American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-03-25
HERE AND THERE.


needlework have adopted thimbles with
pebble inserted as a top. The agate,
cairngorm, onyx, and crystal are the
most popular, as they look very pretty in
their setting of silver.
IT is said by an exchange that one
drop of the essence of bitter almonds
will communicate an agreeable taste
and smell to an ounce of castor-oil, and
not affect its medicinal action. Any
thing to make children like castOr-oil!
THE New York Herald Paris CORE
spondent telegraphs: ssThe last vagary
in evening costumes for ladies is a re-
turn to classic styles. The dresses are
worn attached to clasp at the shout
der, leaving the arms bare and the
bosom recklessly decolletec.' -
WHILE chopping wood, one day re-
Gently, Stephen Hodson, of Randolph
County, Ind, was struck in the eye by
splinter, which penetrated the cornea
and restored the sight of the eye, which
had been destroyed twenty-five years
ago by a white, skinny substance grow.
ing over it.
TARsUs, Asia Minor, rendered famous
as the home of Paul the Apostle, was
recently visited by a great conflagra-
ton, caused by rats gnawing matches
in a closed store. The grand bazaar and
other property was destroyed, at loss
of S75O,OOO. The town has a popula-
ton of 5000 in summer and $4,000 in
winter.
JOHN STEVENS, of Logansport, Ind,
was heir to S12, 900, and at his earnest
solicitation the money was given to him
when he was only 10 years old. He has
squandered it all, and now sues the
trustees to make them pay him over
again, his claim being that they should
have held the property until he was
A FARM, owned by David Jacks, of
Monterey, containing 10000 acres, says
the San Francisco Call, was planted in
wheat last year, and the yield was fif-
teen centais per acre, and at 81 per
GENITAL, it would give crop worth
$3.50, 900, of which one-fourth, or S37,-
500, is net to the planter. A few years
ago this entire tract could have been
purchased for $4,000.
E "JoHN PAUL" saw the Queen ride in
state through the streets of London to
open Parliament. The EXPLANATIONS of
the populace rather surprised him: &c I
just thought I'd come out and see the
old GIRL said one. DO you think fell
low can get a squirt at her venerable
physihogP' asked another. 1 should
never have known that these remarks
all around me were 'fervent expressions
of loyalty heard on every side but for
the Times newspaper next morning."
. No better idea can be got of the inn
mensity of London than from the week
ly health report of the United Kingdom,
embracing London and twenty other
large cities in Great Britain. This re-
port includes the record of births and
deaths, with information of prevailing
diseases, comparative rates of mortality,
etc. In London during the week for
which the report is at hand, there were
2,448 births and 1 1926 deaths, which, al
lowing for the increase of the popula-
ton, was 100 births less and 223 deaths
less than. the average for the CORE
spending week during the ten preceding
years. At this rate there is one birth
for every four minutes during the year
and one death for every eight minutes
in the city of London.
DIR. A. w. WASHINGTON, grand
nephew of Gen. George Washington,
the nearest living relative to the father
of his country, and resident of Deni-
son, Texas, has shipped a box contain
ing the following articles for exhibition
at the Centennial: Gen. Washington's
court suit of brown silk, supposed to
be the suit in which he was inaugurated.
Ivory seal, set in gold, presented to
Washington by Gen. Lafayette. Sword
presented to Washington by Gen. Darks,
the famous Indian fighter, before the
Revolution. Knee and shoe buckles,
and, most valuable of all, twelve auto
graph letters from Gen. Washington to
bis brother Samuel, dated between 1772
and 1888, some from Mount Vernon
and some from the field, and all giving
Washington's private views of the war
then waging.
MANY Northerners flee to Florida in
the winter and early spring, and the re-
ports that come back concerning that
section of our country are singularly
diverse. Some say that there is but one
civilized spot in Florida, and that is
Jacksonville; others, that the only civ
ilized spot is St. Augustine. Some say
that there is malaria in Florida during
March; others, that malaria exists all
the year round; others still, that there
is never any malaria in Florida. Again,
we are told to carry thin garments if
we would avoid melting, as well as to
go at our peril without furs; that the
thermometer sometimes runs up to one
hundred degrees in December, and that
it never rises above ninety in July that
sometimes there is ice in Florida, and
that ice is never formed there-and so
on, making long list of curious re-
ports.
A BACKWARD glance over the century
raises the query, serious or otherwise,
whether the revolving years have not
brought increase of trial and trouble. 1t
is certainly true that one hundred years
ago farmers did not cut off their legs