American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-11-20
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

HE CZaf OF Russia mas Just given
young Jew named Frehmann q commits
| the first Jew who has ever attained the
position Of officer in the Russian military
| service.
Mr.. DELANo, the editor of the London
Times, began his editorial career thirty
six years ago. He served for the first two
years Is assistant editor, after that as ed
| iter- in chief. He was only twenty two
years of age when he first obtained en-
ployment on the Times. His health has
now broken down for the third time, and
he is taking vacation.
EXPERIMENTS have been made at Bor-
deaux for the employment of cork in gas
for lighting. The results were so favor
able and economical that it has been de-
cided to fit up works for lighting the town
of Nerac on that system. The waste OBJ
tanned from cork manufacture is distilled
in retorts, and the fame thus obtained is
said to be brighter and whittier than that
from coal gas.
Ex-MARsHAL BAzAINE is charged with
having hesitated at nothing that would
bring him money when in command of
the French army of invasion in Mexico in
1885. He is alleged to have kept in the
name of others two stores in the City Of
Mexico-one q grocer's and the other q
u T
were sold at high prices and at immense
profits, As he found means to avoid paying
freight or import duties. In this way he
is said to have amassed large fortune.
LJUBIBRATIcH is said by Herzegovina
ian correspondent to seem to be a man
singulariy fitted by nature to fill the posi-
ton of liberator, and excites the same at
tachment in his followers as Garibaldi,
whom he is said to resemble in manner.
He is handsome, pensive, with a winning
smile and manner of address, and has
dark brown eyes, whose ordinary express
sion is dreamy and womanlike, but with
a CLINT and flash quite startling when ex-
cited, and in the set, strong mouth there
is indomitable resolution.
A CANADA correspondent writes to the
Agricultural Gazette, London, that there
is no hope of the British Isles escaping
the Colorado beetle; so determined a
traveller is he that it may safely be
prophesied that next summer will find
him comfortably quartered in the potato
fields of Britain" To which we may add
that, during the past six weeks, we have
seen hundreds of thousands of the ten
liners at various points all along the
Jersey beach, from Atlantic City to Sandy
Hook, close down to the waters edge, and
looking out most wistfully, but cOnfiding-
ly, for other worlds to conquer. We have
since met the statement flor the accuracy
of which we don't vouch) that an observ-
ing sailor found many of them thirteen
miles from shore, little bedraggled, nee
essarily, but breasting the waves in most
brave and beautiful manner, and with
faces all afiame with the light of relent-
less purpose to reach Europe or perish in
the attempt.-N. Y. Tribune.
WHEN the names of the streets of Paris
were changed after the tall of the Empire
the new Republican names were simply
painted over the plates the Imperialists
used. The other day the people were
startled at beholding here and there Rue
Napoleon" "Place Napoleon" etc., and
there were dark rumors Immediately. 1t
turned out, however-at least the Project
Of Police SO explains it-that recent altera-
tons to houses had covered the plates
with dirt, and in cleaning them the new
names rubbed of and the old ones ap-
peared. 1t might be interesting to know,
if the cleaning process was persevered in,
what other names would be discovered.
Paris has changed the names of its streets
just as often as it has changed the govern
ment of France. 1t has sometimes even
changed the names of months. The story
will be remembered of the Partisan who,
on awakening in the morning, always
asked his servant the first thing to tell
him what was 1.-THE government, the
month and the name of the street he lived