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gram being as follows Essay, Idle
ness, r. E, l.. Miller; Select Reading,
First View Of the Heavens, Miss Lu
Truan Essay l, Life of Socrates, Miss
Belle Gold Essay 2, Trial aud Death
of Socrates Reading, Mystery OF Life,
Miss Dora Crumley Essay, Sew on
Buttons, Miss Mary Baker.
Miss Dora Crumley and Ed NJ. Bell,
two students Of the LiteraryInstitution,
have also entered the music and bust
ness college lately.
Ex-President WiIloughby was in
Jonesboro Friday.
Cold weather indeed the first ice of
the season has been formed on the
College Spring.
Bill Morgan, of extensive base ball
fame, came around "on Il fly Friday
afternoon.
Miss Ada Lingonlelter, Of TeIfold,
originally of Pennylyania, connect
ed herself with the business college the
first of the week,
Mason Bros, timers, of Jonesboro,
are now at the college, engaged in re-
pairing the guttering OF the ladies' dor
mitory, also the Gaping Of
the main hues or chimneys
for the prevention OF smoke
which has for some time been such an
aggravation as to render the occupy
ing of a few rooms almost impossi
BILE.
George Rankin, Jefferson county
student, left for his home Tuesday tc
attend the wedding of his sister, EN-
ma Lee Rankin, to G. S. Hudson
DR.. Wilougby, on his return iron
Elizabethton, stopped off at johnson
City for the lecture Wednesday night
Preparations for the Xmas enter
= tainment are beginning to be made
. and all desiring to spend an evening
OF literary enjoyment should not iai
= to attend.
Messrs. w. w. Baxter and J. S. Re
I mine went up to Johnson City Wed
l nesday, to spend "an evening with tn
, Irish people" They returned the da
following reporting the lecture in 10
ty terms.
i The interest among the Literary 81
cieties is kept up by all with vigor an
a the work which is being accomplishe
!. is valuable indeed. The recent elet
tons of the Societies for the preser
term, resulted as follows: Philont
. milan, President, Miss Bette Coyd
: Philomathean, President Robt. E.
Miller; Vitojian, President Miss Maud
It Muller, and Caliopean, President F. ]
J. Dobson. These societies are doin
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much toward the development Of pub
lie speaking, and debates, and, by all
interested in this one important branch
of education, they should be aided and
encouraged.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-11-26

The opponents of the woman's
rights movement will make a wicked
point of the fact that female brigand
in Servia is now ON trial for fourteen
murders and long list of offenses
against person and property.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-11-26

WV ANAN d ~ n ~
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys.
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn eflectually, dispels colds, head,
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its Kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in Soc
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK, N.Y.
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Ralph Lord, of Westbrook, has made
a good shot in bringing down a golden
eagle that measured six and a half feet
from tip to tip, and had talons two
and half inches long.
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Want Admission.

The United States are progressing
with such rapid strides that even the
Canadian hens are cackling for admis-
sion.-American Tribune.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-11-26

The socialists have carried six seats
out of nine in the municipal council
of Berlin.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-11-26

Another banker of Berlin has been
on charges of misappropria-
ton Of funds.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-11-26

San Francisco re embles London
somewhat. 1t has fog almost every
afternoon, and the wind blows in from
the ocean at 4 high rate.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-11-26

Cyrian Clamorgan has laid before
Secretary Blaine the claims of the
heirs of Jacques Clamorgan for tract
OF land in the heart of st. Louis, now
valued at about $1O0,0O0,OOO.
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The Methodist General Missionary
Committee decided to increase the
general appropriation for domestic
purposes to an even 100000
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-11-26

Pine Bluff, Arkansas, had $4,000
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-11-26

The Parnellites are about out of
funds.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-29

