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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-30
WIT AND WISDOM.

We learn from an astronomical
authority that the planet Herschel
"bears the name of the discoverer.
1t would take strong telescope to sec
that name on the planet.-NeW Haren
Register. IS
-t'Sarah is not very saving; she allows
too much to go to waist" remarked the
fond Boston parent when he came into
the room and saw his prospective SON
law with his arms encircling his
daughter. boston Globe.
They were discussing the question
whether one should say 81 SHALL" or
II may" Said Mrs. Fogg, finally,
Sometimes one form is correct and
sometimes the other For example, /
say, Il shall go to the city tomorrow
and shall buy new dress pattern
and you say, Yes, dear. you may"
Fogg had to admit that she was quite
correct. Boston Transcript. -.'. jog
Speaking of pictures. did you ever
look at lot of cattle portraits in an
agricultural magazine? And were you
ever able to distinguish grain of diff
ference in-well say from 20 to 5000
portraits of famous cows? Can any one
make you believe that they are not all
printed from the same cut? And the
Autograph prints of famous trotting
horses, do you not suppose that one
horse stood for all the portraitsP Now
we don't say that all cattle look alike,
nor all trotting horses, but we do say
that nearly all portraits of quadrilateral
cows and anatomical horses are just as
nearly alike as human art can make
them. -BMriia2t0n HaUEeye. r.t.-
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-30
Losers OF Money.

Pardon me for troubling you, sir,
but did you drop. a twenty-dollar gold
piecee' asked a man with an earnest
look on his face and a memorandum
book in his hand of Il well-dressed indi-
vidual on the corner of Jefferson and
Woodward avenues, Detroit. -. b..
The man addressed ran his hand
nervously into variousspockets and re-
piled: tst ra,. D.
"Well, now 4, declare! Can it be
dossible that l was, SO careless as to
drop that coinp Yes, it's gone. 1
must have lost it right here. near where
we stfrnd.' = f''I 81 Sacu -.-
The man opened hisSusonorandum-
book, took from l'his ryest pocket tho
stub of a lead pencil and said
VIII you favor me with Your name
and addressP'
They were given, and the questioner
started on, when the we'll dressed man
cried: t.7."- E-arif go --.if
Hi, there! Where's the money.
Give me my gold piece
sob, 1 didn't find any money. 1
took a notion this morning that in a
city like this, where thousands and
thousands of dollars are handled every
hour, there must be great losses, and
started out to investigate the matter.
Between here and the river i found
seven men that lost twenty-dollar gold
pieces, and expect TO run the list up
to 200 before l reach the City-hall.
Good day, sir. -. -.tt
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-30
Malaria.

Regularity of habit in eating, in
sleeping, in exercise, is essential to
good health; food, nutritious, clean and
well-coOked, is another essential; suita-
BILE clothing anil habitation another;
cleanliness another. BJerhave s three
rules for health are '.keep the head cool,
the feet warm and the bowels OPEN"
The difficulty with most people is that
they want to do exactly as they please.
eat when they have an impulse in that
direction, work when the tit takes them,
wear what they fancy, go without sleep.
indulge in all sorts of Irregularities and
impulses and yet have good health all
the time. The thing can't be done.
We are under law, and health and hap
piness can be secured only by obedi-
ence to law, only as we learn and obey
law.
IF the skin is kept warm. clean and in
a healthy. condition, one is in little dam
ger of suffering from malaria even in a
malarious locality. The East Indian
kindles a fire in the Jungle or the for
est, and clothed in flannel dciics the
malaria. 1t is the practice of physi-
clans to visit patients sick with infec-
tious diseases after they have eaten a
ner in ersiblc, the blood being busy in
the stomach with the process of diges-
ton. For the same reason exposure to
malarious influences should be antici-
pated by suitable preparation as to food
and clothing. ~ 1t, is said one never
"takcs a chill" without first feeling
chilly. As long as the surface of the
body feels warm and comfortable. there
is little danger that the malarial poison
will be absorbed by the skin. Nothing
is greater protection from malaria
and also from bowel complaints than
flannel. The British army in India wear
! flannel the year round, and since this
regulation was introduced the suffering
and death from climatic exposures have
greatly diminished. An open fire in a
malarious on infectious, siDcalitys is %
great protection. for dampness precedes
chilliness. In many districts where
chill and fever prevail, coffee is con-
sidered IL preventive, and one compelled
to exposure to the dews of the morning
or the evening. which are considered
specially unwholesome, is fortified
| against them by drinking cup of
strong Rio coffee that has been boiled
long enough to extract the bitter ingre-
dent of the berry. Rio is preferred to
other varieties rs being less ripe and
more efficient in its properties, more q
medicine and less a beverage. Sleep
ing rooms in a malarious country should
be on the second or third floor, above
the creeping poisonous mists that cling
to the earth. We shall be glad if those
who can add to what we have given
from our own knowledge and experience
will make further suggestions in reply
to the letter of our correspondent
Y. Tribune
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-30
How the People Live and Raise Cattle
on the Hatteras Banks.

