American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-01
HERE AND THERE.


smell. They are both healthy, and have
all the other senses unimpaired.
A STYLISH, handsome pickpocket,
who "does" London, is accompanied
in his rambles by four charming, inno-
cent-looking young girls. whose pres
ence gives him an opportunity to get
near ladies' pocket-books. ts,,t.,r. rf..
A NEWSPAPER in Eureka, New, de-
clares that silk hat draws attention to
the wearer in that rude town, cane
gives rise to ominous mutterings, eye
classes cause the gathering Of a mob,
and kid gloves lead at once to lynch
ing.
A GROWTH of human hair, the long
est on record, is among the curiosities
to be seen at the Paris Exposition. 1t
came from the head of Norman girl,
Merlot by name, who lived with her
mother in the EXTREMIST poverty. 1t is
seven feet long, of an exquisite golden
color, luxuriant, and silky.
THE. effort of the managers to induce
women not to wear bonnets in the Gin
cinnati musical festival was generally
successful; but it excited anger in an
unexpected quarter. The dealers in
millinery regarded the move as a blow
to their business, and refused to iilum-
mate their stores on the night when all
other stores in the main streets were
blazing with light. -. 49, -,.,.,..,
A sHoPLIFTER was lately arrested in
Paris who bore under his arm a very in
nocent-looking box, seemingly done up
in paper and tied with a cord; but this
box had false bottom, opening and
closing with spring. Its owner would
set it down on two or three small arti-
cles while pretending to examine some
thing else, and when he took up the box
again, the articles that had been under
it were inside it.
THE IS setz,', fresh-water fish of
China, is about to be introduced into
France. 1t feeds upon aquatic plants,
and in, very short time it attains a
weight of 40 pounds, A few specimens
in the Observation-Disclosures. Paris,
where they have been kept during the
past three years, have taken very kind
ly to the locality, and there seems no
reason to doubt that the setz will be, by
and by, an important article of diet in
Europe, and perhaps. America. .-itni~H
= PERHAPS the most contemplate of all
human habits is that of borrowing.
Every time man or woman .borrows,
they drop degree lower. Mr.. Gowith-
out may be gentleman. Mr.. Bor-
rowall can never be one, though his an
cestor were n Duke with forty-nine III
ties. Don't borrow. Borrowing a
thing is almost as bad as waiting until
dark and taking it by main strength
Courier-JouraaGl.
AN exhibition of the photograph was
advertised as part of a benefit perform
ance in the Grand Opera House, San
Francisco. Sol Smith Russell made an
address explanatory of Edison's inyen-
ton, and then a box was placed on a
tablet, Russell turned q crank and from
the box came talk in tones like those OF
various public men well known in the
city. The audience soon discovered
that an actorconcealed. under the table,
was giving imitations.i Almost ariot
ens,ied, the people rBfusing to view the
deception as good joke. li. i4-tit.
MIR. STAB, corresponding member Of
the Society oftArts at Smyrna, reports
that the plague of field-rnice, or rats, has
again broken loose, and that they are
wasting the fields far and wide, Digging
up the seed corn, and devouring all they
can. This is the. plague from which
Homer records that Apollo Stnynthiu:
delivered the Greeks. AS the Smynthiar
Apollo. no longer has believers, Mr.
Stab wishes to know what remedy car
be recommended, The Western State.
of America suffer much from this pest
In his charge before the Grand Jur,
at Macon,a few days ago, Judge Arnolt
made the following statement in refer
ence to whisky drinking: Mississippi
annually consumes 100000 gallons, o
wine, 100000 of beer and $4,000
gallons of other liquors, principal.
whisky. Mississippi has population
of nearly one million, which would Civ
to every man, woman and child in tn
State 81 gallons of whisky, or to ever.
voter So gallons, or, say every har
drinker consumes on an average 70 gal
Ions of whiskyip per annumr .~,.-.e.
LUCIUs A. HARDEE asks Congress t
appropriate 1925, 000to enab lehim to jol
disease out of the community. He be
lieves that the principle of concussio
can be utilized to destroy all insects an
parasites,a well as animalcule or spores
the cause of pestilent air, thus stoppin
and removing epidemics. Prominer
citizens of Florida, who have witnesse
his practical tests with gunpOwder 6
Jacksonville, indorse his petition for a
appropriation, and he seems to have a
ardent faith that in conclusion is hidde
the secret of health and fertility.
SIMON CAMERON says that he ha
never heard any good of John Morris
sey, and regarded him as merely 10
prize-fighter and gambler, until he WEI
to Washington as Congressman. &C
must confess that was not favorabl
impressed with him. Cameron add
"and was surprised when a New Yor
politician spoke ia his praise" I'll
politician told story to the effect TIL
a young clerk lost $4,000 of his en-
ployer's money in Morrissey's gambling
house, and confessed to his parents, wi
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