now searching all over the
world for substitute for potatoes, and
this is believed to have been found in
China in the dioscorea japonica, which en-
dures the greatest cold and is more nour-
ishing and better favored than the potato.
In the Museum of Natural History at
Paris a specimen three feet long and
weighing three pounds was exhibited.
Several German writers upon races pre-
dict that nations, far from improving,
will deteriorate both in physical and mem
tai characteristics, if potatoes become a
principal article of diet. The celebrated
Carl Voigt says ''that the unnourishing
potato does not restore the wasted tissues
tut makes our prOletariats physically and
mentally weak" The Holland physiolo-
gist, Mulder, gives the same judgment,
when he declares ''that the excessive use
of potatoes among the poorer classes, and
coffee and tea by the higher ranks, is the
cause of the Incidence OF nations.n Leid-
enfrost maintains that the revolutions of
the last three centuries have been caused
by the changed nourishment. In former
days, the lowest workmen ate more flesh
than now, when the cheap potato forms
his principal subsistence, but gives to him
no muscular or nervous strength.-No-
renabeT GdLaru
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16

sllently-nO sparks from the chimney, no
| ripple from the bow, which is two feet be
low the surface, the water rolling over 1t
up to the chimney almost without break
ing, so smoothly, so noisclessly this little
monster sweeps along.
But where is the IrOnsides? whist
lOOk!'' the pilot says in Il whisper. The
huge hulk looms up suddenly, so near
that a voice from the boat would reach
the QuartermaSter of the watch. Now Is
the time to hail and fire. Sixty yards for
buckshot-in sixty seconds the torpedo
strikes. The ships deck is as silent as
death: is it possible the assailant is not
seen? ''Ship ahoy?" shouts the gallant
Glassells. ssWhere away?" is demanded
in return. 'sWe have come to attack you'll
is the answer. and bang goes the buckshot
slap among the lOOkoutS and the rigging.
Now for the torpedo.
In an instant the engine was checked
and the lOdgment effected. With gurg-
ling roar, like the discharge of a sub
mounted up far above the gilnwales of
the ship, heaving up the bows of the boat
and pouring back in torrents that entereS
the chimney and put out the fire. FcL d
moment all was confusion aboart uIe
ship, but the discipline of mss-19i r,,sa1
is equal to all emergencies. 1he uru.as
beat to quarters, the guns we're I,f fire
upon the now helpless 5oat floating at the
viii of tbe omen 500 Glassells, to escape
death by shot, leeped into the sea followed
by the pilot. while the fireman remained
Nv the fnrrace to sink or swim with the
boat ne tide drifted her off. Glassells
called or help, and the fire of the marines
GENEROUSLY ceased at the cry. The pilot
swam back to the boat, which had now
drifted out of sight of the ship, and he
and the firemen bailed out the water, re-
kindled the fire and returned in safety to
the city. Glassells was rescued by the
ships boat, and treated as daring and
gallant man should be treated.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16
Poison Ivy.

AS gathering leaves is now quite the
rage, we wish to say for the benefit of the
fair cleaners who may not know the poi
son ivy, to beware Of its attractive habit,
and scan carefully the three-leaved climb
ers covering the fences, trees, and walls,
where they grow with a blaze of beauty.
The leaves may be distinguished by their
growing in threes, by being shining on
both surfaces, their broad, ovate shape,
and sharply acuminate points.
The vegetable poison in this plant af-
fects different constitutions differently.
Some can handle it. and even pull it up by
the roots with impunity, while Others are
poisoned merely by the wind blown from
it while it is being disturbed. But so
many are dreadfully poisoned by it every
year, that word OF caution may not be
untimely.
The remedies recommended by the bot
anist, DIR. Bigelow, are acetate of copper
and corrosive sublimate, but a physician
should be consulted on their use.
With the above, there is equal danger
from the poison sumach, or poison dog
wool, as it is sometimes called, both be
longing to the same genus of plants. This
has leaves scarcely equaled in the autumn
for their crimson brilliancy. They close
ly resemble the leaves of the common SUI
mach, both ofwhich are common in many
localities. The poison species may GER
fanny De UlSIlngulSneO Dy itS HSHt, ASH
gray stems, the harmless kind presenting
an iron brown.
The former is confined mostly to moist,
swampy locations, while the latter is a
habitant of dry situations. If the fruit OF
the latter is to be seen, it may be at once
distinguished by its being in velvety,
crimson heads, from six to twelve inches
long. The flowers of the poison kind are
in loose panicles, and the fruit is as large
as peas.
These beautiful autumnal days, with
their overlooking wealth of brilliant col
Oring and delicate penciling, are quite
enough to attract one to the hedges and
woods, and only little careful observa-
ton in selecting the leafy treasures is re-
quired to do it with safety.-P'oridemce
Journal
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16