A letter in the Raleigh Ne0s and Oh
sercer gives an interesting description
of the sandy banks along the Hatteras
coast. Dare County, N. c., and their
nhabitants-sometim known to in
land people as sand-lappers:''
The people of this region are of an
amphibious nature, and live SO much
on and in the water, that most of them,
l am sure, are web-footed. They live
mainly on fist, CLAIMS. oysters. crabs,
terrapins and wild fowl When they
leave home they go in boat, and
whether theNgos to court or 60 court
ing, or to traIiR or to mill, or to a fu-
neral, they Always go by sail. Their
corn mills are rum by sails, and some of
them pump their water with wind mills.
and when they g0to bed they "turn
the weather." and when in robust health
they are '.bungup and bilge free. They
speak of a trim-built Ssweetheart as
''clipper built" Many of them have
ships cabin doors in their houses, that
slide on grooves, and to their buildings
they give a coating of tar instead of
painting them. The "old woman"
blows conch-shell when dinner is
ready, and they measure time by
"bells." Their babies are not rocked
in cradles, but swung in hammocks.
They chew black pig-tail tobacco and
drink wild tea called "Yeopon."
They manure their land with sea grass.
and bury their yam potatoes in the sand
hills. When they want a doctor they
hang a red flag against q hillside as n
signal of distress. If he don't come,
because the 'wind amt fair" they
take dram of whisky and copperaS,
soak their (web) feet in sea water,
"turn in" and trust to luck. If they die
they will be buried on the top of sand
ridge; and when you see several sail
boats on the water in procession, with
a flag at half-mast, you are looking at a
funeral. They ornament their houses
with whales ribs and jaws, sharks
teeth, sword-fsh shouts, devi-iiAl
arms, saw-fsh swords (siX feet long,,
miniature ships, camphor-wood chests.
Honduras gourds, spy-glasses. South
American lariats, war-clubs from the
Mozambique Islands. Turkish pipes,
West India shells, sandal wood boxes,
Chinese chessmen, Japanese faces, Mad
aSascar idols, Australian boomerangs
and other strange, outrageous things.
Their hogs are raised on CLANS. mus
sells. ohial of fish and garbage, and their
cattle wade out on the shoals for miles,
where the water covers their backs, to
feed on sea grass, and if they are car
Tied up-country, and fed on corn and
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-30

When Prince Albert declared that
Constitutional Government was on its
trial in Great Britain, he was roundly
rated by the British press, although he
uttered what now seems to have been a
truism. But what the slow develop
ment of the events of which the Reform
bill was the most conspicuous did for
Constitutional Government in Great
Britain. the sudden shock of Guitcau's
crime has done for republican Govern
meut in this country. Republican Gov
eminent in the United States has been
on its trial. The abuses some of them
most serious and scandalOus abuses
which have grown up in the Republic
founded by Washington are known to
all of us, and all of us are ready enough,
on occasion, to point them out. That
discussion is less trammeled here than
elsewhere, and that public criticism
goes to a point which in some countries
positive law, and in still other countries
social opinion, would intervene to pre-
vent it from reaching, makes more con-
spicuous here than elsewhere such DO
litical abuses az neither law nor social
opinion avails to prevent. In no other
civilized country, for example, would
men who occupied or aspired to a de-
cent social position or dignified polit-
ical position be found to avow their
completely in such a rascally piece OF
espionage as that which was practiced
recently in Albany. In no other civil
lied country would public journals
which pretended to responsibility have
given detailed reports of such per-
Torrance.
But such things as these, disgusting
and discouraging as in themselves they
are, at least give us the assurance that
we know the worst that can be credibly
charged of the rascalities as well as of
the corruption Of American politics.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-30
POLITICAL ITEMS.

