The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-08-21
Facts \ FANCIEs.
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power.
Mumps are plural, yet they often look
singular.
That's too thin, said the boy whenhe
tasted the picnic lemonade.
1t takes something more than coed
clothes TO make a gentleman; he can bs
distinguished in any garb.
The manager Of a burlesque troupe
will tell you that seeing his show will
drive away sorrow, and yet he'll get
mad as wet hen il you suggest that
it is a w~oe-be.gone company.
A New Haven, Conn.,, harness maker
has a ~two-legged cat which propels it.
self in a lively ANN on its fore legs,
with its headquarters elevated sufici-
emily TO preserve its balance.
The ministers association OF Utica,
N. Y, has decided that its members
shall preach no more ermon at flu
nerals, but may deliver them afterward
in church, il desired by the friends Of
the dead.
A young man, the other day, got
married against the wishes Of his par
ents, and requesting a friend to break
it TO them, said: Tell them I'm dead,
old fellow, and gently work them up TO
the climax
Several colored girls, sent North by
the pastor Of a cOloredchurch in Orange.
burg, s. O., to obtain situations Gs
h~ousemaids, have returned. They hired
out for q time, but the moment they
raised sufficient means they turned back
home.
This is the season Of the year when
the good little boy refuses to go in bath
ing with his companions, because his
mother forbid him, stays On the bank to
mind their clothes and scoots for home
after tying knots in the sleeves Of their
trousers.
President Hayes was arbitrator in a
case Of disputed territory between Para
quay and Argentine Republic, and de-
cided in favor Of Paraguay, which go
delighted the people that they have
changed the name Of the principal city
Of the disputed country to Villa Hayes.
North Perry, Maine, has On infant
giantess in perfect health, which though
but a year old, is three feet high and
weighs as much as a healthy twelve
year old boy. At its birth it weighed
only nine pounds. Its great great
grandfather was a man Of extraordinary
size.
About this time Of year city people
are getting terribly anxious about the
welfare of the country cousin. This
anxiety and solicitude will grow as the
season advances, and when they can
bear it no longer they will pack up four
children and two trunks and 60 and see
about it.
Peter Igo, of Lawrence, Mass, was
very poor and very proud. Being out
of work and money he did not make his
plight known, but fed his wife and child
on bread and water, and went without
any food at all himself. A messenger,
who went to tell him Of O chance for
work, found him dead from starvation.
The novelty Of ornnmented horse
shoes having worn of, wooden smooth
ing-irons have just been introduced, on
which are handsomely painted flowers,
figures, landscapes, or monographs
They make very pretty mantel orna'
ments. The large wooden surface per-
mits Of more elaborate decoration than
the horseshoe.
People who went up Mount Washing
ton, N. H., on July Fourth, were sur
prised to find the Summer house win
dows, on the exposed side, all showed
up and frozen up, and the promenade
platform like the rocks about, still al
most oyershoes in snow, and every post
and northwest facing rock still covered
to a depth Of nearly half a foot.
While swinging their hoes in the weed-haunted
rows,
Where beans and tomatoes are growing,
The son to his father set out to remark,
As warmly the sunbeams were glowing,
'Why like is this spot to the place that WAS not
known to fame till that apple proceedin'T
Il pass i quoth the parent then answered the
con, n, ,s- al ft M
Because It's the garden o. weedin'r
For years the fate Of the ship Alaska,
which cleared from British Columbia
for Japan, was a mystery, when recently
a drunken sailor boosted of having been
one OF the crew, who mutinied, killed
the officers, secured what plumber was
on the ship, burned her, and escaped to
the shore in a boat. The case has been
investigated and the participators nearly
all arrested.
Mrs. Hooper says in her last Paris let.
ter: Master Isaac Bell, Jr., the young
nephew Of Mr.. James Gordon Bennett,
Of the New York Herald, is just five
days old. The day after the young gen.
tlemsn's advent his uncle called to see
him and laid on his cradle 100 United
States bonds Of 81. 900 each as a chris
tening gift, or rather a gift Of Joyous
arrival. , according tn the old medieyAl