The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-07-20
FRESHEST GLEANINGS,

1t is said that one-half the horses sold
by public auction in Denison, Texas, are
stolen property.
Hattie schell, a young woman Of
American birth. has been engaged for the
royal opera of Berlin.
The ferries in Boston are all owned nv
the city, and a proposition to abolish fares
is favorably regarded by the officials.
The national brewers association pro.
poses to ask congress to prevent tho
states from passing prohibitory liquor
laws.
A recent investigator says that there
ale $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 a new
paper at EIgin. 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 to
your hair.
If ten Turks could find a Montenegro
soldier fast in a bear trap, they might
possibly whip him, but still the chances
in his favor would be good enough
for an ever bet.
A farmerat Mount Sterling, Kentucky,
has obtained a 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 m puching a baby cab with
one hand, holding upher 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.
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 in
a painful spot by a bullet red hot from a
gun in the hands of a man who was not
Matching a plot to kill little Dot. All of
which happened at the circus the other
day.
Two Italians shot at each other nine
times in a suburb of San Francisco. One
was killed, and the survivor refuses to
make any explanation but all the facts
indicate that the encounter was a deliber-
ately arranged duel.
Any time when fifty men will band to.
gether and refuse to fee brush-boys,
walters, porters, ETC., q movement will
commence which will eventually rid the
public of a custom more honored in the
breach than in the observance.
A business man in Trenton, New ,Jer-
sey, says that the women of that city own
all the real estate, and their husbands do
all the running in debt and beating their
bills. He that he will not
trust any husband without a written
order from the wife.
In London invitations to parties, balls
and receptions contain a request that the
invited will keep the affair secret. The
regulation has probably been adopted to
save party-givers from bores who 60
around begging invitations.
The kicking tendency of mules has
made the points for a great many funny
stories, but there is a serious side to the
subject. No kind OF items are more
common in southern newspapers than
those telling of serious injury or death
caused by mules kicks.
The Chicago public library contains
81, 40S volumes, and is valued at $50, 900.
The expenses for the year Just closed
on the list of borrowers, and the number
of visitors to the library and reading
during the year was 100000.
The jocose tracing of the first fami-
lies" OF Virginia back to P~ocahontas
seems to have a solid foundation. One
of hat lady's descendants has Just COM
piled a genealogy of the family, and his
investigations reveal the singular fact
that nearly every family in the state, of
any duration of residences, may be inter-
linked lineally or collaterally.
A cloudburst may be a serious thing
in the Cheyenne region, where the
streams run down from the mountains.
Recently there was a sudden and I'M
commonly heavy fall of rain there. AL
most without any warning, a wave seven
feet high rolled down the Chagwater.
A detachment of the Third cavalry en-
camped near the bank was overwhelmed
by the food. The dry bed of the creek,
which no water had flowed for six
years, suddenly became a river fifteen
feet deep.
Prof. Monier Williams, of Oxford, is
exploring in India. He has found a
shrine raised to a European who was a
drunkard. The natives annually saeri-
propitiate the intensified evil powerthey
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
A sketch of Murphy, the temperance
by the Cincinnati Enquirer, in
response to a request by a correspond.
mt Gle is a son OF Mrs. Murphy, and
n early life was a small Murphy and
ew in a hill. Afterward he took to hard
Thinking, and this was the making OF
lin, for if he had never drank, he would
lever have reformed. However, it was
wholly his drinking that made him,
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