The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-02-18
WHOLE NO. SO
Senator Evsrts Washington home is
presided ever by Miss Evarts.


Senator Evsrts' Washington home is
presided ever by Miss Evarts.
Governor Fill, like his predecessor,
is a capital host and jolly diner,
Gen, Sheridan is said to favor Gen.
Crooks appointment to q major gen.
eralcy.
Be content with your lot particu.
larly ifit is large one with a house
upon it.
John Russell Young is the coming
managing editor Of the New York
Herald.
Sec. Whitney talked to the house
committee on naval affairs about the
needs of the navy.
The proposition to enlist two regi.
ments ofcowboys to Aght the Indians
meets with opposition.
A man who has no lsugh in him,
either has committed a crime, or is ca.
psble of committing one.
One field Office passed down the Pen.
obscott river last week which contained
one hundred and fifty acres.
Acremation society has been organ.
lied in Kentucky, steps have been TAX
en- for the erection Of crematory.
Only S26,411immigrants entered the
United States last year; decrease
OF l9 per cent. since the previous year
Hon. s, s, Cox, United States min.
lister to Constantinople is in Ill health,
and has gone to Egypt on a furlough.
Eyes, remarked a landlady,"it costs
money to get knives sharpened, butt it's
cheaper than buying tender meat"
1t is remarkable popularity with
debts that their expanding power con.
tinues to increase as one contracts
them.
Julia Ward Howe expresses the
opinion that the cause Of womans
rights is advancing faster than the
public realizes.
1t looks as il determined fight isto
he made in congress in behalf of TEN.
persnce in the District Of Columbia
and the territories, sg
Lplu Hurst, Geofgia's electric girl
who accumulated 100000 by her ex.
hibitions, is now student at Shorter
Female College, Rome, Ga.
A large number Of colonels in the
army are ssi,t to have filed their ap.
plications Tor appointment to briga.
der genrr"lship, to FIJI vacancies.
Theodore Thomas has used his
right arm 80 much in conducting his
orchestra that he is said so bs threat.
ened with a new kind Of paralysis.
Gov. suinsford, Of Alaska, devotes
I his leisure 70 the task of painting the
summer beauties of winter in Alaska
in the Sitka Alaskan which he edits.
Charles A. Aoulton, who has been
deaf in his left ear for eleven years
recently recovered his hearing by be-
ing thrown off of toboggan slide and
hurled into snow-bank.
The health OF Arab Pasha 10 said to
be suffering seriously from the damp
climate OF Ceylon and strenuous
efforts are being made to procure the
reversal ofhis sentence OF banishment.
DioLewis says an Englishman, with
out observing the laws of exercise or
sleep, will digest an enormous dinner
and preserve his stomach because Of
his two hours chat and good-fellow-
ship afterwards. -.
The favorite recreation OF the Gear
OF Russia is said to consist in wrest-
ling with his brothers, two OF whom
can we'll match him in herculean
strength His food is of the plainest
and his amusements are insipid to
degree.
Mrs. Bradley, Of Madison county,
Ga, is praised because she gave birth
) to four children within twelve months,
and there are no twins in her family,
either. In March of last year she
, made Mr.. Bradley the happy father
of triplets, and the first OF this month
she added the fourth child to her lit
tie flock.
Joseph Tomlinson,. who died in
Pittsburg sn Monday, at the age of
!, seventy-nine, was well known as me-
chanlcal engineer and builder Of
bridge and boats. He wss a native Of
Phenixville and built for the United
States the steamer Michigan, he iron
steamer Allegheny, the revefue cut
e ter, and the gunbcats Sandusky and
Marietta.
: Henry Ward Bsecher told scran.
:, ton Trtsth reporter; 81 don't think
there has been such a Pras;dent as