The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1885-07-23

with n fork.
A st. Louis girl lost q $4,000 lover
because he saw her in the ballet.
Shape will tell.
Nearly forty-two shilling lives OF
Grant are waiting in the hands OF pub
fishers for him to die.
Lila n. Cushman, the poetess sings
"My back is nearly broken with this
weary weary load" Lila must get a
lighter hustle sure.
They are debating in Cincinnati
whether to put chairs or pews in their
new church. They might compro-
mise on hammocks.
"Poets is born" we have borne with
some until our patience is exhausted.
They can't distinguish between inspi-
ration and billiousness.
1t is now said that the odor OF cloves
is an excellent preventive Of mosquitoe
bites. Cut this out and show it to
your wife.
Malaria is certainly very incon-
sistent disease. 1t generally makes
acquaintance for the purpose Of Civ.
ing them the cold shake.
A housemaid journal prints direc-
tions for serving spiing chickeo. An
other good way is to serve it before it
celebrates its ninth birthday.
Mamma" queried little boy, "is
Satan an angel?" "He is one of the
fallen angels, dear" "Well, what was
the trouble with the fallen angelsH
Couldn't they make the wings work."
1t would not be a bad idea if hereai-
ter all new comic papers would be-
gin with volume No. 2. Judging
from past experience that the is ouly
way they will reach it.
You might as we'll undertake to var
nish a rainbow or stampede hunger
with dime with hole in it, as expect
to prevail on man to own up to his
wife that he has been in the wrong.
A new grain, hybrid between
wheat and rye, has just been produc-
ed. The public will await with no
small degree OF interest to see what
kind OF whiskey it will make.
A Vermont woman comes boldly out
and applies for a divorce on the
grounds that she wants richer hus.
band, in order that she may spend the
summer at Long Branch. She de.
serves a degree for her honesty.
One OF these dollars is q counter
felt, ma'am."
; How can you tellW
"Ssmply by sound. Just tap it and
hear how clear the genuine sounds.
That's tenor. Notice when tap the
other one. That's base"
Kissing is said to be very good
thing to make girls lips read. A
kiss has been known to make a girls
lip read way up to the roof OF her
forehead, when her muther came in,
to the parlor Unexpectedly just as the
kisser and kisee were coming unde,
the wire
Schoeppenstedt, who makes up his
cash account regularly when he thinks
of it, says the man who invented csl
tickets deserves q monument from a
grateful populaee., "Car tickets'
works just as we'll as "Unaccounted
for" in balancing virtuOus mans
cash account, and it looks at least 3t
degrees Fahrenheit better.
s "Did you gOto the masquerade last
evening, Charley"
! ooh, yes"
What as?h
GAS gentlemen
!. Indeed How in the world did yor
disguise yourselff"
And then the atmosphere grew
chilly.
Her head was pillowed on his breast
Q and looking up in q shy way, sh'
q said
|, "Do you know, dear George, that
It "You mean dear James, think,
l. he interruE ted, smiling fondly at he
|. mistake.
Il "Why, yes, to be sure. How stupit
h | am Twas thinking this was Wednes
e day evening"
K Commenting on the brevity of bath
i ing dresses this season, Carl Pretz G
: says: 1T will be only our modest,
D that will pervent US from going to
fashionable watering place during tn
heated term" Wear goggles and res
=, your eyes little. All editors are liza
. bic to have trouble with their ewes
. caused by using them so constant,
reading exchanges and proof. An,
Z, the walking is excellent now. Yo,
ot never will have better time to 90.
= A man was recently blessed will