The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-03-22


Secretary Folger, BY mistake, APP
pointed q democratic superintend the
construction Of the the new govern
ment building at Willmsiaport, Pa,
but the REPUBLICAN patriots made such
q disturbance that thepecrctary recall
ed the appointment and selected an
other man.
John Sherman's boom in the Ohio
legislature stands this way, according
to the canvass Of the Columbus State
Journal Twenty-threo Of the fifty
SIX republican members favor his
nomination FOR president and Bob
Lincoln Tor vice president eleven are
for Blaine and six would as soon have
Arthur as any other candidate.
The board dofpublicwork and Cham
Der Of Commerce Of Cincinnati are
considering the propriety of filing up
above high-water mark that portion
Of the "bottoms9 directly in front Of
the city and occupied by the whole
sale and other important business in
terests. The city engineer reported
that it would cost $20,000,00O an esti-
mate which startled the projectors
of the scheme.
New York's new water supply will
cost from $25,O00,0o0 to $S0O00,000.
The works will be located in west
cheser county, thirty-fye miles from
tht city. A dam $50 feoe high will
form reservoir of, fifty-eight billion
gallons capacity. New York city
daily consumes 100,OO0,O00 gallons Of
water, and when the new reservoir is
completed the capacity for storage
will reach 4O0,000,0OO gallons daily.
Photographic likenesses arc no lon
ger considered the thing for the rich,
the great or the beautiful, either in
England or in this country. The
old fashioned, ivory painted minia-
ture is now the rage, and if the "coun-
terfet presentment" is not quite so
true to nature as those that the sun
makes for us. II leaves tho field opan
for artistic fiattery and idealizing,
An English artist lately came over
here hoping to print the bellies and
beauties of the new world in minia.
lures.
Dave Walker Of Anderson,s store
was one of the best North Carolina
soldiers that Lee had. Dave was in
Richmond some time since, and sitting
at night in tho St. James Hotel he
heard a fellow with q cooked hat or
talking everybody nearly to death
about the war. He said he had been
a Colonel. Finally he drew scat uI
TO Dave, and asked him if he was was
in the war. Dave said: eyes, / wal
there" what position did yor
hold2o "None, SIR said Dave; q
reckon ! am the foncsomest man ir
the world ,n"Ah; why so2"asked Tho
Colonel. why" said Dave, Il wa'
a private in the war, and am thu
only one ! have ever sosn since.n
Cancer very seldom appears In per
SONS under thirty. 1t usually comes
between foriy-fye and sixty. 1t il
very rare in tropical countries, more
frequent among the poor than among
the rich, among women than among
men, and it has been noticed tha
among the Trappists, Carmelites ant
Carthusian monks it is almost un
known, circumstance ascribed tx
their abstinence from meat, while it il
most common in mid-Europc, wher'
meat Is most eaten. In the Neither
lands and Belgium it has increased 0
late years. Immoral influences tent
toward its production when they hay'
| bad effect on the digestive organs.
DR.. William A. Hammond think
that great harm results from sending
children ia school at too early an age
! The little ones should be only taugh
to observe, to gain ideas of things
No child should be sent to school be
fore the age Of ten years, and twelv,
lis better age, Lindergartens at
tempt to teach children to us thei
perceptions, but even these are no
good a child sent to school at ten D
twelve will know more at the age 0
fiftcen than ono sent at seven years
Adult use their perceptions too little
and should teach themselves TO oh
serve.
Mr.. and Mrs. Devices, an old -coupl
living near Canton, Ohio, recent.
broke a silence which they had main
/ tanned towards each other while livin
together for nearly quarter ola cen
tury. Nearly twenty-five years ag
Mrs. Devices desired her husband t
| do a trifling thing which he regarde'
ms either impossible or nnwise, and b
refused. She becoming petulant wit
disappointment, rashly exclaimed
E"If you don't, I'll never speak to yol
again as long as ! live Il not onl
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