The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-07-06
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


June Roses.
Tho summer bright, the summer fair,
The summer, sweet serene, discloses
| In all its realm of riches rare
| No other bloom that can compare
With June's delicious roses.
| Springs cloudy days and summer Q heatS
| Come when life only gropes and proses,
But life is redoleut Of sweets
when poetry the spirit greets
| And scatters sweet June iOseB
! Lies June-what shall we call those hours
| In which the soul, serene, repOses?
| Their bloom dispelllng gloom that lowers,
| Their perfume stealing from loves bowers
Collage Hearth.
RED HOT times may soon be expected
in Sing Sing. The convicts,are going to
making stoves,
A CHUNK of the Giants Causeway,
| three feet high and twenty inches thick,
costs SO delivered at Glasgow.
THE mosquito has arrived at the
watering-places. Same old look-same
! bite.
NEW JERSEY is said to offer strangers
better shake of the ague than Arkan-
sas can ever hope to turn out.
How is it that most any man can jump
out of bed on dark night and put his
hand on the matchbox the first time
| trying.
THE Cincinnati school board didn't de-
eide 10 "repair and erect a new building"
though one of the members proposed it.
THREE New Hampshire men met their
deaths last year by falling on Pitch-forks.
One can't be too careful about where he
falls these times.
A WOMAN at Elizabeth, New Jersey,
has 1000 receipts for making horse-lini-
ments and salves and yet sheDev owned
even a clothes-horse.
A New YORK state tramp was throw
ing stones at a train of cars when an en-
gine came along and divided him into
sixteen pieces and bunch of bones.
THE presidency Of a life insurance
company has its sOrrOws. 1t takes an
official 50 long TO count over his salary
that he has no time TO go a-fishing.
ANY newspaper man who so desire
can say that a Mount Carmel fire place
was blown four miles by the tornado and
came down with the yule log blazing as
home-like as ever.
Boston is sthreatened with a new paper,
TO be called the New Departure and
Colored Progressive Democrat, and to be
edited, as the Post phrases it, by ga col
ored citizen of Boston"
THE Mexican government doesn't
care to see regiment of Yankee cavalry
galloping o'er its sacred soil in search Of
gore, and will make an effort to behave
itself.
No ieweler can half appreciate the
beauty of a handsome woman who sits
on the opposite side of the car. He Is
wondering whether her red jewelry is
coral or wax.
CLOTHES don't make the man, but
some of the worst looking old smoked
hams ever held out to the American pub
lie are covered ina way to make mans
mouth water.
A MAN who shot a New York lawyer
began to prosper right away. Lands,
who shot New Jersey editor, lost his
his wife got divorce, and he
is fast becoming lunatic.
A NORTH CAROLINA paper says:
&C George T. Stronach, of Raleigh, has
received an order from a house in New
York for 100hogs heads picked chickens
The order was originally from the Rus
sian commissary department.
APARTY ofemigrants lately applied for
admission to the Liverpool workhOuse
who evidently came from some exceed
ingly foreign country, as every European
language was spoken TO them in success
sion without their understanding word.
Nor could any of the interpreters COM
prehend their dialect. Their names,
history and object still remain secret.
A CHARMING young lady OF the
Washoe valley has many admirers. One,
greatly infatuated, and somewhat exas-
perated that be could never seize An op-
portunity to speak to her alone, at length
proposed to her plumplv in the presence
Of one of the enemy. He was accepted,
and, overioyed at his success, at once
invited the other young man TO act "A
groomsman at the wedding. He de-
clined.
A CLERK in the Allegheny, Penn, post
office brought down his hand-stamp upon
a letter which he supposed to contain
garden seeds. Instantly there was a loud
explosion and clerk CHASTITY pale. With
an utter disregard of the department reg
llations the envelope had been filled with
paper caps for toy pistols.