American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-11-11
HERE AND THERE:

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BACKED attracted much attention on 6
fashionable street in Chicago, the Other
day.
THE Baltimore gossips have bad g
sensation in the marriage of a swell
known and highly respectable" jewelel
of 20 to a girl in her teens.
A MAN IS years old is undergoing
two months Imprisonment in Luzerne
County, Penn, for killing a boy whom
he had caught stealing fruit.
Two deaf mutes discussed politics in
New York City, the other evening, be-
fore an audience composed almost ex-
clusively of persons who had never
| heard sound in their lives.
A WASHINGTON girl, Estella Hutton,
carried arsenic in her pocket for a
month, with the avowed intention OF
swallowing it when she got ready. A
few days ago she got ready, and the
dose quickly killed her.
THERE is said to be an old gentleman
in England who has found the true elixir
of life to be the food of infancy. He
always has five wet nurses " on tap, -
and grows "fat and well liking" as he
verges on centenarianism.
Two men went to see circus in
Healdsburg, Cal, the other day, and,
when Ada Belmont appeared on the
trapeze, recognized sister they hadn' It
seen since she was eight years old in
1856, and took her home with them.
A MAN was playing dice in saloon
in Knoxville, Cal, when the funeral
procession of his wife came by. He
went to the door, waved his hat, hur-
rahed, and returned to his game. That
night, he was almost killed by mob.
A MAN hobbling along, with very
stiff leg, was suddenly cured at the New
York Post-office the other day. A po-
liceman stepped up to him and drew
forth from his trousers leg a fine silk
umbrella he had picked up in the build
ing.
A PoRCUPINE was in a Slated box in
Sacramento railroad depot. An un-
suspec6ag man sat on the box. An
other man stirred up the porcupine.
Then the first man suddenly arose, and
acted like man who had been pune
tured by hundred hot pins.
Mrs. GOLDSMITH, fresh from a for
eign shore, landed in New York, the
other day, and. as she gazed upon the
New World, her bosom heaved with
emotion, and with $4,000 worth of
jewelry, as was subsequently found by
female customs inspector.
THE Sioux practice mode of heal
ing almost exactly like the Turkish
bath. As early as 1880 Father Henne-
pin was cured of fever by the Mime
sofa Indians by sweating in an alright
earth oven, covered with buffalo skins
and heated with red-hot stones.
PROF. LOOMS concludes, after COM
pairing 500 cases, that storms move at
the rate of &c miles an hour on land in
this country, and little over 10 miles
over the ocean. An express train or a
first-class steamship could easily keep
ahead of common storm.
NEwBURY, Mass, has a precocious
eight-year-old boy who stole $5, and
then bought revolver and threatened
to blow out the brains of a companion
for refusing to play truant. When
caught his pocket was found to contain
several plugs of tobacco.
MPs. BURNHAM, of Atlanta, visited
the Centennial Exhibition, and there
met a man who said that he was Col.
Delong of Boston, and very wealthy.
On the second day of they acquaintance
they were married, and on the third day
the bride was looking for her husband
and 81, 800 which had disappeared with
him.
A YOUNG girl, now living in the Rue
Voltaire, in Bordeaux, France, who
was born without arms, uses her mouth
in the most extraordinary manner. She
can write with the greatest facility, can
thread the finest needle, embroider,
knit, do crochet work, mark linen, etc.,
with marvellous regularity, and can
even with her mouth tie sailors knot.
THE extent to which facility in the
use of means of expression may be in
furious to the user is illustrated in
schools for the deaf and dumb, where
it will be found that the pupils have
more expressive countenances than
those who are provided with organs of
articulation as if the face were assist
ing to convey the meaning which
could not be given in the ordinary man
ner.
In a communication to the French
Academy of Sciences, M. A. Moret states
that during a recent balloon ascent off
Cherbourg with M. Durouf, they were
surprised, at the height of 1, 700 meters,
to see the bottom of the sea in its mi
though the channel at that
point must be sixty or eighty meters
deep. The rocks and under-currents
were clearly visible.
AN agent was sent to collect the rent
of a tenement, in Boston, the occupant
of which was for some four months in
arrears. He was met with pitiful tale
of the scarcity of money by the matron
of the household, and, to use her own
words, she did not know where to get
dollar, and indeed she did not know
when she would pay either in whole or
in part. The conversation then turned
on other topics, and before the messen-
ger had departed she invited him to
see some lovely things she had just