The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-12-01
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
NEW YORK has an epidemic of the measles
and diphtheris.
TpERB is no end of the variety in the
shape Of ladies' hats
TIM next national prison congress will
meet at TorontO Ont.
GEoRGE NJ PULLMAN is worth el5, 100000
In the Chicago tax list.
The proposed exh bition at Brussels in
1883 has been abandoned.
MRS. VICTORIA ScHII.LINs, nee M0risini,
has been found-in Europe.
TwENTY-NINH postmastsrs earned less
shan dollar piece last year.
The official census Of Prussia sho Us .
population Of 1913, 458 persons.
KANSAS CITY has contracted for tl,O0, coo
Aroproof board of trade building.
A NEBRASKA court is asked to decide the
question: whats in ssusage"
A MEMORIAL history Of tho Jews In Amer
'ca il proposed, to be issued in 1892.
A rwo-POUND nugget Of virgin Aold has
been found in Transylvania County, N. c.
The city Of Glasgow is to raise q monu
ment to Burns Highland Mary at Dunoon.
BILLIARD CLOTH green seems to have been
generally decided upo0 40 . fashionable
color.
CHAMELEON has sent . contribution Of
clothing and money to the Sabine Pass suf-
fererA
INSURANCE policies on the Thanksgiving
turkey are too near out to be safe invest
nenAA
New YORK has the tobogganing erase.
This Will be the chief amusement this
winter.
The red man is an expensive luxury.
Over e240O0,OOO was expended upon him
last year.
srovE-PoLIsH PEDDLER choked to death
on Kansas City restaurant beefsteak the
other day.
five hundred tall ladies to wear rubber
sloaks az an advertisement" are wanted in
New York.
A MAITLAND paper is moved to sympa-
Thy for citizen who had two of his legs
cut Oh By train"
TRB strike at tho Chicago stockyards is
said to have cost those INDUCED in it no
less than $50, 600 day.
The life Of a Syracuse lady was saved by
her corset. 1t caught bullet on the fly
which was aimed at her heart.
A HOPEFUL old citizen Of Irwin County,
Co., has just married for the fifth time, the
latest bride being a grandmother.
THR MASSACHUSETTS, Supreme Court has
decided that the BARRIERS Of that State
must close their shops ON Sunday.
A BllL providing for the application of
he lash to wife-beaters has been intro.
auced into the Alabama Legislature.
A MONUMENT to Ovid, the Latin poet, is
being erected at Constandia. Ovid has
waited long time for this recognition.
reduce petroleum to crystals. These, then,
gill become tho servant girls favorite
kindhneR
LORD LoNsDALE's and Violet Cameron's
experience in this country tells the rakes
Of Europe that the American stage has no
nse for such.
As rH8 statue Of Liberty Is now the
property Of tho United States, New York
: docs not hold herself responsible for the
lighting Of the torch. 15saz
COLONEL p. DONAU recently brought to
New Orleans from Honduras an opal which
is said to be the second largest in the world.
1t is as big as hens egg.
TIE inventor Of the locomotive cow
catcher ia living in Cincinnati compare
lively poor, having received very small
amount for his invention.
Mr.. Ror lRr TREAT PAINE is building a
number Of small dwelling houses in Boston
which be intends to sell at cost to deserving
people Of moderate means
A DISHONEST welry peddler was mobbed
1t Ann Arbor, Mich. He took refuge in q
hotel, and tho fire department was called
out to disperse the crowd with cold water.
THE total official valuation Of personal
property for tax purposes in New York
City, is only t2l7, 100000, which is probably
not more than one-fourth Of the actual
value.
AN Austrian who calls himself Winklee-
meier is visiting London. He is eight feet
six inches in height, and Is one Of the tallest
men who have lived since the days Of the
Anakin.
ANEW worm ia testing the apple crop
about New Brunswick, N. J. It looks like
acoarso hair, and varies from two to five
inches in length. 1t lodges In the core and
eats outward.
A MUsCATIHE, L., man sent his brother a
tombstone as birthday present, recently,
but the ungrateful recipient refused to pay
the express charges, so the donor had to
send the amount.
In one respect the next Congress will be
an Improvement on the last-it will con-
tain member of the Smith family. His
front name is Henry and he is the Labor
representative Of the Fourth Wisconsin
district
THE Japanese national flag consists OF
the weather signal for high temperature. "
1t is not certain whether this is intended as
q threat to all enemies of the mighty
hosts of Titipu," or expresses the celebrated
Jar anese motto. ats a cold day when we
get left"
Mr.. W.ToDD, deputy marshal Of Paola
Ks, wears, probably, the most novel neck
tie tina ever adorned a shirt front. l is
made of the skin of rattlesnake, and the
lrattle is used for scarf-p n. Thus when
out with the boys To-day always manages
to have a rattling good time.
GEORGE WHITE, a negro who now resides
at Bullock's Bayou, Concordia Parish, La.
the other day swore before the federal
grand jury that he was the father of IS;
children. White is seventy-four years OF
ago and quite intelligent. He insists tina,
he has kept an accurate account of his chill.
dren and that they number l65.
A SILVER dollar weighs very nearly an
ounce, hence any letter not heavier than d
dollar can go for single two-cent stamp,
Eive piclalS n n a small bowman oo,,. -,