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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-02-19

"FireI Fire" The sudden cry nat
urally strikes terror to every heart
but modern appliances for fighting
the merCiless flames have been carried
to such degree Of perfection that the
knowledge of their existence inspires
confidence even when in peril from
fire. The New York Fire Department
is world.renowned for its efficiency,
and every one will be interested to
know of the methods and appliances
for fighting fire in the metropolis,
which are most vividly described and
splendidly illustrated in the March
number of Demorest's Family Maga-
zine, just arrived.
Every number OF the Demorest's
Family Magazine brings It's quota Of
pleasant surprises, and every family
should enjoy them. 1t is only $2 per
year, and i, published by w. JENNINGS
DEMoREsT, Is East 18th Street, New
| York City.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-02-19
A Book to Buy.

Webster's International Dictionary.
This new book is the authentic "Una.
bridged" thoroughly revised and en-
larged under the supervision of Noah
Porter, D. d. Ii. d., Of Yale Univer
sity. Editorial work on the revision
has been in active progress for over
ten years, and more than r hundred
paid workers have been engaged upon
it. The sum expended in its prepara-
ton before the first copy was printed
exceeded 100000. This work, we'll
used il a family, will be OF more value
to the members thereof than many
times its cost laid up iB money.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-02-19
GROVER IS HEARD FROM
CONSIDERS FREE SILVER COINAGE
A RECKLESS EXPERIMENT.
He Thinks the Greatest Perils
Would be Initiated by Its Adop.
tIon-Letters of Regret
Read at an AntI-Silver
Mass Meeting.

New YORK, Feb. 11.-Between 600
and 700 people att nded the mass
meeting at Cooper Union tonight
to oppose the silver bill, in response
to the call OF the Reform Club. +.
Ellery Anderson presided, and among
letters of regret that were read was
this, uuder date OF Feb. 10, from ex.
President Cleveland:
"My Dear Sir; l have this after
noon received your note inviting me
to attend tomorrow evening a meet
ing called for the purpose of voicing
the opposition Of the business men Of
our city to the free coinage of silver
in the United States"
81 shall not be able to attend and
address the meeting as you request,
but | am glad that the business inter
ests OF New York are at last to be
heard. 1t should not be necessary for
me to make formal expression of my
agreement with those who believe
that the grea est perils would be ini-
taited by the adoption OF the scheme
embraced in the measure now pend
ing in Congress for an unlimited coin
age OF silver at our mints. If we have
developed an unexpected capacity for
the assimilation of a largely increased
volume of the currency, and even if
we have demonstrated the usefulness
OF such an increase, these conditions
fall far short of insuring us against
disaster, if in the present situation we
enter upon the dangerous and reck-
less experiment Of free, unlimited, and
independent silver coinage.
"GROvER CLEVELAND"
Resolutions condemning unlimited
ailver coinage we're passed. Ex-Sec-
retary Of the Treasury Fairchild was
the chief speaker in the opposition to
the pending silver bill.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-02-19
The Medical profession.

The attitude oil the medical profes-
sion toward what is known as "patent
medicines" is not at all unreasonable
Thousands OF these nostrums are Of
fered to the public every year. Some
OF them are dangerous, and most OF
them are futile, Swift's Specific (S s.
So We are all glad to say, is not class
ed among these nostrums. 1t has
overcome the wholesome prejudices Of
physicians in all parts of the country,
and some Of the strongest testimonials
in its behalf come i;om medical men
who have used it in their practice, and
who do not hesitate to endorse its won
derful results. This is extremely graft
flying, but by no means astonishing,
for every claim that is put forward in
behalf of S. S. S is based on serie, OF
actual experiments extended over a
long period Of time.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-02-19

Senator Faulkner, of West Virgin
ia, says that his twelve hours speech
against the Force bill was mere bag
atele, which did not exhaust him u
bit. The only way to account for this is
to remember that he has gone through
still more terrible strains. lie has
been umpire at base ball game and
once acted as Judge at baby show.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-02-19
The inability of Miss Lillian Rus.

The inability of Miss Lillian Rus
sell to in rest the well-matured round
ness Of her neither limbs in tights has
given cause to an action in which
her late manager pleads that he has
been placed in tight place by her ca
pricious objections to wear such
things. Probably the man is to be
condoned with, but who will blame,
Miss Russell for refusing 10 wear silk
tights, which let nothing but bad
coli and an irritated voice to the re.
siduary legatee.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-02-19
A Glorious Record.

