American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-05-27
HERE AND THERE.

AN old lady, over hundred years
old, came into Troy the other day, and
skipped playfully around through the
milliner shops, examining the new
styles in spring bonnets.
ARE you aware, ladies, that those
lovely birds you admire on your hats
were fayed alive to preserve their
feathers more securely to the skin
Such is the stubborn fact.
AN extraordinary shoal of whales vs-
tied Kirkwall Bay, in Scotland, the 9TH
er day, and Immediately a great many
boats were manned with view to cap
turing them. Altogether 60 whales were
driven ashore.
! GEN. Won CoREL, the last surviving
officer of the once famous Prussian
ssDeath's Head Hussars," who made
themselves feared in tie campaign Of
1907, died few days ago in Scwedt,
Germany.
THERE is lady living in Richmond,
Ind, who was married when II years
of age. When 10 years old she was
the mother of two children, and when
80 her children numbered 10. Eight OF
her children are now living.
IT is proposed in Charleston, S. c.,
to organize an expedition to discover
the grave OF Gen. Moultrie, the hero of
Fort Sullivan, who died in 1905. Al,
though buried in the family graveyard
the remains can not be found.
Two men, while scuff1ing on the cliff
at Passaic Falls at Paterson, n. j., the
other day, accidentally fell over the
precipice and tumbled distance of 65
feet the bottom. Fortunately, they fell
into deep water, and escaped with their
lives.
A CINCINNATI scientist, who allowed
himself to be stung once day for three
weeks by bees to ascertain the effect of
the bites, says that after about the tenth
time the pain and swelling were slight,
the body seeming to become inoculated
with the poison.
ACCORDING to French statistician,
more than a thousand people have per-
ished by fires in theaters from the be-
ginning of the nineteenth century up
to the present date, while the pecuniary
loss by the same class of conflagrations
amounts to about sixty million dollars.
THERE are two hot springs in Presi-
do county, Texas, near the Rio Grande,
each about ten feet in diameter, en-
closed in natural circular rim three
feet high. The water is clear and OF an
unknown depth, attempts to sound it
with 100 feet of line having failed. In
one spring there is temperature OF
ITO degrees.
On the I'd of March last the Bank of
France held metallic reserve of over
f72, 900, 900 sterling. 1t is the greatest
sum ever held at one time by single
institution, and is, indeed, more than
three times the amount possessed by
the Bank of England. This vast sum
has been gradually accommodating since
the late war.
THE latest nuisance in the shape of
juvenile toy consists of leaden ball, of
the size of an English walnut, with
nipple on its surface, on which per-
cussion cap may be placed. The ball is
held by a string so attached that when
the ball is dropped upon the pavement
The cap explodes. 1t is an admirable
for frightening women and
and is becoming quite popu-
ar.
AFTER several years of patient wait
ng, the plated table fork which had
been swallowed by young man in Paris
las been successfully extracted from
his stomach by Surgeon Liable. 1t was
by making an incision in the
stomach. At recent meeting OF the -
'arisian Academy of Science, both the
ork and the patient, perfectly cured, =
we're present The surgeon states that
he lesson to be drawn from his success
S the possibility of acting directly on
ancered stomachs by missions.
ALL the Pope's robes are made either
# white cloth or of red cloth. Plus TX
Ises five white cassocks in the course of
he year, as owing to his being an in
.eterate snuff-taker he soon discolors
lis outer garment. Each cassock costs
80. The red mantle which he renews
nee a year costs $160. The silk stock
ngs are furnished by a Belgian house
or SIG a pair, but his slippers, which
re changed every month, are furnished
" Roman firm. An ordinary pair
mboidered with the cross is worth 1926,
ut some of the papal slippers cost as
luch as 5000, the cross being inlaid
18th diamonds. The old, cast-off cloth
,;thful. who eagerly buy it at a grea'
rice.