DR.. BRIGGs' enemies have trampled
over him, land he will be given no oppor-
tunity to teach his heresies to the can
didates for the ministry in the Presby-
terian theological seminary. The de-
ciSion against him is said to have fallen
on those interested with the surprise of
a thunderclap, but why it should is not
quite clear. In this age of the worlds
history men can think what they please
without losing caste with their fellows;
but, at the same time, you cannot have
an army without having discipline. If
DR.. BRIGGS wants to be Presbyterian,
he ought to keep in step with the rest
of the regiment. If he wants to walk
another gait. let him fight under an
other banner. But the faith would pre-
sent but feeble front to the world If
its captains marShaled their followers,
one according to one set of rules and
another according to another. DR..
BRIGGS is either a Presbyterian or he is
not; and if he is, he can go to his OWN
and they will receive him.
This seems to dispose of the contro-
versy, and the GLOBE is done with if, ex
cept to say that it does not think much
of those Jealous Christians who are de-
claring that DR.. BRIGGS is insane be-
cause of excessive devotion to his
books. This is very cheap way of dis
posing OF people who disagree with you
or who advance unconventional views.
Hundreds of years ago, when PAUL
stood before AGRIPPA, and in words of
rare eloquence told the story of his life
and the wonders of the new creed to
him revealed, FEsTUs, interrnpting
him, said in loud voice: paul, thou
art beside thyself; much learning doth
make thee mad" But PAUL was not
mad. Neither is DR.. BRIGGS. They
simply have preached strange doctrines,
which offend those unfamiliar with
them and who resent the pain of new
idea. The vindication of such men
comes with time.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-29
TINTINNARuLATION.

1t would be gratifying if it could be
found that an important addition to the
industries of the country were to be had
in the establishment of tin works IN
this country as a partial compensation
for the additional millions the users of
tlnware have been taxed under the Nc
KINLEY act. But unhappily, the prom
iSe has small prospect of fulfiliment out
side of Republican fancies. The New
York Tribune and Post, opponents
on the tariff question, have had an
amusing controversy on the subject.
The Tribune has paraded the tin cups
with the American label as the fruitage
of the new industry established by the
high tariff. Pressed still further, it
gave list of tin works in operation at
numerous points i'll the East and West.
The Post takes up the list and starts
out corps of the most detective detec-
tlyes to run down the tin works. They
report that their only discoveries are
the tin specimens being manufactured
by man or two and boy or two IN three
localities. The Post then gave wide
publicity to this advertisement:
AMERICAN TIN WANTED.
Offers will be received in the counting
room Of the Post of American tin plate. in
response to the following orders of responsi-
bic dealers: For 5000 boxes of tin plate; for
the entire American tin plate product for the
year 1891 Particulars within.
Some weeks have passed, and no re-
sponses are had to the advertisement
The Tribune can furnish no further
light, and the tintinnabulation will go
on at the expense of the people.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-29
REPUBLICAN TIMBER.

There used to be story current in
the East to the effect that Mr.. BLAINE
himself staked his one hope of the pres
idency on the nominating convention
which met in Chicago in 1876. His
friends repeated a saying of his that he
would win the prize then or never win
it. The aiscouraging rumors about his
health. for which there must be more or
less foundation, give these reported
forebodings of his sad significance. He
is the strongest man in his party to-day,
and able to command its movements; !;
but death or sickness is monarch
superior to men, and their plans and
aspirations are subject to endless re-
adjustment at its dictation.
Senator STEWART, of Nevada, has
recently been IN New York, and they
have interviewed him on the presiden-
tial question. He does not think much
of BENJAMIN HARRISON, and makes
light of the idea that he will ever head
the Republican ticket again. Statesmen
of his caliber he classes with the mis-
takes on stock farm. When once they
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-29
SOME CONTRASTS.

Some of the recent statistics sent out
by the census office relative to educa-
tional conditions indicate surprising
changes IN the decade. The three
nOrtherly New England states show a
loss in school enrolment amounting to
al average of $40 per cent. although
they have increased somewhat in popu-
latlon. It's be presumed these figures
are sufficiently correct for basing theo-
ries upon. Families are growing smaller,
manifeStly. The cid stock that came
down from the Puritans is losing its
grip in those states at least. This is a
little difficult to understand, as it is that
in many counties East where the
population has fallen away the
number Of voters has increased.
Then contrast the oncoming of the early
posterlty in the new Western states.
North Dakota has multiplied its school
enrolment i'll the decade 722. II per cent,
and South Dakota 563.36 per cent.
Those figures are much larger than those
that represent the increase of popula-
ton, showing the thoughtfulnesss of
Nature in providing according to the
needs of the various sections. Mime
sofa makes an excellent showing, but
does not approach the two younger
states on the west. New York and
Pennsylvania average some u per cent
increase in school children, while they
have added about 100000 each to the
population, immigration, largely of
adult males, affords partial explana-
ton of this
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-29

