The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-11-03
sOTPINGs AND CLIPPINGS.


! Who even heard Of shoemaker breathing
! his last?
THE craze for cid relies never gets
/ down to boots and shoes. Once kicked
! off they are done with forever.
WHEN you cleave to anyone You stick.
When ysu cleaye anything you cutit into
COnfound the old English language, any
how.
A MN never realizes how plenty mus
tard is, and how scarce are bread and
meat, until he tackles railroad eating
house sandwich.
POINT CLEAR, near Mobile, is the New
port of the South 1t IS situated at the
entrance of Mobile Bay, fronting both on
gulf and on the bay.
A NEW town in Nebraska is called
"Ofice." They want immigrants at that
place and went on the principle that all
people want to get into Office.
BEAooNsFIEnD will soon re-marry-st
least so hints Vanity Fair, Perhaps the
rumor Is only to touch up his Vanity, but
It is hardly Fair to dc so.
SINGS the New York Sun.
A spruce and spry Ohio man,
sleek and sly Ohio man,
Obi there's no such a thing st all for luck
as being an Ohio man.
WE hear very little about 10 Cook nov.
Detroit Free Press. Huahl Do you
want to stir him up? We are the ones,
not you, who are obliged to stand Joseph.
Boston Globe.
In some parts Of Europe a man has
only to put his arm in a sling to be taken
for duelist and pressed 30 accept wine
and cigars at every cafe. This gives
Loafers chance to be somebody.
Mr.. EDISON is credited witk an in
vention to make lemonade without either
lemons or sugar. This was discovered
at least thirty years ago, by the man who
organized the first Sunday school picnic.
-AI6ony Argus.
THE friends of amurdered man In Texas
Ylayed very sharp ruse to avenge bis
death few days ago. They simply gave
out that the murderer vas horse thief,
whereupon crowd collected and hanged
him upon the first limb.
A PARTY of young fellows the other
night made a bet as to who could swim
the farthest The next morning when
they met at the rendezvous one of them
carried large bundle. "What is that?"
asked the others. 'FFictuals for three
days. "-Besto11 Courier.
AFTER the night alarm was over and it
was discovered that cat had merely
upset vase, the husband said A." Dear,
you should never rush ahead of me in
that way when you think there are
burglars down stairs, for might want
to shoot into them and you might be
killed"
A DALLAS, Iowa, man went out to
Colorado month ago and bought mine
for91. Theother day he sold itfor 81, ,0OO
He is relation, by marriage, to the man
who went out there at the same time
with $1,000 and rode home last week
under box car.-PecE'S Su7l.
IT is no doubt the part of the Christian
courtesy and true charity to take as little
notice as possible of the idiosyncrasies of
our friends and acquaintance; but, for
all that, half the pleasure of living seems
to be In laughing at them and cOngratu-
lating ourselves that our foolishnesses
are so much superior to those Of the com
mon herd.-BOStO11 Transcript.
THE uses to which paper can be put
are limitless. A German firm has begun
the manufacture stoves out of paper,
and they are said to give perfect satisfac-
ton. The day is coming when paper
viii be used for watch cases and table
ware in place of gold and silver; at Least
we hope So It don't seem as though
the price could always be kept up.
A RELIGIOUS body having resolved to
build q new church, the pastor went
about begging very zealously, accepting
not only the widows but the child's mite
In the Sunday school few days after
ward, while instructing the children, he
compared himself to a shepherd, and
then inquired what the latter did with
his flock. One bright-eyed little fellow
promptly replied, "He shears them"
AN agricultural paper says that olives
can be grown just as well in this climate
as in California, and suggests that farmers
tEy the experiment. You mean these
sort of green plums that are put on the
table at banquets, that taste as though
they had been soaked Ia tears, and
which pucker mans mouth up and make
him want the bottle passed real quick
Well, never mind You need not grow
any more. We have SwOre off-PecPs
Sun.