The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-04-05
VOL. /.
Paris has 10000 houses worth ~, 400,

The new editor OF London Times is
only thirty years old.
A bill has been passed in Massachu-
setts to fog wife beaters.
Barnum's white elephant is now
crossing the Atlantic.
. A silk farm has been established in
Powhattan, Va.
New Workers erected 2,5SS now
buildings last year.
The total output Of coal in this coun-
try for the year 1883 amounted to
86OO0O00 tons.
Mississippi tradesmen state that
Government reliefto the flood sufferers
has ruined their business.
The wheat crop Of Ontario is in
{ critical Icondition, being unprotected
by snow from severe frosts.
The Government envelope factory,
near Hartford, Conn, uses ton of
gum Arabic every year.
The camphor tree grows well in
Floridasand may, perhaps, become a
profitable industry.
The number Of employees in the
United States Internal Revenue Bu-
reau is 4271.
1t is Estimated that the cattle driv-
en- from Texas during the coming
seasonwill reach over 100000 head.
The Mexican Government is i'm
portuning Flemish people to intro
duce into that country the cultivation
of flax.
Oscar Wilde says that everything in
America is twice as large as it should
be. He doubtless refers TO his hotel
and tailor bills.
Mrs. Langtry's receipts at Haverly's
New York, six nights and one matinee
amounted to over $11,061, the most
profitable week of the theatre.
At the sale in Paris of the effects OF
the late Comte de Lagrange, the bri-
die worn by Gladiator when he won
the Derby brought 626 francs.
A Terre Haute Qnd.) man employs
his divorced wife as his servant girl,
and the neighbors say she has a bet
ter wardrobe than when she was his
wife.
A lemon-tree on the farm Of Thorn
as Kennedy, at Noonans Lake, Fla,
nineteen years old, has bourne fruit
eleven years, and has earned for its
owner $106 in single season.
The jury has rendered verdict in
favor of Lady Colin Campbell in her
suit against her husband for divorce.
The husband is the youngest son OF
the Duke OF Argyll.
There are 81 900 masters and mis-
tresses teaching in the public schools
Of France, and out of this number nc
fewer than As 043 receive. salaries be-
low 5000 year, while only 579receive
salaries above $500.
In Wilcox county, Georgia, under
the same roof, live the great grand.
mother, grandmother, mother, daugh.
ter, granddaughter, and great grand
daughter, the only four persons in the
family. .
Reckoning at present prices the val
ue OF Mr.. Vanderbilt's railroad stock
is $9s,750,000, of his government
$70,5S0,O00 of his railroad bonds $26,
857, APO, OF his other securieties trifie
over $5,OOO,OOO. The aggregate is
$2O1, ,3S2,413.
Thereis,a physician in Rochester
whose heart makes only twenty-six pull
sations, minute. He is forty-foul
years old, and enjoys excellent health
The average for healthp man is six
ty-fve heart beats to the minute.
Florida strawberries being sold a
SO per quart. A dealer in Boston
says that he supplies one lady will
strawberries six days week, the yea
round, and has another customer fo
whom he preserves watermelons unit
long after Christmas.
French Bonepartists are reported t.
be alarmed at the promised appear
ance in print, Of certain letters tina
passed between Louis Napoleon an
the Dukede Morny, and which hav,
been stolen from the heirs Of tn,
Duke. n
Advices from Siam state that tn
king is buying American trade dollar
at ninety cents and having them II
coined intieals The ticals pass cul
rent for sixty cents and two OF ther
can be n,ado ont Of one trade dollar.
A Paper III Minnesota starts on
.I
with sQ,t platform Is the abolition {
poverty. ignorance, wickedness, III
chastity, drunkenness, Injustice, pc