American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-06
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.
The Boston ulster has pocket deep
enough for an umbrella.
THE latest fashion in London is to
have music during dinner.
A CALIFORNIA SNOWFALL, made to hit
Chinaman, has a rock inside it.
AND now Boston physician says that
long walks before breakfast bring on
dyspepsia.
SEVERAL young lawyers of Boston,
who live in suburban towns, ride to bus
mess in fair weather on bicycles.
LEATHER petticoats are worn for
walking by English women. They look
like satin and wear forever.
PHILADELPHIA has society for
Outstanding the Jews at a yearly eX-
pense of about 5000. During the last
fiscal year the Secretary baptized two
infants and two adults. In five years of
its existence it did not report single
conversion.
MIR. ALLEN, the American accredited
as Hawaiian Minister to the United
States, appeared at the recent dip
lomatic reception decorated like his
peers. He wore across his chest the
Hawaiian grand order of knighthood
and its broad blue ribbon.
Mrs. URSULA HUNPHREvILLE, of
Mortified, N. H., is a centenarian who
reads without spectacles, and last au-
tumn, to show her energy, drove NOW
ing machine round meadow at n coun-
ty fair. Her descendants of three gen.
erations number forty-six, and twenty
nine of them are living.
BEN HALLIDAY is for the twelfth win
ter before the United States Senate with
his claim for $500, 600 for losses sus-
tanned by Indian depredations while
carrying the overland mail. His route
was 1000 miles in length through the
Indian Territory, and he used to employ
$50 men and ], 100 horses.
The Chinese are not so generally adj
dicted to the use of opium as is COM
monty supposed. The Chinese Retfea0
makes calculation on the subject,
based on the amount of opium imported
and grown in the country, from which
it appears that not ten per cent. of the
adult males can possibly smoke opium.
BALD MOUNTAIN, North Carolina,
has again become an object of dread to
the residents in its vicinity. Seven
shocks and rumblings were felt and
heard on the 2Sth and goth ult., and on
the 10th inst. the noises were heard at a
distance of seven miles. The people
are expecting the mountain to fall to
pieces very soon.
A LrrIGANT at Owen, o., said to his
counsel, "Abuse the defendant, and I'll
take all the consequences So the
lawyer spoke the enemy as a perjured,
thieying, murderous villain, and got
soundly whipped for it as soon as Court
adjourned. He has now sued his client
for damages, on the ground that the
promised protection was not afforded.
The new census will show that, while
there has been an increase of population
in Lewiston, Biddeford, Portland, Bath,
Auburn, Saco, and one or two other
large towns and cities in Maine, there
has been decrease during the last ten
years in every county in the State
except Aroostook. The county towns
have almost all lost, some very heavily.
Mr.. DUDLEY A. SARGENT, Director
of the Harvard gymnasium, says that
of the large number of students he has
examined at least one-half
suffer to a considerable and in MANY
cases an alarming extent from palpita-
ton and other affections of the heart,
caused by excessive cigarette smoking
and drinking strong coffee.
THE daughter of Spotted Tail, tall,
ungainly young woman of 10, is study.
ing in the Government school for
Indians at Carlisle barracks, Pennsyl-
vania. She has lately married the half
breed interpreter employed at the
and when sent to do some
scrubbing, the other day, her lordly
husband interfered His wife was of
royal blood, he remarked, the daughter
of a chief, and he wanted her to learn
only what the white ladies do.
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