American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-06-10
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AND THERE.
Now fat men hunt cane-bottomed
chairs, unbutton their collars, and fan
themselves with bandana handker-
chief.
SOMEBODY who wishes to break up
the medical profession proposes to ap-
pend to every death notice the name of
| the doctor.
THERE are 10000 unmarried women
living in Philadelphia, which confirms
the report that the city is one of broth
erly love.
LADY SMITH, widow of Sir James E.
Smith, once President of the Linnean
Society in England, is 103 years old,
and in perfect health.
THEY are pulling down the Old South
Church and no Bostonian is considered
sympathetic who goes home without a
brick in his hat.
AT Hamilton, Ontario, last week, a
Miss Stewart recovered 800 damages
engagement of 26 years.
ALTHOUGH the prosperity of Egypt
almost depends upon the cotton crop,
yet Egyptian cotton that used to sell at
a shilling pound in Liverpool, now
only fetches seven pence.
SIXTEEN hundred young women in
Cleveland are pledged not to associate
with men of tipping habits.s Other
cities have large numbers of women
who have made the same VOW.
THE latest device of the circulators
of advertising cards is to place them in
envelopes inscribed: IS To the lady of
the house-For your life do not open
this before eight minutes past 8 to-
night
A QUEER thieving mania has recently
developed in Georgia. Within the past
month scarcely less than dozen
churches have been burglarized and the
pulpit Bibles stolen.
THE honor of the best Centennial
joke must be accorded to Dom Pedro.
On learning the number of revolutions
of the great Corliss engine per minute,
he said, "That beats our South Ameri-
can Republic!"
"SNowsHoE THOMPSON" the man
who, for the past 20 years, has carried
the mails over the Sierras every winter
at times when the roads were blockaded
with snow, died recently at his home in
Alpine County, Cal.
JENNIE BoUNErr, female frog
catcher of San Francisco, persists in
wearing male apparel, though she is
regularly arrested and fined. Do the
Californians really expect young lady
to catch frogs in Q. pull-backP
A YOUNG man named Wilson, while
suffering from typ old fever at Evans
vile, Ind, experienced very severe
pain in the head all night and when
morning came was permanently cross
eyed.
ALTHOUGH the camel has the most
beautiful eyes of all quadrupeds, it
boasts of ugly teeth and vile temper.
Two unsuspecting keepers at the Lon
don Crystal Palace lately found this out
when dromedary suddenly attacked
them, and tore the ankle joint of one
out of its socket, SO that the foot had to
be amputated.
A MAN is seen daily on Broadway,
New York, carrying square pasteboard
box on top of pole. on two sides of
which is printed, "Shame on you;"
on the third, "Beware of the devil and
his wife-Rum and Tobacco" and on
the fourth, "Shame on you, men, to en-
courage poor women to sweep our dirty
streets with their dresses, while multi
tudes of deserving poor are starving"
A KEEPER at the lunatic asylum of
Armantieres, in the north of France,
hearing noise in the room of an unfor-
tunate gentleman who was confined in
a strait jacket, went to see what was the
matter As he did not return, others
W Mt after him, only to find his dead
body in the middle of the room, and the
maniac, freed from his strait jacket,
trying to devour him. He had already
bitten one of his ears off.
THE following specimen of English
pure and undefled is from the London
Times: GA doctor was lately summon
ed to a cottage at HARDWOOD, in Teas
dale, and found a boy in need of his
services. Put out your tongue said
the doctor. The boy stared like an owl.
my good boy requested the medical
man, let me see your tongue Talk
Doctor said the mother; and
then, turning to her son, she said:
: Hopper thy gobbler, and put out thy
loliker.' The boy rolled out his tongue
in a moment"
Mrs. WILLING, of Chicago, obtained
an interview with the Emperor of Bra
I'll, and took with her three companions.
One of the latter, falling into a fit of
said she had always been
anxious to meet the Emperor, because
a relation of hers resided in his domin-
ions. With his usual politeness, the
Emperor inquired where this relation
lived, and was told Sin Valparaiso"
He then reminded her that Valparaiso
was in Chilli. The effect of this blunder
was SO terrible that the literary ladies
were unable to recover their spirits,