Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-07-15
CURRENT CULLINGS.
NEWS AND NOTES.
Gathered From Various Sources and Para
graphed to Save Space.


A Pittsburg dispatch says the prospects
for the iron industry are now better than
for four years.
A hint to rcvisers of grammar: Positive
steal; comparative, embezzle; slperla-
tive, financier.
1t must be glorious fun to be courting
in Greenland. The nights are abeut
three months long.
Kissimmee, Fla, boasts of cucumber
nineteen inches long, weighing five
pounds and half.
A remarkable bird was captured near
Muscontague, Mich, recently. It'had
three legs and only one eye.
Mrs. Mary Colby of Vienna, Me-, al.
though rs years old, has just personally
worked out her road tax of $4.
The damage to the Northwestern
wheat crop by drouth is estimated from
twenty-five to thirty per cent.
An Irishman tells of fight in which
there was but one whole nose left in the
crowd, "and that belonged to the tay- ket.
tle."
Some of the towns in Missouri are
closing up the saloons under the law pro.
hibiting sales of liquor in less quantities
than one gallon.
A husband telegraphed to his wife
"What have you for breakfast and how
is the baby?" The answer came: Buck
wheat cakes and measles"
A Texas farmer says that three good
bulldogs roaming about the yard at night
Will do more to keep men honest than
all the talking in the world.
Sam Jones, in speaking of converting
hard. hearted newspaper men, says he
couldn't touch Chicago reporter with
ten-foot pole. He ought to have tried
1O-cent cigar.
A skeleton was unearthed in Nantuck.
ct the other day with small copper coin
in one hand. 1t was probably an editor
who had just drawn his salary when
death overlook him.
Even the tramps have caught the pre-
vailing craze. They have resolved to
boycott those houses where the only bite
they get when they apply for food is
furnished by the dog.
A Philadelphia thief, who was tried
on charge of having stolen eight bibles
valued at twenty-five dollars, had the
impudence.to tcll'thc magistrate that he
stole the books "to star Sunday
school. H,l
N-The sum assumed and paid by 1he
Government for the war Of the reyolu.
tion vas $6,OOO,O 900; the war of 1919 cost
S115, 900; the Mexican war, S135, ,OOO..
goo, and the war of the rebellion SO, $780,
geo, ,905.
The Rural New Yorker, from 900 re.
ports, figures out the wheat crop of this
country at 455, 100000 bushels, against
357 10000 The oat crop will fall under
last years yield. The potato crop Is hea.
Wy, and there Is fine prospect for corn.
The Prohibitionists Of Minnesota have
placed State ticket in the field. The
party in Alabama split into two factions.
and each will have ticket The Repub.
licans OF the latter State have ticket
headed by Arthur Bingham for Cover.
nor.
Recently published French statistics
show that there are over two million men
of mature years who utterly fail. to an.
preciate the beauty of matrimony. In
other words, nearly one-fourth Of the
adult male population of France are
bachelors
A little newsboy of Orlando, Fla. be-
ing suddenly told Of his fathers death
dropped his papers and hurried home. A
citizen, picking them up, sold them
through the town, telling the circum.
stances, and realized $40, some of them
fetching So apiece.
In every business and profession there
is some one object above all others sought
after, upon which success may be said to
depend. The orator endeavors to arouse
our enthusiasm, the poet appeals to our
sentiments, the lawyer to our reason, the
clergyman to our conscience.
Mrs. ]. NJ. Hall of Tolono, ILL.,, had a
hen that laid two eggs a day. The hen
was killed this week, and out of curiosity
an anatomical examination was made
which revealed the fact that the hen had
two egg sacks, each containing full ma.
tnred egg which would have beeii laid
that day.
We trust that Mr.. Cleveland, In the
MANY slecpless nights hc passes holding
down the doors of the treasury vaults
against a few ragged miserables to whom
congress has granted pensions, win not
forget to veto that 800, 900 for flowers and
furniture for the white housel-Rnorrile
Young Rcporter-"The storm king
hurled his torn and tumbling torrents oy.
er the ruins Of the broken and dismem.
bered ediflce." Old Editor-"What's
that2 What do you mean, young fellowY"
Young reporter-'I--er-er the flood
washed away Patrick McDoural's old
soap factory. Lynn tMass. Unioa.
j. N. Peed of Jasper, Mo-, had 100
acres of corn adjoining a wheat field
which had been devastated by chinch
bugs. lie ploughed trench around the
corn field, and for fourteen days hauled n
log through the trench, and thus saved
the corn. The bugs tbronged into the
trench by millions. but they never rot
out. The log did the business.
The newly elected Governor of Oregon
celebrated his victory by delivering a
speech, in which he again insisted that
the Chinese must go. If they didn't 10
poaceably and in body he said thew
would have to 60 anyhow and IN sec.
tons. This playful alusion to the nos
sibilities Of gunpowder and dynamite was
heartily applauded. Apparently there
are troublous times ahead for Oregon.