American citizen., 1874-11-21
CURRENT ITEMS.

hotel cook in the world. lie gets up frog
suppers out of mutton.
AT Il fire in Elmira, \. Y, Il woman
rescued three horses and Il man, rescuing
the man first, OF course.
IT is economy to purchase the best
black silk. The cheap materials are
never worth retaining a second season.
a HOUSE in St. Joseph, Mo, is haunted
by Il ghost, which appears to tenants
who don't pay up promptly, but never to
those who do.
a SAN FRANCISCO policeman who was
living at the rate of $4,000 year was
found to be in receipt of SO day for
winl>ing at Chinese gambling.
observation-disclosures pork and PIN
le-promoting buckwheat cakes" is
what the Philadelphia STIR calls two ar
ticlcs of the average Americans daily
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AN apple tree on Il farm in Rollinsford,
n. H., which was planted 125 years ago
continues to bear fruit, and its present
owner does not remember a year when it
has failed to bear.
A sHoRT-HoRN steer was butchered in
Detroit recently which weighed 4, 10
pounds alive, and yielded 5000 pounds
of dressed beef. This is believed to be
the largest animal ever slaughtered for
beef on this continent.
A MAINE man says that pumpkin in
that State grew so large that eight men
could stand around it; which statement
was only equaled by that of "a Hoosier
who saw "A flock of pigeons fly SO low that
he could shake a stick at them.
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa, has an old
lady who recently refused the gift of a
load of wood from IA tree struck by light
ming, through fear that some of the
fluid" might remain in the wood and
cause disaster to her stove.
a BROOKLYN woman sues her husband
for divorce, one of his tritling offenses
being the entering of the room in which
she was sleeping with lighted candle in
his hand which he held in Il position so
that drop of melted tallow fell into
her eye,
AN extraordinary large turnip was dug
in Il garden at Salt Lake the other day,
which, on being cut open, disclosed IA
large-sized frog, well and hearty, which
tumbled out and hoped off just as if he
was not the creature of wonderful
phenomenon.
As river boat was loading at a land
ing on the Mississippi River large gray
mule refused to go on board. The mate
sung out to Il deck-hand: Twist his
tail and he'll come" Like Casabianca,
that deck-hand obeyed orders, and, like
Casabanca, he nobly died.
THE Superior Court, Portland, Me-,
recently ruled that the right to recover
for "A sum due on account for IA load of
coal depended upon observance OF the
statute, which provides that unless other
wise agreed the coal shall be weighed by
a sworn weigher, if it is not sold by the
cargo.
A PRETENDED clergyman swindled the
Norwich line of boats by getting com
mission of $500 on a contract for trans
porting 900 members of the Episcopal
Convention from New York to Boston,
and then tried the same unsuccessfully
upon the Stonington line. He is still at
large.
A MAN attracted attention in Troy by
his queer demeanOr He seemed to see
something interesting in the buttons on
ladies' dresses, and in several instances
was impertincnt IN his close eXamina-
tions. Finally he found a dress from
which a button was gone. He seized
the wearer, pulled from his pocket IA
button and compared it with those le ft
on the dress. 1t matched. She was his
prisoner. He was a detective, and she
mad stolen the dress.
A MOST singular discovery is reported
to have been made by Capt Picasso, of
the Italian bark Teresa. He claims to
have found rock rising from fifteen to
TWENTY-FIVE feet above the water in lati-
tude 4OS north and longitude 62- Is Smin.
1t is within few seconds of the same de-
gree as New York, lies about $50 miles
from the coast, and is nearly in the track
of what is called the southern passage.
The rock is of reddish brown color
and about 800 feet long by 40 feet
broad Capt. Picasso thinks this discov
ery offers IA solution of the mysterious
loss of the City of Boston, President,
Pacific, United Kingdom, and other YES
sells that have never been heard from af
ter leaving port.
IN going out with the crowd ut the
close of Il performance in the theater in
Wheeling, w. Va, recently, Mr. John
Dunlap, bookkeeper at the Register
Office, was iostled about by a gentleman
with whom he was unacquainted. Mr.
Dunlap carried his overcoat upon his
left arm and it was against this arm that
the stranger had been pushed by the
crowd. As they passed out John noticed
that the watch-chain of the strange gen
tleman was broken and hung from his
vest. Upon arriving home he hung his
overcoat up and had no occasion TO use
it again until two days afterward. Then,
upon taking it down, he was astonished
watch to which broken chain was at
tached. He remembered the incident at
the theatcr, advertised the fact and the
owner recovered his property.
\ SHORT time since young lady, a
resident of this place, experienced IA
creeping sensation in her nose after she
had retired for The night and all efforts to
remove the annoyance were without the
desired effect, the difficulty remaining
for several days, merely changing to "a
location farther up in the nostrll. AT
length it seemed to pass down into the
throat, causing a choking sensation, and
finally disappeared. Immediately after
its disappearance the victim experienced
acute pains in the stomach and called
medical assistance in vain, the only thing
that gave relief being copious doses of
brandy, which failed to produce any of
the usual effects Finally severe vomit-
ing ensucd, and after one whole nights
suffering and the patient givingup hopes
of life the cause of the trouble was re
moved and an examination found it to
be small particle of blood and matter,
in the center of which was Il common
sized black spider. Evidently the bran
dy saved the young lady's hfc.-IHdtaH-
dpoiis JoaI7t"i.
Flighty Costumes.