The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-06-28


Not since the introduction of the COM
bination system have ewerperformers
been engaged nor smaller salaries offer
ed. Those who last season received
SIS to 500 a week can only get $40 to
500.
Since the first of January fifteen
railroads i'll the United States have
been placed in the hands of receivers.
1t is evident that the railroad business
is taking a stern method of getting
down to hard pan. Tho strain to
which the railroads have been subject
ed since the decadence of the boom in
railroad building has been very trying.
The best management has been es-
sential in making the business profita-
BILE.
Giving up seats to women has almost
entirely gone out of fashion in the
New York elevated cars. Whether or
not the reason is the cushioned COM
fort which must be relinquished in or
der to obey the old custom, or that
there is general decline in practical
tenderness toward the gentle sex, the
newspapers do not explain. No mat
ter how young or handsome woman
may be, they assert, or how well
dressed, she is usually left standing
in a crowded car. Wall street brokers,
professional men on their way home
from down town, merchants with ex-
cellent manners-all these now sit
complacently while women stand at
their very knees. Old women are an
exception to this new rule of city rail-
roading, and there is one other, accor-
ding to observers. During the hours
of the late afternoon, when the cars
are full OF mechanics and working
women, mixed in with shoppers in
in finery, the men in the garb of labor
will relinquish their seats readily to
those whose dress similarly betokens
toll, but never to those arrayed for
leisure.
Our Washington correspondent tells
of simple and ingenious devices, re.
Gently patented, by which parlor car
relieved of foul air and dust, may be
as comfortable as Il pretty private
, drawing room in the suburbs of Allan
Ia. 1t is easy enough to patent, bu
most difficult to sell and force ever
the best and most useful inventions
: into common use. The inventor o
the railway air brake almost starved
before he could induce railway owner
5 even to test the virtues of the invention
; and then the sharp fellows, taking ad
vantage of his poverty and necessities
, left him an inteacst in the child of hi
brain of only one-fourteenth. Th'
simplest, cheapest and most universal
" useful inventions are most protita
BILE; but it requires capital to advertis
| and employ agents and set up manu-
o fatories, and then people honestly oil
, ject, originally, to anything new, how
& ever useful. The inventor of the tube,
, well, Ga hollow iron rod driven int
). the ground), was ten years trying il
9 vain to make farmers buy it at cost
: Then sharp lot of Yankees stole til
n invention, made tubes by the Thousand
, and, advertising, sold million at tw
!. and three prices. The inventor wa
robbed to poverty. The lucky fello'
who invented the method of tyin
Il gloves with buttons and cords) use
by Fosters glove mill, sold it to Foste
!. for $4,000 and Foster is making mil
y ions out of it,
% The Subcommittee on Arrang,
o ments OF the National Democrat
!. Committee have issued the follow
4 ing:
d The application made to the men
# bers of the National Committee fC
n tickets of admission to the Democra
"a ic National Convention indicate
misunderstanding of the method |
which they are distributed. The tic
!, cts are printed and issued by Il
10 Committee according to the rule whiC
~ have been followed at previous Co
io ventions. They cannot be given as
;" favor to any person. The hall W
q have 10,500 seats, and of those 90
y will be occupied by delegates, alte
40 mates, officers, and committed
10 About 500 seats will be allotted to Il
10 press. Subscribers to the fund to D,
:" the expenses will receive $50 ticket
and 750 more will be used for dist
r button among the local committe
So and city and county officers. 1t
supposed that 1900 tickets will
Nv given TO Senators and Representative
et in Congress, veterans, and other en-
d. nent men of the country who will |
nd tend the Convention. Nine hundr
,st and fifty tickets will be reserved
n the National Committee for cont
in gencies. The remainder of the tic
on cts will be given to the delegates, ma
i. iuo six tickatc for aoch for d;str;l