American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-29
HERE AND THERE.


age, brought 100 packages of silk-worm
eggs from Japan to San Francisco, con-
signed to a firm in Italy.
By the new route from Portpatrick to
Stranraer the sea passage 'twixt Eng
land and Scotland is but % miles, and
Belfast is within nine hours of Glasgow.
OF 43 varieties of apples tested by M.
Truelle, of the Chemical Society of
Paris, the red American renette was
found to contain the largest amount of
sugar.
LEADING citizens of Nevada want the
| boundary line of California and Nevada
| fixed at the summit of the Sierras, so
that their State can have Surprise and
Honey Lake Valleys.
KHALIL SHERIFF PAsHA, late Turk
ish ambassador at Paris, who inherited
twenty-five million francs from his IA
ther, has lost it all at gaming, and has
gone crazy.
DURING 1876, 106,771 Italians emf
grated to America. According to the
statistics, $4,000 of this grand total are
set down as temporary tourists, the rest
as permanent settlers.
A WOMAN SO years old, with her son,
arrived in La Grange, Oregon, recently,
having walked thither from her home
in Indiana. She carried pack weigh
ing IS pounds.
THREE workmen were in Pittsburg
sewer when a sudden and heavy shower
fell. The water poured in upon them
so fast that they were carried a distance
of several blocks, and nearly drowned.
THE Bank of Russia is supposed to
hold metallic reserve of 1926, 200, 900,
to be touched only as a last resource;
but now insinuations are thrown out that
this great sum is not really there.
The Government of Colombia has
made contract for 0,O0O,O 900 with an
Englishman for the construction of the
Central Railroad Panama, it is as
serted, has promised subsidy of $780,
600 per annum.
BELIEF in the existence of subter-
ranean lake near Newburyport, Mass,
led tn the sinking of well. Clear wa
ter was found at a depth of so feet in
such quantities that there is talk of sup
plying the city with it.
PRESIDENT PORTER and the Rev. DIR.
Bacon are to have chairs made out of
the largest elm in New Haven, which
has Just been cut down. 1t was nearly
162 years old, and was planted by the
Rev. Joseph Noyes.
A New ORLEANS man named Burgess
has declared that he himself pulled down
the flag from the New Orleans Mint
during the War, and that Mumford, the
man whom Gen. Butler hanged for do
ing it, was innocent.
A BROTHER and sister, each of whom
supposed the other dead, met by acci-
dent in Charlotte, N. c., a few days ago,
after separation of 81 years, only to
find they had been living in the same
neighborhood all the time.
/ A COMMITTEE of country schoolboys
visited Edwin Booth in Utica, n. Y,
for the purpose of engaging him to act
in their exhibition. Their idea was to
appear themselves in 50 Hamlet,'' with
Mr. Booth in the title role. They offer
ed him $20 and expenses.
THE young women of Orion, Mich,
have adopted the fashion of wearing their
hair cropped close. They look odd, es-
pecially when their smooth heads are
gathered in church; but they are gain
ers in pocket-money, for they sold their
hair at good prices.
THE Worcester Press notices that the
baby shows have fixed the line that sep
arates the ordinary father from the ex-
traordinary one. The mother always
accompanies the cherub, whether there
be one or more of him; but nothing
short of triplets brings out the fond
father for exhibition.
A MONSTER gun, weighing $4,000
pounds, was transported from Vim
cennes to Versailles. Twenty horses
drew the car, which was escorted by so
men under two captains and lieuten-
ant. Crowds flocked about this gre at
piece of artillery as it passed through
the populous quarters of Paris, and
many wondered what it could be want
ed for.
SOME singular revelations have been
made at an inquest held at Lincoln,
England, on the body of an aged and
deformed person who was popularly
known as a 'twise woman 1t was
stated by juryman that on market
days hundreds of farmers wives and
daughters focked to her to consult her
about their affairs. The police had
questioned them to ascertain whether
they had paid for the advice or informa-
ton rendered to them, but had each time
failed to elicit any thing that would lead
to successful prosecution. The Cor
oner expressed his surprise that wom-
an could, in the present century, earn a
living in the way described.
SCARCELY a youth of II is to be found
among the Samoanites who is not elab-
orately tattooed. Candlenut ashes and
water are used for coloring matter.
That part of the body from the waist to
the knee is covered with variegated
pattern that at q short distance resem-
bles lace-work. The operation con-
sunes two or three months, and the
operator is very exacting about his pay
When he gets half through he demands
his recompense, and if it is not forth
coming he refuses to finish the work A
young man is in deep disgrace if he goes
half tattooed. The girls laugh at hin
and the men scorn him. The process /: