The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-11-29
Wayside Gatherings,

1888 were granted to Southerners.
The reason Mohammed refused to
60 to the mountain was because the
hotel rates we're so high.
A courtship of twenty-four years
ended in marriage at Hightown, N. j..
the other day.
Mantana's population is estimated
by the Governor at 140,0 900, an increase
Of 10000 over last year.
The estimated value of the entire
wheat crop Of the United States this
year about $46O,OOOOOO.
There has been four hundred and
ninety'one new money order post-of-
fees established during the last fiscal
year.
The New Mennonites, a German re-
liglous denomination, have decreed
that no person can now belong to that
church if he has life insurance poll
cy.
The cost Of running the city of New
York for 1889 is estimated at $37,027,-
S94,2O, which is about $24, 900 less than
was the estimate for this year.
lfevery person would be half as
good as he expects his neighbor to be,
what a heaven this world would bel
Luther Norris
Troy, N. Y, makes seven millions of
dollars worth of shirts and collars a
year In all Of the Eastern cities
there are about twenty million dollars
worth made annually.
Health is the only riches that a man
ought TO set a value on, for without it
all men are poor, let their estate be
what it will.
A Vermont critic OF agricultural col.
leges complains Of -four years of study
without labor" which he says "wholly
removes the student from sympathy
with the laboring world"
The rapid growth of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in the South is
shown BY the fact that more than four
thousand new churches have been
built in sixteen States since the war
The reason that Jones doesn't mar.
ry, so he says, is not that he lacks
either the means or the opportunity
it is because he is OF an extremely do
mesticated nature, and likes to spend
his evenings at home.
Nothing so increases one'sreverence
tor others as great sorrow to ones
self. 1t teaches one the depths Of hu
man nature In happiness we are
shallow, and deem other so.-[ Charlie,
There are 10000 Cherokees, 500(
,Choctaws. 5000 Chickasaws, and from
1000 TO three thousand Seminoles il
the Indian Territory. The Greeks
humber about 5000 to 10000 souls
but it ia thought about half Of these
are negroes.
As God never does anything that il
not fitting, suitable and necessary t.
be done, re has not made an unneces
sary display OF his mercy of his Son.
all this was necessary, else it had no
been done.-[Adam Clarke.
An ingenious inventor has devised
new screw--half nail and half screw
two blows OF the hammer, two turn
Of the screwdriver, and it is in. 1t
holding power in white pine is said t
he three hundred and thirty.tw
pounds, against two hundred an,
pinety-eight pounds the holding pow
or OF the present screw.
, When lady condescends to prat
tical joke it generally is a very nea
one. NJ. Bonceurt, the rich 6nancei
J was very stingy to his wife in the ma
ter Of pin money. One day . ladl
closely yeIled, and very anxious not I
: be recognized, called upon him an
borrowed large sum, leaving he
diamonds as pledge. It was h
: wifel
"We have loved this man." said tt
:. officiating clergyman. eHis face hi
long been dear and familiar TO Us ;.bl
: when shall we see him more? Never
: ueverl Our brother is in heaven
Well" remarked one OF the pilla
Of the church, II he's in heaven al
none O. us amt goin' to see him l
more, I don't see what we pay the pa
son FIVE thousand a year for"