American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-01-10
HERE AND THERE.

/ HERE AND THERE.
For 80 years man of lOrrington,
Mass, has worked at shoe-making. He
is now 81 years old. a'tofE a..tr- g..
KING MTEsA of Central Africa has
liberated his slaves, and commanded
the observance of the Christian Sunday
THE granddaughter of Eugene Sue,
who was the original of one of the char
acters in the " Wandering jew was a
petitioner in one of the New York courts
last week. -.
AN English Judge recently decided
that set Of false teeth were not 81 ec-
essaries'' for, farmers wife, and nom
snited a dentist who had supplied them
without any'express authority from the
husbahi.5 81 nel ~ i5l7.ipp ~ -
An emigration of farm 1aborers from
to the United States has
set in during the past few weeks, and
the people of that German Imperial
province are, very much excited over the
proportions it win probably assume.
A PARIS schoolgirl, II years of age,
recently shot and instantly killed herself
in the playground at st. Denis with 4
revolver belonging to her father. She
was a bright scholar, and no cause
could he discovered for. the strange per-
foriiianee. t. -9sEaa 3 ssf - tir'j -
!. A BoAR's head is usually sent to
Queen Victoria from Germany each
Christmas For IA Christmases from
1887 it was the custom of King Ernest
of Hanover to send one to each of his
political friends. in England. His list
was a somewhat lengthy one when he
left the country, but if a man abandoned
his rigid creed of High Toryism in
church and state he was at once ex-
plunged, and at his death it had dwin-
died down to q very. few names indeed,
A" BEAUTIFUL blonde was the pc,
casion of much enjoyment in the crowd
in Philadelphia ON the day of the Grant
procession. A gentleman with his UNI
brella on his shoulder fcame in contact
with the profuse curls of the woman in
question and fbore them triumphantly
on its tip. The shorn blonde stood in
amaze,nent watching her disappearing
hair until it. dropped into the. mud,
when, amid the jeers of the wicked By
ISLANDERS, she rushed forward, and, res
cuings it, was lost, in the crowd So
much for false.appearance. iii'' si5sal j
A TRAMP who was not very shabby
got dinners for a week in Franklin
County, Mass, by pretending that he
desired to buy a farm, and accompany
ing the farmer on walk of inspection,
so timed as to bring them near the house
when the meal was ready. One day he
tried this trick on a man who had heard
of his, doings. A laborer was secretly
ordered to walk him for three hours
through fields and WOODS and when he
returned to the house, footsore and hum
CRY, a, second laborer was delegated to
kick him into the highway. - ,.s..-
2 MIR. GARHART, a Virginia (Nev.)
stage-driver, says that in his efforts to
run downa hog he has become more
exasperated than in being robbed by
road agents. He has borne down on
them with a fre-ton 9stage and six-in-
hand ON n down grade, but just as he
expected to see the air filled with
wagon grease andi .spare-fibs, they
would lurch under the stage with a
grunt and look of satisfaction! In n
single instances he succeeded on hog
that had lodged train of cars coming
out of n tunnel, but he upset the stage,
killing two passengers and manning
several for life. -
AN impeeunious, young man started
afoot from San Luis Obispo to Soledad,
in California Getting fatigued and
desperate, he resolved to become a high
wayman. He had no weapon, and was
physically insignificant, but strategy
more. than made up for these lacks. lie
built Il fire in the woods near the road,
to give the impression that a party was
camped there, put his hat and coat on
a log to represent second man, and
when a stage came along, shouted /:
"Throw out that box, or you are a dead
man, The driver dropped the treas
ure box, which contained $500, and was
glad to get away with his life.
THE flower girls on the boulevards OF
Paris-who are not numerous-have an
odd way of 'disposing of their simple
bouquets. They suddcnly present them
selves before ladies or gentlemen likely
to buy-the English and Americans
having their chief attention making a
curtsey and with a Pardon, madam, -
or, Monsieur they insert their bou-
quet in dress or coat, and retreat.
Making short detour they present
themselves with another bow for pay
ment. To refuse the moderate sum de-
manded. or return the bouquet under
such circumstances would be, out of the
question. s.,es.. a. 49, 3D.
7 TRAUTZ BAUzENNET, the great book
binder of modern times, has. just died
at Paris. He had, his shop in the old
Rue du Four Saint German, and
worked only for the very first amateurs,
such as the Messrs. Clgogne, Quentin-
Bauchart, Due d'Aqmale, Compte de
'Hlrde, Compile de Lignerolle, Baron de
la Carelle.. His finest bindings, in
mosaic compartments of celored moroc-
co, cost terrible prices-$200, $500, and