American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-01-25
HERE AND THERE.

yearly in paintings.
In Boston, so years ago, lottery tick
cts were sometimes given as school
prizes.
ALABAMA clears $4,000 by hiring
out her conviets, and keeps only few
in the penitentiaries.
THE Cabinet officers have dinner at
the house of one of the members every
fortnight, and they attend in morning
dress.
The importation of fruit from the
Mediterranean direct to Boston by
steamers is larger this season than ever
before:
NEVADA has 5000, 900 in her Treasu-
ry, and the people are urging the build
ing of an insane asylum and school of
mines with 1t.
DIrHTHERiA is raging at Vienna
and in some districts of Hungary. In
one town of 10000 souls 2,1S5 cases
927 deaths are reported.
PACK butter in clean, scalded fir
kin; cover it with strong brine and
spread cloth all over the top. If you
have bit of saltpeter dissolve it with
the brine.
BEEcHER's pews sold this year at atic-
ton for $4,000, an advance on last
tear's prices. The highest price paid
last year for a pew was 1915; this
year it was $4OO.
A large hawk recently shot at Roy
mond, N. H., had steel trap and three
feet of chain attached to its leg which
it had carried from Gambia, six miles
away.
W. II. VANDERBILT, said to be the
richest man in the United States, swears
to a written statement that he has no
personal property subject to taxation.
A widow with one COW pays tax.
Tit number of students belonging to
the Universities of Kieff; Kharkoff, Mos
COW and St. Petersburg that have been
expelled. imprisoned or exiled without
trial to Siberia, since the Disturbances
broke out at Kieff last spring, now ex-
ceeds 600.
A REMARKABLE cavern has been dis
covered near Columbia, Tuolumne
County, CAL, which has been explored
over mile. Some of the chambers are
described as being of remarkable beatty
and grahdeut. Crowds are Visiting the
cave daily.
CROWDS Of unemployed and starving
men, women and children swarm
through the streets of Birmingham,
Sheffield, Manchester, Glasgow and
other great English manufacturing CEN
tiers. At Sheffield, with a population of
275,00O; five thousand people are at this
time s,ibsisting OF, charity.
"AMERiGAN drinks - known at Paris !:
Blue Blazes, Fairy's Kiss, Flash Of
Lightning, Heap of Comfort, Boston
Float, Dogs Nose, Rattlesnake, Arctic
Region, Corpse Reviver, Colleen Bawn,
Maiden's Blush, Morality Punch, Spell
ing Bee, and Prairie Oyster.
THE perfume manufacturers in the
department Of the Maritime Alps con-
sumo annually 5000 hundred weight Of
roses, and the neighborhood of Grasse
and Cannes is thickly studded with rose
farms. On one hectare of two and q
half acres $4,000 bushes are planted, q
single bush yielding for twelve years.
A single hectare in good cultivation will
net an average profit of twenty-four per
cent. per year.
JAMES BROOKS had for several years
got drunk on New Years Day in Bis
marck, Dakota, and rather than break
the custom, he rode 60 miles on Horse
back on Dec. 81, 1878. He lost no time
after his arrival, but began his annual
frolic Immediately in dance hall, and
was soon drunk and quarrelsome. He
bullied everybody in the place except
one woman. and she, when he struck
her, shot him dead.
AN attack by wolves in the streets of
an American village is an unusual &C.
curl ence, but it was the experience OF
Mr.. Miner, of Joselyn, Mimi. Five
these animals sprang at his horse and
tried to get into his wagon, but his dog
coming up diverted the attention of the
animals, who Immediately seized and
devoured him. His wife and three chill
dren, who were with him, at length
brought assistance by their incessant
shouting.
| CONSIDERABLY CONSERVATION has
been CT Gated in Pennsylvania by deci-
sion of the Supreme Court to the effect
that the dover interest of a wife in the
real estate of a bankrupt is not destroyed
by an assignee's sale of the property for
the benefit of creditors. A different un-
Outstanding of the law has heretofore
prevailed, and the effect of the decision
will be to unsettle the title TO large
amounts of real estate conveyed by
assignees in bankruptcy without refer
ence to the wife's dover.
The correspondent of a London pa
per describes an Afghan beauty as hav'
ing blue-black hair, plastered stiff witt
gums, and either worn in various forms
on the head or plated in long braid:
down the back. The margins of the ear
are pierced and decorated with rows o
small silver rings, while large ring
hang from the lobes. The neck ana
breast are tattooed with little figures O
stars and flowers, and the sparkle O
the lustrous black eyes is enhanced b.
coating the lids with black antimony
The cheeks are rouged and dotted will
little round moles of gold and silvel