American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-10-31
CURRENT ITEMS.

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OVER 5000 deer have been killed nea
the head waters of Mad River, Cal
within year, the skins only being used
| Legislative action is called for to put
stop to such wholesale slaughter.
| Is Mexico the mosquito is an insect o
considerable commercial Importance. |
| is caught in nets and sold as food 70
birds. Many families gain LIVELIHOOD
by making mosquito-catching a profes
sion.
| THE Boston Traveller says: GA youns
man, son of well-known clergyman il
IA neighboring city, was bitten, while
asleep, on Saturday night, by a rat. The
rat attacked his upper lip. The bite wa
| severe one, causing considerable hem
| orrhage and some fright"
AT the late Methodist Conference il
| Batavia, n. V, one of the elders said he
was once settled over ii weak church
| and appointed IA committee of young
| ladies to collect subscriptions for it. One
of them was so successful that he thought
she would be IA good overseer and help
mate in a family, and so he married her
WHILE Boston is sending missionaries
to preach the Gospel in China, says the
| Congregationaiist, there comes Il China
man to preach the religion of Confucius
to Boston. Wong Chin Foo is the name
of this sanguine Oriental, who thus seeks
to turn the tables on the irreprcssiblc
American. He presented the claims of
Confucianism at the Parker Memorial
Hall on a recent Sunday.
w. II. MUNDY is the name of an Amer
lean chess player whose genius for the
courtly game is something wonderful.
Eleven years ago he played six games,
blindfolded, against seven skilled play
ers at Geneva, n. Y, and won them all +;
and repeated the exploit five years later
at Hudson. But now he proposes the
unparalleled exploit of playing twenty
four distinct and separate games, sim
ultaneously, without seeing any of them.
In Amsterdam an ingenious jeweler
named Schroeder has constructed what
is called mechanical city," twenty
feet long by fifteen feet wide, wherein
all the streets, parks, houses, shops,
bridges, cathedrals, etc, of Il European
metropolis are exactly represented in
miniature, and all the busy life of a vast
community is automatically initiated
The streets swarm with moving wagons,
cars and people; boats ply on the river,
fountains and bands play in the parks,
and even soldiers parade about a fort in
the suburbs.
cent report on the condition of the En-
glish hospital at Pekin, China, the at
tending physician gives a formula for
anti-opium pills" This remedy is COM
posed of extract of henbane, extract of
gentian, camphor, quinine, cayenne pep
per, ginger and cinnamon, with CASTLE
soap and strip to form the mass, and
licorice powder to form the coating. The
efficacy of these pills in overcoming the
b,h hn crutf
ing on giving up the use of that poison,
is stated to have been proved in numer-
Gus cases.
How TO SET THE HOUSE ON FIRE.-1st
Rub your furniture with linsecd oil, and
preserve carefully the old, greasy rags
used for this purpose in a paper box,
in an out Of the way place. I'd. Ii the fire
stove does not burn well, pour bcnzine
or kerosene on it from well-tilled gal
lon can. Sd. When you light your cigar
or the gas, throw the burning match
no matter where and don't look after it,
even if it gets into the waste-paper
basket. 4th. Put Il burning candle on
the shelf of closet and forget all about
it. 9Th. Always read in bed until you
fall asleep, with a burning candle near
you. 9th. Especially for builders: Put
the ends of the wooden beams into the
flue walls; and if you build hot-air fur
naces be careful to use as much wood as
possible in their construction. 18th AL
ways buy the cheapest kerosene you can
gct.-IndustriaI Wonthiy.
A LITTLE episode recently occurred in
Il Chicago courtroom which will bear
relating. In the prosecution of a case
before the Superior Court a MIR. Alexan-
der, attorney for the defendant, took oc-
casion to apply for a change of venue.
An affidavit was prepared in the usual
form as prescribed by the statute, setting
forth that the atfiant ord not believe he
could have a fair and impartial hearing,
and this document was read to the court.
This simple and perfectly regular pro-
cceding provoked the wrath of Judge
Jameson who forthwith launched out
into a TRADE against the witness, openly
accusing him of perjury and asserting that
the counsel in the ease, if not as guilty
as the witness was at least chargeable
with subordination of perjury. This
charge seemed to strike Mr.. AleXander's
feelings with terrible force.
He turned deathly pale and with diff
Guilty rose to his feet and managed to
stand long enough to inform the court
that it was the first time in his life that
any such imputation had been cast upon
his character and then fell fainting to
the floor In the ante room to which he
was taken he again revived, but retained
only for a moment. when,
the words "perjury," per
Jury" he again tainted and was removed
to his residence as speedily as possible.
Mr.. Alexander is well-known member
Of the Chicago bar and is respected by
everybody as Il most conscientious and
scrupulous gentlcman.-Chicngo Times.