American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-08-05
HERE AND THERE.

A PHILADELPHIA fashion-writer re-
marks that not one woman in a hun
dred has fieek and shoulders fine
enough to show,
The best summer-hotel business this
year is done at Long Branch. The
fashionables who gather at Newport live
in cottages.
GREAT quantities of soap are made
from the soap weed that grows in New
Mexico, but the native greasers know
nothing about its use.
A New York druggist has sent to
the Herald 100 tickets to be distributed
among the poor. Each of these will be
received at his store in payment of one
prescription.
A YOUNG Canadian has recently
walked on the water of Ontario River
He had large pair It shoes, after the
style of snow-shoes, which enabled him
to keep afloat and not lose his balance
A PHILOSOPHICAL woman writes to
inquire 'TWhy it is that just at the mo-
ment when a young man finds oft that
his girl will have him he wants to back
out of the engagement?'' We give up
the conundrun.
THE completion of the Inter Colonial
Railroad, in the Dominicr of Canada.
to Riviere du Loup, marks another iii
portant point in Canadian progress.
The road is 687 miles in length, and the
interest of the Government in it rep.
resents an investment Of nearly $780,
100000.
FIGHT hundred 1celanders arrived al
Quebec on the 23d and proceeded to the
colony set apart in Manitoba for an Ice
landic settlement. Four hundred more
Icelanders are also on their way, which
will make the population of the Ice
landic settlements in the Northwest
about 2,OU0 souls
A WRITER on club life, in the GALAXY,
says that for from forty to seventy-five
dollars per annum a young man is
furnished the year round with luxurious
rooms, gas, fire, daily papers, maya
zines, books, and admirable attendance.
Clubs originated in London, and are
rapidly becoming thorough American
institution.
JEREMIAH WHALEY, aged 90 years,
who lives at Narragansett Pier, r. l.,
had never seen a train of railroad cars
until few days ago, when he saw the
locomotive used in laying the track on
the new Narragansett Pier Railroad.
What makes this case more remarkable
is that he lives within few miles of the
Stonington Railroad.
The exhibition of newspapers and
manuscripts soon to be opened al
Prague, will contain much of interest
Seven thousand articles have already
been contributed, many of them rare
and curious. Among them is a Lords
Prayer in 1924 languages from the Inn.
perial Academy of st. Petersburg
There is also very valuable collection
of autographs.
WHEN Delaware Indian woman IS
house near Cana River, Indian Terri
tory, was surrounded by the late flood,
she tied two children to her body and
from her housetop mounted a tree.
When out of reach of the water she tied
her abes to the limbs and saved them,
while her neighbors who swan failed
to reach the shore, and were of course
drowned.
IT appears that some agents of Servia
went to seek Garibaldi, without whom
no instruction seems to be complete.
They found the Cincinnatus of Capre-
"a making his hay. The hero express
ed his regret that his rheumatism would
not permit him to fight against Turk
ish despotism by the side of Prince
Milano, but he promised to send to
them in Bosnia all of his former follow
ers that he could find unoccupied.
A FRENCH soldier named Henri Du-
hamel has just died at the hospital of
Bicetre, who was wounded in the head
at Buzenval in the war of 1870. His
wound had soon healed, but he was left
quite insane, and fancied himself dead.
When people asked after his health he
would answer: "How is Duhamel?
Poor fellow, he was killed at Buzenval.
What you see is only machine made
to resemble him. But it is badly made,
and they ought to make another" He
never spoke of himself as Il" or time, !"
but always as ''that thing" He was
sometimes insensible for days together,
and would show no feeling whatever,
though pinched and blistered severely.
Wonderful Career of a Cripple.
English papers give interesting par