American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-06-03
HERE AND THERE.

walked in very sprightly and agile
manner.
THERE is Centennial Medical De-
partment to which those suddenly taken
i'll may be carried. Thirty or forty
cases of exhaustion have occurred on
| the grounds, with others of liberation,
fracture, and bruise.
Dom PEDRO note paper and envel-
opes are the latest thing out in sta
tionery. The paper measures six and a
half inches by four, and is covered
without folding-by envelopes of the
same size.
Mrs. DIPPER Ito Jonesy, who is
deeply in arrears for board)-'' Mr..
Jones, won't you step into the parlor
for a momentP I wish to speak with
you." Jonesy-" Really. Mrs. DipPer,
| would like to accommodate you, but
what will the boarders say at seeing us
aloneP Oh, no, excuse me-"
THOSE dear old-fashioned black silk
knit mits and armlets that heighten the
beauty and whiteness of hand and arm
by their half-hiding blackness, are COM
ing into vogue again in place of the four
and six-button gloves. Mrs. Harrison
Gray Otis, of Boston, never rejected
them, and the sight of her hand and
arm, even at 10, was joy forever.
THE London School Board has passed
a resolution: IS That, as a means to en-
Loo, ba a,-t IF
it is desirable to have inserted in the
Education Code a provision to the eff
feet that attendance of scholars at les
sons in swimming, under competent
instructor, for not more than an hour a
week, may be counted as school attend
ance."
THE Inflexible, the largest British
iron-clad yet, was launched at Ports
mouth, and christened by the Princess
Louise few days ago. The Infexible
is 800 feet long and IS wide; she has
engines of immense force, and will have
four guns of 81 tons each. The moni-
tor or citadel is II feet high. Her guns
will carry projectiles weighing 1850
pounds and measuring 16 inches in di-
ameter.
THE Southern Presbyterian furnishes
some instructive figures showing the
cost of certain ''unnecessa-
ries," from which it appears that the
country pays S70,000,000 annually for
dogs, $61O, 100000 for tobacco and $2,-
200, 100000 for Intoxicating liquors.
The figures are given for the purpose
of contrasting the respective items with
the sum annually paid in salaries to
ministers of the gospel, which is given
at 100000 only.
AN eccentric old gentleman in Lon
don, who has kept record of crimes
for nearly 80 years, expresses the opin-
ion that the number and atrocity of
offenses of this description have increas-
ed amazingly of late years. His book
IF murders is far in arrears; he is be-
midland with his divorces; and his
:orgeries have accumulated to such an
extent that he has been obliged to en-
5loy a young man to foot them up.
A Dies MONIES man, who has just
disappeared, was known
Is Calamity Brown, from his war ex-
,erience. He bore the marks of eighteen
,ebel bullets, one of which passed
through his head, destroying one eye,
me through his body, and several
through his legs and other parts !. yet
le recovered from all his wounds and
vas able to work and walk with the aid
# cane-one of the bullets having in
ured one knee joint.
N the occasion of the visit of Dom
'edro to the Supreme Court Chamber
n Washington on Monday last he was
in an audible tone with the
Brazilian Minister while Justice Miller
7as reading an opinion. The Marshal
f the Court raped and commanded
Hence, and Justice Miller, not know
1g who the offender was, suspended
is reading, and remarked sternly:
We allow but one to talk here at
me-" The Emperor was quite dis
omitted, became silent at once, and as
Don as he recovered his equanimity
1T.
SOME things they do not manage
luch better in France. A young
merican while crossing one of the
arts streets not long since endeavored
, avoid q passing carriage, but was
lrown upon his back, and beside other
liuries received in the fall had his right
RIM fractured near the elbow. He was
)nveyed to his hotel, and few days
Fterward was waited upon by the Of
GERS of the law, brought before the
,urt and fined three hundred dollars
n allowing the accident to happen.
here was no recourse, it was French
w, and that was enough. His land
I'd, in endeavoring to console him for
lis singular decision, remarked:
Why, Monsieur, it was only last year
at one of my guests got killed, and it
,st his estate two Thousand dollars to
tile with the Prefecture -
THE library of Harvard College, says
9 Boston Transcript, has been discov
ed to be exposed to a new and alarm
g danger, in the form of the white
It, an insect whose ravages have often
en serious in Europe, and by which
one of our Western States a fine Ii
airy has been totally destroyed, and
other collection in the South badly
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