c! Mhohr a III s Wv; rays sailing from Sid
~ s,,ntrai;. lie the islands of New
me,a,';a nn the largest of the group,
D DaieuSa tbe penal colony of the Com
I,a,.;;u' is established. Ten thousand
tnunni cxiles are here to be put under sur
,,,octiance, and guarded by a regiment of
french soldiers. The island, which is
now destined to have a show in history,
is about two hundred miles long, and av-
erages thirty miles wide. Nature has for
titled it against attack, for it is so nearly
surrounded by coral reefs, Jagged rocks
and treacherOus sand banks, that only
two extremely tOrtuOus channels can be
found to the shore. One of these is the
one through which Captain Cook sailed
when he discovered the island in IVA, and
the other was not found till 1919. AT
10000 natives on the island, but during
time, the number must be greatly re-
duced. Twenty years ago, the natives
ate the captain of the ship Mary, which
visited the island, but it is said that the
French missionaries have done much since
then to civiliZe them. The island is re-
puted to be a paradise, where ''only man
is vile." All the tropical fruits grow
there to perfection, and the forests abound
i'm rare and beautiful woods. Fish and
game are plenty, and most of the useful
metals are found in abundance. Gold is
known to exist among the mountains, and
there are reports that precious stones
have been found. Altogether it seems a
most promising place for men to try an
experiment in reforming society, and
shaping model community.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16
"The Ruling Passion"

NEVER was the truth of the old adage,
"The ruling passion strong in death, :"
better exemplified than in the case of my
friend Jack Temple. He inherited from
his father an inOrdinate love of liquor,
and often induls ed in it to an unbounded
degree and to the great detriment of his
naturally strong constitution.
Hearing that he was i'll at-Hospital,
I went down to see him. When l drew
near his cot he lay with his eyes closed
and apparently asleep; but when | called
his name softly he looked up, recognized
me instantly, tried to smile and said,
g Dick, Pm going to die"
"Oh no. said l, "yOu are not Going to
die. Typhoid pneumonia is a very dam
gerous dis ase, it is true, but it won't car
ry yoa off, depend upon it."
He looked intently at me, and replied,
6 tell you, Dick, I'm going to die; 1
know it,"
People with your disease" said I,
"are always respondent, and always talk
as you do. Come cheer up, and tell me
what can do for yOu.''
For some time lie made 10 answer. At
last he said very slowly and firmly, 1--we
been very dissipated man, but I'm not
afraid to die. There is but one thing on
earth, Dick, that you can do for me-
"And what is that!' Inquired eagerly.
for his earnest manner had impressed me,
i'm spite of myself, with the conviction
that he soculd die. 'What is it, Jack I?
Get minister?''
Minister? No. Get me a drink of
whisky-common whisky, mind you,
Dick. Good whisky don't do me any
good; want common whisky. Will you
get it for mey'
" Certainly, if the rules of the hospital
allow it,
- Rules or no rules, I must have it.
Com on whisky, remember, Dick-and
get it quickly"
got it. Two days afterward he was
dead.-November LiPpiacott.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16

