American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-11-08
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AND THERE.
CALIFORNIA is infested by swarms OF
wild geese, which do serious damage &c
the grain.
A Boston hotel has begun the prac-
tice of giving away every Goth drink
to whoever comes in ut the right mo-
ment.
A NEW arrival at Fond du Lac, Wis,
is a Canadian Frenchman with his wife
and 10 children, who have come to stay
and will figure in the next census. They
occupied n whole car by themselves.
| A TOURIST, new to the beer-drinking
ways of the good people of Munich,
asked the lady presiding at a Lier-halle
| if her customers did not frequently be-
come intoxicated. "Santa Maria, sir,
they never get drunk, but they some
| times burst!''
ELLA JUDD was clerk in the Post
office at West Stockbridge, Mass. She
| could not bear to let the letters sent by
Mr.. Paulding to young lady pass
through her hands without reading
them. She was caught opening them,
and will be pro secuted.
AT Caro-, Tuscola County, Mich,
diphtheria has ragged with unusual vio-
lence. The total number of cases up to
a recent date was 90; of fatal cases, 10.
In the Belknap School District, Tuscola
County, the school-house has been closed
to any public gatherings, owing to the
appearance of this scourge.
A PARTY of AZ persons, among whom
there are II married couples and IA
children, have lately sailed from Bergen,
Norway, to colonize the uninhabited AL
dabra Island, in the Indian Ocean, 800
miles north of Madagascar, which is
said to be admirably adapted to agricul-
tural industry.
A GERMAN chemist reports the manu-
facture of artificial clover seed as now
flOurishing business in that country.
g Fragments of gravel of a suitable size
are obtained by sitting. and are then
agitated with certain coloring matters
in revolving drum till their appear
ance is considered satisfactory This
is an outrage on the patience of the
husbandman, who sows in faith, and
waits for the early and the latter
rain.
TOMMY KIDD, a life-man at the Mich
igan State-prison, has gone quite eX-
tensively into the Embarrassing business.
He has a number of very fine canaries,
all of which, except the younger ones,
are good singers. From the fact of his
being Il life-man the State makes no
provision for means to enable him to
procure reading matter and other lux
uries, and he sells his birds ut 81 each
to accomplish this.
THE Detroit Post and Tribune has
been interviewing the possessor of the
longest beard on record, Mr.. Edwin
Smith, of Fairfield, near Adrian, Mich.
The beard measures feet 6 1-2 inches.
Mr.. Smith is II farmer, AZ years old, 6
feet high, and weighs only 145 pounds;
hair and beard sandy and tinged with
gray. His twin brother, less bearded,
is stouter and enjoys much better
health. No unusual growth of
hair is noticeable in any other member
of the family. Mr.. Smith had Il fuzzy
face in childhood, began to shave at the
age of 13, but stopped shaving IS years
ago. His hair is thick and strong, and
has to be cut fOrtnightly.
The following instance illustrates the
evil working of the present English sys-
tenn of land management: The village
most prosperous in the county. The
farms, eight in number, were let to we'll
TODD tenants, most of whom were born
upon the soil they cultivated. But since
then there has been a total change both
in landlords and tenants. Some years
ago, when the land hunger was at its
height, the estate, comprising LOO
acres, was sold; all the old tenants
were evicted; the land was let to str;ln-
gers at an advanced rental, and an en-
tirely new system of management was
inaugurated by the gentleman who took
the management of the estate. The
farms were not long occupied. The al
vanced rent, like the last straw, made
itself felt, and tenant after tenant found
himself obliged to give up his holding;
they were succeeded in some cases by
other tenants, who, like their predeces-
sors, eventually succumbed, until at last
the village has become almost deserted
by farmers Seven farm houses are oc-
cupied by farmers, one or two are shut
up, and the others are occupied by
either bailiffs or laborers. The whole
of the land, with the exception of one
farm and some garden land, is in the
hands of the estate agent, who is car
rying on the cultivation at the expense
of the landlord. The landlords used to
clear Is, 900 year from this estate, but
for the last four years they have lost
$4,000 Il year.