The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-07-28
ALL SORTS.

SAMUEL Buffers 12-year-old son,
| Fred, Et Pittsfbfd, VT, tried the exper-
/ iment of hanging himself ths other day,
to SEQ if he could extricate himself
While suspended, and was strangled to
! dealh !, moe
MRs. MONTAGUE once said tn sir
William ,Pepys, on seeing q very awk-
ward man come into the rOOm:- SIhere
is man who would give one of his
! hands VI knew what 10 do with the
| othGEavhE 74af Ali.as -'n'-'4'." '.''
A POOR man, few years ago, pIf-
chased a piece of ground at South Am
boy. N. T.. and commenced selling th
clay that hes Jifidef itb stttfsoe. He hs
ding great shafts and tunnels, did il
said to have earned fortune of $780,
| 600.
SIBER1Ais frBt tllli4stgity - Tint of
Tomsk-willbe opened during thepT
ent year. the Russian Grown Prince
taking fart IN the ceremonies. The
university will probably be filed by the
great numbers of students recently ex-
iledf aGase =I 81. afsdwYla bnasf
A PAMPHLET has been published in
AmstAtdatri pointing cut that Holland
really has iid 5igitti to sontintie TO exist
as an Independent state. 1t urges that
the manifest destiny" of the nation Is
to be annexed by Germany, and that the
time IS favorable for considering that
arrangeidett .ral-r46uD n#
The suicide of Pennet, at Atlantic,
n. c., was accomplished by laying HIM
self 1T fnll length on a high bridge, with
his head protfddihg over the edge, ty-
ing one end of a long rope afou1d his
neck and the other to a heavy stone,
aid thsh dropping the stone, so that It's
Jerk broke his neck.
as THERE an opening here for all
intellectual writer" asked a seedy, red
nosed individual Of an editor. Yes,
nv friend" replied the man Of quilts;
"a considerate carpenter, foreseeiffg
*out visit: left an opening for you; turn
the knob to the tight"
LIVERPOOL papers print the story Of
one William James Mayor, a respectable
2,tiAht1, who passed several years IN
penal servitud8 for burglary and an at
temnt to murder, of which he has been
proved to be entirely guiltless. 1t was
4 case of mistaken identity, and no re-
dress foF the injustice has ever been
deceived. Pc asra.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS are often mistaken for
dtititissl There is a difference III Value
of silver and plated ware. -.
A KANSAS boy earned a t115e Bible
Inv committing three hundred verses TO
memory: but he traded his Bible for
SHOTGUN, and accidentally PePPered his
aunt in the leg: n-.......
How TO tell bad eggs" is the title of
an article in an exchange. When yod
have anything to tell q bad egg, you
must be careful not to break the shell
while imparting the information.
GKApEs without seeds are raised at
Morrisville, n. c., ON the plantation of
Captain J. A. Gray. The vine has been
known for eight years, and never has
there been found seed in any of the
fruit
A GRANNfE machine is being bttilt for
French establishment which, by the
electric current, will transmit over wires
TO a considerable distancea a nOrmalpOwer
equivalent to that of ten horses, with
h large increase of power under special
cOndihOiiA .... .... .........
THAT passage II your novel duesn t
seem particularly new, you know"
q" Well, maybe it isn't, but then what
does Solomon say? Nothing new under
the sun, you know. Take up any book
YOU like, and I defy you TO find in it a
Single word, single syllable, single let.
ter even, that hasn't been used over and
over aitG Jcer ag5in. .-.. ..
CALrNo, who had business with several
stationers, went to their shops. Suddenly
he discovered that he had lost his UNI
hrella. lie vent back over his route
and at last he found it. All" he said
''you are a great deal more honest than
any of the other fellows. Everywhere
else they told me they knew nothing
about my umbrella. .ea'...E ....|
You can always teli-whGther an editor
is single or married man by his selec'
tion OF poetry for the paper: The single
! one always clips verses on "LOve," and
| TO My Aarling" and that kind; while
/ the married one selects something rela-
| tive 60 the cheapest way of keeping
| house, or OH the foolishness OF fashion
as displayed in dress
EVERY az, said Mark Lemon, one
evening at his hub, s'has his Pecu.larl-
ties. tt ugh fhink am as free from
| them as nos mon; at any rate, l don I
know what hey are" Nobody contra
| dicted the -ditor of Punch, but after
awhile Albert Smith asked, Which hand
do yct shave with, uncle?" with my
right h~ud replied Lemon. "Ah, ," re
! turned he other, ''that's your peculiar
ity; n,ost people shave with d razor %
They were playing a game they call
4 eI1chre. She held both bowers and
! tho king. and two aces of other suit, but
she was a novice at the game. A young
man who was teaching her looked at hel
| cards and warmly exclaimed: 'tWlai
a lovely hand. She looked him straight
IN the ewes and murrnured, "You may
have it if you want it. 7" All the rest OF
| the evening he wondered if he was the
victim of leap year proposal. f1al a.
- A SURE cure for, COINS has been dis
covered. which will be a boon to the suf-
| ferinp. It has been asCertained that the
worst case of corns in the world can be
| c1ired lv washing the feet in clean wate1
every night before going to bed. Tor
month or so. To many people tins VII
seem like one of those desperate emer'
gencies where the remedy Is worse thar
the disease. ~ afr
M. SnfMoNAR has produced peculiar
eject in portraits. A negative of the
sitter is taken with his eyes wide oper
and another with his eyes shut. One o.
these is printed on each side of the papel
in such a way that the front and bach
images exactly coincide. When the two
sides are then alternately illustrated by 9
laInp a portrait is presented with the eyes
opening and shutting, and if the light il
moved rapidly the singular spectacle OF ;
winl1ing photograph is shown. -sagug a
q THE newspaper advertisement, an eS
change truthfully says, is neyer-tirin
worker in the interest of its employer
When the bill distributor has disaE
reared from the streets and his Bit
trampled intopulp, the advertiseIneht
| -; - q r. siiant mission In fh