The SKEPTICAL CoNvINCED.-Every adj
vance in Medicine, every new remedy has
encountered an opposition, which is the
test of truth. Galen and Jenner only
were believed when they had proved their
discoveries against opposition. But men
are observing, and benefits always make
believers. No incredulity can stand the 81
lent argument of good results. When DR..
Walker proclaimed that he had produced
from the medicinal herbs of California
an Elixir that would regenerate the sink
ing system and cure diseases not organic,
the incredulous shook their heads. Yet
his VINEGAR BITTERs is now the Standard
Restorative of the Western World. The
truth could not be resisted. Under the
operati n of the new remedy, Dyspeptics
regained their health, appetite and
strength; the Bilious and COnstipated
were relieved of every distressing symp-
tom; the COnsumptive and Rheumatic
rapidly recovered; Intermittent and Re
mittent Fevers were broken up; the
faint of Scrofula was eradicated! Who
could gainsay facts like these? Not
even the Faculty. Skepticism was rOut-
ed. All doubts as to the claims of the
Bitters to the first place in the first rank
this wonderful preparation is to-day the
most popular Tonic, Alternative. and Blood
Depurent ever advertised in America.
In common with other journalists, we are
free to add our testimony to this remedy.
1t is domestic medicine, and no house
hold should be without it.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16

The heavy msts and cold night dews which char
acterize the present very trying to deli
cate organizations, and in low-lying and swampy
mittent fevers of varOAs types and degrees of In
tensty. At this very time there are probably half
a million of people In the United States suffering
from periodical feyers by miasmatic fogs and ex-
hala lions. What makes the prevalence of this
evil the deplorable is the fact that it might in
all cases be easily prevented. Malaria and damp
produce little effect upon the system pre-for-
titled by course Of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.
Every fall and spring hundreds OF letters are re-
ceved from persons residing in fever and ague dis
trlcts who that while their neighbors are In
capacitated for labor by that facilitating disease
they have been happily exempted from attack by
the regular of the great vegetable antidote to
mia sma. As a chlologoplc specific for intermit-
and remittent fevers the Btters may justly be
accounted infallible. They eradicate the COM
plants in their most obstinate forms but the wiser
is to rorestaI attack by taking the prepara
ton preventive. The amount of productive
labor withdrawn from active service during scvc-
raj months In the year by malarious maladies is
imme nse, and the pecuniary loss to individuals,
families and the nation from this is incalcu
liable. Bear In mind that by toning and rcgula ting
the system with Hostetter's Bittcrs before the
also be remembered that Indigestion, general de-
biIity, biliousncss, constipation, nervous com
plaiuts and indeed almost all dis turbances and de-
rangemcnts Of the physic sy stem controllablc
by this genial restorative.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16
Work and Play.
MEN differ in their opinions as to what is

MEN differ in their opinions as to what is
work and what play. He who through
the long summer day swings sledge,
pushes plane, or follows pillow, natu-
rally enough imagines that having nothing
to do is blissful condition of affairs, and
that play is state Of rest or idleness on
the other hand, an able-bOdied man, pos
sessed of an active brain. finds doing
nothing the hardest kind of work.
In these later years. no small amount of
attention is paid to muscle. Brain feels
the need OF Drawn. Vigorous physical
exercise, even though it be for the time
fatiguing, is not necessarily an uHpleas-
ant excitement, and the reward it brings,
in red blood, digestion, and sleep, is well
worth having. A great deal of our play
is work of the toughest kind. This is
true of rowing, swimming, ball playing,
and hundred other delightful exercises.
He who follows a trout stream all day
may call the sport by whatever name he
chooses, but it is work nevertheless.
OF all work, brain labor is the most fa-
tiguing. One can drop the implements of
his trade, and the days work is ended {;
but the cares of the office and the business
peace of the dinner hour, and brighten
away sleep, or at least haunt ones
dreams.
Work is agreeable and enjoyable very
much in proportion as the object sought
is desirable and attainable. 1t is not very
much to be wondered at that men work
with increasing earnestness as they
achieve notable success in life, for man is
SO constituted that he loves power, and
money gives him this. The more money,
the more power.
Habits of economy are very important
i'm the relation they bear to the happiness
OF the individual. He who gains and
holds has an encouragement to go on gain
ing, whereas If ones gains slip through
his fingers, SO that he finds himself as
poor at the en1 of the year as when he
began, he naturally grows discouraged,
and work becomes irksOmc.
The love of money may be, and without
a question is, the root of much evil. but it
is also the germ of much good. Where
ever it exists, there are cities, commerce,
manufactures, agriculture. education, art;
ard where it does not exist, there is bar
barism. The right thing for every man
to do is to try to get on in life. Cnnsid-
freddy itself, a cottage and anarrow lot Of
land is small thing to have in possession.
But the man who earns Il home by days
work. finds toll swceteneI by the prospect
of possession, and coming TO it at length.
even though it be humble, he is prepared
to 20 on and accomplish better things in
the future.-American Builder,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16
The First Autumnal Cyclone.