Tina Cough and Consum pti0n Cure in this
vicinity. the death rate from Consumption
has decreased wonderfully; ii never fails to
effect q cure. Price % cents. Try II. Trial
size bottles free.
DR.. Lees Liver Regulator has done more to
relieve the suffering of mankind than all other
medicines; Il cures all stomach and Liver trou-
bles. Trial bottles free at Mcfarland Co. s
Drug store.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-02-19
"GRovER CLEVELAND
Windom's Dying Tribute.

Louisville Courier-Journal
Among Mr.. WINDOWS last words
were "The floating tonnage of the
United States engaged in coastwise
commerce and on our lakes and rivers
Is very far in excess Of that Of any
other nation" Could there be more
eloquent tribute to Free Trade than
these last words of the dying Senatori
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-02-19
The Lovers Lament.

Your face is like dropping flower,
Sweetheart
| see you fading, hour by hour,
Sweetheart
Your rounded outlines waste away,
In vain weep in vain pray,
What power Deaths cruel hand can stay?
Sweetheart! Sweetheart
Why, nothing but DR.. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescrip ion. 1t imparts
strength to the failing system, cures
organic troubles, and for debilitsted
and feeble women generally, is un.
equaled. 1t dispels melancholy and
nervousness, and builds up both flesh
and strer 9Th. Guaranteed to give
satisfaction in every case, or money
paid for it refunded.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-02-19

Representative Breckinridge, OF
Kentucky, thinks that within seven
years there will be one million pen
sioners on the roll, receiving one
hundred and seventy millions Of dol.
lars annually from the national treas
ury.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-02-19
Car Porters are Very Negligent.

Car Porters are Very Negligent.
indianapolis News.
1t is related OF one OF the members
of the Legislature who recently went
on junketing trip in special car,
that when he was making his toilet in
the morning he began using tooth
brush belonging to another member,
which he found on the wash-stand.
"Hold on, there" said his collegue,
"That's my toothbrush you are using
"The deuce it is" was the rejoinder
"If this is yourn, where is the one
that belongs 10 the carr"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-02-19

Baltimore finance magnates are
suggesting that a magnificent service
of silver be presented to Senator Cor
man, who, by his action on the cloture
and Force bills, has positively averted
another civil war A popular sub.
scription is proposed for the purchase
of the plate, which is to be made by
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-02-19
Kind Friend,

Is what they call that Famous Remedy; Red
Flag Oil, It quickly cures Rheumatism. Neu-
ralga, Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Sores, and all pain.
II Is good for man or least,
No other medicine has won for itself such
confidence rs Dr. Lees Liver Regulator II Is
the best combination foI the cure of all Kidney
and Liver Complaints. Trail bottles free at
Mcfarland 4 Co.'s Drug Store.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-02-19
A Campaign Text for ,e2

PittsbuTg Dispatch.l
Senator Carlisle is continuing to
worry the Republicans by showing
that the Treasury balance will show a
deficiency OF $14,OOOOOO next July,
and predicting that a year from that
time the deficiency will be $S4000,000.
The party that makes such a record
in turning a surplus into a shortage
will ave a big weight to carry.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-02-19

1t was Washington Irving who
said that with every exertion the
best Of men can do but a moderate
amount of good, but it seems in the
power of the most contemplate indi-
vidual to do an incalculable amount OF
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-02-19
The Burglar was Badly Scared.

Chicago tribune.
With hie hair flying in wild disor-
der, his eyeballs starting from their
sockets, and every limb trembling
with terror, the burglar came in des-
perate haste ont of the window,
Whats the row, Jerry?' whispered
his confederate on the outside "Was
they aNake?'
eyes. / heard the click"
"Of revolver2"
Thunder, no! OF a kodak"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-02-19
WATAUGA BANK.
DIRECTORS.

