The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-05-03

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has devised an electric lighted ballet. |
The young women will have stars in
their hair, and the stage will be dark
ened for moment only to be instan-
tancously illuminated with hundreds
of girls in armor, every point in their
stage harness picked out with light
ming.
We don't know what Hanlon is GO
ing to do for rowing matches, unless
he will consent to race with railroad
trains, giving the trains, of course,
fair start. He has discouraged every
thing in human form that can hold
paddle, except the American mother,
and she is never beaten. All no. 1t
is the little boy who is beaten.
The marquis who is going to be
Mrs. Frank Leslic's husband bangs his
hair, wears corsets and writes poetry.
When they register as Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Leslie, it will puzzle the clerk
to know which is the marquis and
who is the marchioness. He can't
tell which one is Frank.
Great as was Charles Reade's liter
AIRY success, he had one grief. 1t was
that he had been denied membership
in certain club. "I was proposed by
Collins and seconded by Dickens, but
they wouldn't haveme," he often said.
When asked why he so lamented the
fact, the hale old man replied: "Be-
cause there wasn't a gas-light in the
house. l do like to read by good
sperm candle"
The latest Western drinker of whis-
key on a wager varied the usual
method by stipulating to turn a hand
spring between glasses. The double
gymnastic and bibul0us feat was re-
peatod nineteen times, and then the
performer collapsed in a helpless heap,
leaving the twentieth tumbler emptied,
but the corresponding flip flap un-
accomplished.
Lewis, the funny man of the Detroit
Free Press, has interviewed Frank
/ James in the Alabama Jail now honor
, ed with his presence, and finds him
indeed as mild-mannered person as
ever cut a throat. He has u keen
sense OF his own claim to considcra-
:, ton, however and complains that
, many leading newspapers have perse-
cuted him, and that five-sixths of the
reporters who have interviewed him
have grossly exaggerated his CONVEX
\ sation."
A clock at Brussels has been going
for eight months, and has not required
> to he wound up since it was first sci
going. In fact, the pun does the wind
ing of this timepiece. a shaft expos
/, ed to the sun causes nm up draft of air
i which sets fan in motion. The far
( actuates mechanism which raises thu
g weight OF the clock until it reaches
@ the top, and then puts on break OF
@ the fan until the weight has gon'
down little, when the fan is agair
. liberated, and proceeds to net as be
. fore.
a A nice old lady from the North wa
@ in tho Senate Chamber day or 81
r since and asked to be shown Senate
p Butler, OF South Carolina. Senate
Hoar was pointed out as the man. "
knew it" she said II can see mul
. der in every lineamont of his wretche
" countenance." The fun OF the matte
." lies in the fact that Butler is one {
the handsomest men in the world an
70 Hoar has the exact look of cros
- grained pedagogue, with rather a r,
semblance to Horace Greeley. TIL
ID was one time that this good soul ws
is misled by her prejudices.-Nashvil
III World
e. The jury found the negro Rng
p, guilty OF the murder of the two Ma,
X bee women yesterday. After the pr
az duction of testimony showing th'
Rugg had pawned the watch of one
t;s the murdered women and the priso
,r+ ers own confession on the subject
mo- would have been strange il any 9th
10 result had been reached. 1t W
re- probably be two or three years bofo
he the murderer will be executed, as u
iet der the present practice it takes abo
that length of time to exhaust all Il
legal delays which the attorneys CT
ng manage to interpose. While there
ne no call for indecent haste in the mi
Id ter of executing prisoners condemn
NY for murder, it is hard to see how t
Will ends of either justice or mercy q
lch served by these long delays.-Phi
to delphia Times.
Aw, CANNON! A Boston physici
id raises the howl that kissing is ds
mo gerous; 'hundreds OF blooming, 10
IN ly children are kissed to their graz
me every year." he says, "by lips b
,ng with cancer; tainted and disea'
ba breath, foul and decayed teeth dil
mn iberia, malaria, scarlet fever, bio
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