American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-02-23
HERE AND THERE.

SERVANTS receive the highest prices
in the world in St. Petersburg.
BY some unaccountable mistake at a
recen. wedding at Williamsport, Pa,
the bridesmaid was married instead of
the intended bride.
THE city of Montgomery, Ala, pays
tramps % cents day for working on
the streets. The discovery has been
made that some who are not tranps
were willing to work for that sum.
CAPT. MALCoM, R. N, lately sent by
the British Government to assist Egypt
in the suppression Of the slave trade in
the Red Sea, has been made a Pasha,
the fourth English Pashain the Egyptian
service. .-.
SIxTY thousand commercial travellers
are employed by the wholesale mer-
chants of the United States, at an. ay
erage annual expense of IS, 900 at least,
making the aggregate the enormous sum
of $3.50, ,OOO,0 900.
GOSPEL disturbers have more than
their match in the Rev. S. Dunbar of
Adair, KY, who is also Constable.
Whenever the services of his sanctuary
are interrupted, he closes his Bible,
marches down from the pulpit, collars
the disturber, and leads him to prison.
MR.. PHILIP c. GARRETr, an Ameri-
can residing in Antwerp, Belgium, has
offered a prize of 1900 francs for the
best essay upon the means of establish
ing international arbitration. in regard
to war His address is care of M.
Kohler, p Rue Ommegauch, in that
city.
THE English army has long enjoyed
the reputation of being the most expen-
sively dressed in Europe. The most
costly Uniform is that of staff sergeant
in the Foot Guards, to clothS whom en-
tails upon the country about. SO per
man per annum, and the cheapest man
to equip is the negro private of the
West India regiments, whose pictur-
esque zouave uniform costs about $12
per anuum. tiC Ju +s
THE Galveston NesoS says that Eula-
liza Perez, living in Los Angeles, Cali
fornia, is uthe oldest woman in the
world. She is now 140, and still uses
her needle, having sent a piece of en-
broidery to a church fair about two
years ago. Her age is well authenti-
Gated, as it is on record that when the
church of the Mission of St. Gabriel was
built in 1771, she was a married woman
and the mother of several children, Io
A PAPER was recently read before the
Philosophical Society of Washington
City by Colonel Mallory in reference to
certain prevalent fallacies concerning
the North American Indians. Among
the more Important of these, Colonel
Mallory referred to the idea that the In
dian population is dying out and des-
tined ultimately to extinction. He pre-
sented an elaborate argument to show
that the early estimates in regard TO the
number belonging to the Indian race in
different parts of North America were
extremely exaggerated, that two or three
hundred thousand souls were credited
| in regions that could not by any, posi-
bility have contained more than ten
thousand, and that the later and more
accurate enumeration always reduced
the figures very materially, He also
read ample testimony to prove that, ex-
cepting in certain very unusual cases,
the population is actually increasing,
especially that of the half3breeds, show;
| ing that the Indian race unites kindly
with all nationalities, and produces a
healthy, vigorous offspring.l uoll-j Of
IN the curious old towns Of East and
! West Looc, Cornwall, England, might
have been seen few years ago, cages
which, within the memory Of the Oldest
! inhabitants, had been used for the pur-
poses for which they were originally in
tended-the reception of common Gem
inine) scolds. On the last occasion they
were used, Mesdames Whit and Niles,
conspicuous for linguistic powers, de-
termined on an appeal to Mr.. aJohn
Chubb, the Mayor. The former lady
arrived first at the seat of judgments and
went, hammer and tongs, at her story
but Mrs Niles soon appeared on the
scene, when the controversy assumed sc
Vituperative character that the Mayor
called for the constables- Each OF the
ladies then appeared triumphant, fol
each thought that Il retribution was a
hand for the enemy, whereas, to theil
dismay, the astute dignitary ordered
both to be Gagged until they had settled
their dispute. After brief incareera
ton, during which they were objects O
much public interest, they emerged milo
as milk. Penzance also had cage
The custom seems to have been confined
to Cornwall. id att
A CAPUCHIN friar in Turin has con
structed a large and complicated worl
of mechanism by which the passion o
sufferings of the Saviour, from His con
demnation before Herod to His deatl
on the cross, are marvelously represent
ed. On constantly receding platform
the figures appear and the scenes change
Not only are the movements of the au
tomata lifelike, but the figures am
scenery are masterpieces of art. Tn
crowd clamoring for His death is repre-
sented by very numerous group q
figures, which are wonderfully distinc
in action and appearance. The fallin
beneath the cross on the way to Calvar
, is painfully graphic. TO render quit
audible the lashing of the whips of th
soldiers is one of the functions Of tn
| machinery. the scenes at the place O