American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-07-01
HERE AND THERE.

THE Auditor of Kentucky reports the
population of the State at 1865
BRIGHAM YOUNG has dedicated new
Mormon temple at st. George, Southern
Utah.
New ENGLAND manufacturers are d.
viding their employees into parties and
sending them to the Centennial for a
week.
A YOUNG lady was asked upon her re-
turn from church last Sunday what the
text was, to which she unhesitatingly
replied, "Blessed are the dress
makers.''
to draw the car of State, the three fire.
engines, and the State official car, in the
demonstration at Carson, Nevada, on
the Fourth.
THEY are experimenting in London
with a gun which weighs 81 tons, throws
a ball weighing 1850 pounds, and con-
sumes 800 pounds of powder at each
discharge.
THERE is man residing near Berlin,
| Wis, who weighs 440 pounds. He is
unable to work, and in warm weather
is in the habit of spending several hours
each day in the river, his fat proper
tions allowing him to float like life
preserver.
AN eccentric citizen of Cape May car
ried rope in his pocket for forty years,
his explanation being that he was liable
at any time to wish to kill himself, and
meant to always have the means handy.
A few days ago he hanged himself with
the old rope.
Now they are bringing out their Cen
tennial pork barrels. Durham, N. H.,
takes the lead with one that was first
filled in 1765, and has been filed each
year since. 1t holds more than 500
pounds, SO that it has been the recepta-
Gle of about 50, 900 pounds of pork.
A PAINTER in Meriden, Conn.,, fell
from roof the other day, struck on a
freight car and smashed the roof, rolled
off, struck on his head on,a rail, and
then got up and went home. He said
he didn't feel very well, but would go
to work in day or two, and he did.
AN English writer says that in the
case of fire in buildings containing
horses, if the harness be merely put on,
however loosely, the horses will quit
the place without difficulty. A knowl-
edge of this may be the means of saw
ing many valuable animal.
THE Jewish ministers of New York
City have decided to issue formal
declaration of their strong disapproval
of extravaganza and vulgar display at
funerals, and to exhort their parishion-
ers to return to the simplicity and un-
ostentation which used to characterize
all Jewish ceremonies.
ExMAYoR EASTMAN, of Poughkeep-
sic, N. Y, has givin 500 of the street
boys of that city straw hat each, with
this advice pasted inside the crown:
"Don't drink, don't swear, don't chew,
don't smoke. Be industrious, work
hard, study hard, play hard, and you
will never be hatless' With the best
wishes for your future welfare"
AS an antidote for various kinds of
poison sweet oil is exceedingly valua-
BILE, and bottle of it should be kept in
every persons house. Some of the
worst cases of rattlesnake bites have
been cured by this simple remedy. The
patient should take teaspoonful in
ternally and battle the wound with the
oil. 1t is an antidote for arsenic and
strychnine. 1t will cure the stings of
bees, wasps, hornets and the bites of
other insects, and is a remedy for the
poison of poison-ivy, poison-oak, etc.
A CASE which should prove warn
ing to mothers employing suspicious
girls to take care of their children has
occurred in New York. A girl named
Augusta Kassen, aged 10, having taken
poison, and believing herself to be dy-
ing, confessed to having poisoned with
oxalic acid little child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Heyne, of 80 Third Avenue. The
child had died apparently from natur-
al causes and been buried. The mo-
tive was simply revenge for threaten
Gu ulSCudiSO 1loul OIlPioJ hiOho'
On Chestnut Street, just above Eighth,
SAYS the Philadelphia Times, there pa
rades every day a gorgeously attired
Turk, whose yellow trousers, red jack
ct, and brilliant turban command uni
versal admiration. But although Turk
he possesses the most marked charac-
teristics of the Milesian type of beauty,
and when he speaks one involuntarily
wonders at the breadth and depth and
sweetness of his Irish brogue. Yester-
day wicked wag jostled the Turko-
Irishman, or Irish Turkoman, while the
latter was distributing circulars, and
the ladies who were promenading were
Mortified at the burst of wrath which
followed: I" Blast your sowl!" said the
Turk, 4" do you take me for rale TurkP'
AS the plot was thickening the monstrous
officer who ornaments Ninth Street hove
in sight, and the Turk resumed his ORR
entail dignity.
In the April session of the Roman
Academy of Medicine several papers
were read and discussed concerning the
remarkable properties of the Eucalyp-
tus Globulus. The planting of this
Australian tree in regions made I'M
healthful by malaria has for some years
been recommended. Whether its roots