The Comet. —One of these erratic, tumid
bodies has been visiLle in some parts of the
east, for the past three or four weeks. Its
nucleus was a ruby red; “hence, you see, it
is called “rubicund.” Its tail has been
well defined, by a deceased astronomer—-
Benton, —to be “too near the grouml ,
“hence, you will observe,” no danger need
be apprehended from it. hen last seen it
was traveling in a southerly direction, where
it is confidently expected it will be d ished
in pieces by a collision with the constellation
“Breckinridge,” and will neverafterward be
heard of. The present brilliancy is asentre
ed, bv scientific men,to the the inihience oi
sp/n‘t-ual bodies. — Whitewater Register.
MM . »
JHFVery small men, in respect of men
tal stature, are sometimes named after great
men. Thus, in lowa, there is a man call
ed Henry Clay Dean, who, in a speech the
other day in that State, used the following
language: “Since the crucifixion ot dni-t
there has not been so '.Kiuev olen* an institu
tion known among men as African slav erj.
His audience was small, but decidedly
Democratic. It is well known that they
hissed the speaker very loudly.
THAT GREAT STATEtsMIA.
