The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-11-10

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AARYVuLE TENNESSEE
CURRENT TOPICS.
Nosr women are clothes Observers.
The Governments pays $1,000 an hour for
pensions.
A New JERSEY girls name is Belle A.
OOnough.
SAN FRANCISCO has one hundred and four
millionaires.
The hairless Mexican dogs are becoming
popular as pets.
MINNESOTA has special State Board for
tho high schools.
THERE are 10000 Indians ct the Cheyenne
Agency, Dakota.
FOURTEEv people can stand in the Statue
81 Liberty's head.
PIERRE LoRILLARD has spent 81, 900 on
Tuxedo Park, M
The population Of France has increas ID
only 1900 in five years.
TIE fly and the mosquito are fast slidiAg
into innocuous desuetude.
DEALERS predict that young ladies will
shortly carry walking sticks.
MARK TWAIN and Bret Harte be yan their
literary careers as book canvassers.
RELICS Of an extinct race of red Indians
have been found in New Foundland
A STATUE to General Francis Meagher
will be erected at Waterford, Ireland
AN Iowa insurance company offered 500
for the best plan TO-. tornado cave.
In Spain less than twenty-five per cent.
Of the population can read and write.
The French Senate has passed bill PIE
viding for the sale Of the crown jewels.
ErCHING and printing on toadstools has
supplanted the fancy Tor euricbfng punk.
BAN JONES has got on the track Of the
American sinner at last. He is in Canada.
The Caterer asserts that rice pudding
should be made day previous, and put Cd
Hcs. ...
GREECE the oldest of tho ancient classical
aations, is about half the size of Pennsy)
vanis- t..
Two Japanese vases worth 1850 have
been given to the National Museum, Wash.
tnston.
the horse population Of Now York is be-
tween 10000 and u, OOO. and that Of London
$4,000.
TIE detective guard at the tomb Of the
late William H. Vanderbilt is to be kept OF
all winter.
A GROWING demand is that sleeping-cars
for the use Of women only be provided op
our r.ilroads.
TnR black measles, said to be as fatal ~
the smallpox, is raging among the Cana
dian Indians.
In st. Louis zoos pounds of copper have
been used in making just ono steam kettle
for brewery.
The face of the Bartholdi statute is mod
sled after the artists mother, who still
lives in Alsatia.
MICHAEL DAvIrr. the Irish patriot, is to
be married to Miss Yore an helress, who 70
sides In Oakland, Cal
IT ia stated that Premier Mcdonald win
bring on general elect on for the Cane
dian Dominion this fall.
FIVE hundred tons of grapes are esti
m ted to have been spoiled by frost in the
vicinity Of Keuka lake, N. Y.
The star-spangled banner is seen oftenef
In the towns of Ireland now than any other
dag, save, perhaps, the green itself.
M. BARTHoLDI's last important act before
sailing for this country was to pay visit
to his octogenarian mother, at Alsace.
The Canadian Booksellers and Station
ers Association of Canada has declared
war against American Sunday newspapers
TOBACCONIsTs say that there is remark
able falling OFF in the cigarette habits OF
New York. The pipe is becoming the fash
ion again.
IT is said that Mrs. A. T. Stewards great
33,0OO,OOO marble palace at New York will
be changed into dry goods store, now that
she is dead. ...
JUSTICE COZ, who recently died at Dams
vile, Mich, at the age Of ninety-two years
once visited California, making the entire
Journey on foot
TIE Chicago street department has paved
and otherwise improved forty 1.-TWO miles oil
streets during the last year. Five miller
more are to be paved.
THE War Department has discontinued
the issuance of permits to land liquors into
Alaska for use of medicinal, mechanical
or scientific purposes.
THERE are in this country 10000 Indian,
who are no more civilized than they were
go years ago, except that they know thu
use Of rifles and whisky.
Conn husking stories have began to an.
pear. The first comes from Champaign
County, Ill.,, whore farmer is said to hav,
husked 100 bushels Of corn in day.
Ar q school examination in Macoml
County, Mich, . candidate for teacher,
certificate wrote that there we're two kind
Of gender, "lady and gentleman"
THE Northwestern Territory Council ha,
decided to divide the Territory into prov
inces and secure . responsible Govern
ment at the earliest possible moment.
CHINAMEN in some places on the Pacifi
coast are supplying themselves with arms
1t is noticed. One gunsmith sold seventeen
winchester r fes to Cinnamon in one week
A WASHINGTON scientist says that tn
earthquake which heaved up the Rock
mountains would have shaken Gown ever
public building within radius of six thou