American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-04-06
HERE AND THERE.

! red neck-tfes at their meetings.
MANY people are busy in this worl
. gathering together handful of thorn
: to sit upon.-Jeremy Taylor.
A New HAMPSHIRE hen has laid a
. egg within an egg, each having har
shells and containing regular yelks an,
whites
GEN. WILLIAMS, of Grand Island
Cal, owns farm of IL 900 acres, 6 90
of which are planted with wheat an
1000 with barley. ..
A RATTLEsNAKE, 6 feet Z inches il
length and measuring Is inches aroun,
the body, was killed in Emanuel Coun
ty, Georgia, recently. SO
# PHILADEEPAIAa ladies are thinkin:
of uniting against the high wages ant
extraordinary privileges demanded b.
female servants. They will shortl,
form a "Housekeepers' Protective
League" for the purpose.
THE celebrated Eddystone Light
house in the British Channel, which ba
buffetted the waves of century, viii
probably soon disappear, owing to tn,
undermining of the reef below it by the
1 waters.
A GAINESVILLE ga father dream
ed the other night that his baby was
dead, and the mother that she saw a
well full of water and running over
the next day the baby was drowned in a
tub of water.
THE absence of many tall trees in
European countries has been the subject
of frequent remark by travellers. There
are not more than 40 kinds growing
there that attain a height of 40 feet,
while we have about 40. s'i
THE Lewiston (Me.) Journal says
that the practice of snuff-dipping, which
is usually thought to be confined to the
South, is SO much in vogue in that city
that the amount usually used is from
5000 to $1,000 pounds, which is worth
from Sl5, 000to $4,000. -, e.-..
UNDER the direction of the Paris OBJ
servatory the system of agricultural
weather-warnings continues to be rap
idly developed and extended to all parts
of the country. The warnings are now
sent to ,432 communes, spread over
all departments of France except that
of Lozere. t,s
A GREATER man than Daniel Lambert
has appeared in England. He keeps a
public house at Newcastle-on-Tyne and
is not yet2 2. He stands 6 feet inches
in height and weighs $50 pounds. He
measures feet around the shoulders,
feet around the waist, and 8 feet around
the calf of his leg.
The wife of Joseph Brown, of Ala
bama, has presented him with twins
twice within 10 months. And the paper
that records this pleasing fact says that
Mr.. Joseph Bryan, a gentleman of the
same State, in his 10th year, is the father
of four healthy children, born within the
past two years-two boys first and then
two girls. 1n- @uai ~ aIiis tHsnsf.
AMSTERDAM keeper of the Manitou
(Mich.) lighthouse, and his wife and
baby were drowned last week by the up
setting of their boat. They chung to the
keel for over an hour and then dropped
off, and sank, the baby first dying in the
mothers arms. Richard Kitchen, who
was with them, and survives to tell the
story, was picked up after clinging to
the boat for four hours.
DANIEL E. CHURCH, for many years
steward of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind
Institution at Flint, Mich, began she'd
ding his hair and whiskers short time
since, and, despite preventives, which
were used freely, lost every hair on his
head and face, so that now he is obliged
to wear a wig. 1t is puzzler for med
ical men, as his health has been good for
years, sickness not being the cause.
THE Canadian legislators are making
progress. When the Hon. Peter Mitchell
was delivering dreadfully dry speech a
few, days ago, and the Commons tried
to dry up the stream of his eloquence
by interrupting him, the honorable
member got mad and said with sublime
disdain: ssWho was that who brayed?"
sit was only an echo,' was the reply of
witty opponent.
A SINGULAR fragment of hum anity,
known as MIR. Walter Stuart, is about to
be exhibited at the American Museum,
New York. This individual was born
legless and armless at Broomfeld, Me-,
and is now % years of age. He pos
sesses handsome features, is entertain
ing in conversation, reads, writes, sews,
shaves and cuts hair; in fact, does every
thing that ordinary men do.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
received in an envelope, postmarked
Cincinnati, three 81 200 coupon bonds,
accompanied by memorandum indi-
eating that this amount should be cred
tied to the Treasurer of the United
States. The bonds have been so thor
oughly cancelled that their serial num-
bers can not be ascertained. Eventually
the amount will be credited to the con-
science fund
MR. POWELL TUCKER, of New York,
is described as the monumental donkey
of the age He infested Egypt and car
ried with him pot of black paint and
a big brush, with which he daubed in
giant letters on all the obelisks, and
temples, and pyramids, and things,
&c Powell Tucker, New York, 1s70.' If
the Khedive can catch him Mr.. Powell
Tucker is likely to be impaled and stuck
up to dry on the summit of the Pyra-
mid of Ghizeh.
THE Captain of British bark, which