The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-09-23
WHOLE NO. 129
GENERAL ITEMS

wears No. So shoe.
There is no necessity now for
triangular yacht race. The Galatea
was beaten on the square.
The ancient Galatea was cut out of
marble. The modern Galatea has
been cut out of a silver cup.
The sea serpent has at length been
freed, as 1t were. A republic citizen
says it is nothing but an old log.
An enemy, doubtless, says that
Chief Justice Cartier shutters so badly
that he spells his name with two t's.
The only surviving child of Noah
Websters is Mrs. Jones, of Bridgeport,
who carries her eighty-two years with
years good health and vivacity.
There was no time during the al
legged International yacht race that
the sturdy Mayhower could not have
given the Galatea friendly tow.
Senator Edmunds' check for fifty
dollars, accompanied by very SYM
pathetic letter, has been received by
the Charleston relief committee.
Henry Irving told and English au-
dience day or so ago that he never
had been better treated than he was
while in the United States this sum-
mer.
AT the Hotel de Vile banquet in
honor OF his one-hundredth birthday
Professor Chevreul drank a few drops
of campagne, the first that he had ever
tasted.
William II. Mullen, the Labor can
didate for Congress in the Third Vir-
| ginia district, is member of the ma
tional executive committee of the
Knights of Labor.
The Prince of Wales has accepted
another invitation to take dinner with
Mrs. Mackay. It's next to impossible
, Tor any one to withstand the fascina-
ton of an American woman's cooking
} James RusrelI Lowell's site for
: villa near the home of George Will
liam Curtis, in Ashfield is charming
spot, just such, they say who have
seen 1T in bloom, as apoet would nat
urally choose.
: j. M. Means Of Liberty, Mo-, has
forty-year-old clock that is a perfect
barometer. Just before a rain the
bell, usually of a clear and distinct
tone, tells the hours in tone SO dull
q and mufed as to be hardly audible,
. 1t never makes a mistake.
A President Cleveland uses "wums for
bait" whether he fishes for trout in
the Adirondacks or gudgeons in the
political pools. And he generally fills
= his basket, though neither an expert
angler nor a great fisher for men,"
The chesnut bell has become nui-
sance in the schools. The scholars
doubtless ring it when they hear that
i "the earth is round like q ball." or
o that "a noun is the name of person,
o place or thing" Perhaps, after all, the
scholars are not very much to blame.
4 A collection of some of Thackeray's
o fragmentary places will soon be pub.
.o lished in England under the title oi
;, "Sultan Stork and Other Stories
= Sketches and Ballads" An appendix
will contain revised and enlarged
photography of Thackeray.
! General Brady, who was Assistant
;, Postmaster General under President
a Grant and who achieved notoriety
st with Dorsey in the Star Route trials, il
writing volume of political reminis
cences embracing his knowledge o
l. public men and their acts since The
u war.
u The old landmark and stone anC
ts block house on the premises of Mrs
Neuhoffer, located on the eastern
border of Lansdale, has been totall,
re destroyed by fire. The origin of tn
TO fire has not been learned. In tn
Id consumed edifice General Hancocl
ne was born, and thus an old Landmark
1e has been swept away.
1t is said that Sir Charles Dixie ha
70 returned to London and that he wi
pd start newspaper there, for the dit
% semination, no doubt, of high societ
be gossip. Sir Charles seems to have
20 magnificent development of what
commonly called cheek. Perhaps h
will yet ask the Queen to leave til
as throne to him in her will.
~ young woman Of Betheny, H., ii
= vited large party te some privat
- theatricals at her home. In the cours
on OF the play marriage took place, IL
young woman acting the part of brid
Just cefore the guests went home the
le- were told that the marriage was b.
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