American citizen., 1876-08-26
HERE AND THERE.

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1 The war widows, Mrs. General Gu
ter, MrslG Colonel G. w. Yates, and Mr.
Calhoun,win henceforth reside in MOI
roe, Mich. s.,,ts,--, .....f...f
T. A SOCIETY for the education of nurse
at Bremen has erected a hospital, an
placed it in charge Of a daughter of th
late we'll known journalist, Wolfgan
'tiMentze1. s9gdY ,b9ss989b haE
r. LAST year, during . scomparativel
cool Summer, there was q continuou
outery about mad dogs; during tn
present unusually hot term hardly
case Of hydrophobia has occurred. u
+ In the cefheteries adjacent to Brook
flyn,a ana embraced within its limits
there lie to-day at tleast 1OO, 600 NOR
dead than are living within the limit
Of that eityof 500, ,00o psople.lss "a
ONlone Of the bodies found on. Gus
ter's battle field-that of a German sol
der named Ackerman-th there were n,
fewer than rs wounds. All the limb
had likewise been haekedsoff. 5s.4
10 HUNDREDS Of Canadian French mill
hands Of FAN River, Mass. u, are taking
refuge in the State Almshouse at Tewks
bury. where many OF, them are giver
tickets to return to their old homes il
Canada.
THEY have big farms in, Australia
The sale, on the 18th of May, Of Mr.c
B. Fisher . stocke farm nat Hin River
about 90 miles from Adelaide, lasted II
days andrealized nearly $4,000. The
farm comprised 60, 900 acres. i,....g4
THE firm ofgA. T. Stewart &, Co. has
lately made 81, ,OOO, 900 by the rise ir
the value Of raw silk. Before the death
Of Mr.. Stewart he was induced to buy
up large quantities of silk in anticipa-
ton ofas rise, and the!swisdom of his
purchases. is now apparent. z rfe.ls,
4 ,JoHH WHITE and Alice Agar started
for clergyman's house at Scar
borough, Eng, to get married. They
were poor and out of work. On the
way they seem to have decided not to
strive together for prosperity and hap
piness, for they committed suicide by
drowning. dii5 baiIaqgz Is aao3
M JTRIQUET and his sons, aeronauts,
on the 18th in q balloon from
the environs of Paris. The balloon was
torn by a contact with trees and fell
rapidly to the ground. One of the
young men was Instantly killed and the
father fatally injured. kEgs7se @
The latest curiosity at the Centennial
IS boy without arms or legs. He
weighs SO pounds, is ID years old, and
n spite of his deformity is able, by
means of two fingers on a stump sup
posed to be leg, to feed himself, write,
Ind even do mechanical work, having
made q small secretary before leaving
lome.
THE sewers of the city of Hamburg,
n Germany, which were laid in 1843, are
lushed every week at low tide by turn
ng into them the waters Of the Alster.
The waters pass through them with
.reat violence, cleansing them so per-
ectly that the siphon under the river
las not needed cleaning oua since 1e45.
ANY thing for peace inthe family. "A
New York wife, who wants divorce
rom her husband on the ground of
sixteen years Of constant cruelty" ad-
nits, IN response to certain questions
,ut to her by her husband s counsel,
hat on one occasion she sold $4,000,
worth; of furniture for $50, and that on
mother her husband permitted her to
his hands for five minutes on
ondition that she would refrain from
creaming SO as to arouse the whole
ID 1f5I p Ito4tseH.a
THE progress of taste and fashion in
ur women's bathing costumes is in the
irection of French freedom and Greek
Instead of long trousers,
he ladies wear drawers to the knee,
by. striped stockings,
yhich reveal the contour of the leg and
oot; and now and then one sees a young
ady, who boasts beauty OF figure, en-
sring the salt water with legs bare be-
,w the knees, and arms entirely ex-
osed to the rays of the sun and the adj
hiring eyes of the on-lookers. q ''-'i''
NEVADA has again beer visited with
he meteorologic phenomenon of cloud
ursts. Heavy rains have prevailed all
yer Nevada, but the cloud bursts, as
wo years ago, seem to have been con-
ned to the eastern portion of the State.
he recent calamity near Eureka has
cen the more destructive, and it is a |
tile singular that the phenomenon
hOuld have occurred within few min
tes of the same time as that which,
wo years ago, on the same day OF the
Month, caused such destruction of |
ropertV. IN li9g aj56.g a.ri lua
ONE of Brigham Young's sons is
nown as Prince Briggy. The Gentiles
xplain that the title was acquired sew
raj years ago, during his sojourn in
,ngland.' He rode in coach behind
tx gray horses, and on one occasion
is coachman, while driving through
ne streets of London, disregarded the
of the Queens guards to
i've the road to her Royal Highness and
This led the officer in
barge of the cavalcade to ask the
anne of the distinguished stranger.
he reply was, ''I'm Prince Brigham,
ir, of Utah. .aIf1a snt lsE
THE "cynophere" is the latest nov
lty for which the Centennial Exhibi-
on stands sponsor. 1t is not exactly
-. - ~ 1900