The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-08-26

iOW laSIenlnS' sometimes tney are
held in place by a pin shaped for the
purpose.
General Sheridan is listening to the
siren songs of the Iowa grasshoppers.
Lord George Trevelyan is engaged
on the second volumn of his life of
Charles James Fox.
Ex-President Arthur, with cheek
bronzed by the Atlantic winds, now
tips the beam at 175 pounds.
Lord Churchill's English, according
to late authority, reads very much
better after revision by a reporter.
Ex-senator Mcdonald is still at the
Riggs House, Washington, but the
Cabinet appointment cometh not yet.
If our neighbors had as few faults as
ourselves what pleasant world this
is to live in
Between the Liquor League on one
side and the teetotlers on the other,
the wise candidate will steer for the
safe harbor OF high license.
Some one suggests that Hayes por-
trait should adorn the new oleomarga-
rine stamp, as the most fitting to rep
resent fraud.
A current paragraph is to the effect
that the accomplished daughter of Mr..
Lawrence Barrett, obedient to her
fathers wishes, has never seen play
or an opera.
Robert Crafty, of Prospect, Ohio,
will be 102 years old ON the Oath instant
and will celebrate the event in the
comp@ " Of four generations of de-
scend auts.
evidently it was time for Mrs
Cleveland to take to the woods also
for they do say that she has lately
been averaging twenty letters to
friends every day.
joaquin Miller has cut his hair close
and assumed the editorship Of the San
Francisco Golden Era, the same mag
azine upon which Bret Harte made
his debut.
The editor of the Seryille (Fla.)
Gazette may be fifty described as
cosmogonol man. He runs news
paper, a saw-min, postofiice, a real
estate business and practises law.
There have been $3.50 failures in
the United states so far this year,
against 1867 last year. There ap-
pears to be something after all in the
idea that change in the politics Of
the national administration does not
necessarily involve universal business
ruin.
That abrupt, explosive, discourteous
monosyllable Thanks" got Roland
for its Oliver the other day. Madame
dropped her card case in fremont
street, and brisk little newsboy
picked itup for her. Thanks" said
: madame. "Welks," said he, and
J bolted.
You know, when we were boys and
girls, there used TO be spiritual medi-
umsY Well, there are none now.
| They are all "phychometrists and
clairvoyant delineators." But they
still use the same fearful and wonder
. ful grammar and spell separate with
two p's and three e's as of yore,
e When President Cleveland went to
a the mountains last year he was an OBJ.
}, iectaof perjunctory consideration.
y But the train that carried him this
;. year had freight more precious than
q president. II carried a presidents
bride as beautiful as rose and as
e fair as lilly, and with the president
}, and his bride the affections Of fifty
Y millions of people go.
: Rev. Mr.. Brown (to old college
y chum)-Well, Charlie, how did you
enjoy the singing last sundayi Char
= lie Flash-You mustn't mind my say
:. ing so, old chap, but not great deal
u and it was like the village brook
: Rev. Mr.. B.-Village brook How
J. so? G. F.-Why, it was full Of flats
n dragged at The bars and neyel
le amounted to a dam. Rev. Mr.. B
lie wonders why he ever thought Flash
witty.