American citizen., 1878-11-16
HERE AND THERE.


year 1874.
LUCRETIA MOTT has reached the age
of So years.
THE Paris Mint, since 1795, has made
1,7OO, 200 gold coins.
CHESS clubs are again being revived
as fashionable organizations.
A GEORGIA boy carried silver quar-
ter in his throat three weeks.
BEARS and wildcats are killing sheep
in Chippewa County, Wis.
SEVEN hundred million postage
stamps are annually defaced in the
American Post-offices
| AT st. Paul, Mimi, a drunken man
jumped from the bridge, 60 feet, into
the Mississippi River the other day, and
escaped with few serious bruises.
A PORTER on sleeping-car says that
as rule the woman who loses 50-cent
breast-pin makes more fuss than the
one who loses whole set of good jew
elry.
BEING unable to make their wedding
cake go around Gt stood four feet above
its pedestaD, Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Bell,
Jr., of New York, had it photographed
before they started for Earope and sent
copies to their friends.
DANIEL ROOF, of South Bend, Ind,
has curiosity in the shape of a large
russell potato, with sprouts II feet long,
L., r;<h
tive potatoes. He found it in his cellar,
where it had grown on a solid cement
floor.
A PANORAMA of heaven was exhibit
ed N Lutheran Church in Philadel-
phia, and it is charged that some of the
pictures were old views of the Interna-
tional Exhibition buildings, altered by
the addition of angels, halos, and
clouds.
THE Cleopatra obelisk now stands on
the Thames embankment without a
single support. Considerable work in
the surroundings, however, remains to
be done. The sphynxes have yet to be
erected, and they are not at present up
on the spot.
Mrs. MARY JEROME, New London's
centenarian, never went inside rail-
way car, and never went beyond the
towns limits except once, during the
war of 1912, when the British ships
blockaded Decatur's fleet in the harbor,
and the women and children were sent
away for safety.
DANIEL A. WARNER, of Boston, con-
cocted a foolhardy scheme to get $1O,-
600 from Nathan Goodnow, to whom
he wrote that unless the money was
handed over at certain time and place
death would be the certain penalty.
Warner, on being arrested, said that he
had taken the small chance of success
because he was destitute and desperate.
WOMAN suffrage has been discussed
anew in the Vermont Legislature, the
immediate issue being whether women
should be permitted to vote for school
trustees. Judge Poland advocated the
restriction of the privilege to unmarried
women, because he deemed married
women sufficiently represented by their
husbands. The entire measure was
voted down.
A REPORT that five missionaries had
been eaten by the natives in New Zea-
land having been received in England
from New York, Sir Julius Vogel tele
graphed from London to the Govern
ment of the island for information about
it. The answer was that there was no
foundation for the story and the natives
were never quieter or more loyal.
BIsMARCK's big dog Sultan, having
tried to devour Prince Gortscakoff and
having snapped at his mistress, recent
ly made at an intimate friend of the
Chancellor's, who had called to offer his
congratulations on the approaching
wedding, with such business-like as
pect that the guest vanished. "That
dog will lose me all my friends yet,'
said the Prince.
WHEN an Afghan is about to sell hi:
horse he carries on the dicker with the
intending purchaser by pressures o.
their fingers concealed by his robe, anc
though the animal is carefully examin
ed, of course, not word is said. Eacf
squeeze of the hand means five rupees
The theory is that the horse would lose
flesh through sorrow if he thought hi
master would part with him.
SHERE ALI, the Emir of Cabul, is rep
resented in the pictorials as a goo'
looking man under 40. He is really IS
with long gray beard, white eyebrows
large hooked nose, and broad shoul
ders His face is of the Jewish type
He is short in stature, and in addition
to his Astrakhan hat wears a green sill
waistcoat and brown cloak embroider
ed with gold. His trousers are white
and his boots of patent leather.
A BRITISH tourist has made uproa
in Rheims. One night, about 8 O'Clock
the town was alarmed by the sound c
, the tocsin, or big bell of the cathedral
The inhabitants rushed out of thei
e houses expecting to find revolution @
= a fire, but they were agreeably disar
pointed. The dreadful knell was mere
ly the work of an English traveller, VIII
having been locked up in the cathedra
thought the best way to get out woul
be to set the big bell going.
PILGRIMAGEs will be fashionable i