The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-07-24

""AgS VI FliOW II size
, But he's thin rs n last years banana,
And he shrinkS IN terrible manner,
And he'll slon wish h. haIn'' tried
viii this man in New York named Tanner.
This Weather il hard on back hair.
Yes, Conkling s i'll, and his illness
is Kind that no physician can cure.
Has any one obtained Ben Buffers
opinion Of the Garfield-Arthur nOmi-
nation?
America publishes 0, ,l29 periodicals;
Si2 more than England, France and
Germany combined.
The world is waiting very patiently
for George Francis Train to be gather
ed to his fathers.
VIII III. Kernan's mou>tache looks
like the shadow Of great sorrow.
1t will prove a terrible blow to the
hotel-kecprrs if DR.. Tanners expert
ment should terminate successfully.
a red-headed woman and II COW
| W lIil wv iSb'u llolll1 dIc lliltIil enc
mics.
How Charles Dickens would rise up
ia his grave and howl if he knew that
his entire list of n0v"ls--the labor of IA
litetime-could now be purchased for
the insignificant sum of $4.OO!
The Grenada New South says there
is one very especial advantage in
"patent side" exchanges: in clipping
an article one is in no danger of
mutilating anything of value on the
opposite side.
The wise man writeth plain, round |
hand on one side of the paper only, |
but the foolish man scrawleth on both |
SIDES of the sheet, and his penman-
ship resemblcth the hicroglyphics ON n
Chinese monument.
A West Jackson man says that he
married just to be in a position to take
the conceit out of one woman, but the
affair has resulted in his wife's taking
all the hair out of the top of his head,
You can buy II nicely printed copy
of Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress for six
cents now, and there will be no excuse
at the last solemn day, for a mans
saying he didn't have chance to
read up Oh religious subjects.
After man has been elevated
through the agency of Il mule, it's not
the sense Of pain that produces his
dependency SO much as the humilia-
ton that invariably follows the per-
fOrmancc.
n. b. The above is not a joke.
A Summit woman cut and hauled
two cords Of stovc-wOOd, swept the
backyard, whalcd nine of her children, ..
miIlled eleven cows and knocked )
down tramp, all in one day, and yet
there are men who sneak around and
declare that the inhabitants of Pike .,
county have no energy. {
lit UIChSOll %cMEI INCAb W
being out of change when the cOntribu- =
ion box is handed around, the worst :
that can befall a young
nan at church, is for his shirt collar =
% become cnthused with spirit OF =
and to devote its entire ~
,imc and attention to exploring the u
pack of his neck. V
That is bad enough. If there is any Y
-, fitrI
lald head, or to have to attend i
uncral through politeness alone a
irenada New South. "
Or maybe, ii is to accompany your g
,irl to strawberry festival and then
uddenly make thcalarming discovery
hat you have left your pocket-book ut Il
ome. c
It's funny tO observe the actions of cl
girl who has just become the possess "
pr of new and particularly hand "
Dme pair Of gloves. It's funny to see +,
ow she'll keep 'em on at church b,
uring the entire service, although the n
,cather is rs warm as Dutch mother y
l-law, and her hands are literally ~
cluged with perspiration. cl
You remember, don't you, how just W
ftcr you were married you used to M
fer in very loving manner TO your u
ifc's feet as "fairy-like little things" y,
ld spoke of her footsteps being "soft ri
angel whispers" and all that sort of tll
ling; but now, whenever she acci- NJ NJ
,ntally happens to strike them against fo
,ur cOrns, you frown as dark as be
and yell for her to
axe them blamed old flat-boats out III
the wayr us sad 10 think of the dir
anges that come over us in this he
Drld. Nj