The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1890-07-17
Missing Links.

Upward Oh 5000 volumes were ADD
ed to the library of the British Museum
last year.
Marion Crawford's "a Cigarette
Makers Romance" will not be pub
lished until the autumn.
A lecture committee Of stockton,
Cal, has received a note from II. M.
Stanley that he will speak one night
for 81, 200 guaranteed.
Sixty thousand blue gum trees have
been planted this year on one ranch
in Los Angeles county, Cal.
An artesian well was put in a beet
sugar factory in California that flows
5OO,OOO gallons in twenty.four hours
One of the alternate plans recon-
mended by the French Government
Commission on the Panama Canal
comprises a ship railway for part Of
the distance.
For some years r. d. Merchant, OF
st. Helena, he's picked blackberries
from a large bush in his yard. This
year the crop of berries was large, but
they were all white in color,
The torpedo boat Adler, constructed
in Germany for the Russian govern
ment, is described by the Russian pa
pers as the fastest war vessel aAoat,
having attained a speed Of 26 :55 knots.
Miss Lillian Blanche Fearing, the
only lady in this years graduating
class at the Union College OF Law,
Chicago, is entirely blind. During the
course her mother was her constant
companion and read from the books
to her.
The weavers Of the Eulengebirgo
have petitioned the German Emperor
to help them. By working fourteen
hours for six days out of seven
they say they can earn only $1.2l
each weekly. Their wives earn about
65 cents each weekly at the looms.
Nude, the London library mer
chant, took 5000 copies of Stanley's
ain Darkest Africa" A London pa
per understands that Sampson, Low
& Co. contracted to pay Stanley the
comfortable sum of 100000 for tht
work.
There arc 53G authorized guides ii
the Alps. One hundred and ninety
four OF them have taken a regular
course Of instruction in their probes
sion and have received diplomas
Thirty-fve OF them are between &C
and 20 years Of age, and six are oyel
seventy.
M. Rovaisson, an old guardian o
the Louvre, has been engaged in con
structing the group of which he thinks
the Venus of Milo formed a part. As
his ideal stands the goddess is leaning
her left arm upon the shoulder o
Mars, the right reaching toward hi'
breast
On a recent visit North party o
men stopped over night on ranch a
Elko, Col, and when the lady of the
house showed one Of them to a room
she remarked by way of apology
"You will find the bed kind of hard
We took the hay out Of the mattress
last winter to feed the starving cattle.
Ex-senator Palmer thinks his dutiet
as Chairman Of the Chicago World
Fair Commission will not make it ne
cessary for him to spend much tim,
in the windy city for awhile. He vii
continue to make Detroit his home
Among the visitors whom he conf
IDENTIFY expects in Chicago in 1892
Senator CASTELAR,
Mr.. Thomas A, SCOTS residence i
Philadelphia is one Of the largest pr
vate dwellings in the United States,
} contains as many rooms as n goo
sized hotel. These are all under tb
supervision of a young man, who got
about with so many keys to broa
girdle around his waist that the trade
men call him "St. Peter" There al
seventeen bathrooms in the house.