The first approach to a serious cyclone
ON our Southern seabOard this fall has just
occurred. 1t is rare that the first Autumn
nal month fairly sets in before We hear OF
violent tropic gales emerging from the
West Indian waters, and curving across
of Georgia and the Carolinas, playing
havoc with the shipping. This year our
severest eQuinOctial tempests have been on
the lakes. But on Tuesday last, although
the weather reports from the Cuff were
deficient through Geographic failure, the
published morning forecasts indicated
g flower barOmeters" and the setting in of
cloudy and rainy weather; and at 4:35 P.
NJ. of the same day ''Old Probabilities"
foreboded threatening indications and the
usual storm winds from the northeast.
These Tuesday predictions and the later
night probabilities of g brisk Winds Tor
from twenty to twenty-nine miles an hOur)
and threatening weather on the South At
lantic coast were fully verified on the fol-
lowing Wednesday afternoon, when at Sa-
vannah, and subsequently, at Charleston.
of twenty-eight miles an hour when, on
Wednesday evening and night, as the
storm moved northward along the Vir-
ginia capes, instead of finding hundreds
of small ships and cOasting vessels as prey
for its menacing waves. it found the ports
all fOrewarned, and the shipping sheltered
and waiting its passage before resuming
their course.
The first instalment of the Autumnal
storms on the Southern coast comes from
the tropics, and, apparently, is to be re-
garded as part of a grander storm moving
parallel with our coast on the axial bands
of the Gulf Stream. II SO, vessels leaving
Northern ports this week, unless they
keep sharp eye upon it, may become in
volved in its dangerous cyclonic winds
and encounter its high cross seas. 1t is
worthy of careful study that this gale has
been, as othres of its kind before, pre-
ceded by aerial waves of high barometric
range on the Atlantic Coast, which prOba-
bly, evince a connection between the infu-
sion of masses of cool air into the satura-
ted and superheated air of the Tropical
Sea and the generation of tropical cy-
clones. While the Signal Bureau gives
timely warning of these meteors, it will
have opportunity never before known of
unraveling their mysterious origin. 1t
would be OF incalculable advantage to have
Geographic cables now to connect us with
the windward West Indies, SO that intelli-
gence of approaching storms might be
had a week in advance, and our meteOrOl-
ogists at Washington not left to the preca-
riOus reports of a single day. which often,
as in the present instance, prove wholly
uncertain of Geographic Transmission
~ Y. Herald, Oct, rs.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16
The IS Pact of Bordeaux

