The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-04-26

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If feldspar, koalin, and rock crystal.
"American titles of distinction"
'ays the Judge, "are Bearon Wall |
street, Count Yourchickens, Earl
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also, and Prints Aeltho-
news.
Capt. r. M. Andrews, farmer, "a
Years of age, of Sumter county, S. c.,
to walk from there to Boston.
He will make the journey on a wager,
md is confident of accomplishing the
ieat.
There is said to be man now liv-
ng in Wilcox county, Ga, who had
yhirty-six nephews in the late war, all
of whom, except three, were killed in
battle. Fifteen of them belonged to
the same company.
The scheme of tunnellIng under the
Straits of Messina has met with such
that it has been rejected in
favor of long ferryboat capable of
carrying twenty-four railway carria-
ges.
The canton OF Glaris, Switzerland,
capital punishment few
years ago, The experiment has not
proved satisfactory, and the Govern
ment has decided by large majority
to re-introduce it.
Alexandra Dumas has just given q
dinner to the members of the commit
tee for his fathers statue, which had
this original. feature, that the menu
was taken entirely from the novels of
Dumas Pere, who was as proud of his
cookery as of his tales.
A sect is said to have been discover
ed in Rostov, South Russia, who pois-
on children with narcotics. 1t was
founded by woman who murdered
her children in order to relieve tn EN-
from earthly suffering and procure for
them celestial happiness.
The Committee OF Experts exam
ined and passed upon, up to date,
$43S, $50 of the Bank of Tennessee, for
which amount certificates have been
issued. They have also up to date,
out of the amount examined, rejected
as spurious, 1910, and returned to the
owners $905 of of the old Bank of
Tennessee money.
The photographers in New York
have discovered method of taking
pictures without any aid from the sun,
They use the electric light, and some
operators are said to have become SO
expert at the process that better pho
tographs are obtained in that way
than by the usual means, and pictures
can be taken as well at night as in the
daytime.
Our Republican orators talk of max
ing the South rich like the North.
We are not sure about that Now
York is the richest of them all. She
has a hundred millionaires to hun
dred thousand paupers. And Joaquin
Miller says the misery of those pau
pers is such that no man who should
foretell that the fine avenues OF New
York city and her palatial residences
will soon be obliterated in blood and
fire, would risk his reputation as a
prophet very seriously. Immense
wealth and smoking furnaces" in the
hands Of the few, are not the emblems
! tof happy and prosperous country.
Fannie Horton, once celebrated
actress, won her first applause in {
somewhat singular manner. During
her performance in particular scene
she was loddly hissed, when, advanc
ing to the footlights, she asked
(Which do you dislike-my playing
or my person?" "The playing, th'
playing" was the answer from al
parts Of the house. "Well," she re
turned, "that consoles me; for m,
playing may be bettered, but my per
son ] cannot alterW The audianc
were so struck with the ingenuity o
this retort that they Immediately ap
plauded as loudly as they had the me
ment before condemned her; ant
from that night she improved in he
acting, and soon became favorit
with the public.
The Empress Dowager of China i
modestly asserting herself about il
the way the strongminded member
of the gentler sex have at all time
, and in all nations asserted themselve
when in power and when an opportr
nifty offered. She flew into a passiol
because Prince Kung and his Counci
did not talk the Frenchmen out {
Tonquin, has already taken Kung'
official head, and in the face Of gres
opposition has elevated Prince Chul
her favorite, the father of the youn
I Emperor, to Prince Kung's plac