American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-29
HERE AND THERE.

| NEXT year the eighteen hundredth an
niversary of the destruction of Pompeii
and Herculaneum is to be celebrated at
Pompeii.
| MR.. E. S. JAFFRAY, the New York
merchant millionaire, travels daily be-
tween the city and his country-seat at
Irvington, on the Hudson, in his steam
yacht.
| EVERY BODY has heard of Glauber's
salts, but how many know whether
Glauber is the name of q place or a
man? He was in fact famous chemist
of Amsterdam in the sixteenth century,
who invented the peculiar preparation
bearing his name.
CITIZENS of New Jersey are largely
petitioning the Governor to enforce the
laws that forbid the running of more
than one passenger train on any railroad
on the Sabbath, and to prevent a great
| and grievous amount of Sabbath desc
Grafton.
THE greatest benefactor of the female
sex on this continent, according to the
Chicago Times, is Judge Grant, of
Davenport, Iowa. He has adopted II
girls, ERASED them, and married most
of them off with generous endowments.
THE British Council of the Society of
Arts offers its gold medal for the best
means of saving life at sea, when a ves-
sci has to be abandoned suddenly, say
with only five minutes warning, the
shore or other vessels being in sight
Appliances for the competition are to be
sent in not later than the 31st of Octo-
Der.
MR.. HOLLIsTER, San Francisc
botanist, has introduced the Japanese
pishamin into California, fruit he de-
scribes as the most beautiful he has ever
seen, and most delicious to the taste;
four specimens which ripened in Cali
fornia weighed three-quarters of apound
each, were of rich color, and looked
like balls of wax.
A FREDoNIA IN. W elopement had
sensational ending and reconciliation
at Philadelphia. The irate papa found
the happy couple in parlor-car at the
dCpOG tAClC bho hhOShCu lio now sun
in-law senseless with his cane, when the
young woman put her injured lord into
a carriage and drove off to surgeons,
leaving remorseful papa to plod on alone
and sue for peace in the d ctor's office.
SMALLPOX and diphtheria have been
very prevalent and fatal lately in Lon
don. Since New Years there have been
1,l34 fatal cases of smallpox within Is
miles of Charing Cross, while there
were but eight deaths of that disease, in
the same period, in 10 provincial towns
of England having an aggregate popu-
lation about equal to that of the me-
tropolis.
THE only equivalent in the Japanese
language for the English word baptism
or immersion is soaking. A ludicrous
illustration of its application is the fol-
lowing from the Baptist translation of
the Bible into Japanese, which greatly
astonished the Japs: "In those days
came John the soaker, preaching the
soaking of repentance. Repent, and
be soaked, every one of YOU"
A VESSEL recently arrived at Liver
pool with the extraordinary freight of
three living whales, brought from the
coast of Labrador and intended for pub
lie aquariums. They were each about
IA feet long, 8 feet girth and weighing
half ton. On the voyage they were
placed in long wooden boxes, reposing
upon bed of sea weed, and being flush
ed with water from a bucket every few
minutes. The flushing had the curious
effect of peeling off strips of their skin,
so that the coat will be entirely shed by
the time they get into their permanent
tanks. No food was given them on the
voyage. When they were being removed
ashore two of them, it is said, emitted a
very peculiar kind of scream.