"A Cincinnati astronomer is posi-.
tive that he saw the comet split open
the other night. He says the nuclei are
1, 200 miles apart. This is not SO bad as
the Republican party.
The expressions of sympathy and
sorrow which come from every quarter
OF the South in this hour of National
trouble are evidently from the heart,
and show how greatly the people OF
that section have. been misapprehend-
ed.-Erchange.
Mo doubt Mr.. Hayes is right in
rushing out his denial of the remarks
about Garfield and Blaine that were
attributed TO him; but who cares wheth-
er he did or did not say these things?
He was mere accident in the White
House, and did not exhibit enough in
diyidual and personal force while he
was there to make it matter of any
inheritance what he thinks and says
now that he has retired to private life.
:r-Sk Louis Republican.
--Twenty years of of1ice-holding
have not yet satisfied the Republican
party. 1t is still ce-hunting, and
will continue oilice-hunting to the end
of its existence. 1t has fostered the
spoils- system, which is now charged
with the attempted murder of a Presi-
dent. As soon as the present excite
ment dies away, the office hunting will
commence with renewed vigor. Aparty
of the spoils will not reform the spoils
SYSTEM Cincinnati Enquirer.
In view of the unanimity of pub
lie opinion as to the responsibility of
the ..spoils-system'' for the assassina-
ton of the President. it would be well
for the leading Republican papers of
the land to give their opinion as to the
responsibility of their party for the
spoils system. 1t has been in the pos
session of the Executive power formore
than twenty years; but the spoils-sys-
tenn instead of decreasing in power for
evil during that time has been constant
ly on the increase. Detroit Free Press.
Orthodoxy is my doxy and
heterOdoxy is another mans doxy.
The New York stalwarts, in opposing
the nomination of Messrs. Miller and
Lapham, emphasize the point that to
elect these two gentlemen to the Sen
ate, thus taking them from the House
of Representatives, the Republican
majority in that body will be broken and
possibly lost. But are not these jealous
partisans estopped from making such a
plea as thisp Does lie in the mouths
of the followers of Mr.. Conkling. who
has absolutely put the United States
Senate in the hands of the Democrats,
to urge this phase OF party fealty?
Strange want OF logic in blinded parti-
sans.-St. Louis Repu6ticam.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-30
A Little Misprint.

He walked into the Office this morn
ing, looking much like a man pretty
well satisfied with general results, and
said: ...
.'Can see the editor?"
He was shown that eminently useful
adjunct to a newspaper at once.
Good morning. SIR" he cheerily be-
gan.
'.Mornin', said the editor.
Il came in" he proceeded, Ito tell
you of misprint in the paper"
Eyes. What is ite"
"Well, you see, l sent notice around
yesterday that Mr.. Smith had been mar
ried, and your compositor, see, has
got it Mr. Smith has just been mar
tyred, but ! guess it don't hardly make
enough difference to change it."
The editor scratched his head n min
ute and thought of house cleaning and
other female eccentricities, and told the
visitor, of course it didn't, and he went
away whistling. why should the spirit
of mortal be proud?'-- Steu6enrtlle
Heruh
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-30

