The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-07-12
The Morristown Gazette.
WEDNESDAY. JULY p. 1876.
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

boats in England, who receive no ed
ucation.
Observation-Disclosures young ladies
have just been made Bachelors of
Art at Elmira, New York.
The Chicago Times chuckles over
the increase of Chicago IS though
its editor had a personal interest in
it.
The 200 women painters studying
at Cooper's Institute have earned
$4,000 in the past year by painting
pictures.
A woman in Macon, Ala. had
twins twice, and then triplets, and
after the last lot her husband ran
away, and has not returned.
New York had in the recent police
parade a force numbering nearly
1000 patrolmen, with the necessary
number Of commanding officers.
A couple Of young women at Frye
burg. Maine. appeared on the road
with hoe in hand, few days since
to work out their highway taxes.
Hufiand, Prussian writer, says
that married women live longer than
single ones in the proportion OF two
to one. The former live along out
Of spite probably.
zone New York journal now lying
before us''--begins a Pittsburg edi-
tor. Somehow or other the yeracity
of New York papers has always been
doubted in the West.
At the end Of an Indiana marriage
ceremony, the bride advanced grace
fully to the clergyman and requested
him to announce the hymn, "Ehis
is the way long have sought
The Literary World reminds hun
CRY correspondents that John Locke
was paid only SO pounds sterling for
his twenty years labor on the rs
say on the Human Understanding"
A party Of naturalists we're very
much amused one day last week by
the spectacle of a Wisconsin potato
bug jerking an ox-cart around ten
acre field in order 20 get up an ap-
petite.
That baIky animal. the lobster
(says the New York Herald) which
bushes in hot water. into which it
is always getting, will have q short
crop Of itself this year, owing TO the
storms.
An old hat is usually regarded
with contempt and aversion but no.
body can lay down an umbrella so
sick and miserable but what there j 3
some good Samaritan always ready
to scoop it in.
A lady in Luxembourg, France, is
now prosecuting a man who killed
her son in an affair of honor not for
killing him, but for taking away his |
character by saying that he fought |
in an undershirt Of chaiu-arInor.
Mr.. Carl Schurz says Of Gov. Hayes |
that he was not born to be a leader, but, !
on the contrary, requires one---A. !. Sun. (
With the kind permission Of the
American people we will give him as
n leader the Governor of New York |
on March 4th, 1877.
Above all things in this hot wealth
er avoid spirituous liquors. If you
will drink, take lager, but plenty of
water TO keep the Precipitation going
is perhaps better. Remember that
that it is a bad sign when you do
not sweat in hot weather.-A. Y.SaH.
Little boys playing BALI Anxious
mamma in distant doorway calling |
aloud, Tommy, Tommy" GENTLE
man call the attention Of children to
woman. Best boy replies, Her
amt calm of we; us don't belong
to She
He was too solemn a preacher; he
didn't suit in Nevada. The chair
man of the farewell committee ex-
pressed it well; said he: CHOW you
can git, pard we amt a9in religion
out here, and it rifles us TO see a fell
Ter spilin' it. Git"
A Wisconsin editor illustrates the
prevailing extravaganza Of the peo-
pie of the present day, by calling at
tention to the costly paby carriages
in use low, while, when lie was q
baby, they hauled him around by the
hair Of the head.
Governor Irwin, of California, has
taken off from one to four years each
from the sentence Of one hundred
Convicts in the State Penitentiary,
in consequence Of the good conduct
Of the body of convicts at a recent
fire in the prison.
Miss Antoinette Polk, daughter
of the late soldier-bishop of Tennes-
Polk-and niece of
tie late President Polk. was a belle,
last winter. of society in Rome. She
is The One Fair Woman of Joa-
luin Miller's latest romance. $
The man who is fortunate enough
20 win a bet with a lady usually gets
t in slippers. The common device
IS blue silk rhinoceros roofing up a t
yellow satin morass, and most men
IF fine feeling prefer to frame them
ather than to wear them.
Lightning which a few days ago r
struck q Church in South Manches- i
er, Conn.,, completely stripped the
,oots from three lads who were iean-
Dg against the building. The lads
we're badly stunned and blistered,
ut have completely recovered from :
heir shock.
When Hon. S. S. Cox was looking -
t the great Corliss engine at the 4
Centennial last week, he asked the y
-uard standing near what horse
over the engine had. The reply