Judge John 2 Smith, Il. II. West, G
7, Cass, John Sanders, A, B Bowman,
Jas. A Martin, Jas + Crumley, Will
Harr, w. P. Dungau, Geo. d Taylor
@, X lide, Isaac Harr
We have the largest pald.up capital Of any
Bank In the city. Our stockholders are among
the best men of Washington and Carter counties.
We do a conservative Banking Business in all
It's branches and all business entrusted TO us
will be faithfully and promptly transacted
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-02-19

1t is said OF Senator Gormon that
he is so cool, nervy and self.posessed
that it is impossible to surprise or dis.
concert him. Were he in the midst
OF speech, to put his hand into his
coat.tail pocket and find in it Cali
fornia earthquake hatcblng out Idaho
cyclones, he would go on with his re-
marks as unconcernenly as il he had
only found cough drop.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-02-19

When you make mistake, don't
look back at it long Take the rea-
son of the thing into your mind, and
then look forward. Mistakes are les.
sons Of wisdom. The past cannot be
changed the future is YET in your
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-02-19

"What is cl ture, papa?" asked
little boy. "Cloture, my boy" answer
ed HE Walnut street sire, "cloture is
what your mother means when she
tells me to shut un.'n
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-02-19

OF every million people in the world
Ass,ht hr.l-aa ava klfnd
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-07
NEW MECHANICAL DEVICES.

A BILL-sTIcKING machine, which
sticks without ladder or paste-pot, has
made its appearance in the streets OF
Paris, and does its work well
A COTTON stalk puller has pulling
wheel journaled near the ground on
the lower end of short vertical axle
and operated by gearing from the main
horizontal axle.
THE nickel-in-the-slot apparatus has
been adopted by the post Office depart
menJ of Britain, the postmaster general
having given permission for the cree
ton throughout London of pillar boxes
for the automatic supply of stamps to
the public.
A NEW appliance weighing only few
pounds enables cloth dealers and others
to measure fabrics while rolling or
blocking them. The cloth passes over
and under set of four rollers, the last
of which actuates counter, which tells
the number of yards paid out.
THE greatest novelty in dolls has now
been invented in Nuremberg, the great
German town for dolls and playthings.
A machine in the doll causes it to move
its hand and write neat little letters on
a slate or on paper. Whole sentences
can be written to the great amusement
of children
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-07
Tea with Lilies.

The charming literary wife of eel
ebrated New York artist lately intro
duced the prettiest sort of new
wrinkle in the serving of her afternoon
tea. When first she handed round the
steaming cups, each with white,
fower-like fragment floating on top,
her guests were greatly interested over
the innovation. Then she explained,
and, while adding a slice of lemon and
cube of sugar to the fragrant beverage,
coached the women present as to how
they might go and do likewise. 1t APP
pears she bought crisp, coarse tarlatan,
cut it up in squares of five by six inches
pinl1ed the edges in sharp, deep seal
lops, and then, putting a spoonful of
Russian caravan tea in the center,
tied the leaves in a tiny sack by means
of bit of heavy thread. BY ruffiing out
the loose portions she obtained a bios
SONY look for her new-fashioned tea
balls, and not only added immensely to
the daintiness of her table and cups,
but made it possible for each guest to
suit his or her particular taste. Some
choose to let the tea-lily remain until
strength is attained, while those liking
the weaker drink soon remove the tarla-
tan bag.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-07
CAN BE RELIED ON.

THE worlds contribution to the Cone
maugh sufferers was "a, 116, s01.5s.
THE thinnest and at the same time
one of the toughest feathers tanned is a
frog skin.
THE Japanese word for farewell
means eff it must be so;" and the
Chinese say: go away slowly
ALL the letters of the alphabet appear
in the following sentence: "The quick
brown fox jumps over lazy dog"
A BILLION is, according to the French
and American method of enumeration, a
thousand millions, 1000, 900, 900, 900; ac-
cording to the English method, a million
millions, or 1000, OO0 900, 600, 600.
PEARLS get sick, and, like men and
women, require a change of eli
mate when their health is bad, or
else they will crumble and die. When
i'll they lose their luster and become
challz-like, but rapidly improve if given
change of air.
THERE are 14,056,750 horses in the
United States, 1896, 542 mules, 6,019, 591
mich cows, 36,S75, 643 oxen and other
cattle, 43, 431, 1856 sheep and 50,625, LOG
hogs-and all these animals are on the
farms of the country, not counting
those in the cities, towns and villages.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-07
BOOKS AND LIBRARIES.

