American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-08-24
HERE AND THERE.

AN VI ID lClPitCu
between this and 1880, in which year
their exemption from military service
will end in Russia, where they number
100000
In England the bicycle business is as
suming large dimensions. There are
100 makers, million pounds are invest
ed in the business, and 10000 bicycles
are in existence in London and the prov
| inces.
THE island of Cyprus at one time
contained nine different Kingdoms, and
more than million inhabitants. Owing
to the alleged peculiar temperament of
| its people, it was called "the home of
love and beauty
In 1876, wolves in the Russian prov
ince of Samara devoured $3.50 horses
and horned cattle, $4,000 small cattle,
$4,000 domestic fowls, and more than
1000 dogs. In 1877 their ravages were
even greater, and the loss in the two
years is estimated at 100000.
The loss of the German ironclad
Grosser Kurfurst has had a disastrous
effect upon the fisheries of Folkstone.
Many of the bodies picked up have been
found to be sadly mutilated by the fish,
and SO the inhabitants generally have
declined to take any part in seating the
Germans" as they put it.
THERE is colored boy living on the
farm of Major Throckmorton, near Ce-
dar Mountain, about seven miles from
Culpepper, Va, whose skin is exactly
like that of a snake, the creases and
diamond-shaped scales being plainly
discernible on all the unexposed portions
of the body.
A JoURNEYMAN glider, boy of 10,
has been arrested at Berlin for sticking
On wall opposite the Crown Princes
palace a placard containing the follow
ing words: s'Last Bulletin-His Ma
jesty the Emperor is re-established the
make his appearance"
IT is said that there is superstition
in China to the effect that famine like
the present one is evidence of divine dis
pleasure with the Emperor. The pres
ent Emperor INDUCES in this belief, and
cuts down his table-fare one-half, send
ing cut from time to time edicts of self
abasement. A British consul thinks the
present famine is the result of reckless
tree destruction.
KEARNEY's expenses on his oratorical
tour in the East are not paid by him.
He is not a bloated capitalist, though
the owner of several trucks. Shortly
before his departure from San Francis
co a concert was given for his benefit
that was, in point of attendance and
pecuniarily, one of the most successful
ever witnessed in that city. The amount
netted was sufficient to pay all the cost
of a three months trip to the East, and
will leave something over.
THE public debt of Europe was divid-
ed as follows in 1876: France, S4,6S7,-
921 400; Prussia, 1929 1852, 1875; Italy,
50 ,000, 200. 600; Russia, 81, 254, $40, goo;
Spain, $2,650, OOO,O 900; Turkey, $927,-
100000; Great Britain, SO, 1884, 1852, 720.
These are the heaviest debts, and they
bear hardest on Turkey, Italy, Russia,
and Spain. While some of the debts
may have slightly decreased in the last
two years, others have greatly increased,
as in the cases of Russia and Turkey.
A WILLIMANTIC girl, employed in a
thread factory, wrote her name and the
words, Wanted, husband" on a
spool recently, and when it had been
wound with thread it was sent to South
Norwich shoe factory, where it fell into
Ridgefield mans hands. He began
correspondence; the girl replied that
she was engaged, but would find him
another as good as she, and a marriage
has just taken place as result of the
spool's message.
A CURIOUS controversy over wom-
ans heart has arisen at Nice, Italy. An
American lady, who had been converted
to Roman Catholicism, left 100000 to
the church of Father Lavigne on condi-
ton that she should be buried within
the precincts of the edifice. The NUM-
cipal authorities opposed such step as
being against the health regulations, but
the ecclesiastical legatees thought to get
over the difficulty by burying the heart
only in the church. The family, how
ever, would not permit the body to be
cut.
CHOLERA created great havoc in
Japan last year, beginning at Yoke
hama in September, and occasional
cases reported as late as June 10 show
that the poison of the disease has sur
vived the winter. The epidemic ex-
tended to all parts of the empire last
year, during the months of September,
October, and November, with mortali-
ty of 1867 out of a total of ID, 10 cases,
or 5S1 deaths to 1000 cases. No means
have yet been instituted in Japan to
prevent the Importation of the disease
from China, where it exists, and where
the appalling famine furnishes the most
| favorable conditions for it's reappear-
ance in more malignant form. At
Calcutta and Bombay the cholera is al
so reaping weekly harvest of deaths,
but at last reports the disease had not
attained alarming epidemic proportions.
G. p. SANDERsoN, the officer in
charge of the English elephant-catching
establishment in Mysore, says that ele-
| plants travel in herds and in strict In
dian file. When a calf is born, the herd
remains with the mother two days; the
calf is then able to march and can cross
rivers and climb hills with the assist
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