The Russellville Democrat., 1877-07-26
FRESHEST GLEANINGS.

Boston spent s4,200 entertaining Hayes.
 Canadians get their beer for three cents.
 Wine is made from oranges extensively in St. Augustine, Florida. A planter near Savanah, Ga, sold his ! cucumbers on three acres of vines fer , s1 ,250.
 It is said that one-half the horses sold by public auction in Denison, Texas, are stolen property.
 Watermelous, peaches, figs, and plums are more abundant this year than ever before in San Antonio, Texas.
 The ferries in Boston are all owned by the city, and proposition to abolish fares is favoraby regarded by the officials. The national brewers assocication pro- poses to ask congress to prevent the states from passing prohibitory liquor laws.
 A recent investigator says that there are 13 GOO Jews in Jerusalem, of whom over 6,000 are wholly dependent on charity.
 An American according to the London World, speaking of the state of France, said, " Hell itself sir, could not be suc- cessfully conducted on such principles. "
 The Daily Dub is the name of new paper at Elgin. It's the only name that would rhyme with mud" and was se- lected instead of "thud" or "bud."
 The authorities of Portland, Maine, have prohibited the sale of "ginger pop" and the grocers anticipate an or der restraining the sale of yeast cakes. If ten Turks could find Montenegrin soldier fast in bear trar, they might possibly whip him, but stil the chances in his favor would be good enough for an even bet.
 A farmer at Mount Sterling, Kentucky, has obtained fine sample of sugar from the bloom of the common popular tree. It is granulated in appearance and snowy in color.
 New York has also been building cat amarans, and the other day one of them ended over and showed the crew head first into the mud. They can capsize on dry land as we'll as anywhere else.
 A woman pushing baby cab with one hand, holding upher skirt with the other, and carrying her parosol in her teeth is sight which can only be seen since the new fashion broke out. It is calculated that If chickens could be matched in three days the hens of l America could put in one hundred and | fifty-six more days on every year. Their early attention is respectfully solicited.
 Admiral Dot came near being shot in painful spot by bullet red hot from gun in the hands of & man who was not | matching plot to kill little Dot. All of which happened at the circus the other day.
 Two Italians shot at each other nine times in suburb of San Francisco. One was killed, and the survivor refuses to make any explanation but all the facts indicate that the encounter was deliber- ately arranged duel.
 Any time when fifty men will band to- gether and refuse to fee brush boys, | walters, porters etc., a movement will commence which will eventually rid the public of custom more honOred in the breach than in the observance.
 In London invitations to parties, balls and receptions contain request that the invited will keep the affair secret The regulation has probably been adopted to save party givers from bores who go around begging invitations.
 Holland objects to the annexation of the Transvaal republic by England, and a protest drawn up by the famous Prof. Breede, at Utrecht, has received numer- ous signatures as also has another which is headed by all the professors of the uni versity of Leyden.
 It won't do for young lady to poke sun umbrella at the wheel-house on billy goat, especially if her dress fits tight, the goods are thin, and the weather's hot. One did yesterday, and, when she picked herself up out of the gutter and went off muttering words to herself, she discovered that her dress was busted in forty-one different direc- tions and in fifty-two places--mostly frsm the neck to the knees.
 Prof. Monier Williams, of Oxford, is exploring in India. He has found a shrine raised to European who was drunkard. The natives annually saeri- flee at his tomb brandy and cigars, to propitiate the intensified evil power they believe he became at death. At another place he found the shrine of white man who had been during life great sports man. His personal habits, however, are indicated by the fact that the offerings made at his shrine are alfo brandy and cigars.
 A coudburst may be serious thing in the Cheyenne region, where the streams run down from the mountains. Recently there was a sudden and un- commonly heavy fall of rain there. All most without any warning, wave seven feet high rolled down the Chagwater. A detachment of the Third cavalry en- camped near the bank was overwhelmed by the flood. The dry bed of the creek, on which no water had flowed for six years, suddenly became river fifteen feet deep.
 A sketch of Murphy, the temperance agitator, by the Cincinnati Enquirer, in response to request by correspond ent He is son of Mrs. Murphy, and in early lie was a small Murphy and few in hill. Afterward he took to hard drinking, and this was the making of him, for if he had never drank, he would never have reformed However, it was not wholly his drinking that made him, but his present eminence is also partly owing 10 the fact that he afterward stopped as violently as he had before