are bred they have to be maintained
until they can be disposed of, but it
pays to get rid of them, even at sacri-
fee, when the first opportunity presents
itself.
BLAINE is Senator STEWARDS candi-
date, but he repeats the tidings of his
physical condition, and openly eX-
presses the opinion that he will never
again be strong enough to undergo the
strain of campaign. Whom have you
then fit to be standard bearer?" asked
the reporter. 'It is hard to say" said
the silver magnate sadly, "but if worst
comes to worst we can fall back on
lGNATIUs DoNNELLY." Lest the Sage
may have overlooked this interview, the
GLOBE thus repeats it for his benefit.
The Republicans are evidently looking
himwards. Would it not, on the whole,
be worth while at this time for him to
turn nimble somersault and come out
for gold, protection and monopoly?
There may be something in it.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-29
ANOTHER REFORM.

At Pittsburg the ladies have a health
protective association that gives vent to
their amiable energies. The present
effort is a crusade against the filthy
practice, presumably confined to a
class of men, of deluging the floors of
the cars on the local lines with the de-
coctions of tobacco and saliva. This is
pronounced not only unhealthy and
nauseating, but constant contamina-
ton to the skirts of the ladies'. The
situation is not peculiar at Pittsburg.
The American hog ranges widely. The
Pittsburg ladies would reach him by
moral suasion and the cooperation of
the road agencies in putting the offend
ing class among the smokers. They in
sist that it is habit, not necessity, to
spit. but do not give the source of their
information. There can be no expert
ence. But they are probably right. Very
similar complaints have been heard
from ladies On some of the local lines,
particularly the interurban.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-29
IN THE FIELD.

All the parties in the Illinois legis-
lature have indorsed Mr.. SPRINGER for
speaker of the new congress, and all the
influences in that state seem to be
united on him. He has had much of the
same good fortune in politics that his
Republican neighbor, Senator CULLoM,
has had, He has been in congress ten
terms, and although the district is full
of men waiting for chance to go to con-
gress, he has no opposition in his
party. Like CULLoM, too, he is poor,
and has never used his position to make
money out of. Others have become
millionaires with the same opportuni-
ties. If the West should unite on
SPRINGER he would nave good chance
for election. But there will be others
in the field who have an excellent
adaptation for the positien.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-29
THE STORY OF A DAY
Jordan is on the verge of a riot.
The Aberdeen Soan comnany fails.

Jordan Is on the verge OF riot.
The Aberdeen Soap company fails
Ponthan is elected city comptroller.
Representative Huset, of Goodhue county,
is dead.
The bond propositions are carried at South
ST. Paul.
Insane asylum officials at St. Peter are
censured.
Ignauus Donnelly answers Ingerson at
Minneapolis.
AID. Cullen IS chosen president of the
common council.
German is to be continued in the primary
and grammer schools.
The failure of TWO or three rubber compa-
nies smashes the trust.
The Canadian Pacific and West Shore are
said TO have again cut rates.
Gay Williams, of st. Paul. is badly injured
while firing a cannon at Miesville.
The Wisconsin ". c. T. L. declares against
Sunday opening of the worlds fair.
Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Lincoln and
Kansas City win the Western association
games.
Mrs. jefferson Davis, Mrs. Stonewall Jack
son and Miss Minnie Davis hold a reception
in New York
The schooner Thomas Hume is thought to
have foundered in Lake Michigan, all on
board being drowned.
Judge Breckinridge drops dead while
delivering n speech at the Presbyterian gen.
eral assembly at Detroit.
South Dakota business men want an extra
session of the legislature to appropriate
money for the worlds fair.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-29
"TaE UNKNOWN"

