The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-05-03
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

Prof. Hebditch is rat catcher.
On going into Providence saloon for
a glass of beer, he laid on the bar a
flask containg a mixture for attract
ing rats from their holes. He saw
one of tho loungers slyly take up
the bottle and drink, but said moth
ing, knowing full well that the theft
would carry its own punishment.
But he did not count on the dreadful
whipping which the drink gave
him, and which has sent him to a
] hospital.
Susie Green might have had her
pick from among the young men of
Lexington, KY, for she was hand
some and rich; but she preferred
gambler of the fiashiest kind. He
was known to her for month as a
stock broker, and at the end of that
brief courtship she married him.
They stopped at Louisville hotel
on their bridal tour. He brought
her lemonade in her room, and
she found it bitter. He had put an
opiate in it. When she was uncon-
scious he stole her purse and $1,000
worth Of diamonds, and deserted
her.
Evangelist Barnes, the Preacher
of the Mountains, has been laboring
lately at Frankfort, Ky. In that
place lives John Rocketty, whose
life, though not bad one, has been
without the fold. Barnes urged him
to mend his ways Mr.. Rocketty
secuted the suggestion, whereupon
the Evangelist was nettled. II will
bet you ten to one in fifties," said
Rocketty, "that you can't convert
me" "Done, said Barnes. II bring
you to the mourners' bench within
ten days" The booksellers of the
town are reported to have opened
pools on the result. At first it was
So to 10 that Rocketty would with
stand the eloquence ofthe mountain
eer. The odds rapidly fell, however
until the betting was 90 to against
Roclletty, who on the eighth day
walked up to the mourners' bench.
According to the London World,
dueling is more than ever the order
of the day in France. "Clicl clac"
"You are a blackguard p blanche
Millefeurs has beauty spot on the
calf of her legl" "You lie /" "Cad"
At the theatere, in the street, at the
Cafe de la Paix, in the clubs, at the
Hippodrome, these, silly quarrels
are constantly arising "Mousieur,
here is my card" "Monsieur, we
will fight tomorrow" And the fenc-
ing master and pistol saloon keepers
have not weapons enough, and even
the supply ofdoctors is running short.
Every day serpentine professions of
co4pes and landaus wend their way
to the woods around Paris. Much
ado, little done, and nobody killed.
The exchange of pistol shots is
farce, and, as seconds run nowadays,
a rapier pick in the thick of the arm
is sufficient "to render the combat
no longer equal, and to allow the
parties to declare that 'honor is
satisfied"
1t is possible for woman of good |
taste to make herself not only pre-
sentable, but attractive in calico at |
Ave cents yard. 1t is the art of |
knowing how to dress, rather than
the eostliness of the material used |
in dressing that tells. There is vul-
gar notion abroad that a woman is
not dressed unless she is loaded
down with the costliest of fabrics
and jewels to correspond, yet we
have seen women in the plainest of
dresses so admirably corresponding
to their complexion and figure that
they out shine the more deliberately
dressed women in 9 society gather
ing. What is needed is good taste
in the selection and makeup of ma
terial, and even then we.are inclined
to adopt DR.. Johnson's idea that the
woman whose conversation is so
as to make one forget how
she is dressed is the best dressed
woman in any assembly where a
display of fine clothes is thought ta
be the chief point Of interest.
Charles Robert Darwin, the cele-
brated scientist, is dead. He was
the grandson of DIR. Erasmus OAR
win, the poet and Psychologist He
was born February IL. 1909, and
died April g6, 1852, consequently,
had recently entered his seventy
fourth year His whole life was
spent in scientific researches, and he
was a man of great learning, but
was the originator of much that was
false, His doctrine af evolution, or
'Darwinism, is the most bold and
noted tenet he originated. 1t is
sad to think that the life's work of
so great a man and mind was thus
spent And it is saddsr still to
think that he has now realized the
fact that there is in the unseen
'evolution" or 'survlual of
the fittest' but that while the body
returns to its original dust, the soul
must eternally survive to give ac-
count for the deeds done in the
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