The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-03-19
WHOLE NO. $50.
Around the Globe.
Metallic railroad ties are increasing

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A thunder storm recently ured
nearly all the eggs near Cowden, Ill.
Girls are seen on Broadway wear.
ing their hair bound with fillets OF
gold.
The tea crop this year will be short
of the usual product by about 27,00O,.
900 pounds
An apartment house to accommodate
500 families is to be erected in Dres.
den, Germany,
The latest comic song published In
Philadelphia is; whats the Matter
with your Feet?"
Promoter.General Handy says that
out of $500 papers heard from, only
four are unfriendly to the Worlds
Fair.
Frank Lord, of Pottsville, Pa, has
three Easter eggs in his possession in.
scribed respectively in 1850, 1868 and
1880.
The Chinese have u myth that the
soul OF poet passes into the body OF
a grasshopper, as the latter sings un'
I'll it starves.
Charles Tebo, of Barre, VT, is So
years of age and has twenty-nine chill
dren, all living. Twenty-seven Of
these are girls.
Three of the twenty.three surviving
widows Of the revolution now on the
Nations payroll live in Windsor
county, Vt.
A special kind of paper has been in.
vented, which it is legged, is absolute
y impervious to water and will even
stand boiling.
Jsy Go lid has been twice fined for
refusing to respond to the summons
to jury duty, Next time he will be
liable to imprisonment,
A regulation cane for dudes in some
places is two inches in diameter, with
II dog head handle that must not
weigh less than one pound
The Legislature Of Maryland will be
sked soon to consider bill for an
trt to impose tax upon bachelors.
It will be practical revival of sta
tue in force 100 years ago
Life; George find it very hard,
Ethel, tor spect your fathers opinion;
they differ 70 from the rest of the
world Ethel--In what respect2
Ge nge--In regard to loving lover
When President Harrison signed
the bill for the new mint Mt Philad
phia Tuesday last it was 100 years TO
the day since Washington signed the
bill creating the United States mint
in that city.
Ice statues of celebrities are fash
ionable decorations At balls in s Pc
tersburg this winter Famous sculptots
do not distain to try their skill in ice.
and the figures are most efiectyr
when placed among shrubs a.d plant-.
and lighted by many colored lamp.
The body OF a cat which on Srpteu,
be %, 1880, jumped frnm the top of
the Washington monument NJ the
apital, and lived for 80 ~ time afrs-
ward, is preserved, properly labeled, IN
the Smithsonian Inst tuition.
The richest man in the next Con
gress viii, he John l.. Mitchell, Demo.
crat, Of Milwaukee He is credited
with fortune Of something like $i0,-
100000, which he inherited from his
father, who was the protector OF the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail.
road.
A society lady Of Jefferson City,
Mo-, is getting up progressive ghost
euchre party. Not word is to be
spoken by the guests until the twelve
i ga nes are played aud the prizes Won.
Sheets and full curtain masks are To
u be worn, and 10 player is to kno~
his partner.
Chicago alread has twelve story.
sixteen.stOry and nineteen-story build
= ings but in the spring she viii 60 her
selfone better and putup tweniy.iour
story steel Office on Dearbon street,
between Polk and Harrison. The vast
structure will present unbroken fronts
of stone and & Ass, but its strength
will rest in its maze Of steel columns,
a shafts, sleepers, siIls, etc The very
80 lintels Ull be OF steel. 1t is claimed
n there will be scarcely enough wood
Z. in the entire pile to furnish kind ing
for single fire in cooking stove.
II An actress who played tho part al
p old woman in Edwin Booths compa-
h ny three or four years ago was not
over too well blessed in this worlds
goods. On the final night OF the sea
+, ron somewhere up 10 NeS England
Mr. Booth presented her with book
= OF course she appreciated the cour
tesy and resolved to treasure the
Volume a. a precious souvenir OF hel
association with the great actor. But
" =, what words could describe her emo
>" tions when few days later on turn
= ing over the leaves Of the book she
" " found between them a new, crisp
= 81 600 bill,
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