The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-06-03
SELECTED GENERAL ITEMS.


sons season are given as $4,000.
Sam Jones, the evangelist, lives on
oat meal, milk, fruits and occasionally
meats. He seldom drinks tea or cof-
fee.
Professor Sumner, of Yale, has been
appointed member of the Board of
Visitors to West Point by President
Cleveland.
More than 600 Chinese Sunday
scool scholars attended recent ami
versary of their schools in New York
City.
The Ohio Legislature adjourned sine
die on the 10th instant, and the Leg
islature of New York followed suit on
the Goth.
Dio Lewis says man needn't sneeze
unless he wants to. He most gener-
ally wants to, though, by the time the
sneeze gets fairly on deck.
Jay Gould when boy clerked two
years for d. P. Mapes, the founder of
Ripon, Wis, in Carbondale, Penn,
between the years 1881 and 1886.
Wanted-The man who can address
a sunday school without beginning
his speech with "When was a little
boy.
The marriage and death rates in
London last year were the lowest on
record, and the birth rate the lowest
since 1850.-Ex
Professor Timothy Dwight, of the
Yale Theological School, has been
elected President of Yale College, in
place of Noah Porter, resigned.
The French Government has de.
cided to introduce in the Chamber of
Deputies Bill to dispose finally of
the pretensions OF the Orleans Princes.
The New Orleans Picayune arrives
at the conclusion that the hour-glass
is made smallest in the middle to
show the waist of time.
Marvin Hughitt, the general mana
ger of the Northwestern Railroad,
was at one time telegraph operator
in the employ Of the Western Union
Company.
Secretary Bayard has presented the
Historical Society OF Delaware with a
valuable and interesting collection Of
photographs of General Grant.
The Countess Of Paris will give as u
wedding present for her daughter a
prayer-book bound in white morocco,
with lining OF blue morocco, with gold
fleurde-lys.
Miss Jean Agnew Crawford, daugh-
ter OF Rev. DR.. Crawford, of Chambers
burg, will be married at her fathers
residence to Nj. VIM. McLaurine Hall
on the 9th Of June.
Fifty thousand square miles OF ter
! ritory east of the Mississippi are Gov
cred with swamps, which might easily
be drained and turned into fertile
q lands.
1 A mastodon's bones, the teeth foul
e inches square on the face, were dis
s covered last week near Nation, ILL.,,
| it is reported, by man who was dig
e ging ditch.
1t requires the annual slaughter o
100000 elephants to keep the. worlt
n supplied with ivory. England alone
n uses up the product of 10000 ele
e plants, or 100000 pounds.
J. A Bill was introduced in the Hous
Q of Representatives, last week, appro
e priating $4,000 for the erection il
0 Washington OF bronze monument t.
L Edwin M. Stanton.
The Bill appropriating $4,000 TO
)f the erection OF statue OF Geners
q Anthony Wayne at Stony Point, N. y
A. has been favorably reported to tn
y House Of Representatives
- " The House Of Representatives, La
: week, rejected, by vote of 17S to s
!" the Senate amendment to the Post-o
e flee Bill granting a subsidy Of $600,0(
to American steamship companies #
carrying the mails.
:. The question of female suffrage
- the territories has been great
= strengthened by the statement OF
- delegate from Wyoming that h
~ mother-in-law had voted for him !
peatedly.
III Seed oysters are being export
on from Bridgeport, Connecticut, to En-
'er land, at the rate OF from $50 to
o' barrels a day. They will be plant
in the TIMBER, south Of London and
Carlingford, in Ireland
Edwin Booth, Julian Hawthorn,