The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-11-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Rev. JOSEPH Cook dined with the
young ladies of Binghamton College, and
talked to them for an hour about the
mistakes of college life.
AN Idaho woman didn't faint when an
Indian seized her, but she broke away,
picked up pitchfork, and he Joined his
tribe with two portfolios in his lungs.
A New YORK. halter says that only
one man out of seven selects a hat that
becomes him, and that's one reason why
we are not better looking nation.
The Kansas Commercial Indicator
intimates that there is growing demand
for shorthorn cattle in the far West,
among the Texas, and Colorado ranch
men. rrees5 .i--
AN Illinois girl with breach of prom
ise suit testified that it was the usual
thing for girls to show their love letters
to fifteen or twenty other girls, in order
to make them jealous.
A JEALOUS Boston paper has this fling:
"AbOut the one rich New York family IN
seventeen is the average number that is
annually detected in entertaining bar
Der under the delusion that he is a Rus
sian nobleman.
In may pay to advertise medicine for
COWS on rocks, trees, and pasture fences,
where animals can see the letters; but
goods intended for human beings should
be made familiar through the newspa-
pers of the day.
MOTHER STEWART, the apostle of the
women's temperance crusade in Ohio,
has formed a Women's Temperance
Union at Atlanta, Ga, with Mrs. Gov
ernor Colquitt as its President, and is
working hard for her cause throughout
the South.
SENATOR CoNKIINa is said by a CORE
spondent of the Syracuse Journal to be
so impressed with the value of time ''that
he utilizes the moments in which the
toilet demand attention by committing
to memory some verse of poetry, some
maxims from wise men, or some fact he
desires to have on call. .
THE Partisan says that dandy Is not
merely finely dressed puppet or an eff
Terminate man, but a person who devOtes
a superfuous amount of thought not only.
to the cut of his clothes, but also to his
attitudes, the rapidity or slowness of his
pronunciation and the style of his gest-
ures.
'TF I should meet the dastardly rebel
that shot me-" said Boston war veteran,
on drawing 81 900 dollars in pension ar
rears, ''he'd have to swallow bottle of
wine. -EIcha17ge. The papers Will
make out next, that the soldiers who
draw the pensions are in "cahoot" with
the rebels, and that the war was put up
job between them to get pensions
Peck'8 Sun. -
LAST year there were 2, TO horse races,
occupying In all 47S days. The value
of the stakes amounted to s., 500, 900.
The winner of the Derby made $35, 900.
The races lasted from February to No
vember. NOblemen were the greatest
participants. The trotting time for
mile has been lowered from three min
utes, in 1920, to 2:12!, October 25, 1879.
st. Julian, at San Francisco.
THE chest society of San Francisco is
said to be more amusing than the same
class In any other city. In proof of this the
We1U8 Letter says: ga lady was amazed,
on presenting her card at Taylor street
mansion, to see the servant inspect her
from head to foot, and then return her
card, with the remark: "My mist'ess' Or
ders are very strict, mum. Sorry can't
admit you to-day, but we don't receive
people twice In the same costoOm. ,"
SCENE, ,parlor: Student and lady friends.
CThe ladies are great admirers of the
opera singer, Miss c.: First lady
Doesn't she dress becomingly?" Stu
dent-'Yes" Second lady-''And so
Student-"Yes." " Third lady
30 simply" Student-'FYes.
First Iady-"By the way, how was she
dressed lastnight?" Student In tights"
Oadie8 change the subject. )-HarUard
Magenta. "
CHICAGO is a wonderful city consider
ing its youth, whatever envious contem-
porarios may say of it. For example,
the b"of canning business of the place
employs over 1000 hands, requires 300,-
coo had # cattle annually, and so rap
idly -.r,5.,s,,:,r is it that it is expected
miilio. ..,.,.c.-p pods will ere long be re-
quirc6 E" supply the raw material The
beef L"tyl@ the canning Is corned and
boiled
TIE Now YORK papers tell the story
that a.. I'D lady who had taken a house
for the summer in the neighborhood of
Pelham Bridge had always associated the
sound 81 :, h,rl. with q dealer in fish.
Uczri,M he sound Of Colonel Kane's
TalIy-t:., ,,,-.:n ai!uouucinghis arrival in
thatl l. .lr ,..r t!.> rrst tina she sailed
'or-A t. - re: stopped the coach, and
.'.!n:er.-c,. :, -. P-rs,. driving that she
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