fodder, they will not live. Every man
is captain of some kind of n boat. and
"she'' is always better than any other
boat in some way. ''She is hard to beat
in gale Of wind" or '.before the
wind" or cheating to windward." or
with the wind on the BEAM" or ''she
can sail closer to the wind" or ''win
carry sail longest" or is ,"hard to beat
in a light wind" or ''totes more
stock" or is stronger" or ''dryer."
or "bigger,' or .'she is a big little
boat" or ''draws the least water,"' or
needs less BALLAST or ''she is the
newest" OF 'has the best timbers, or
''steers the best" or ''she is a lucky
boat" or islands up better" or
'.needs less sail than any other boat"
or '.she is best for fishing" etc. Per-
haps ''she comes about better than any
other boat She is bound to have
something about her better than any
body else's boat.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-30
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The London & Northwestern Rail-
way Company of England has about
1000 employees. q greater number,
probably, than any other corporation in
the world.
has been sent from Barryville, N. Y,
to New York City for William ii. Van
derbiits new residence. The stone is
fifteen by twenty-five feet and seven
inches thick. 1t is the largest ever
quarried in the State.
limitation wood for floor boards,
etc., has been made in this country of
compressed straw. 1t is said to resem-
be hard, close grained wood, can be
planned, holds nails we'll, etc. 1t has no
flaws, is not subject to dry rot, is water
proof, will not warp, and has greater
tensile strength than wood. If all this
be true, we may shortly be making
houses out of straw boards.
y i-One letter out of every 800 sent rs
unclaimed In the Office TO which it goes.
One letter in 2S3 sent turns up at the
Dead Letter Office. One letter out of
every 3, 100 sent is held for postage u.
the Office of mailing-and this amounts
to 300, 900 in year. More than 200.-
0OO1etter5 every year are insufliciently
addressed. Ten thousand letters this
year bear no superscription whatever,
and these letters often contain remit
tances of great value. More than 200
900 foreign letters fail to reach the per-
sons TO whom they are adore 'sed.
"A Roumanian engineer. Trajan
Theodoresco by name, has invented
new description of torpedo or subma-
rine boat, whose popularity is. that it is
capable of maneuvering under water at
twelve hours on stretch. 1t is able to
act at the depths of from 100 feet in riy-
ers, and to 700 or 800 feet in the sea. 1t
is able, through the agency OF screws. to
rise or sink nOiselessly, and oitheresud-
denly or gradually by successive stages,
can move OF vancouver in any direction.
Tho illumination of the vessel is inter-
nal, and enables the officers upon her to
see for a distance of $50 feet under
water. -'siH tf ~.
Another new application of cleo
tricity as a motor has been experiment
ed on during the last few days in Paris.
NJ g. Trouvc, a weil-knDS keiectrician,
has devised a methodi Of applying the
electrical current othe propulsion of u
boat, and so far thervesalts;have been
eminently satisfactory The expert
ments have been made on the Seine on
several occasions with 8sf1fall Boat Con-
tanning from two !tu4siafD tssns. M.
/ Trouve's electric motor, consisted of a
Siemens coil, which. by q simple but
ipgenioas' arrsspgement,i ois made to
transmit its2powefi TO o, three bladed
screw at the stern of the boat. The
motor itself Is fixed on the upper part
of heirudden which it follows in its
movements, as does also the, screw.
The motor, with it's accessories, does
not weigh more than five kilogrammes.
M. Trouve's apparatus may be adapted
to any boat, and there seems no reason
whatever why it might not be SO modi-
fed as to be applicable to vessels Of
much larger Dimensions than that ex-
perimented on. Experiments in 'navi-
cation by electricity were made on the
Neva in 1889 by jacob, but the method
adopted had SO many drawbacks as to
be practically useless. =
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-30
A Heart-BrOken Canary.

Last autumn Mr.. w. S. Sturgis came
from Leicester, England, and brought
with him a fine Belgian canary. Soon
after his arrival he purchased female
for "A mate, and the two birds lived to-
gether in great harmony. On Sunday
of last week the female suddenly sick
ened and died. The Leicester bird APP
peared to grieve deeply over the loss of
his mate, refusing all nourishment.
Monday he was seen standing upon the
edge of the bathing-tub in an attitude of
grief, and, not long after. was found ly-
ing at full length in the water, dead. an
undoubted case of suicide from grief.
Providence CT. ~ Journal.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-30

ITO mlnubeH1 has beoAs sentenced to q. years
Imprisonment. Gorioriss the .fryts tsNd :
Lacquer OF any prOniinences against WHOM
the Crown lawyers have been able to obtain
verdict. go ES T4t
TIE statue of Gen. j. b. Mcpherson
was unveiled at. Clyde, o., on the I'D, in
presence of twenty -one posts Of the Grand
Army Of the Republic aud Large number
of soldiers and citizens. The statue is the
gift OF the Society of the Army of the Ten
nessee. Speeches were made by ex-Presi-
dent Hayes and others.
THE vicinity of Hadlyme, Conn, was
visited by terrible hail and wind storm on
the 2lst. destroying entire crops of corn, to-
bacco and other products.
FIVE miscreants removed a~rail- on
the A., T.. 4 S. +. Railroad, near Law
renee, Kans., on the 21st, by which an emi-
grant train was thrown from the track and
badly wrecked, but fortunately no one was
injured. 1t. is believed the intention was to
ditch the express train from Pueblo, which
was due a short time afterward, for the
purpose Of robbery.
YELLow-FEvER and smallpox are
epidemic at Vera Cruz, Mexico.
In the Cork Assizes the trial of Grim.
inal agrarian ,aases was stopped at the request
of the counsel TOR the Crown on the ground
that 1uries persistently declined to return a
verdict of guilty despite the plainest evil
dence. .,.t
THE Matanzas branch of the Spanish
Bank of Cuba has been robbed of SOC, 900 in
specie by two employees, who made good
their escape on a steamer chartered by con-
federates ostensibly: for the purpose Of bring
ing cargo of cattle from Mexico.
The army-worm, or something very
similar in appearance. is. causing great de-
struciion to the oat fields in Northern Iowa
and Illinois.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-30
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

