The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-07-10
SHORT HAND NOTES.
Grants income is 5000 "A year.

III Ladies' hats will be worn on th
d, North West corner of the left ear thi
IT season. ~ Fashion Note.
= None of Mississippi's gifted poet
: understand how to split and core
J., wood
j, "Kiss me, dearest, the old man.
y blind is the latest sentimental sons
y from the pen of Will S. Hays.
Is If Eli Perkins should ever be 50 for
Il tunate as toget inside the golden gates
it will be because he lied his way in
L What this land of freedom needs at
present more than any other one thing
= Is hotel clerk who can converse with
:, five hundred men at the same time
It's not the lucre he spends that
q makes the average young man so
;. sorrowful after Il church festival;
no, no; it's the reflection of what an
, unmitigated fol he made of himself
that causes him to gnash his teeth, and
wall and wish he was at the bottom
, of Mount Nesuvius.
[ What has become of that enthu-
f siastic and wonderfully eloquent army
of individuals who were so fond of
beginning their remarks with, "When
| was at the Centennial"
Next 10 being out of change when
the contribution box is handed around
the worst misfortune that can beiall a
Young man at church is for his shirt
60 lar to become enthused with IA spirit
of migration, and to devote its entire
tlme and attention to exploring the
back Of his neck
Persons who have a hankering to
fire of such questions as these at rs,
Isn't it Warm?o "What do Won
think Of the nomination." "Do YOU
| believe in the doctrine of Eternal
Punishmeht.'' are anXionsIy and
teartully requested to preserve them
i'll alcohol until December.
y real, live, earnest sincere and
/
discovered in Lincoln county of this
State. He is supposed to be the only
ho1d .Hde representatives of this fearfullV
demoralized system of political Iunacv
III the South, and is looked upon and
interviewed with considerable
degree of curiosity by the masses
generally.
season OF Ine year tnaG 1Hz~A;l,s .tI.~
festive mosquitoes have become quite
discouraged, and have been compelled
TO lay in their stock of winter over
coats.
A Natchez woman is the happy
mother ola boy that weighs 2lOpounds,
aud measures feet around. (This is
not Record yarn When this slightly
corpulcnt specimen ofjuvenility raises
her dander, she pOstpones all other
engagements for ten days and indus
triously and energetically devotes that
space of time TO getting around that
boy with paddle.
Capitol street-1O T.. M.-weather is
very warm consequently windows are
all left open. Male voice: "And dost
thou love nae, darling?n Female
voice: "Yca, mine own belovedest,
even as the stars cling to yon beaute-
GUS dome for support, so clingeth
unto thee" Then she softly and
gently laid her right cheek against the
broad and beautiful eXpanse OF his big,
manly left ear and wept several eN-
ceedingly pearly tears. who says
this world isn't chOck full of love,
happiness and flowers?
Shakespeare was very remarkable
man, and wrote some very good things
in his day, but we are willing to be
the New York POstofiice against Il lead
nickle, that he couldn't have told why
a woman draws on her left shoe first.
We should like 10 have been around
during the days of the immortal Uncle
Billy, and to have tackled him with
this question.
No, Angelina, it grieves our honest,
manly hearts to the very core, but we
cannot publish your poem. 1t is too
sublimely sweet; too touchingly pa
thetic; too intensely ethereal, 10 trust
To the hands of the base and ungodly
compositor. We'd like very much to
oblige you in this matter, Angelina,
yea, our very souls Yearn TO do you
service, but when YOU fire such things
as this at US
ooh sWc. ding sweetest oi the sweeiiy sweet.
we can't stand it. Our rough and uu-
tutored nature is totally devoid of the
gift of poetic appreciation, and lines
like the above cause us the most eN-
quisite anguish imaginable.
Did il ever strike you as being very
remarkable that the boy who has such
a dreadful headache in the morning
that he can't bear the sight of "A wood
pile, is the very boy who sits on the
front seat at the circus, i'm the evening.
and laughs the loLdest and longest OF
any?
A West jackson young man wants
10 know by what mysterious diSpen-
sation Of Providence il is, that fel-
lows prospective father-in-law always
sits just opposite him and his girl at
church. The problem is quite inter
esting, and We hope some prominent
scientific theOlogian will grasp il, and
favor US with satisfactory solution.
"Men should not allow their wives
Ia split wood, SAYS n contemporary.
This is rather ineonsiderate. How can
A man refuse when his wife comes
up to him with tears in her
ewes and SAYS, "Now do, dear, let me 90
down cellar and split wood for an hour
90 get up an appetite"