American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-12-13
HERE AND THERE.

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the muzzle of Il gun and watched bal
match at Calhoun, Ky. The ball hap
pened to strike the hammer and dis
charged the gun, killing him instantly
IT is hard to decide which is the NOR,
/ pestilential-th young bore who is for
ever Dragging what he is going to do, O.
( the old bore who is forever Dragging
what he has done.-Bost0n Transcript
Young Mr.. c. Ii. Colt of Hartford
Conn, has Just come of age, and start
in life with over Sl,500,000, inherited
from the estate of his father, the grea
manufacturer of firearms.
A MAN at Dutch Flat, Cal, picked W
a rock the other day to throw at COW
The weight of it attracted his attention
and on examination it was found to con
tain over hundred dollars in gold.
In Paris there is an Association &c
Prevent the Abuse of Tobacco and Alec
hol." A prize of 200 francs and a medal
are offered for the best work showing
the evil effects. moral and physical, OF
the abuse of tobacco and alcohol.
FROM the Parliamentary writs pre-
served in the English Rolls Chapel ii
would appear that as long ago as 1871,
Dame Dorothy Parkington, "lord and
owner of the town of Aylesbury," ex-
ercised the right to elect two members
of Parliament from that borough.
MAKING his horse jump fences when
riding and taking a gallop of Is miles
are some of the delights of Nathan
Gibbs of Wolfe County, Ky, who is 80
years of age. He is living with his
third wife, whom he married two years
ago. She is %.
A DECISION was rendered in the Cir
cult Court of st. Louis recently, all the
Judges concurring, that where a bank
receives deposits after reaching con-
ditiJn which the law defines as insolvent
each Director is individually liable to
the depositor for the amount deposited.
In Otisville, N. Y, few days ago,
Amos Ketchum of Mount Hope was
married to Margaret Seybolt of Otisville
The groom is 75 years of age and the
bride 73. The bridesmaid, Jerusha
Durland, dressed in plum,colored silk,
is S5, and the groomsman, Joseph STAN
ton, Sc.
THE position of the Chinese in Brazil
is Il peculiar one. The Government en-
courages their introduction with the view
of more extensive tea and silk culture,
while the people oppose Mongols on the
ground that their immigration will pre-
vent that of the more desirable Euro
pears.
Nor three centuries ago, in France,
when a young girl appealed to her IA
Their, who was member of the Provin-
cial Parliament, for permission to learn
the alphabet, after consultation with
four doctors of law, it was decided that
it was demoniacal work for girls y
either to teach or learn the alphabet.
She was accordingly stoned by the men
of the town, for such an insane desire
for knowledge. Even a little over n
century ago, letter writing, by such as
Mary Wortley Montague, was supposed
to be the limit of woman's brain power.
Few even of the Puritan women could
read or write, and though, next to
they established
school for boys, girls were not allowed
to enter for over $50 years, and then
only in the summer time, because the
boys seats were vacant. Voltaire's re-
mark, that "Ideas are like boards,
women and young men have none,''
seemed to be the general belief.
A CONTRIBUTOR to Good Words writes
of a recent visit to n great scavengering
yard. The firm employs
300 hands, owns 120 well conditioned
horses, and the earnings of the men they
employ average 1919, and those of the
women 80, week. Many earn much
more. In cholera times they have got
off scott free, and it is a tradition that
II the great plague of London they ran
he dead carts, and yet none died. This
can not be by any means attributed to
an abstinence from alcohol. The regu-
Iation charge for emptying dust bin is
4 cents; but for this the dustman, as he
is always called in London, goes down
and fetches up the refuse. For this pur-
pose he wears low-crowned hat with a
long flap behind to protect his neck. He
brings up the refuse in close woven
basket. The fine dust is found particu-
arly valuable for marsh land. The Gin
ders are mixed with clay for brick max
ing. Valuable refuse, known as "soft
core," goes to farmers for manure. The
rags are sold in lump to Jewish dealers
in such articles. Broken glass goes back
for remelting to factories, and more
than 1000 tons are reused.