The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-02-25
An ssrrss.

bers OF the United States senate are
in favor OF women auiffage.
1t is asserted that. John h, Cough.
spoke on behalf of temperance to more
than nine millions Of people.
Sam Small says man can't .bs q
.mugSump in religion and be success.
full any more than he can in politics.
George and Martha Washington
were arraigned on. the same day re.
Gently at a police court within sight
Of, Mount Vernon.
Henry Ward Beechm, ooh! how
many men livea'lifethne without find,
ing out what the golden secret OF hap:
piness is--to find out that mans life
IL in his own family, and under his
own root, and in the oemmerce' ~
sweet, pure affections That iT the
secret for the finding of which a man
might we'll paya hundred fortunes ..
The'faithful should not despair, All
almost clean sweep has been made OF
The rascals in Virginia, only two Pres
dental postmasters still holding o.
ice who were appointed BY pre- iecc4.
Sorsof the present Executive. In the
fullness Of time these, too, will hay,
70 go, and there WILDE tim, to taxi
up another State. Eek. "F
Hendricks, Mcclellan Hancock Ant
Stymonr--giant oaks in the Deme.
lcratic forest have fallen in almort
startling succesSion' within the pact
Few months. It'isa matter of remarl.
that not in the history of American
'olitics have 30 many prominentlesd
ara of my political party been gath,
cred to their fathers within so brief .
pace andin such swift succession.
Recently compiled statistics show
that the ratio Of suicides to population
in Mexico 10 smaller than in any othe,
country. This is in harmony with tn
known law that suicides increase will
he advance Of civilization. 1t. is a,
evil peculiar to higher order OF lit'
than il found in Mexico. The ad
yantages OF manufactured hemp anc
bare bodkins" as q means OF shiftin,
he burdens Of life are apparent to tn,
Iilliterate mind Of the average Greaser
-NashrWe, american.
Prisonersin the Benton, No, jail
The other night thought that they ha'
4 good chance to escape, The,
sprung one Of the doors, Mt the bottom
enough to. permit the smaIlestof then
John Rine, to crawl throusht. H
then climbed to the attic overthe cell,
md hid until the jailsr had locked W
Then he came down, pried open a
outer door, and was free The pla'
was for him to get tools, and com
back and hberats his fellows. But tn
} night was 90 intensely cold that it wa
fnot long before Rine wss back withou
he tools, begging the, jsilef to PIT
him in bis cell before he froze (
death
In ten years the lists Of pleading a
'"rneys before the Philadelphia bs
has increased from 700 names to l,6o'
md the amount Of legal bushes
Transacted by the 900 is fully 10 pc
rent. Tess in bulk and value than tbs
which the 700 managed in the PR
"eding decade. "And that's not tn
worst Of it," said a well-known alto
ney. The lists keeps on GROWN
, IN geometrical progression, and tn
legal business grows not beautiful
but hidously less year after year.
things keeps on there will be as man
paupers graduating from the bar {
/ the courts as from the other kinds ,
hars popularity supposed to have
, monopoly Of business of filling tn
poor house. Philadelphia Paper.
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