American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-04-01
HERE AND THERE,

MIR. JAMES A. CHENOWETH, OF Berke-
ley County, Va, has an ak used by the
Father of his Country when young
surveyor employed by Lord Fairfax.
A NEVADA man recently swallowed a
wooden tooth-pick. When he is stand
ing erect it doesn't bother him, but
when he sits down he is painfully con-
scious that he committed an indiscre-
ton.
UPON the score of economy, the di-
rectors of the South Yorkshire coal
mines have ordered that hereafter blast
ing must be discontinued when men are
down in the pits, rs "the continued
deaths by accidents render skilled labor
very dear"
AT a recent meeting of the London
School Board highly influential depu-
tation of noblemen and merchants pre-
sented a memorial urging the advisa-
bility of establishing penny savings
banks in connection with every public
school.
A REMARKABLE natural curiosity is
said to be visible in Southern Louisiana.
Ripe fruit of last years growth is seen
on many orange trees with partly grown
green oranges from blossoms of early
winter, and fresh blossoms which have
appeared at the proper time.
In India, in 1869, one tigress was re-
ported to have killed 1877 people and
stopped public road for many weeks.
In another case in the central provinces
a single tigress caused the desertion
of thirteen villages, and $50 square
miles of country was thrown out of cul-
tivation.
The Georgia ladies have awaited
themselves of their leap-year privilege
by resolving in future to ignore car
riages in connection with evening en-
tertainments, and provide themselves
with umbrellas, waterproofs and over.
shoes, requiring the gentlemen they es-
cort to be similarly provided.
A NOVEL mode of gambling was de-
tected by a policeman at Bradford,
England. He found some twenty men
at the riverside throwing chips OF
wood into the river, and paying pen
ny each to the winner whose craft ar
rived first at the bridge. The magis-
trate decided that it was a clear case
gambling, and fined the idlers 10 shil-
lings each, with option of prison.
A uorEL-KEEPER in Lebanon, KY,
wants to sell out, and his advertisement
is quite literary production: =" 1t is
often thought by ladies that the hotel
business is hard on the landlady. 1t is
not so. 1t is easier than keeping a
private house. Good overseeing is all
that is required. l have kept
hotel with as little trouble as any one
ever did. went to bed when pleased,
and got up the same. 1 went hunting
when pleased" Here's chance for
somebody else to lead an idyllic life.
A CURIOUS case of doubtful identity
has just been settled in Ireland by death.
Lady Longford, in 1864, gave birth to
twin sons. As the elder must inherit
the title and estates of Longford, care
was taken to mark the first conner by
tying blue ribbon about his little arm.
The pair, however, having been care.
lessly laid by the nurse in one cradle,
some days after, the ribbon came off,
and had to be again put on by guess
work. William, the elder thus selected
died the other day, and Thomas has now
become, without a disturbing doubt,
Lord Pakenham by courtesy, and, if he
lives will become the Earl of Longford
THERE recently died in the public hos
pital of Milan, Leo Comments, Prince
of Lusignan, descendant of the Kings
of Cyprus and Jerusalem, several o.
whose ancestors sat on the throne Of
Constantinople. As recently as twenty
years ago this unfortunate man was
still in possession of small principal
ty on the border of Khorassan, but he
was deprived of his birthright by Rus
| STA. His circumstances became more
desperate, and at last he has died in 6
common hospital, leaving-as though
he had been nothing more than an i'm
provident bricklayer- widow and 81,
small children quite unprovided for