American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-05-25
HERE AND THERE.

EIGHTEEN families in New VOTE
count up s240, 600 among them.
The Boston time-ball, which drops
every day at noon, can be seen foul
miles.
VERY little clearinghouse is sold in
England, and that mostly to American
tourists.
CALEB CUSHING is the only survivor
of the large company raised in New
buryport, Mass, for the Mexican war
DURING the past year, 10000 fossil
insects have been exhumed from the
rock-beds at Florissant, near Manitou,
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PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON was drawn
for service in the French army. He
obtained exemption as the only son of a
widow.
THE Sultan never leaves his palace,
even on the shortest expedition, unless
he IS accompanied by wagon laden
with refreshments.
The price paid by Peter Minuit for the
site of New York was 1924. At COM
pound interest it would now amount to
SAC, 100000.
THE Partisan Gas Company made
$5, SO5, 900 last year. After handing ST.
10000 over to the city, it declared a
dividend of 244 per cent.
A RAILWAY train crossed the Ural
Mountains for the first time on March
II, on the occasion of the opening of
the new line from Perm to Jekaterin-
burg.
SAMUEL B. HABE, of Boston, settled
in the Argentine Republic 20 years ago.
Now he owns farm of $4,000 acres.
all fenced in, and, his live stock consists
of no. 900 sheep, 6, 900 beeves, 800 horses
and ], 400 hogs.
WILLIAM of Orange, Crown Prince
of the Netherlands, is a young fellow of
the "Prince Hal" pattern. He leads a
merry life in Paris with the Pistols and
Bardolphs of the Boulevard cafes, and
does not care whether court keeps or
not.
AN immense sperm-whale became
stranded in Port Eads Bay at the mouth
of the Mississippi, about three weeks
ago, and was captured by man and his
little son in small boat, the only
weapon used in its capture being a
Ratchet. The trophy measured 50 feet
in length and Is feet through the thick
est part, and will yield about so barrels
of oil.
An impecunious Italian tailor went in
to the Church of st. Luke, in the Campo
Vaccine, Rome, and pretended to pray
He continued at his simulat-
ed devotions until every body else had
left the building. As soon as he found
himself alone and unobserved, he drew
a large chisel from under his garments
and forced the door of the tabernacle
the sacred vessels. Soon
after his arrest some of the silverware
was recovered. His praying will here
after be done in secret, in the solitude
of a prison cell.
Two years ago newly ordained
priest, Father Russkiewicz, having ad-
the parish of Sowina, diocese
of Posen, by order of Cardinal Ledo-
was condemned to two years.
When he came out of
prison last week he was taken into GUS
tody again and conveyed by armed po-
licemen to Zindst, which is, the Ger
mania tells US, small barren island in
the Baltic, with 2,O25 Inhabitants, who
depend for their support on herring
fishing, and are all Protestants.
SENATOR HERMAN is said to have a
long, practical, sensible nose; Senator
Conkling handsome, fighting nose
Senator Lamar an artistic nose of great
Senator Howe long tri-
angular nose, with sharp point; Sem
ator Bayard an inquisitive, yet q courte-
Gus nose; Senator Edmunds firm nose,
The nose of gnarled and knotted charac-
ter, and Senator Barnum dashing and
needless nose. So gossips a Washing
ton writer, who thinks he knows all
about it.
THE Salem witches are not all dead
yet, it seems, for man, calling himself
q professor of metaphysics, appeard be-
fore Judge Colt Of the Supreme Court
at Boston the other day and asked him
to restrain Daniel H. Puffer, Salem
from practicing his powers
on Lucretia L. S. Brown, of Ipswich,
who has been under his control since
1875, and has already had her spine dis
ordered and her mind impaired by
Puffer's witchery. The Judge decided,
however, that mesmerism and witch
craft were rather out of his line.
THE terrible drought which has for
some time afflicted almost the whole of
Australia is at length breaking up.
Sheep and cattle have suffered severely,
and, in many instances, owners have
lost one-half of their flocks and herds.
The want of water is really the curse of
Australia; and it seems doubtful whether
this can ever be effectually remedied, al
though large expenditure has been in
Cured in arrangements for the storage
of water in threatened localities. The
small land owners-ssfree selectors"
and s'cockatoo farmers" as they are
called-have very hard time of it, I'M
less they chance to be in singularly
favored district.
THE British Medical Journal, in
speaking of the effect of the habit of
smoking upon the general health of
boys under 16 years of age, says: ga
celebrated physician took for his pur-
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