American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-07-15
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AND THERE.
OF the Americans on the staff of the
commander of the Egyptian expedition
into Abyssinia, three were killed and
eight wounded.
A BOSTON physician says that blow
ing comets or trombones is the best ex-
ercise for women, expanding their lungs
and making them straight.
THE woman who runs the steam en-
CINE in the female pavilion at the Cen
tennial Exposition, says that the work
requires far less attention than to take
care of child all day.
MASSACHUSETTS law, if enforced,
would prevent every resident of that
State from continuing game OF GRO
quet into the dusk of Saturday evening,
or buying a glass of saltwater or
newspaper on Sunday, or reading the
news in paper published on Monday
morning.
GEORGE ELLIOTT, aged II, at the
Sheffield fair in England, ate for dinner
a potato pie, a plum pudding, some
gingerbread, rice pudding, fifteen
squares of Yorkshire pudding, three
basins of soup, beer, lemonade, and
water! Then Inflammation of the stom-
ach killed him.
DIR. II. A. REYNOLDS is a remarkably
successful temperance agitator in New
England. He claims to have induced
81 200 persons to sign the pledge with
in two years. He calls cider "hell's
kindling wood,'' and asks converts to
wear red ribbons in their buttonhoIes
as a notification that they will never
have red in their noses.
THE estimates of Abdul Aziz's hoard
ed treasure vary from 100000 in
Turkish consolides, worth less than
$500, 900, to 100000. 1t is rumored
that the new Sultan has debts that will
absorb a large share of the treasure,
even if it should reach the latter sum.
The young Queen of Greece, who
had been told that the Pope sleeps on
bunch of straw, asked leave to see his
bedroom, with the usual frankness of
Russian ladies. His Holiness complied
with her demand, and showed her a
hard, little bed to which he had been
used since he was military officer, ac-
cording to his own words.
A LETTER from Havana, reporting the
death of Nh. Augustus Hemenway, of
Boston, states that he left a fortune
estimated at about Sl5, 100000, invested
in the United States, Cuba and Val
paraiso. He had intended, it is report
ed, to transfer large part of his CAPT
tai to the island, and the Sagua papers
regard his death as public calamity.
ENGLISH tourists in France are meet
ing with considerable trouble at out-of-
the-way places by travelling without
their passports. Englishmen are not
required to have these documents, but
the rural officers can't tell the Islanders
from their German cousins, and the re-
suit is the arrest of the tourists as spies,
and indignant letters to the Times.
THIS is the season of the year when
the Indians in the vicinity of Spotted
Tail and Red Cloud agencies have their
annual festivity of worshiping the -ssr
The ceremonies aEs--FSffofna"a m a
ro,,nd i,.e4osure of high poles, covered
With buffalo skins, to shield the In
dams from the gaze of outsiders. There
are equestrian exercises, varied with
tortures, in which the In
dams show their power of enduring
suffering. The ceremonies last for
three or four days, and close with a
grand carouse, in which much 'fire-
is consumed. This stimulates
them to deeds of daring, and then they
are ready to go on the war-path in good
earnest.
The avowed policy of the Hampden
Negro Institute, Virginia, is to teach
the students practical religion as dis
Linguished from the purely sentimental
religion that Southern negroes have SO
illustrated. Gen. Armstrong,
the head of the institution, says he
knows negro who stole a suit of
clothes to wear at communion service,
and that the incident fairly illustrates
.he kind of religion heretofore prevail
ing in the neighborhood. The Rev.
Mr.. Tolman, chaplain of the institute,,
tells of an unlettered negro who, when
advised not to shout at meeting, an
swered, s'Dont the Bible say 'Hollered
be thy nameP'' An old woman had
supposed that the account of ''Nigger
Demus" referred to black man. He
,dds: GAS specimen of their pulpit
in glowing description
IF the Hebrews in Egypt, the land of
Goshen was dwelt upon as famous for
he Goshen butter, where Attorneys
md other fancy stock dwelt up to their
inees in clover and timothy"