American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-04-12
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Pole expedition an accomplished bal
loonist, S;ho will. when the ship is
troubled with ice, make accents and thus
discover any outlet there may be.
DIR. CARVER, the American sharp
shooter. gave an exhibition of his skill
in London on Tuesday, and the Sports
man says such consumtnate skill was
never before displayed in England.
Mrs. REBECtA ANDERSON, co1ored,
who died in Shelbyvjlle, Ind, on the
3Oth ult., was supposed to have been
III years old. She twas born in fir-
ginia, but did not Claim to have nursed
George Washington. e....z
AN old fashioned lady wants to know
why the graduates of Vassar and other
"female :" colleges always have their
ages printed after their names in re-
ports of alumni meetings-Miss l..
Smith, President C7O; Miss Jones,
Vice President C6OC; Mrs. Robinson,
Secretary ('7S), etc., etc.
THE Frdnkf urter Zeituag mentions
the iron wedding" or SEVENTEEN an
niversary of the marriage of an ex-rabbi
at Vietz, near Berlin, named Silberstein,
who is in his ninety-third year. He has
145 descendants, 60 of whom attended
the celebration.
THE Florida Legislature has Been go
ing into railroad business wholesale this
year. Bills have bean introduced (and
nearly all passeO to incorporate or give
aid to Is different railway companies.
Most of these are old railroad projects
revived.
PRESIDENT GREW being asked re-
Gently to write something in a lady's
album, indited the following: ''Life is
like game of chess; each one holds
his rank according to his quality, but
when the game is over, kings, queens,
knights, and all the rest are thrown into
one common box
THEIRS was man of enormous am
bition. His mother, who early discov-
ed this characteristic in her SON, once
said to friend, ''Adolphe will never
90 afoot. He will catch on behind the
wagon, then he will work forward on to
the seat, throw out the driver and seize
the reins himself"
WILLIAM GARRETT, who was rescued
from the Indians by Custer, says he was
Mountain Meadow captive, his life be-
ing spared on account of his age, which
was only 10 years. His younger sister,
taken at the same time, afterward be-
came the wife of Red Cloud, the Sioux
Chief, and now refuses to forsake him.
THE Superintendent of the Indiana
polls and St. Louis Railroad has issued
an order that any person in the employ
of that company who shall become in
toxicated, or who shall be known to en-
ter drinking saloons for the purpose of
obtaining liquor, will be promptly dis
missed from service.
EDITOR STOREY, of the Chicago Times,
is building for himself and his young
bride a fine suburban residence, and
surrounding it with full grown trees
conveyed from Indiana. One red maple
thus transplanted is 60 feet in height,
and whole platform car was occupied
by it on the journey.
As the fat, stolid women, whose nerve
tips are all coated with adipose matter,
are much more common in the mother
country than in America, it is refresh
ing to hear an English paper say "in
every relation of life the apathetic wom-
an is a most Objectionable person, in
definitely more trying than her Excess
sively nervous sister,"
ONE gets an idea of the depth of the
Nevada mines on reading that it took
three. hours to get an injured man out of
the lowest level of the Julia mine up to
fresh air, and, though fatally injured,
the mans only misfortune had been to
step into a tank of the water that was
flowing in the mine. Its temperature
was 40 and he was scalded to death.
AS man was passing house in Port
land, Me-, the other day, 2-year-old
girl, who was playing in a second-story
room, jumped out of the window and
struck fairly on his head. The child
fell to the pavement and was badly
bruised, though not seriously hurt, and
the man, except being half scared to
death, was not much injured.
THE residence of Joseph Shamrock,
four miles west of Bucyrus, Ohio, was
entered by burglars the other night,
who got away with gold watch and
$4,000 in gold, silver and greenbacks
belonging to Mr.. Sharrock's father, a
gentleman over 100 years old, residing
with his son. The family were chloro-
formed. The elder Mr.. Shamrock NOV
ed to Ohio in 1905 and during his life
time has lost over $4,000 by burglars.
In the Russian Empire there are alto
gether only about 1900 regularly Ii
censed physicians, or one physician to
each $4,000 people, while in the United
States there is one physician to each 500
inhabitants. The Russian Government
is not doing any thing to advance med
ical education. There are but eight
Russian medical colleges, and the stu
dents are required to prosecute their
professional studies for five years; and
such persons only are admitted to these
colleges as have successfully undergone
an examination in some one of the lit
erary colleges, which have seven years
course. Under these circumstances, it
is not surprising that the number of
medical graduates is small.
MIR. T. b. READS portrait group of Mr.
Longfellow's daughters, it will be re-
membered, was so arranged that the