American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-20
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.
ENGLAND has to buy the flour for
three out of every five loaves of bread
she eats.
ALARGE number of eagles have been
seen recently in Cheatham County,
Tenn. One killed by VIM. Teasely
measured nine feet from tip to tip.
THE young Emperor of China has
seventy expensive wives to provide for.
and their silks and satins last year cost
half the land tax of the empire.
VIoLErs are one cent apiece in Hart
ford, CT, and little girl who died
there recently was buried in q casket
made entirely of violets. The child's
name was Violet.
THE largest amount of life insurance
ever effected on the life of any one man
was on the late Marquis of Anglesey,
who was insured in various companies
to the amount of S3.750,OOO.
A LITTLE Milwaukee boy who had
beenn the, habit of playing truant was
dressed in girls clothes and brought by
his mother 20 school, the other day She
wanted to shame him.
A NEW HAVEN Conn. )cat having been
locked in a cellar and unable to get out,
clawed at the wire ofthe door bell which
ran through the cellar, and made the
bell ring necessarily. The owner of the
house, timid man, after repeatedly
going to the front door and finding no
one there, called upon ,afpassing police
man, and the two, well armed, went
into the cellar. The cat then quietly
went out.
AN Indianapolis surgeon has in charge
the case of young girl sent from Hi
nois for treatment The bones of both
her legs will have to be partially re-
moved, and the little sufferer must sub
init to two painful operations. The
cause of her affection is from dumping
the rope" the evil effects of which first
appear as periostatis, and result in the
death of the bone.
MISS NELLIE, daughter of ex-Gov.
Hubbard, of Connecticut, who eloped
with her fathers coachman several
months ago, has learned the dressmak-
ing business, and is living happily with
her horsey husband. The old man
doesn't relent enough to speak of, but
has told Nellie that any time she will
separate from the ex-coachman she will
be received into the family again.
AN old couple living at a distance
from neighbors, in juneau County, Wis,
discovered their house afire in the night.
The old man fell from the roof, and,
being made helpless, his wife dragged
him to a safe distance, provided him
with feather bed, and went for help
On the way she fell and froze to death.
Her crippled husband lay where she
had left him five days before being dis
covered.
In the pastoral regions of Texas one
thousand head of stock cattle, as usually
found on ranches, will double their num-
Der within three years. This allows for
losses of age, disease and accident. The
net increase is at the rate of thirty three
and one-third per cent. per annum.
This accounts, in part, for the fortunes
accumulated in few years by cattle
raisers. Some of the cattle men are i'm
mensely wealthy.
EIGHT men were passing on foot
through narrow, deep canyon in
Nevada, when they saw an immense
bank of snow detach itself from the
precipitous side and slide rapidly down
toward them. Three of them escaped
injury by running, two took refuge be-
hind stumps, and were subsequently
rescued alive. and three were killed by
burial under tons of snow. The depth
Of the snow is uncommonly great on the
Pacific coast this season, and many
lives have been lost in avalanches.
A LIVERPOOL merchant last year took
his son, who was recovering from scarlet
fever ii. e., was in the most infectious
stage of the disorder), to stay at large
hotel in Wales. The young mans con-
dition became known; and there was
general exodus from the house The
landlord thus had his house empty at
the busy time, and. besides, was Obliged
to go to considerable expense in disin-
feeling it. He brought an action to re-
cover the loss he had sustained, and it
has just been settled out of court by the
payment of a large sum-nearly 1900;
inclusive of costs.
Two wild cats were recentled trapped
in Catlin, Oswego County, Mich, one of
which weighs fifty pounds, is thirty-one
inches high, and three and one half feet
long. The other, which appears younger
and more docile, is nineteen inches
high, and two feet long. They were
caught in the trap by one leg. and have
been placed in cages. One Of the traps
set was missing and the chain snapped
asunder, which showed that a larger
and more powerful one had been caught.
A dog attacked one of the cats, and al
though one leg was in the trap, and it
was also hampered by a chain, the dog
was literally torn in pieces before he
could be rescued.
GEORGE MALLORY ate a hearty meal
1t Virginia City (Nev.) restaurant,
and, laying the bill for $3.50 on the
cashiers desk, said that he couldn't pay
it, for the good reason that he had no
money. The proprietor said: Sc Saw up
that load of wood you see in front of the
door and I'll call it square, Mallory
walked out into the street and coolly in
vited a crowd to see "the biggest fool
in the State meaning the man who
wanted him to work for meal already
eaten. Thereupon the restaurant man
pulled his nose, boxed his ears, and
kicked him; but this did not appease his
wrath, and he knocked the fellow down,
pounded him with a cane, and finally
shot him.
THAT the disease which broke out in
Japan last spring was Asiatic cholera of
an unusually deadly type seems to be
now admitted on all hands. From the
official figures furnished by the Govern
ment to the Toxic Times, it appears that,
mp 70 December 81, 168,3 14 individuals
had been stricken down; of these, 101,-
304 had died, AZ, 1856 had recovered, and
1905 were still under treatment. Out
of every 1000 japanese subjects, had
been attacked, and the percentage of
mortality among the attacked had
reached the high figure of 6222. cit
should never be forgotten" says the