THE largest library is the Imperial,
of Paris, which contains over 100000
volumes.
A ST. LOUIS headline writer has in
vented the word ''pulpiteer," to be
used instead of preacher or minister.
IN the text of the Encyclopedia
Britannica there are 10000 words
which have never been formerly entered
and defined in any dictionary.
TIE word preface" used in the
beginning of books, was originally a
word of welcome to meal, and was
equivalent to "Much good may it do
you"
ALTHOUGH women are Unsuitable
readers, only three have left libraries
worthy the name-Catherine de Medici,
Diana of Poitiers and Nine. de Pompa-
dour.
ADoLPH SUTRo, the California mil
lionaire, has transferred his library of
nearly 10000 volumes to the great hall
in the Montgomery block, formerly oc-
cupied by the San Francisco law
library. 1t is Mr.. Sutro's intention to
throw this splendid collection open to
the public free of charge, and force
of librarians will be employed to man
age it.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-07
YOUNG BUT NOTED.

GLAssBoRo, N. j., has two-year-old
roller skater
BOY was arrested in Philadelphia
recently for stealing his sisters we'd
ding ring the day before the ceremony.
A sIx-wEEKs-oLD baby has been sem
fenced to thirty days Imprisonment at
Boston becaused it's mother was in
toxieated.
A GEORGIA groom of eighteen who
welded bride of forty paid the offici-
ating clergyman a fee of four silver
dimes. He couldn't rake together a
larger sum.
A TwELvE-YEAR-oLD boy carries the
mail from Tucson to La Pas, Ari.
The distance is seventy-fve miles and
the trail is through one of the widest
portions of the territory.
JOHN CRUDE, aged twelve, who has
been loafing around Mitchell, Ind, and
living off Woodworking mother, twas
given a severe whipping few days
ago by mob of masked boys of his
own age"
A INTERPRETATIONS youngster at
Robinson, Me-, went to the woods four
weeks ago with his ak and felled rock
maple and made a violin out of it. The
other day for caller he executed a
reel, while his father, sixty-six years
old, danced to the music in a manner
that would test the powers of a young
fellow of twenty years.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-07
A ROARING MONSTER.
The Greatest Well in the World at Huron,
In South Dakota.

The Greatest Well In the World at Huron,
In South Dakota.
The artesian we'll on the Valley stock
farm continues to attract great crowds
of people, says the Huronite IS. D.).
And we'll it may, for it is really the
wonder of the age. Following the tests
made of the pressure on Saturday and
Sunday the cap was removed, and
through nozzle two and half inch
stream of water was shot up into the
air distance of one hundred and TWEEN
4y-fve to one hundred and forty feet.
The direct course of the stream was
greatly interfered with by the cross
beams and braces of the derrick with
clear way and no wind a two and a
half inch stream would be sent one
hundred and sixty feet into the air. So
great is the pressure that pine boards
six inches wide and one inch thick,
used as stays and braces on the derrick
fifty feet above the mouth of the WELL
were broken by the force of the water.
While this nozzle was on, the derrick,
which is seventy-fve feet high, was al
most hidden from view by the spray
and lettings of the stream, presenting
a sight as beautiful as it was wonder
full.
Later in the evening Mr.. Weston,
manager of the well and who has had
charge of the drilling, removed the two
and a half inch nozzle and placed upon
the pipe four inch one. Immediately
a stream four inches in diameter shot
up nearly seventy feet, deluging every
thing in its descent. This was ac-
-companied by deep roaring sound,
and frequent sharp reports resembling
the discharge of a rifle were heard.
This stream, as well as the smaller one,
struck the wallzing-beam and broke
much of it's force.
The amount of water that flows from
the well is tremendous, being estimated
at from eight thousand to ten thousand
gallons per minute. Even at the lower
figure enough pours out of the well to
furnish every man, woman and child in
the state of South Dakota with at least
four gallons of water every twenty-four
hours.
AS to the pressure, that has not yet
been fully ascertained, but from tests
already made it is known to be con-
siderably more than two hundred
pounds to the square inch. With a fair
test it is likely to reach two hundred
and twenty-eight pounds The pressure
has steadily increased for the last three
days and may exceed the above figures.
The well is now nine hundred and
sixty feet deep, and as soon as ma
chinery now ordered arrives the work
of roaming the hole TO eight inches in
diameter. making it an eight-inch well
from top to bottom, will be prosecuted.
The water is soft, clear and pleasant
to taste. 1t is flooding the low places
in the vicinity, and, although great
bitches have been dug to carry it into
the Jim river, acres of water may be
seen in every direction.
: Without doubt this is the greatest
artesian well in the world.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-07
HANDY WITHOUT HANDS.
A Little o. ifornia Girl Vino Gets Along
q .,Tthout Arms.

