American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-05-03
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poor when he commenced the practice
of law that he had to live on Sc per
month. This is said to be the secret of
his assistance to poor young men, over
so of whom he has assisted to a liberal
education.
THE municipality of Paris lately for
mally accepted the legacy of $4,000
bequeathed by Nine. Rossini to found
an asylum at Passy for INDECENT French
and italian musicians. There will be
accommodation for more than hun
dred
THE United States Supreme Court
will be $50 cases, or Two years, behind
when it adjourns May u. TIE court is
not gaining on its calendar either, as
the number of cases involving constitu-
tional questions is growing larger.
THE orange tree is now successfully
cultivated over an area in California
not less thae l4OO miles long by 100
miles broad-that is, on $4,000 square
miles of territory the orange can be
cultivated without encountering any Sc
nous climatic obstacles.
A SAN FRANCISCO paper declares that
the seals and sea lions on the Pacific
coast destroy more valuable fish annu-
ally than all the people in the Union,
and thinks that they should not be pro-
tected by law. Their breeding grounds
and principal strongholds are the Faral-
ZONES.
IT appears from a report of the Rus
sian Army Medical Department that of
the ], 100000 boys registered as having
been born in 1855, there were living in
1s76-that is, at the age of 21-only
100000, or 434 per cent. In other words,
out of seven boys born scarcely more
than three lived to be of age.
The Able LISTS hand is described as
large and square, with knotty fingers.
The force of the little finger on both
hands is tremendous the knuckle seems
as If made of iron. One Of Chopin's
pupils is reported Us saying that that
wondrous musician had very dirty
hand, with nails that were never clean.
A POOR woman, who was for nine
months an impatient in st. Johns Hos
pital for Diseases of the Skin, in Lon
don, suffering from leprosy in its most
case, the hospital authorities state,
shows that leprosy is by no means ex-
tirct in Europe, and it forcibly illus
trates the necessity for the establish
ment of leper wards.
MILE. DE MACLEFF, daughter of a
rich Russian, has been arrested in St.
Petersburg for connection with Nj
hilist conspiracy. She is but 20 years
of age, and lies in chains in the citadel
of Kew, where the Countess Panin and
the daughter of Gen. Gerstfeld are con-
fined under similar charge. The
young ladies gained their revolutionary
ideas from frequenting lectures of the
State University.
SENATOR BOOTH of California, whose
bachelorhood has withstood the wiles of
women for half century, has been
captured at last, so Washington Cos
sips say, by demure little widow with
a sweet young face and prematurely
white hair, to the doors of whose mod
est lodging house fate led the Senator
in search of "rooms to let" A quiet
wedding in the early autumn will be
the result.
MUCH has been said of the POSSIBLE
ties of turning fiat or gently sloping
city roofs into market gardens; but
their resources as poultry yards have
not been fully developed. A recent
missionary contribution of $25, &C
knowledged in the Presbyterian Month
ly Record, processes to be "the pro-
ceeds of sales of eggs of poultry raised
on the roof of a dwelling house on
Fourth Avenue, New York"
THE Troy (Ala.) Enquirer tells of an
insane woman, Miss Carrie Boatrite,
aged 40 years, in the Andrews settle
ment, Pike County, who left her broth
er and was lost in the woods for 81
days without other food than the buds
of trees. She was found by friends and
forced to return home. A brother, dur
ing her absence, was charged with hav-
ing murdered her and a mob had been
formed to lynch him.
A LAD of II years of age, pupil in
the gymnasium at Odessa, and son of
one Martin Zalevski, a Polish landed
proprietor in Volhynia, was murdered
by his fellow students because he not
only refused to comply with repeated
requests to join the secret society of the
Nihilists, but wrote to his parents in
forming them of these solicitations, and
beseeching them to take him away from
Odessa, where he was in daily fear of
his life. The father went up to Odessa,
intending to remove his son, but found
only his corpse.
THE Berlin Borsen Courier has the
follo wing On March 80, another ball
of lead was extracted from the head of
the Emperor. 1t is well known that
only portion of the shots from No
bling's gun could be taken out. The
physicians hesitated from extracting the
ball which had penetrated deepest into
the head, fearing fever. Little by lit
tie the ball worked its way out, reach
ing a point from whence it could be
drawn with pair of pincers. The doc
tors we're astonished to see that it had
flattened itself against the skull.
WHILE a travelling menagerie were
holding its exhibitions at LIE Mans, in