The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-05-31

" VIC NuiIilller illcs tilaL DuZZ hDOut
the Presidential lamp, Mcdonald is
the stillcst-~i'Aaaaeli,hia Times sla
The star-eyed Goddess is remind
ed that this is leap year and that
Tildon is Observation-Disclosures
Times.
Mr., Tilden uses an invisible net, but
he tumbles the delegates in like shad
on the shining sands,-Phtiadelphid
Times. La
Ifyouhare afield to rocky too be
cultivated, sots out an apple orchard,
and in few years you will have a
handsome income from it.
The Republican, who is kicked
straight out OF Federal Office imme-
diatoly ceases to bo . straight7eut Re
publican.
Hand-painted bonnets with para
soils to match will be much worn at
the Watering places. Hand-painted
compilations will be as much worn as
usual. tta
While her arms were in the suds, the
otherday, a Rocklaiid (Me) washer
woman received the welcome news
that she had inherited a fortune Of
about fifteen thousand dollars. l-
6S5S bills have been introduced in
the House of Representatives, At the
present rate Of progress, it will take
all of this century and half Of the next
to consider and act upon them all.
There are TT applications for di-
vorce to come before the May term of
the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial
Court, and all but 80 of them are un-
contested. n
1t is asserted that all the Maine
Judges, with one exception, concur in
ex-Chiof Justice Appleton's condem-
nation of the proposed prohibition con
stitutional amendments.
Philadelphia has 562 establishment
devoted to the making of mems and
boys clothing, in which are employed
9,101 men, 10,260 women and 934 chill
dren, turning out goods valued at $751;
2209G8.
There are now in tho Southern
States; ha4slat.w work, noless thaiIsi
ty Mormon Missionaries. This start
ling fact should alarm every woman
in the South to some energetic earnest
protest.
Colorcd Congressman O'lIara, of
North Carolina, lives in good style in
Washington, aiid has II white tutor for
hi$ children. He is a mula.to, grad
uatc Of Harvard University, and i
larycr
JAY Cookc, who's" fortune was swept
away by til" crash of 1873, is to-day
oRc Of The Weal'hi"at mon of Pennsyl-
vaniA He haS Investments of iron,
coal, gold and silver mines, and rail
roads reaching far into the millions.
Silvcrldimes Of 1907 are worth thir-
ty cents each. All, dear, it seems to
us the last dime we had must have
been somewhere along in that year.
But it was worth only ten cents then
just our luck.
A Chicago paper enumeratcs these
things which every man can do better
than anyone else; Poke a fire, put on
his hat, edit,a newspaper, tell story
after another man has commenced il
and examine railway time table.
already this-spring, about four hun
dred new doctors have been finished
and turned loose upon the country by
the Philadelphia. medical colleges
They are not considered any more
dangerous than the vintage of 'S3.
"Ayordupois sociables" are the rage
in PottaYottomie county, Iowa. Eacf
young lady is weighed on entering
tlp dining-room and her escort pays
for her supper at the rate of half {
cent pound on her weight.
The largest book ever made at th'
Government Printing-office, in Wash
ington, has just been finished. 1t il
bound in sheep skin and Russia leath
er, is foot and 4 inches in breadth
contains 10000 pages, and weighs 14'
pounds.
A veilcd lady waited at the capito
several hours, the other day, for tn
purpose Of cowhiding Il member o
Congress whose name she would no
disclose. As her face could not b.
seen, the alarm among Congressmel
must have been general.
An enthusiastic lady who visitet
Fitzgerald, the pedestrian, says tha
his eyes looked "like roses washed il
dew" She didn't say anything abou
his feet, but the chances are that the
looked about like squashes bathed i