A Little q ifornia Girl Vino Gets Along
.>1thout Arms.
Little Maryan Marcena is the daugh-
ter of tinsmith who lives at Saucclitc,
Cal. She mas seven broJhers and SIS
tiers, has this strange little girl. -Four
brothers and three sisters; 50 she is
never lonely. The older children go to
school, but there is always baby to
keep her company. She never goes to
school herself, though she is nearly
eight years old.
There are good many reasons, says
the Chicago Herald, why she stays at
home from school. She could not hold
her books very well if she went, and she
hates to think that she cannot do every
thing quite as well as everybody else.
For the poor little thing has no arms
She has never had any.
The thing that Maryan most delights
IN doing is to help her little brothers
and sisters get ready for school. She is
very quick and full of life, and she hur-
ries around at great rate. She makes
makes them hurry, too. She washes
their faces and combs their hair, and if
they don't stand still she knows exactly
how to give them a lively ittle box on
the ear.
How does she do it? Why, with her
feet, of course. She laughs when peo-
pie are astonished at that.
Maryan does not believe that hands
are one bit more useful or convenient
than feet. Anyone who notices her for
awhile is usually convert to her way
of thinking, too.
She just takes hold of towel be-
tween her toes and she throws it around
her little brothers neck by dextrous
twist of her supple ankle. Then she
dips her foot in the water, and she rubs
that youngsters face till it shines again.
Then she sits back and looks at that
round, little red face, just exactly as an
artist looks at his picture to see if he
has achieved the correct effect. When
the face is as new-looling. and fresh as
bran-new tin pan, Maryan gives a
queer little satisfied sigh, and patters
into the next room as fast as she can
that's pretty fast, too, by the way.
When she comes out she has something
between her two first toes. That some-
thing is comb She hops up to her
brother and then shc sits down.
Swishl swishi goeS the comb through
the thick black hair of little brother.
Splash! goes the comb in the water.
SWISH again, and there's parting
SWISH once more, and there's beauti-
full parting.
'There, now" she says, eheerily;
that is, if she doesn't say ''There now,'
she means it. Surely she means it,
And so the little brother knows, for he
rises hastily and proceeds in business
manner to follow the fashion of boy
kind, and get rumply and dirty-faceda as
soon as he conveniently can.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-07
FLESH and Fashion.

The greatest craze among the women
of the city to-day is to keep from get
ting fat. A fashionable doctor told a
reporter of the New York Sun that the
illnesses resulting from their methods of
keeping down their weight form the
bulk of his practice Few of them diet;
on the contrary they dine elegantly,
give dinner parties, and rely on medi-
eines, acids and tight lacing to offset
the effect of their indulgence. A few
who are of strong will take to gymnas-
jos and walking, as men do, but this
DOCTOR says those are too few to be
worth counting.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-07
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

PENNSYLVANIA contains four castor
oil mills.
IT is no unusual thing for vessel ply,
ing between Japan and San Francisco
to bring 100000 fans as single item
of its cargo.
SOME Georgia capitalists have under
taken to manufacture paper from cot
ton stalks and bolls which are now prac-
tically useless to planters.
A DECATUR county (Kan.) man plant
ed 80, 900 horseradish roots this spring
He intends to bottle and ship the prod
uct, for which he says there is good
demand.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-07
Cremation in .Iannn.

Cremation fourishes in Japan. Toxic
has six crematories, in which the
bodies of at least one-third of the dead
are burned. In 1883 11,023 of the "a,
437 persons who died were cremated,
and since burial in the city was for
hidden the number has been increased.
According to the style of cremation,
the price is 1915, 81 or 81. Slxty-six
pounds of wood, which cost approx
mately twenty-five cents, suffice for
the burning of a body in three hours.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-07
THE CENTER OF A MINERAL ZONE OVER
NINE MILES LONG BY ONE MILE WIDE.
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