American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-01-12
HERE AND THERE.

e ton as weather prophets by building
, their nests for this winter exceptionall
thick and warm.
? THERE are no bed-bugs in Chimes
5 house, no matter how bad the beds are
For some unknown reason this insect
: path branches off from that of Johl
, Chinee.
EGYPT has 765 non-navigable canal
used solely for irrigation, and 62 canals
used both for irrigation and traffic. o
these canals over 100 have been opened
during the reign of the Khedive.
THE children in the public schools O.
Mexico are contributing toward the
payment of the debt owed by Mexico tc
the United States. An amateur theatric
al performance at Zacatecas cleared
$101 toward the same object. Sub
scriptions for the payment of the debt
are coming in from all parts of Mexico.
A Boston lady, over go years of age,
has collected 100000 Cancelled post
age-stamps, having been offered for do
ing so, by a Boston man, the $500
necessary to obtain her admission to
st. Luke's Hospital. The stamps fill a
Saratoga trunk, and will be sent to Eu-
rope to be used in the manufacture of
papier-mache goods. ..f ....-.....+ ......
A COUPLE of romantic California
misses out sketching wild scenery in the
neighborhood of Shasta, lately, stum-
bled accidentally upon a rich ledge of
gold quartz. The art instinct in them
instantly gave place to the practical,
and they hurried away to file their
claims to what may prove fortune.
INQUIRY into the wicked ways of
Philadelphia's mock auction men reveal
that they hired two or three women to
attend the sales, carefully inspect arti-
cles that were to be sold, start the bid
ding at the articles cost price, and run
it up among themselves until an out
slider put in bid. 1t was then prompt
ly knocked down-to the outsider.
SAN FRANCISCO has Home for In
ebriates, where habitual drunkards are
sent by their friends to be cared for,
and, if possible, cured. The Legisla-
ture appropriates $500 month for its
support, and portion of the fines in
fiicted in the Police Court for drunken
ness goes to the institution. A PROPOSE
ton is being mooted to tax all sales of
liquor for the benefit of the Sc Home"
WILEY TURNER, of Norcross, Ga, a
sprightly, intelligent youth, 15 years of
age, five feet seven inches high, and
weighing 120 pounds, never ate mouth
full of animal meat of any description,
fowl or fish, in his life. He has never
taken drink of spirits, nor a chew of
tobacco, nor smoked. His complexion
is good, his cheeks rosy, and form good.
THE price of a human jaw at the seat
of war in Bulgaria is about $500. 1t
varies according to the regularity,
sOundness and whiteness of the teeth.
In Paris the quotation is so per cent.
greater at wholesale rates. The ghast-
ly wares are conveyed in cases contain
ing 500, and the teeth are extracted after
their arrival at the city to which the
jaws are consigned. t..- ... ..,......
A PHILADELPHIA principal of pub
lie school went on a spree on Sunday,
and quarreled with bleacher named
Holdsworth in tavern. They agreed
to fight it out according to prize-ring |
rules, and did SO. In the nineteenth |
round the school teacher, who had been |
badly punished from the start, received !
a terrible blow between the eyes, andlI
was compelled to throw up the sponge.
He was taken to his home severely
bruised and perfectly sober. " '@' 2.
GREET doubts have often been thrown
on alleged cases of burial alive. but the
London Lancet mentions a recent, most
case at Naples. The grave
in which a woman had been inferred
having been opened for the reception
Of another body revealed the clearest
proof of this dreadful circumstance.
The poor creature had torn her clothes
to pieces and even fractured her limbs
N her efforts to release herself. The
1octor who signed the certificate and
he municipal officer who sanctioned the
nterment have been sent to jail for
hree months for t'involuntary man
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A CONTRIBUTOR to a scientific paper
writes: 81 find that under very favor
lble circumstances it is just possible to |
zee, while in England, church in
france with unassisted vision. In the
direction of Calais the coast of Artois is
Tery fiat, and on the 26th of March last
found through my telescope large
hurch or cathedral few miles to the
of Calais and 1 could also
ee it distinctly through an opera glass
'ut certainly was astonished on the
vening in question to find that 1 could
ust distinguish it with the naked eye as
tiny dark speck against the bright hor-
zon sky. question whether there are
many days, or even hours, in any one
ear when the same results could be OBJ
aimed" 1.. rel.
THE truthfulness of the old English
aging that a green Christmas makes a
1T graveyard, is seriously questioned in :
lodern times. A more healthful fall {
nd early winter has not been enjoyed
I a score of years. In Boston the death
ate for the last seven weeks was 13 per
ent. less than that of year ago, at
vhich time the season was much more 7
evere. A careful comparison of the l
rooklyn death rate for several years 1
18th the record of the temnerat11re for L