The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1885-07-02

in Kingston, Ontario, who has two
hearts, Suspicion was first aroused
by seeing him out riding with two
girls, one on each side OF him.
The wife-beater who was sentenced
to the whipping.post in Baltimore the
other day was indeed wretch. He
not only beet his wife, but thrashed
he relations. A man who, as Shakes.
peare says, lays hand upon his wite's
relations, save in kindness, is fit for
wheezings, rheumatiz and boils.
A lady in Toronto got to laughing
over some amusing incident and
couldn'G stop, Finally doctor was
called in and he could not quiet her.
But at last q friend thought to re.
mark that the lady's mouth looked
very large when she laughed, and that
put stop to the lady's mirth at once,
Stephen B. Elkins looks regretfully
back at the Blaine campaign and re-
marked that he wouldn't do il again.
This sorrow Is worth such lasting re-
morse, or if he did the returns fail to
show it. 1t is q good deal more likely
that Mr.. Elkins regrets what he didn't
do more than what he really did.
Gail Hamilton is OF the mild man
nered opinion that Governor St. Johns
brain is stupefed by whisky or dulled
by some congenital defect. While not
upholding St. John in the least there
still appears tobe ground for the belief
that Gail Hamilten's opinion is some
what biased. Fer really impartial
verdict Of the St. John question 1t il
necessary TO 90 to Mr.. Blaine.
Visitor Cat dime museum)- Ell see
nothing remarkable about that man
Is he on exhibition" showman-"He
is. Stand up, please, Colonel Inext
introduce to you, ladies and gents, a
Kentucky Colnel born and brought
up in the Bluegrass region, who never
drank a drop OF whisky in his life
Keep moving, please, SO that eacf
and every one may have q chance t
view the wonderful curiosity"
Coal is said to be an almost un
kown luxury to the chinese OF Sa1
Francisco. Their mode OF cooking is tC
have an empty oil can serve as stove
upon which they place their tea
kettle or cooking pan They start .
fire with two or three small sticks o
wood WEIGH they add to as they burn
and in this way manage to establish
good degree Of heat with but I
small expenditure Of fuel
Senator Edmuds's new house OF
: Massachusetts, avenue, Washington i
! to be wholly above ground. Th'
first story contains little excep
the stairway, hall, kitchen ant
household Offices. The entranc,
from the streets through q low roun,
central arch. There ia q magnificen
, double bay window in the south ives
corner running up through two stories
a The senator paid 50 foot for tn
land, wich he bought from Mr.. Ere
linghuysen, who had paid only els
for it few weeks before.
t You have no idea Of the numbs
: OF snakes annually killed by the NOV
ing machine until you talk with diffel
4 ent farmers on the subject. In formt
, years bits Of snake would he continr
ally falling from forks full Of newl,
Q cured grass or from the hay in th
n stack or NOW during the winter, whs
+ it was being fed. The moving mi
> chine is peculiarly fatal TO them. I
" their accredited wisdom, they do nj
o start to run away until the evidens
of danger is upon them. Then the
!. raise their heads just high enough
I, - reach above the blades, wqen they oil
:, decapitated quicker than an acti,
!. partisan under civil service nOnsens
:, and the change is 30 sudden that Il
, body Of the snake doubtless sprini
y high enough to again meet the blad
ere the fatal knives pass completed
over.
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