THE pact of Bordeaux or truce be-
tween the Radicals and Conservatives in
France, seems to have come to an end.
The Conservative story is that nj. Gam
beta, who has never displayed any talents
except those of a stump-orator, after sup
porting NJ. Theirs for many months in
the Assembly, has, to use the phrase of
our own politicians, "gone back" on him,
by denouncing the Assembly and all its
belongings very fiercely in a speech at
Grenoble, which he has been repeating in
substance at several other places. He has
been very silent ever since January, and
was gradually acquiring in the eyes OF his
audiences the reputation OF shrewd,
moderate man, who, as long as the Re-
and even help to heal old discOrds. But
the role of silent Moderate has become
insuppOrtable to him, SO he has come out
as savagely against the Conservatives, and
in fact all that portion of the French peO-
pie who do not agree with him, as in the
days when M. Theirs called him 6 fou
furieux." AS measure of Cancellation,
Theirs had left the mayors appointed by
Gambetta in office; but since the GrenO-
BILE speech it is said he has determined to
remove them all, particularly as they
have been giving Gambetta enthusiastic
receptions" on his travels. In the mean
time, the speech is exciting an amount of
alarm and rage among the Conservatives
which seems extraordinary to us who are
not accustomed, as the French are. to see
blatherskite harangues followed by fight
ing. To read some of the articles in the
French papers one would imagine Gam
BETA was already in arms against Sc soci-
ety." NJ. de MaZade has written an arti-
Gle in the last Revue des Deur Mo,sdes on
the eX-Dictator's IS strategy" when he
was down on the Loire during the war,
based on the information furnished by the
various French and German reports pub
lished since the peace, which is both mel
ancholy and instructive. NJ. de Mazade
describes the antics which the orator was
going through in his new role of Min
lister of War;" when Prince Frederic
Charles came down on him and crushed
him like an egg-shell.-N. Y. Nation.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16

John G. Barnwell. q writer in Lippis-
COTS Magazine for November, in an arti-
Gle upon torpedoes, thus describes an at
tack made upon the United States IRON
clad Ironsfdes In Charleston harbor, dur
ing the late civil war:
The first attempt in the way of attack
with a torpedo was made with what was
called s'cigar-boat," though spindle
would have been q more appropriate
name, as both ends were sharp. These
boats were thirty feet long and six feet
I'm diameter, painted lead color. They
were driven by . six horse engine geared
to propeliing shaft. At the forward
30 geared as to be lowered to the required
depth, and at the end of this the torpedo
ehell was secured. When afioat, about
Afbeen feet only of the boats length was
some fourteen inches above water. The
rate ofmotion possible to be attained was
six knots an hour. A hard coal was
used as fuel, giving little or no smoke.
1t was in such craft as this, of about
seven or eight tons burden, that the gal
LIANT Lieutenant Glassells of Virginia, for
merly an officer of the United States ma
Wy, volunteered to approach and lodge a
torpedo under the bends of the huge and
potent Ironsides, of between three and
every wsy the most powerful vessel ever
h0ated up to that date-irOn plated from
the top Of her bulwarks to four or five
feet beow her water-line, and forward
and aft her ports, and her guns were elev-
en-inchers, and capable of delivering the
heaviest broadside fire ever poured from a
ships decks. The fire of all the monitors
combined was child's play to the wicked
and destructive blaze that issued from
her ports.
1t was to attack ard destroy such a chip
as this that 0lassells, accompanied by a
pilot and q fireman, left the wharves of
Charleston on board the cigar-boat above
described, equipped with one torpedo and
one dOuble-barreled fOwling-piece. Truly,
the charge upon the windmills by the gal
liant Don is the only parallel instance re-
corded In history or fiction. 1t was on
as black as need be, one mass of clouds
covering the canopy of stars from the ze-
NTH to the surrounding horizon. The
calmness was equally intense, not a rip
pie being perceptiblc on the waters.
A brother-ofIfcer advised the lieutenant
to leave the gun: "What do you want
with such thing in the fight you are now
going intoY'
ssWhy, you know | have served in the
United States navy. and shall not attack
my old comrades like an assassin. L shall
hail and fire into them with this, then let
the torpedo do its work like an open and
declared foe.'
Away they go. It is so black there is
nothing visible but n low lantern on the
rear OF Fort Sumter's left demi-bastiOn,
two and half miles off. There are two
hours of ebb-tide yet, and the attack is to
be made at slack-water, that the flood may
add speed to the retreat. The boat runs
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16

THE Geneva Conference has at last con-
Guided its labOrs and awarded the amount
due by England to the United States on ac-
count of the Alabama claims. The amount
was easily arrived at after the case had been
properly represented to the Tribunal. 1t
would be, however, an impossible matter
for even SO learned and astute a Court as that
to arrive at the amount of benefit conferred
on suffering humanity by such medicine as
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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16

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