American citizen., 1880-03-27
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.
THE cost of Michigan's new State
capitol was $15, 600 under the estimate
"a circumstance probably without a
parallel.
A BATTLE CREEK (Alich. babe had
a screw driver, tack hammer, and q
gold watch to play with. When the fun
began the watch was worth about $175,
but its value rapidly deprecated.
THADpEus GREEN, Postmaster at
Centreville, Ind, is dead. He lost both
hands during the war, but with the aid
of artificial hands he was enabled to
fulfill all the duties of his office, and
even attained considerable proficiency
as a penman.
A PAIR of side-lace kid shoes have
been made in indianapolis for a Mrs.
Gates, of Brown County, who is % years
old, weighs five hundred and forty
seven pounds, and is seven feet and two
inches in height. The shoes are number
fifteen, Just one foot in length, and
between four and FIVE inches in width.
A TowANDA (Pa.) sign reads thus
'sJohn Smith, teacher of cowtillions and
other dances taut in the
neatest manner-fresh salt herrin on
draft-likewise Goodfreys cordial--rrtes
sassage and other garden truck. N. b.
-bawl on friday nite-prayer meeting
chuesday-also SALINE singing by the
quire-"
AN English jury having been locked
up eight days, the Judge, when dis
charging them, complimented and
thanked them for the great care, atten-
ton and patience which they had given
to the case The only recompense he
had power to make was the assurance
that he would take care that they were
not called upon to serve again ''for some
long time to come
THE following is "local' from a
paper at Deland, Florida: "While one
of our young ladies was out walking the
other day, she espied a young fox-squir-
rel run up q tree, and not willing to lose
. chance for q good 'pot-pie,' started
for the house, but not having any big
brother to help her, she shouldered the
gun, started for the squirrel, and soon
had him at her feet struggling for his
last breath. We believe this is the same
young lady who went a fishing and was
upset by large turtle, but, not to be
beaten, succeeded in capturing him and
thirteen of the finy tribe, and on the
way home chopped the head of a snake
off with her No. gaiter."
Mr. DEHAAs, ex-C Consul at Jerusalem,
has set at rest q multitude of recent
contradictory statements about the Holy
Land i'm the following series of pointed
denials: There is not a railroad in all
Palestine. There is not an American
missionary in the Holy Land, nor a Sum
day School. But one Protestant Church
in Jerusalem, another outside of the
walls and one at Nazareth. The Jewish
population has increased during the last
few years, but the population of the
country has more rapidly decreased.
The Jews have no intention of reoccu-
pying the land. They go there to die,
not to live. No jew around Jerusalem
owns or cultivates an acre of ground.
never return to Palestine unless forced
back at the point of the bayonet."
THE Countess Famine, lady-in- waiting
to the Empress of Russia, has been re-
quested to resign and to travel abroad.
She is of q romantic turn, and some
times received guests of whose character
she was not fully aware. Among these
was young student who, warned that
the police were about to search his
rooms, fled to her house with his pa
pers, and, being pursued to her room,
hid the papers under her pillow. The
police discovered them and arrested
him. That the Nihilists, however, have
friends in high quarters is shown, not
only by the cipher documents found on
Deutsch, killed in the secret press affair,
but by letters and papers found on a
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who either threw himself or was thrown
into the Seine. Those documents were
sewed in his trousers lining and were
handed over to the Russian embassy,
who forwarded them to the st. Peters
burg detectives.
A FEW months ago several peasants
were tried at Novgorod, Russia, for
burning alive a woman, upon the pre-
text that she had bewitched their cattle
and cast spells upon their children.
These ruffians were acquitted on the
ground that they had acted conscien-
tiously and in accordance with the
Scriptural ordinance, "Thou shalt not
suffer a witch to live!" The tribunal
of Ustjush has recently, however, taken
q somewhat more enlightened view of
witchcraft case brought before it. One
Ivan Aexeieff and six women of his
village prosecuted . PEASANTS wife
named Charlamoff for having, as they
alleged upon oath, injured their health
by the practice of sorcery. To their
surprise and discontinue the Court ac-
quilted Charlamoff and denounced the
prosecutors severely, sentencing the
women to four mossh's Imprisonment
apiece, and Alexeieff to fifty blows with
rod.