American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-06-19
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

THE Shtnpa0 newspaper of Shanghai
prints choice pieces of news in blue
ink.
THE first English strawberries ap-
peared in the London markets on the
23d of March and were sold at the rate of
about $3.50 per dozen.
THE Hawaiian Government proposes
to send to the Centennial Exhibition a
complete model in relief of the islands,
showing their topography and physical
geography.
IT recently fained boiled shrimps in
France, the contents of a waterspout ap-
parently being tumbled on the country
after the sun had heated the water suf-
ficiently to cook the game.
MINISTER DUFAURE has ordered the
French priests, who are salaried officers
of the Government, to sing hereafter
Sunday in church the "DOmine, saloam fac
Repub.scam"-" God save the Republic"
MICHEL LEVY, the famous Paris pub
Usher, left about 1000, GOO; but, hunt
where they may, his heirs cannot find the
will which he is known to have made,
and hence do not know to whom the for
tune will fall.
THE Gear of Russia will soon receive a
magnificent present from the corporation
ing nearly seventy ounces and composed
of the finest gold and enamel. 1t is q
souvenir of his London visit.
A YOUTH apprenticed to Mr.. Hill, of
st. Pancras Parish, in England, recently
became possessed of the idea that he was
the genuine Roger Tichborne. His mas
ter, while acknowledging that he did his
work properly, had the deluded youth
sent to the woTkhouse; but the parish
guardians compelled the employer to
take him back to finish his indentures.
GAMBLING for enormous stakes pre-
walls in the miniature Kingdom of
Monaco. At the salon of M. LIE Blanc
an American is said to have lost recently
$3.50, 900 and Russian Princess 81, $780,
600, at which she went raving mad. A
Scotch Duke won $60, 600 in less than half
an hour and lost all that and great deal
There were three cases of suicide within
a week, owing to disastrous losses.
EVERY February about 5000 straw-hat
their quarters in suburb of Paris and
form a little colony there. Most are
but all leave their wives and
children at home, and live en- gGrcon dur
ing their stay at Paris. An experienced
man can make at least eight francs day,
and, therefore, by exercising a little
economy, they can easily save thirty
francs a week, or about 500 francs dur
ing their four months stay.
THE ingenious French have contrived
a novel way to impress the barbaric
mind. M. de Brazza who has charge of
the expedition to Senegal, carries an
electric battery in his pocket communi-
eating with two rings on his hand, and
<,ff pnr opof1 cot oil hIc
person. When he shakes hands with a
savage chief that chief will be very much
for an electric shock will run
up his arm, and he will see lightning
playing about the head of his visitor.
Naturally he will think he is being inter
viewed by the devil, and will be ready
to consent to anything in order to get
away.
In an early day, before National
Banks were invented, and while gopher
scalps were legal tender, people were
in such indignant" circumstances that
names were scarce, consequently a large
number of people had the same dcsigna-
ton. Each member of 10000 tribes
had the appcllation graccd by applica-
ton to the author hereof; all the bal
ance of the world were called John
Smith. Several branches of the family
sui eAlSI 10 ptTpctuatc tuc HttIic anu
virtues of the original proprietor, and
each bears his name in full. One of
them has hunted up the various meta
morphoses the cognomen has undergone
since that big incoherency at the tower
of Babel, and reports as follows: In
Latin, John Smith is JOannes Smithus;
the Italians smooth him off with Giovan-
nj Smith; the Spaniards render him
Juan Smithus; the Dutchman adopts
him as Hans Schmidt; the French flatten
him out into Jean Smeet, and the Russian
sneczes and barks Ivan Smittowski.
When John gets into the tea trade in
Canton he becomes Jovan Shimmit; but
if he Chambers about Mount Hecla the
Icelanders say he is Johne Smithson; if
he trades among the Tuscaroras he be-
comes Ton Qua Smittia. Should he wan
der among the WEIGH mountains they
talk of Jihon Scmidd; when he goes to
Mexico he is booked as Jantli F'Smitti;
if he mingles among Greek ruins he
turns Ion Smikton, and in Turkey he is
utterly disguised as yourself-Voe Self.
Good-by, John.-IolrG State Register.