American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-02
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

EVERY Gallo man from twenty to forty
is liable by the new laws to serve in the
French army.
GREAT BRITAIN counts on the importa-
ton OF SSO00,000 bushels of wheat this
year to keep the wolf from the door,
NJ HENRI RocuEFoRT was evidently
not born to be drowned. He swan away
from his prison and now, having been
capsized on the Lake of Geneva, he easily
saved bis life.
The Italian Senate is about to sit in
Judgment on one of its member, Signor
Satriano, Neapolitan, who borrowed
81 900 from lady and then made out
that he repaid her by forging her name
to a receipt.
THEIRS always carries his own bed
about with him when he travels. He took
it along when he went to Ouchy, Switzer-
land, the other day, and the sight of the
little iron bcdstead in the ex-Presidents
baggage on the way is said to have pro-
voked great merriment.
CAPT BoYToN is in Paris. He is to
give series of exhibitions of his floating
apparatus throughout France, in aid Of
the sufferers in the inundated districts,
thus showing them how lives might have
been preserved from the flood which
caused such misery.
A CURIOUS anatomical discovery is said
to have been made by doctor in Japan.
He says that the cheek-bone of the Japan
csc is double in many cases, instead OF
being single structure. The additional
bone is united to the other by a suture
and it is believed to be peculiar to the
Japanese race. Ass
A GENTLEMAN in London has sued
neighbor for keeping bantam cock that
crowed in the morn at four O'Clock SO
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covery of his wife, who was in delicate
health, was retarded by the noise. The
defendant submitted that he was strictly
within his legal rights in keeping fowls,
and that he could not prevent the plumed
biped from chanting his sweet song. The
Judge suggested to the defendant the
propriety of abating the nuisance.
A MALADY known as the foot and mouth
disease is affecting cattle and sheep in
England, more especially the stock i'm
ported for slaughtering. The method of
checking its ravages adopted by the Gov
eminent officials is the entire slaughter of
every tainted herd or flock upon their ar
rival in port. In one instance only three
sheep in cargo of / 800 had the disease,
yet all were killed The. effect of this
will be either to stop the supply altogether
or to vastly increase the price of animals
that pass the ordeal of inspection. The
CluduCClucut vi tuC COSt VI uicdJ Is a pIOS-
pect that agitates John Bull all the more
because the grain harvest is deficient in
Great Britain.
A FEW years ago England was quite in
different whether her colonies cut loose
from her apron strings or not; indeed. the
old lady had almost made up her mind to
tell her children that their room was bet
ter than their company. But great
change has taken place within the last
year or two, and now tine latter are treated
with the greatest affection by the former.
The reason for this change of feeling is
found in the fact thatw other countries
are taking less and less of English manu-
features the colonies are becoming better
customers every year. In fact the old
lady evidently hopes that they will be her
main stay in her declining years.-4rade
Journal