American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-07-20
HERE AND THERE

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Fridays, for he has given permission to
the boys to go in swimming on those
days.
AMONG the assets of bankrupt Ken
lucky farmer was an elephant, which he
had bought at an auction sale of circus
property a year before, and which had
doubtless fastened his financial disaster.
In Boston the Bergh society is enlist
ed in behalf of the cats that are left to
wander homeless while their owners go
on their country summefing. The offef
Is made to take care of the cats that are
TO be deserted-by chloroform, if homes
can't be found for them.
WESTMINSTER, Mass, had an old
folks picnic, at which a persons over 40
years of age were present. Jonas
Miller performed on the big fiddle that
he used to play in church GO years ago,
and Miss Bacon, aged 81, contributed
an original poem.
A LAKE of medicine has been discov-
cred in Stevens County, Washington
Territory. Boys battle their chapped
feet in it and are speedily cured. 1t cures
scratches on horses and every kind of
skin disease. The lake is half mile
wide and one mile long.
DIR. FoorE, in his Health Monthly, adj
vises those who battle, to plunge in
quickly when they are ready to enter
the water. Many people make them
selves sick by creeping in an inch at
time thereby chilling the feet and eX-
tremities and causing arrangement
of the circulation.
EVEN at three cents mug, it is said
the retailer of beer can make a hundred
per cent, if he knows the tricks of
drawing it. 1t all depends on the pro-
portion of foam to solid beer in the
mug, and the tapster who can not make
keg yield a hundred mugs does not
understand his business.
If the surplus population does not
take to the cultivation of the soil it is
not on account of the dearness of lands.
Three hundred and sixty thousand acres
of white oak timber and mineral lands
in McDougall County, West Virginia,
were sold the other day by auction. At
ter 6O,CCO acres had been disposed of,
the remaining 100000 were knocked
down at one cent an acre.
A MICHIGAN girl tried to get into
rear window of the school-house the
other day, when the sash fell and held
her fast about the neck. Several men
across the street heard her scream, but
supposed it was children at play, and it
was 10 or Is minutes before she was
seen and her unconscious body released.
1t was long before indications of life
were discovered, and several hours be-
fore tho child regained consciousness.
A VERY peculiar crime is that of
which William Norris, of Independence,
Ohio, is accused. Norris, married
man, 26 years old, wished to get rid of
little Allie Berry, SO he chloroformed
her, made an incision with a knife in
her foot, injected poison into the wound,
and then raised the alarm that she had
been bitten by a snake. The child, at
last accounts, was in dying condition,
and Norris was under arrest, with i'm
minent prospects of being lynched.
SWIMMING, says Gen. J. E. Alexan-
der, may be taught in two days in this
manner: A pole ten feet long is project
ed from the stern of q boat. There is
an iron ring at the outer end of the
pole. A man rows the boat slowly in
smooth water. Another stands in the
boat, supports the learner by means of
girth round the chest and rope pass
ed through the ring of the pole, and di-
reefs him how to make strokes with his
arms and legs.
! THE Chief Engineer of the Chicago
and Northwestern Road, to test the
smoothness of the track, placed a glass
of water on the seat of Pullman palace
car the other day, and carried it right
through from Chicago to Omaha with
out losing a drop. Thinking specific
gravity might have something to do
with it, next trip he tried a glass of
whisky, and when he examined the glass
at the first station out he found it as
dry as the Desert of Sahara at high
noon.
The Governor of Kwang Tung re-
Gently applied to the Chinese Govern
ment for permission to erect a memo
rial structure in honor of the filial de-
votion of young daughter of a magis-
trate in Canton. Her father fell ill, and
she devoted herself to nursing him. At
the end of six months his malady in
creased, and the daughter cut a piece of
flesh from her arm, and mixed it with
his medicine. The remedy, however,
proved Intellectual, so she vowed to sac
rifice her life to his, and poisoned her.
self on the day that her father died.
The Government has sanctioned the
monument.
In the Philadelphia Medical Times
there is recorded remarkable case of
hydrophobia. The victim, a young man
of "a, had not been bitten at all, and
when the disease manifested itself, he
supposed that he was suffering from a
sore throat resulting from exposure to
cold. Thus imagination could not have
caused it, nor could it be called ordina-
ry tetanus or lockjaw, produced by a
wound, though some medical men insist
that all cases of hydrophobia can be ac-
counted or in this manner. On inquiry
1t was discovered that the young man
had been nursing a sick dog, whose sa-
| Iva had often covered his hands. The