The leading paper in the Arena mag
azine for June is the first part of an
able article by CAMILLE FLAMNARIoN,a a
French scientist and philosopher, upon
The Unknown" 1t is mainly confined
to an examination of the varied proc
esSes that relate to the mysterious,
occult or unknown, such as magnetism,
spiritualism. hypnotism, telepathy and
ghoSt-seeing, which induce the belief
in the writer of the paper THAT we
know DeXt to nothing of what may be
known" and that it is duty to seek
for truth "by all the methods access
ible to our intellectual powers" 1t is
not the present purpose to follow the
inquiries of the French investigator,
but to notice that he includes with the
category of rappings and spiritual
expression, as understood by the
molern school of spiritualism, the
little and somewhat familiar device
generally called planchette. There
are various forms Of this appara-
tuS, and it has been in frequent
use by parties in st. Paul who would
not indulge in table rappings, an d
have no faith in spiritual phenom-
ena. They have regarded it rather as a
toy than anything calling for serious
thought, although they become agnos-
tics at once when explanation is sought
of the moving potency. Those observed
locally consist of the cover of cigar
box, with rude leg couple of inches
in length at each corner, and have
pencil in the center the same length as
the legs. This device is placed ON
sheet of paper on table. and the fin
gers OF ahand of two or three persons
placed lightly on the little table.
Questions then are asked audibly or
mentally, and the cigar-boX affair moves,
the pencil writing the answer OH the
paper. In place of the pencil some
times the alphabet is written OH the
paper, or better, on a board, and the
legs of the little table point out the let
ters of the response. The most popu-
lar one, however, is the writer with the
pencil. So far as has been observed, the
writing is usually quite plain, and never
resembling that of either of the parties
at the table. Surprising answers are at
times given, involving matters trans
plring at distant points not known to
any of the parties present. In one IN
stance curiosity was satisfied in regard
to an absent friend with the secret and
date of her intended marriage, that
had been kept from all. Infor-
nation relating to this or the
spirit world is had with equal
alacrity. but there is not invariable
promptness. Refusal is had at times,
and often the answer does not claim to
be truthful or cover all information.
An inquiry recently, if Prof. ToTTEN
were right as to the end of the world in
this decade, drew the reply that it did
not know. A name is usually given of
the party making the replies. sometimes
recognized as that of deceased friend,
but oftener unknown. Many of the
replies are tantaiizing and unsatisfac-
tory, and in one instance the party com
municating admitted being a liar and
unable to tell the truth. 1t is the pre-
sumption of the incredulous that this
machine is operated by some law not
yet discovered by science. The inves-
| tigatlon by the Frenchman is an inter-
esting one if followed on convincing
| lines
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-29
CELEBRATED MAY.
Very Pretty Entertainment at the
Ger nan Presbyterian Church.

Very Pretty Entertainment at the
Ger nan Presbyterian Church.
The Bethlehem German Presbyterian
church had very beautiful and i'm
preSsive May celebration last evening.
AT quarter to 8 O'Clock. in keeping
with custom in the fatherland, trum-
peters blew their blast from the church
tower, and played the song, Evening
Bells Are Ringing" Then the children
and young people of the Sunday school,
Gecked with and carrying flowers in
great abundance, filed up the basement
stair to the street, and then up the steps
into the church, singing praises, to
which the congregation gave choral
response. After prayer the people re-
cited the Psalmist's exclamation. ''Out
of the mouth of babes Thou hast per-
fected praise" and the children re-
sponded with the Holy. holy, holy,
Lord God Almighty"
Thenthe Mendelsshon -quartette gave
the German rendering, by Rev. NiclauS
Bolt. the pastor of the church, of New
mans Lead, Kindly Light"
And then an appropriate and excel
lent sermon for the children was
preached by the pastor. ''This festival
he said, 'iS devoted to spring and the
CilIuitH. CiliIuTeU ask Wllel6 lil6 WOl III
came from? The Bible gives them the
grand answer: In the beginning God
made the heavens and the EARTH But
some of the great scientific men tell
them very foolish things. as that sensi-
bic beings come from senselesS things,
and spirits from spiritlesS things. The
Bibles answer has good sense.
''How all the animals on the earth, ,and
the birds in the air, and the fishes in the
sea enjoy themselves. But they can't
enjoy God. God wanted beings into
whom He could pour His love, and who
would have personal relations to Him;
ana so He made man. God is not an
artist. caring onlyto show His skill; He
wants to love and be loved.
MEN are mediatOrs between God and
nature, and ought to praise and pray for
it. The grains can't pray for rain, aud
men ought to make prayers for it.
when people are leaving Germany
for America the men and women are
sad and weep. But the children are not
sad. But they Try to get rich in Amer
lea, and are not taught religion in the
schools, and become selfish. So they
need to go to the Sunday schools and
churches, and learn of God and His
love, and grow up loving.n
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-29
A sERLOus DANGER

