The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1885-05-09

Ef DtNuuSo IL Hc uluil AS"Su hOiilC III
the morning before the clock struck
three times, I'd be put out"
Miss Harland is doing a good work
on the magazine known as Babyhood,
but it is rather distracting te see a tai
ented and popular novilest devoting
her mature years to periodical about
infants. 1t is a successful labor, how
ever,
A New York circus is advertising
for the second year a sacred white ele-
phant. An animal that can keep the
company Of circus men for Il year and
remain sacred must certainly be GU
riosity worth crawling under the tent
to see.-Yonkers Statesman.
Mrs, Anna Josephine Steinreide, OF
st. Louis, has beaten her coachman
smittem sisters out of sight. She has
eloped with her mulatto driver, and
Chicago will be green with envy until
a Garden City girl runs away with a
dime museum curiosity.
"An Ohio man." says news item,
"rubbed liniment on horse with u
sore finger, and is poisoned" We
have often noticed that horses with
sore fingers are very dangerous, and
the danger is vastly increased If the
horses as we'll as the man is n Qhioan
The length of the wire used in the
construction OF the submarine cable,
now in operation, is computed to be
ten times the distance from the earth
to the moon. The total length OF the
cables now used is 6S,0O0 miles, each
cable containing an average over o
100000, miles. ..4
Belmont, n. H., boasts of woman
who goes out and chops woodsawith
her husband" /" 1t is quite a common
thing for women to mop up the floor
with their husbands, but We never
heard OF chopping wood with them
San Francisco Ingleside
A Southern woman boasts that she
has still in use a rolling-pin bought
when she was married, sixty one years
ago. Nothing like having tried and
trusty weapon about the houseto keep
a husband in docile working order
Lowell Citizen. aaao7C8I
Alcoholic intemporance is stated tc
be increasing to an alarming extent
among the women OF Australia. IL
discussing the matter at n meeting o.
the Melbourne Medical Society Tho
physicians present concuringfnTattfi
uteing the trouble to close contine
ment, anxiety and the fatigue arisins
from overwork.
do You know that there is a grea
difference between the country ow
and the Boston owl?" "No." "Well
there is; the uneulturcd bird yol
know, says tTu whit tn wheos but thu
cultured one says 'Tu whit tn whom
Boston Rndget. Z
Some New York small boys are no
half SO funny as they were. The.
Ehave just been fined $40 each for sing
, ing in church: te4s
"IIold the fork, the knives are coming,
Spoons are on the way; a.a
Smash the dishes on the table
Hey? What do you say?" a.e ESQ
Mr. Blaine rallied on Presiden
Cleveland the other day. I'm gla,
to see you, Mr.. Blaine. What do yor
find TO do with yourself these days?
: "I am writing history g"Welf, yo
1 are welcome at all times, Mr.. Blaine
: to como here and sce-us make it,
Chicago News.
The New York prison officials Al
being hauled over the GOALS becaus
they force conyicts to attend one sol
OF preaching all the time A murlc
:, er belonging to one tenominatio
! dosn't want to sit through sermo
, by preacher Of another, and the of
GERS onght.to knew it.-Detroit Ere
Press.
. "Hello, Brown! Back from Wasl
4 ington, / see. What are your pro
poets? Did you see our friend CIR
ver?'
s. "Yes."
d Get a shake OF his hand?"
1t ayes"
Anything else?'
: mo, nothing but tho shake"
n Bishop III. N. McTyeire. Of Vande
e derbilt University, presented the Te
pr nessee Historical Society genuil
bank bill, for one dollar, of the r
!, public OF Texas, issued at Austin Ju
" /, lS41. 1t was given to the Bisho
:, while on u visit there last fall, by
4, decendent OF a yetran pioneer OF 4
" old republic. 1t is the only note
the republic the Society has. We
IS few are in existence, and hence t
We gift is valuable.
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!, Every since Garfelds burial q liz