The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-06-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


June Hoses.
Tho summer bright, the summer fair,
The summer, sweet, serene, discloses
In all itsroalm OF riches rare
No other bloom that can compare
with June's delicious roses.
Springs cloudy days ana summer y heatB
Come when life only gropes and presses,
But life IN redolent Of sweets
When poetry the spirit greets
And hCatters sweet June roses.
LIES J~une-what shall we call those hours
In which the soul, serene, TepOses2
Their bloom dispelling gloom that lowers,
Their perfume stealing from loves bowers
All these are LIES June roses.
Collage Hca,ih.
SHAD have been caught in some of the
rivers Of Ohio, and there is great re.
joiciDg.
English cockneys talk about the
" Roosun harmy hon the Janube, you
knaw."
RED lot times may soon be expected
in Sing Sing. The convicts, are going to
making stoves,
A CHUNK of the Giants Causeway,
three feet high ard twenty inches thick,
costs $40 delivered at Glasgow.
New JERSEY is said to offer strangers
a better shake of the ague than Arkan-
sas can ever hope to turn out.
How is it that most any mar can jump
out OF bed on a dark night and put his
hand on the MATCHBOX the first time
trying.
The Cincinnati school board didn't de-
eide to "repairand 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 5000 receipts for making horse-lini.
ments and salves and yet she never owned
even a clothes.horse.
HARK. Is that the r-r-r.racket of the
moving machine? 1t is! it isl Sur
geons, coroners, undertakers and report.
ers, come and view the remains!
A New YORK state tramp was throw.
ing stones at a train of cars when IN en-.
CINE came along and divided him into
sixteen pieces and a 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.
Boston is threatened 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. "
MANY years ago Mr.. Peter 3. Brigham,
of Boston, made a will giving the bulk of
his large property for the emancipation
of slaves. This having become useless,
he made another giving S3,OOO,OO0 for a
hospital-for the sick poor.
A North CAROLINA paper says:
George T. Stronach, Of Raleigh, has
received an order from a house in New
Yorkfo l00hogsh ofpickled chickens.
The order was originally from the Rus
sian commissary department.
WILLIAM GRENALGH, of Fall River,
Mass, aged twenty-five, wrote to his
mother a few evenings ago that he and
his wife were quite well. Two hours
later he died of a sudden attack of paraly-
sis, and the news was sent as a POSTSCRIPT
to his letter.
A CHARMING young lady OF the
Washoe valley has many admirers. One,
greatly infatuated, and somewhat exas.
perated that he could never seize al OPP
portunity to speak to her alone, at length
proposed to her plumply in the presence
of one of the enemy. He was accepted,
and, overjoyed at his success, at once
invited the other young man to act as
groomsman at the wedding. He de-
clined.
Miss HENDERSON, the daughter of ex-
Gov. Henderson, of Houston, who, with
her father, was lost for two days in the
woods of Harris county, has died from
the fatigue and suffering of the wander
ings. During the fearful two days and
nights of wandering she was without
food. The buggy in which she and her
paralytic father were riding was owe
thrown. She was compelled to abandon
her father until she could obtain aid.
He was discovered by a party of negroes
who went in search of him.