American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-12-11
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

THERE are So, $50 beggars in Paris, two
thirds of whom are females.
THE London Morning Post announces
that an English scientific commission will
shortly proceed to Peru to inquire and
examine into the internal resources of the
country.
THE experiments made with naphtha as
fuel for steam engines in the south of Rus
STA have yielded such satisfactory results
as to induce the Imperial Government to
order irs regular use henceforth in all ves-
sells stationed on the Caspian.
To THE natives in India the Prince of
Wales is nothing but baby as long as
his mother is their mistress. One of the
illuminated devices in the city of Bombay
on the occasion of his visit there was in
the words: "Tell mamma we are happy"
A CENSUS of the town of Metz, taken in
October, showed a great falling Of in the
prosperity of the place since the German
occupation. There were 2, 754 apartments
vacant, and the population is reduced
from SO, 200, as it was before the war, to
| 10 900.
AT a meeting in London to receive u
report from the missionaries sent to dis
cover the tribes of Israel, Lord H was
| asked to take the chair. 81 take" he re-
| piled, "a great interest in your researches,
gentlemen. The fact is, have borrowed
money from all the Jews now known, and
| if you can find a new set shall be very
much obliged"
OF the SO, 900, 900 inhabitants of France
only 1900, 900, or per centum, have
| fixed incomes and no occupatiOns-the
other "a ,000, 900 are workers; of these,
per centum belong to the so-called liberal
professions, SO per centum are agricultur-
lists, ID per centum are employedin bank
| ipr mercantile and kindred Dursuits and
| % per centum are mechanics.
IT is no small affair to hold the office of
Mayor of London. A man of moderate
fortune cannot perform the duties of the
\ office, as in addition to the $50, 600 al
| lowed him to pay his expenses he has
to spend as much more from his private
purse to pay for all the banquets and balls
he is in duty bound to give, besides dis
bursting largely to public charities. About
| 800, 900 will Just take His Honor through
the year. As Cotton is enormously rich,
he stands chance of getting through the
| ordeal.
IT is stated in Nature that French ex-
petition is being fitted out to make a
| Journey round the world in ten months.
The excursionists will visit India, japan,
the Interior Sea of Japan, Chinese ports,
Australia, etc. A special library, with
| instruments, will accompany the travellers.
! L
tlemcn, and the fare for the round trip Is
put at "a, 900, everything included. The
Geographical Society superintends the
management of the enterprise, although
it is supported by private funds and is
wholly private speculation.
THEY do strange things in India. II
ever there was time for Indian journal
lists to work hard it was when the Prince
of Wales entered their country. Never
theless, one of them, the proprietor of
native paper in Bengal, published the fol-
lowing notice just before the Princes ar
rival: " The present is an occasion when
all our cOuntrymen should cease to work,
and participate themselves in the joys and
festivities incident to it. Accordingly we
allow ourselves and our establishment
leave of absence for couple of weeks.
During this short recess We wish our sub
scribers and constituents health and good
| luck"
| A PARTISAN shopkeeper stretched his
conscience and placed in his window the
| inscription: Everything inside is TO be
had for nothing" This was figurative
expression, meaning, as Judge after
ward explained, that there had been re-
duction of per cent. from the ordinary
rates But young rascal of the town
chose to understand the words literally,
and when a favorable opportunity offered
he broke the window and took out a num-
Der of valuable articles. On being ar
rested, he pleaded the invitation of the
shopkeeper as an excuse for helping him
self; and the Judge, admiring his in
with reprimand.