The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-11-26
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS


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The recent rains have filed the
rivers of Maine with floating logs.
A Minnesota man has become in.
sane from excessive use of tobacco.
A Connecticut girl has gone insane
from being kissed in the dark.
The great American obituary pro-
voker." is the latest for kerosene.
Agassiz has decided that the eel is
neither fish nor a snake, but an eel.
Baltimore never had so many oys-
ters, and prices we're never SO low,
rs now.
II it wasn't for the law man
could make fortune in half the time
he does now.
The building of an ox-cart is said
to he among the lost arts in Georgia.
There are six thousand pedagogu.
es in Switzerland, and most as many
pupils. sss# e.1aE
Florida is ePorted to be already
filling up with invalids for the winter
season.
A Texan ranch man boasts Of thir-
teen bullet holes in his skin from
Indian rifles
Ont of 2,979 Quakers in Kansas,
only 324 use tobacco.
The obituary notice of Kentucky
lady includes The fact that her ha T
was six feet eight inches 10 &.
AustraIia is beginning to export
wine in considerable quantities.
On week days You buy your music
10y the sheet; on Sundays YOU can
have it by the choir for nothing.
The San Bernardino. Cal. Guar
dian reports the capture Of two
headed snake in that vicinity.
The Selma. Aa,. Times says it has
a sweet potato in its office six feet
and two inches in length.
An Illinois lawyer advertises for
the chairs Of Rehecca Long"
The higher we take the thermomc.
ter up mountain the lower it gets.
Putting up 4 stove-pipe in Dan
bury is politely termed attending Il
black crook matinee.
An elderly lady. endeavoring TO
post letter in a Iiy,lrant. is spec
taele to make an oyster weep.
\ New Bedford man has been fined
ten dollars for watching some men
play ball on Sunday.
Pottsvillc Pa, hrags that it pays
out more money for cigars, snuff and
tobacco than for bread.
The Erie road loses 100000 per
year from employees and others who
steal from the freight ears.
a man in New York has watch
which he claims has gained enough
to pay for itself in six months.
Samuel Adams. Of fCavendish, VT,
WAS elected Justice Of the Pea in
1925. and has held that Office ever
since.
Henry Brown, of Brooklyn, left
some letters in his pockets. and Mrs.
Brown has just secured a divorce
from him.
a married man in Buffalo came
near being killed by spider. 1t
was an iron one. and his wife had !
holt Of the handle.
The peanut crop this season is
pronounced almost an entire failure
as TO quantity, and not much better /.
as CARDS quality.
c. Berry. of Bethel. Vt, com
mi'ted suicide the other day because
his father died last year. lie ex-
pecte the old man to live forever.
Country Magistrate - Prisoner, |
you are discharged this time with Il
caution but if see you here again I
you'll get twice as much"
A Chicago paper says that il is
how quick the blind beg
gars of that city can tell the differ |
ence between ten ceLts and quar-
ter
Siam is an ungallant country
There the first may he divorced. and /
after that every wife may be sold for
cash or traded for Il yellow dog.
Counterfeit 81 30 gold peices. I
amounting to the nominal sum Of
$4,000. were captured in Chatham
\. c., recently.
Speaking of new novel. an en-
5husiastic Chicago critic >ays: The /
Incidents followed each other like a
ShOvaI-fuII Of hot cO1IS -
Before huslles came into fashion
there was a chance for newspapers |
% display enterprise; but now ali 1
Of them are behind in their makeup. /
An enthusiastic editor of New
York sporting paper thinks Congress
should appropriate 100000 to bc |
Ised rs prizes for horse racing.
A demOnstrative maiden in
SkOwhegan. Me-. recently kicked n
persistent suitOr down s'alrs with |
,uch violence that his life was des-
paired of.
A student has been expelled from
Lafayette college Easton. Pa, for
stealing. lie had regular jury 7
rial before his classmates, which
astcd three days
1t is said there are $4,000 work !
nen out of employment in Philadel-
,hia. No doubt they would like to /
lold another election.
This is the time for sentimental