American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-01
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

A LANTERN-MAKER in Toxic is now
making a great number of lanterns, with
the likeness of an eagle on the side for
the American centenary celebrations next
year.
A JURY at Toronto have given verdict
of $500 against the commercial age ncy of
Dun, Wiman & Co., being the sum lost BY
subscriber who, on the representation as
to customers standing by the defend
ants, made advances to him to that
amount.
RUSSIA is, it is said, going to abolish
the passport system and the Minister OF
Finance has already declared his readiness
to dispense with the 2,5O6, 900 OF roubles
which the passport fees annually bring
into the imperial exchequer.
The Sheffield England) School Board
has had the gumption to recognize the
value of gastronomy as an Important
health and morality, and has ordained
that the children under its control are to
be taught practical cookery.
AN odd ceremony took place in the
principal circus at Berlin at the compile
ton by monkey of a service of twenty
five years. Jocko was formally installed
in the place of honor at a grand banquet,
and, besides his sawdust acquaintance,
made his grimaces of thankfulness to q
number of prominent military men and
lawyers of the city.
THE Dominion Government has sent a
dispatch to the Government of British
Columbia announcing the abandonment
of the construction OF a railway from Es-
quimalt to Nanaimo. 1t also proposes to
pay $3.50, 900 to British Columbia as com
pensation for the delay in completion OF
the Pacific Railway. This amounts to an
indefinite postponement of the commence
ment of the work on the railroad.
THE other day, while the workmen at
the saw-mill, Camberdown ship-building
yard, in Dundee, Scotland, were engaged
cutting up large log of Quebec yellow
pine, they laid open several sections of a
wasp's nest. The nest being near the cen
ter of the tree, the animals, several thou
sands in number, must have been inclosed
for upward of ahundred years. The pris-
oners are in good state of preservation,
and are evidently of the wasp species,
with very large wings in comparison to
the size of the body.
VEsUvIUs, after a long period of rest,
gives signs of an approaching eruption
The large crater which has been formed
since the last disturbance emits a black
smoke, always a symptom of volcanic
activity, although the time which may
elapse between the first symptom and an
oStuul upblol 10 nOl kuOWn.
In December, 1854, similar appearances
indicated approaching activity. which did
not set in, however, until May, 1865.
A GERMAN iron-clad fleet will visit
American ports next year. II has been
determined by the German authorities,
even previous to the appearance last June
of the Franklin and Alaska in German
waters, to return the visit of the Mianto-
nomah and the Augusta, which took
place in 1856, and hence, should no pre-
venuve circumstance arise, our Centen-
NAL will be honored by the presence of
several German memo war 1t is as yet
undecided whether the Crown Prince will
accompany the fleet.
The upper courses of the river Danube
have suddenly been left dry without any
evident cause. This dryness begins at
the village of Mohringen, some twenty
kilometers down the stream of Donaues-
chengep. If the water does not return
complete ruin is looked for to prosper
Gus and fertile country. A committee of
savants have been named to try and find
out the cause. The general opinion is
that the construction of so many railroads
has had something to do with it. The
removal Of the soil, il is thought, may
have opened up an inlet into some inl-
utnse 5uDteTIancnn ciYtfns.