American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08
HERE AND THERE.


CHICAGO has u female Notaries
Public.
KISSING the bride in church has gone
out of fashion
A SET of three Kentucky sisters elop
ed one night last week and were mar
ried.
HON. ARTEMUs HALE, of Bridgewa
ter, Mass, "a years of age, has voted fol
Governor for IS consecutive years, OIL
since 1904.
Mr.. GEORGE NIswANGER, of Muncie
Ind, claims to have raised this season
451 bushels of corn on field contain.
ing five and three-quarters acres.
A RAT attacked a little S-year-old
daughter of Christian Guber, of Fort
Wayne, Ind, while in bed, and bit he1
nose ,nearlysoff, disfiguring her for life.
The rat, gorged with blood, was easily
killed.
+ EDWARD j. FORD, an old colored
man, who has been for over 26 years
under sentence of death which no Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania was ever willing
to enforce, has just been pardoned and
released from the Philadelphia County
prison.
MUsCATINE County, Iowa, has pet
rified man of its own, buried in the fami-
ly homestead of Mr.. F. NJ. Heaton. His
name was Bomford, and when his body
was taken up forsremoval after lying in
the grave four years, it was found to be
petrifed and to weigh 700 pounds.
THE 19-year-old daughter who pre-
sides over Senator Cameron's house
holds of commanding stature, a perfect
Juno in face and form. She superin-
tends the education of her five brothers
and sisters, attends State dinners, and
sits with dignity at the head of her
fathers table.
THE Baltimore american reports that
there is a crusade against dancing in
Baltimore society, and nearly all the
young ladies who belong to church are
excluding that amusement from their
parties this season. The German clubs
are also poorly patronized this year.
CovINGFoN, Ky, is having a hard
time with its officials. A few months
ago Treasurer Hawes was discovered to
be defaulter for a large sum; soon af-
ter, City Clerk Sanford forged checks
and raised certificates, and fled; and
now William G.. Stone, who had been
elected Treasurer rs a reformer on a
Citizens ticket, is found to have stolen
some $4,000. }..5
AN exchange recommends this as a
short and easy road to wealth: eff you
would become a millionaire without
trouble of any sort, lend somebody 800
for one hundred years at 10 per cent. At
the expiration of that time the interest
will amount to $3.50, 800. If you don't
want to live to collect the debt, sell it to
somebody that does.''
THE wonderful magnitude of the least
operations in nature is illustrated by the
quantity of honey that can be gathered
from flowers. Two hundred thousand
pounds have been taken from bees kept
within an area of 10 miles, and on
this basis it is plain that our continent
might be made to produce thousands of
tons yearly, and the honey crop outdo
the sugar crop.
AN Iowa farmer few days ago set
up heating-stove, at the time forget
ting to remove powder-horn filled
with powder, which he had put there in
the summer, and made fire therein.
In few minutes there was tremen-
dous explosion, which tore the top of
the stove off, demoralized windows,
plastering, etc. The inmates of the
room escaped with few slight bruises.
ONE of the most beautiful bouquets
ever seen in this city, says a Key
West (Florida) paper, was presented to
our sanctum on Saturday morning last.
It consisted of 142 roses around col
umn of 18 inches in length, interspersed
with small sprigs of geranium. There
were 16 varieties of roses, filling the
entire office with their delightful per-
fume.
A LITTLE daughter of Robert Cor
don, of Norristown, had a citron-seed
taken from her wind-pipe by Balti
more surg con. He cut small slit in
her throat, and in this way worked
the seed out, which was found to be
sprouted. 1t had been there about
three days, and in a short time would
have caused the chi1d's death. After
the operation the child appeared as well
as usual.
SIX hundred dollars is the fortune
the average Chinaman marks out for
himself. He knows nothing but silver.
He won't touch checks, greenbacks or
nickels. The common dollar he will
have nothing to do with. The Califor-
nian coin alone has charms for him.
When his 5000 are earned he takes his
bag on his back and starts for home to
marry and live as a nabob. Quite as
many Chinese leave for home as arrive
in San Francisco.
ROBERT BACON, of Chicago, is an in
ventor. One of his devices is fan
wheel, to be placed in hat, and run by
clock-work. His idea is that such
machine would keep the head cool in
the hottest weather, and prevent brain
diseases. He set one of them going in
his own hat, and the first thing he knew
his hair was being wound up in the ma.
chinery. The spring was very stiff, and
before he could release himself large
part of his hair was pulled out by the
roots.