One of the most enlivening. even
thrilling, passages in Caesars Column"
is that picture of 1.-The demons of the
air." or floating boats that drop down
the explosives which destroy everything
below. 1t would be the marvel of the
ages if one of the irideScent conceptions
OF the volatile author should absolutely
materialiZe. One of the conservative,
rational parties now experimenting with
the upper-sea navigation is HIRAM j.
MAXINI, the noted gun maker and in
ventor at Kent, England. He is con-
structing a flying machine on the bird
principle, with wooden screw as its
starting force. Being maker of war
implements, he naturally has in view
the possibilities as a war agency. He
says, in substance, that the dream
of the Minnesota seer will not
be dream merely If he can make his
device do the steady work he hopes for
in the air. In that case he says he
could rise from one side of the English
channel, cross to the other, drop a half
ton or so of nitro-glycerine in each city
as he sails over, and ''revoutionize
the world" He asserts his belief that
he can work out this scheme if he lives
long enough. This suggests grave OBJ
lection to the free and general naviga-
ton of the air. Even if explosives were
not dropped maliciously except in war
times, things would be constantly fall
ing out of these air craft. No man
could know when he was safe. The
meteoric stones that come into the at
mosphere become ashes and harmless
before getting to the ground. but rock
dropped a few hundred feet on head,
or into house, would be mischievous
Perhaps it is best to keep heavy things
near the ground.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-29
AS FLORAL BEAUTIES.
A Charming Entertainment al
Plymouth Church.


Plymouth Church.
Linn@us himself couldn't have classi-
fed them. but they were all flowers, and
they filed the Plymouth church to over
flowing last evening. The church was
decorated in green tissue paper and pink
flowers, and at an eIaborately bedecked
booth were for sale homemade candies,
plants and cut flowers. The entertain
ment began with pretty flower march,
and was a promenade concert of three
parts. E. E. Murdoch conducted the
orchestra. The Beethoven string quar-
tette rendered several very excellent
numbers, although the Sociability of
the affair rather interfered with the
hearing OF the music. The Andante of
Haydn was especially well played.
The Bocherini minuet was given with
great delicacy. A. d. s. Johnston sang
''Out On the Deep" very acceptably.
During the programme light refresh
mentS were served, and living flowers
talked to everybody. Most of the flow
er frockS were merely muslin dresses
trimmed with tissue paper and artificial
flowers, with sometimes a flower
trimmed cap and fan to match. The ef-
feet was remarkably pretty.
Miss Blodgett was a palm with duel green
pledtSu PAIN itdbcS anu pdiul 1du.
Miss G. Blodgett, scarlet poppy.
Miss Anderson, white and green SNOWFALL.
Miss Hougbton, a bright yellow sunfiower.
Miss Heath was-though it does sound
sangy-a daisy.
Miss Scott, chrysanthemum,
Mrs. Remmick wore a sleeveless pansy
gown.
Miss Sterrett was yellow chrysanthemum.
Miss Halsey, white rose.
Miss Digby pond lily.
Master Blodgett, 'bumble" bee.
Miss wellington wild rose.
Miss Anna Burr, forget-me-not.
Miss Iona Highly, red rose.
Miss Stella Wellington, purple aster.
Miss Lowell, pink and white chrysanthe-
mum.
Miss Clara Burr fringed gentian.
Miss Rebecca 1aker, black-eyed Susan.
Miss Lydia Graham, pink sweet pea.
Miss Alice Humphrey, csrnation.
Miss Sargent, grass.
Master Remmick was a sweet little cupid,
quite at home among the flowers. The little
girls were butterflies and flower girls.
The entertainment was in the inter-
eStS of the Bohemian mission, and was
quite one of the prettiest entertain
ments ever given in st. Paul. One
would hardly have supposed tissue
paper could be so prettily used.