American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-07-08
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AND THERE.
The new Sultan gets S25O,00O 8
month.
| A LAWSUIT begun in 1882 concern
ing 100000 has just been decided in
England. Not cent is left of the
$500, 900.
PRUSSIA has 600 miles of railways,
which cost S1,O5O, 100000; and now
the Government talks of buying them
all.
THERE is convict in the Virginia
Penitentiary serving out sentence of
two years for the crime of stealing an
orange.
Mrs. CARNoYLE, of Breckenridge
County, Ky, has child five years old
whose body appears to be absolutely
homeless. Although well developed in
every particular, its limbs can be liter
ally tied in knot.
Dom PEDRO, it is said, has become so
attached to Mr.. Hazleton, the railroad
conductor who has accompanied him in
his journey through this country, that
he intends to secure his services for a
tour in Europe.
MISS GRUMPY advises the shallow
American to &c imitate Dom Pedro, who
drinks little, smokes none, sleeps well,
exercises much, declines to have his
dinner served in courses, and abjures
sauces and condiments
AT the recent fancy-dress ball of the
Lord Mayor of London, fifteen gentle
men appeared clad in white dress coats,
waistcoats and trousers, and black linen
shirts, collars and cuffs. The sugges-
ton came from Du Maurier, the artist,
in Punch.
DIR. LIE NOME, of Washington, Pa,
has built a stone house on one of the
hills near the village, for the reception
of dead bodies, and a furnace in which
to burn them, and his will strictly binds
his executors to cremate his body after
his death.
TWENTY years ago Mrs. Barber, a
lady 80 years of age, living near Alex
andria, Va, became blind, and her hair
silver white. Within the past year her
sight has returned, a crop of new black
hair has come in, and she has just cut
four new teeth.
A GOVERNMENT officer who has been
surveying in Florida says the mosqui-
toes Astounding around Lake Worth
would drain every drop of mans
blood in four minutes if he was tied to
a tree and helpless. His two dogs were
tormented to death.
Mrs. SCOTT SIDDoNs is in Sidney,
New South Wales, whence she writes to
a friend in San Francisco, as follows:
ga remarkably handsome Fiji Islander
took great admiration for me, and
wanted to buy me of my present lord
and master. He was willing to give six
punches of bananas in exchange"
A BOA CONSTRUCTOR, nine feet long,
was capturned on board the ship Sur
prise, recently arrived at London from
Port Natal. 1t had concealed itself
among the cargo, and was not discov-
cred until the vessel was nearing home.
This ''stow away paid for its passage
by clearing the hold of rats and other
evrmin.
SENATOR HENDRICKS, of California,
has not exactly been struck by light
ming, but he has received the following
note: "Mr. Hendricks-Inclosed you
will find the twenty dollars borrowed
from you in 1S49, with the accumulated
interest at one and one-half per cent.
I am sorry could not send it to you
sooner, but fortune has not favored me
until lately.''
IT excites the righteous wrath of the
Boston atlantic to find the clothing of
the Father of his Country at the Cen
tennial labeled "coat, vest and pants
of George Washington 's1t is his
Honor's waistcoat which is meant" it
says, s'and his buckskin brooches
pantaloons were then unknown, and
pants were undreamt of by genera
lion which had time to be decent and
comely in its speech
THE last official act of Secretary
Bristow was awarding, under the act of
Congress of June 20, 1874, of three life
saving medals of the first class to three
brothers, named Hubbard, residing at
Marblehead, O., where, on the LIST of
May, 1875, at great peril to their own
ives, they rescued two men from the
rigging of the schooner
which, in terrible gale, had
sunk off Marblehead, Lake Erie. The
action of the Hubbards is one of the