The condition Of the President be-
came alarmingly worse onthe 23d, owing to
the stoppage of the discharge from, the
wound and the consequent formation Of apus
cavity. A surgical operation, skillfully
performed by DR.. ASnew, of Philadelphia,
relieved the patient from Immediate danger,
although his condition was considered cTiti-
cal at midnight on the 24th. f-a3 -. : .
ADAM HARTRANFT, "a Russian Nihilist.
who was engaged in the Winter Palace plot,
BY which ten men were Kiued a9d many
wounded, has arrived at New York. His
mission to.this country is to raise funds to
carry on the plans of the Nihilists at home.
Two men, Rhodes and Crowder, were
killed near their homes in yolusia County,
Fla, the other day.f Supposed to have been
lynched by personal enemies. '7 9 y
LEVI MILLS, nominated for Attorney
General by tho Ohio Rrohibnionists, has de-
cifned. - - l W ~ tfa7sff9if
ssHENRY REID, of Clarion, Iowa, at
tempted to save friend who. fell into well,
when fe was overcome by the foul air and
died before assistance arrived.
IT is believed that the Egyptian cbt-
ton crop this year will be fully equal to that
Of last year, when the crop was excellent.
In one province the destructive cotton worm
has appeared, but its ravages will be limited
to that province. -sz=>s 'ss.s ssu-=~s~ex
THOMAS TOLE, Hans Olson and Au-
gust Saline were+iled at Hammondsville,
N. Y, by falling ore. =.
II. M. LoOKERY and Jessie Edwards,
engaged to be married at CLEVELAND o., start
ed out the other day, saying they were GO
ing to row on the lake. Not retaining
that plight, inquiry was made the next day,
only resulting In learning THAT a skfff had
been found capsizcd- about i've miles out by
life-saving crew, but the boat-keeper was
positive 1t hah been hired by four young
men, who had returned = On INC s4th, the
body of Miss Edwards was found floating in
the lake, 800 feet from the shore, Indicating
that both were drowned.
TIE census authorities estimate the
value OF the property of the United States as
assessed for purposes of taxation, is some
where in the neighborhood of So, 100000, =
600. Various estimates have been made as
to the true value OF the property. Mr.. tPor-
ter, chief Of the Wealth, Debt and Taxation
Bureau, thinks it nearer $50, 900 ,0O0 900 than
$40, 900, 00o, 900.
AT Paducah, KY, on the oath, Levi
Bolden, negro convict, killed a;fellowr pris-
oner named Stewart and was slain by guard
whom he had also attacked.
A FORT WORTH dispatch says there
was wreck on the Texas Pacific road at the
edge Of the sand hills. A tool car jumped
the track with about sixty men aboard.
Three were killed and ten wounded.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-30
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

HE propeller Winnipeg burned al
Duluth on the 18th. The passengers es-
capped, losing most of their clothing and bag
gage. Joseph Smith, fireman, aged IS;
James Branscom, head waiter; VIM. How
cry, aged 10, second porter; q pantryman
name unknown, are missing, and are sup
posed to be burned.
Col. X. L. MORT, a prominent citizen
OF Columbus, Ga, was mangled to death by
locomotive on the 10Th.
Two men were killed and three 9th
ers fatally injured by the explosion of q
portable engine near WATERFOWL, o., on the
18th.
WASH. ALLEN, colored, who muir
dered w. Judd Scott, Kingston Ua.) mer-
chant, and then robbed his store, was taken
from the Mansfield Jail and hanged by a
mob. He made n confession, duplicating four
or five other colored men in the plot, who
have been arrested and it was thought would
meet the same fate.
THE Roman Catholic Presbytery at
Roxton Falls, Canada, burned on the 10Th,
and Father Larue persisted in the flames.
AT Bloomington, ILL.,, Mrs. Victoria
Keough, q well-known lady, went to the
railroad yards in pursuit of truant son,
aged IL, who was in the habit of lettering
about the tracks and stealing rides upon
trains. The boy was caught, but broke
away from his mother, and while the latter
was in close and hot pursuit, an unobserved
switch engine came down upon them and
both were literally decapitated.
AT an Indian barbecue held at Green
leaf, near Fort Gibson, in the Cherokee Ma
tion, at which whisky, flowed freely, eight
men were killed or MORALLY wounded
Two express trains On the Fitchburg
Railway collided while at full speed, near
Charlemont, Mass, on the 10Th. Two train
men were killed and two badly wounded.
WILLIAM BoNNEY, better known as
Billy the Kid, a New Mexico desperate,
was recently shot and killed by Sheriff Gar
rett, icoin County, at Fort Sumner.
Billy was not quite 81 years years of age,
and came from New York City. His career