American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-06-12
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

DURING reign of Twenty-Five year
the present Pontiff has created ninety
nine Cardinals.
THE Carlist war is seriously affectine
the prosperity of Spain. The exports O.
that country in 1874 were $50, 000, geo les
| than in 1878.
RUSSIA has been telling ever since
Turkey, but she says now that if nobody
else will take it she will not allow thu
dinner table to go dishonored.
TIE snakes in the Jardin des Plante.
of Paris have been fed hitherto on live
rats, but one tough old fellow, handed to
1000 franc snake, killed the reptile
The authorities kill the rats now before
feeding.
RUSSIA deserves her title of Northern
Colossus If soldiers by the Wholesale 20
for anything. She numbers 2,901 ,O0C
armed men, including 200, 900 Cossacks,
in apple-pie order. They are as ready
to burn as tallow candles.
In Corsica, the birthplace of the Ma.
poleon dynasty, Prince Napoleon and
Rouher are fighting out little war of
rivalry for the mastery over Corsican af-
fections. The Prince SO far has the
inside track of the vendetta.
THE petition against conventual in
have borne $4,000 signatures, and to
measure about three-quarters of a. mile
in length Forty thousand signatures
were obtained in London alone.
EMILE DE GIRARDIN said, in a recent
newspaper article, that eff NJ. Theirs
had remained President of the French
Republic the war clouds that for the
last month have been thlckening over
our heads would never have been
formed"
MR.. SCHLIEMANN, whose excavations
on what is supposed to be the site of an
cient Troy have been SO graphically de-
scribed by Mr.. Bayard Taylor, has been
granted authority to continue his inves-
LEGATIONS, and will proceed with his work
almost Immediately.
THE number of suicides in the German
army amounted in 1874 to 1913, which
gives the proportion per 900 men of
.54 annually. This proportion is, in the
Austrian army, 80; In the French army,
81; in the Belgian army, As, and in
the English army, .3S.
In Burgundy and Lorraine wild plant
grows, on the root of which are tubers
like small potatoes, but which have the
taste of cheStnuts, on account of which
taste it is called by the people the
ground chestnut. 1t is now proposed to
cultivate this for food in place of the po-
tatO.
THE Bank of England has about 800
clerks. They usually enter at between
eighteen and twenty-five years of age.
Their salary begins at about $500 of our
currency. From this they advance until,
by the time they are forty-one or forty
four, they get 81, 200 year, after which
they can ordinarily hope for no increase.
THE Gauls are wondering ever "the
grand Paul Boyton sea-safety-valve-ap-
paratus, and how those astonishing
Americans manage to do it." Probably
it will occur to them that if this apostle
Paul had lived in the time of Napoleon
Bonaparte their soldiers could have
crossed over from Boulogne into perfidi-
GUS Albion with dry shirts and swords on.
A PARTISAN belle became the wife of
Tin Tun-Ling, from the Celestial EN-
pire, in 1872. Their three years of mar
ried life was not all dream of bliss, as
Tin-Tun-Ling treated the lady badly,
and, to crown all, she found recently
that her spouse was an adept in "ways
that are dark" having left wife in Can
ton. The fair Parisienne has procured a
divorce.