American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-05-17
FACTS AND FANCIES.


THE death of Boston Alderman has
broken t,p 4 whist Club 1T fo,ir that has
played for % years.
PORTABLE gas is sold and delivered
in England like milk. People in the
country and in the villages receive it in
copper vessels from large cities. This
method is additionally popular from the
fact that It dispenses with the erratic
and depraved meter.
FRENCH and Beavers drew revolvers
IN Johrsohville, fenn., and pulled the
triggers, but both weapons missed fire.
French then stood motionless, as though
paralyzed by fright, while Beavers cool
ly aimed at his antagonist again, and
killed him.
ACCORDING to the St. Petersburg
dosos, the Russian Government will
hereafter compel the proprietors of all
factories to provide free hospitals and
medical attendance for those of their
employees who contract disease or suf-
fer injuries in the factories.
"MY schoolmaster," says Thomas
Carlyle, "was a good Latin scholar, and
of the human mind he knew this much,
that it had a faculty called memory
which might be reached through the
muscular integument by the application
of birchen rods"
THE following appears in a Boston
paper. "Wanted-A reliable coach
man must not be under 60 years of age;
lame, one-eyed, homely man pre-
ferred. Must be good, careful driver.
A wife and children no objection"
A COUNTRY girl rode into Holyoke
Saturday morning to do some shopping.
When the clerk asked if there was any
thing more h. could do for her he was
amazed by the reply, 80, no, sir; un-
less you would be kind enough to go out
and milk the old mare, for rode her
from home without the colt. "-Sprtng-
field Union.
In Professor Huxley's recent work on
Hume, there is this passage: Zone OF
the most curious peculiarities of the
dog mind is its inherent snob business,
shown by the regard paid to external
responsibility. The dog who barks fu-
riously at a beggar will let well dressed
man pass without opposition"
WILLIAM BRoADHEAD, the villain in
Charles Reade's "Put Yourself in His
Place." has recently died at Sheffield,
England, in his 9th year, and an imbe-
Gle. He was pronounced the most un-
scrupulous villain of the age IA or Is
years ago, and confessed to royal COM
mission in 1867 that he had hired men
to blow up AMI shoot half a dozen nom
unionists.
JOHN E. LONG of Detroit, Mich, had
on exhibition, at the Philadelphia ken
mel shows, fine English setter valued
at $500. When the exhibition was over,
and Mr.. Long was about to take the cars
for Detroit, his dog got away from him
and fell down tunnel, distance of 80
feet, being instantly killed. Mr.. Long
was so crazed at the loss of his dog that
he would have thrown himself down the
tunnel and shared the fate of the ami
NAL, had it not been for the interven-
ton of the bystanders.
YOUNG women who are basting frills
or lace around the bottom of their street
dresses should bear in mind that it
shows questionable taste. The fashion
originated with drawing-room toilets,
and was meant to remain there. Being
applied to street attire, the wearer mus
either drag this often costly edging in
the dirt, which would soon ruin it, or
carry the skirt caught up in her hand.
The latter is of course done; and the
manner of it, with the at once apparent
of the addition to the dress,
puts the wearer in the piIlory of unfa-
vorable criticism.
NEWMARKET, over whose heath I'm
cas- has just run for the $4,000 guineas,"
is styled the metropolis of racing. Out
side of racing weeks it is as desolate and
dreary place as can be imagined. Its
heath is the Oldest course
and best training ground in England.
Here, of a morning, racers can be seen
in every stage, from the yearling to the
adult in perfect condition,
his satin coat showing the play of his
muscles beneath, taking his trial for
some great race. Every one, on foot or
on the stand, can see the race here from
start to close.
FACTS about the City of London are
always interesting, and we find a few
in the CornbiU Magazine. London is
spread over about 1000 square miles.
There is one death there every six min
utes, and one birth every four. The
growth of the population is at the rate
of IS, 900 a year, or 205 each day. The
total length of streets in London is
about 1000 miles; there are built every
year about 1000 new houses, by which
the length of the streets are increased
by 20 miles. In the jails there is an
average of rs, 900 prisoners. The for
eign-born residents of London number
about 100, 900; but 81 per cent. of the
whole population were born out of the
city.
By draining Lake Fucino, in the Apen-
mines, about SO miles southeast of Rome,
and some 1900 feet above the sea, P. ince
rorlonia has added IS, 900 acres to his
rent roll. An expenditure of $10,O0O,-
700 and labor which has extended over
"a years have sufficed for the making of
/ tunnel and the erection of other works,