The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1885-07-09

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water like wild goose and fly out Of
the enemy's way Mr. Whirney should
the design.
WASHINGTON, July 2.-First Assist
ant Postmaster General Hay has re-
signed, and the position has been ac-
cepted by Hon. A. E. Stevenson. of
Bloomington, Ill, Mr.. Stevenson is a
graduate OF Center College, Danville,
KY. He has served in Congress, and
is said to be a very able man, The
official announcement of the appoint
ment is expected tomorrow.
"I got letter from sister Jane to
day." remarkes Mrs. Caution to her
husband last night. "she wants to
known whether | am still in the city
this hot weather" "Well, DEAR" said
Mr. Caution, carefully breaking his
June egg, "ifyou wright to her tell
her you are not still in the city, and
that have never known you to be so
anywhere, for that matter.
There is an ice deposit at the mouth
of the Sandy River in Oregon which is
twenty feet high half mile long, and
extending back an unknown distance.
1t was formed by high waters from the
Columbia driving it into the Sandy,
and having since been coverd with
sand to the depth of two to five feet,
the sun has little effect upon the frigid
mass, and it will probably remain all
summer.
(Which do you like best, Miss Flor
ence, rowing or drivingS" he asked as
he gazed into her azure eyes.
"Oh, driving, by all means"
"Why%
Because you have to use both hands
to row."
They went driving.
The song says "a boys best friend $
his mother" Sometimes he prefers to
go to his uncle.
We are informed by an exchange
that "the hair OF the Countess de Cast
iglione, although golden cloud like
Titian's Venus, in the morning is Of
ten jet black at night, its tints varying
in the course of twelve hours as fire.
quently as chameleon" 1t must cost
her lots of money and one would
think it wouldbe nuisance to change
her switch SO often. But maybe she is
getting paid for advertising hair
store.
The Empress Of Germany has acep,
ted a copy OF the Revised Bible from
the universities of Oxford and Cam.
bridge, presented through the resident
English Chaplain, the Rev. Archibald
White, and bearing the following
inscription: "This copy of the first
issue OF the Revised English Version
Of the Holy Bible was presented to the
Empress of Germany by the Universe
ties of Oxford and Cambridge, AID
1885"
There is on exhibition in London Q
painting by Mr.. Loves Dickinson en-
titled "Gordon's Last Watch" II
represents the hero, the night before
his betrayal, standing alone upon The
ramparts of Khartoum, his Bible anC
his held-glass in his hands and a lool
of death-expecting reverie upon hi
face. 1t is pronounced by Gordon''
friends to be an admirable likeness.
We have heard OF man being as
saulted with almost every CONCEIVABLE
weapon from lighted lamp to to a brick
bat, and we even recall an old song il
which the singer was wont to threaten
to strike his audience with a feather O
stab them with a rose but it RENAME,
for Cambridge young man to be fin
ed for assaulting lady with a sun
beam reflected from mirror held il
his hands.
The city house which Mr. C.FlooC
is building in San Francisco will b
a very expensive structure. One room
will be finished in ivory and gold
The cost is fabulous AT one time MI
Flood would not listen to the project
but the architect finally prevailed
and he will be allowed to CARRY ou
| the original plans. He has furnishes
complete drawings-one might sa'
paintings-of every room just as
will appear when fnishcd--some tw
years hence.
You can bny an eighty-ton gul
steel tube with wrought iron coil
best English make for $4,000. This
great deal Of money to pay for on
gun, but any farmer with running WI
ter, plenty Of fruit, pleasant hills an
forty acres Of forrest on his farm an
nine or ten families ofrelatives in Ne
York and Philadelphia, will find ii
outlay not only iustifable but real
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