The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-07-27
FRESHEST GLEANINGs.

Hayes.
Wine is made from oranges extensively
In st. Augustine, Flerida.
The ferries in Boston are all owned by
the city, and proposition to abolish fares
Is favorably 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 $4,000 Jews in Jerusalem, of whom
over 5000 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 sue
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 Sc
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.
Young Joseph, the leader in the new
Indian war, says the government has lied
to him six times, and that he shall take
twenty scalps for every lie. Hold on 10
your hair.
If ten Turks could find Montenegrin
soldier fast in a bear trap, they might
possibly whip him, but still 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.
1t 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 well as anywhere else.
A woman puching baby cab with
one hand, holding up her skirt with the
other, and carrying her parosOl in her
teeth is a sight which can only be seen
since the new fashion broke out.
ACoUNsEL being questioned bya Judge
to know "for whom he was concerned" :"
replied: " | am concerned, my lord, for
the plaintiff, but / am employed by tho
defendant"
1t is calculated that if chickens could
be Matched in three days the hens of
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 i'm
a painful spot by bullet red hot from
gun in the hands Of a man who was not
Matching plot to kill little Dot. All of
which happened at the circus the other
day.
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 partygiyers from borcs who go
around begging invitations.
The Chicago public library contains
81 Jos volumes, and is valued at $50, 600.
The expenses for the year just closed
were S2j, 800. There are 4O,O59 names
on the list of borrowers, and the number
of visitors to the library and reading
room during the year was 7jO, 600.
IT won't do for young lady to poke a
sun umbrella at the wheel-house on a
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 of muttering words 10
herself, she discovered that her dress
was busted in forty-one different direc-
tiOns and in ffty-two placcs-mostly
from the neck to the knees.
Prof Monier Williams, Of Oxford, is
exploring i'm India He has found Il
shrine raised to a European who was a
drunkard. The natives annually saori-
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 a white man
who had been during life a great sports
man. His personal habits, however, are
indicated by the fact that the offerings
made at his shrine are also brandy and
cigars.