The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-06-09
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
Som Western papers use "cycloned" ~
Q verb.
The old-time hoop earrings are being |
worn again.
A NEW YORKER advertises for wife
"about six feet high"
KANSAS CITY is debating the question Of
. million dollar courthouse.
SAN BROWN has joined the revival COM
bination of Jones and Small.
TIE Connecticut Supreme Court says
women may practice law there.
The sultan of Turkey will attempt the
taking Of . census of his country.
ENGLAND owns %, 0OO, 900 fowls, and 1000,
1000 eggs were imported in 1885,
The BARRIERS of st. Paul, Mimi, have
agreed to close their shops on Sunday.
The President has been invited to attend
the California State Fair in September.
CANADA Is Of very inconvenient size. 1t
Is too small to fight and too big to ignore.
TIE Ojczyzna is the jaw-breaking name
Of q Newspaper published at Buffalo, N. Y.
TwENTY-sEvEN bridal couples were among
the guests at Washington hotel few days
ago.
The word candy comes to us from the
Arabic and Persian qand, another name for
sugar.
TWENTY-FIVE Mormons were sentenced
to fine and imprisonment at Blackfoot
Idaho.
A BROOKLYN Judge has refused to issue
naturalization papers to an avowed An
archist.
A SEA lion weighing twenty-five hundred
pounds was captured at Astoria, Oregon
recently.
IT is said that the membership Of the
United States Senate represents $lo2Ooo'-
600 Of wealth.
A WOMAN eighty-two years Of age made
Anal proof on quarter section OF Kansas
land last week.
IT is said that Methodist missionary has
been appointed chief physician OF the
Chinese army.
The membership of the Knights OF Labor
in the United States and Canada numbers
nearly one million.
The Massa chusetts House has defeated,
IS to 11s, q bill to remove the disability OF
atheists Is witnesses.
TIE wheat fields Of portions of Kansas
and Southern Illinois have been seriously
injured by chinch bugs.
ABEL HosMER, Of Concord, Mass, now
ninety years Of age, lives on farm taken
by his ancestors in 1885.
The young ladies who run of with the
family coachman would seem to need .
little coaching in propriety.
A BosToN woman sues for divorce be-
cause her husband IL rigid vegetarian,
and refuses to let her eat meat
A TRAPPER In Pomfret, Vt, caught 26l0
skunks during the winter, and has just
sold their hides for about 500.
Ex-ALDERNAN JAEHNE has been assigned
to work in the Sing Sing laundry turning
shirts for the bosoms to be starched.
NorwrrHsrAND1Na the adverse report OF
M. Rosseau, NJ de Lesseps believes that the
Panama Canal will be completed in 1889.
EVERY bachelor who purchases $50 suit
of clothes Of particular clothing house at
Hemmingford, Neb, will be provided with
Q wife.
THE most interesting strike reported OF
late Is that of the artists models at Pitts-
burgh, Pa, who demand twenty-five cents
per hour.
LITTLE SPAIN, If he lives, will be Alphonso
XIII. on the pedigree books The luck OF
the number thirteen has often been COM
mented on.
THE Colorado Cattle Growers Association
has 5S4 members, who own over 1,OO,UO
head of cattle and 900 horses, represent
ing s5O,OOO,O0o.
The town Of Medfield, Mass, has no hrs
department, the company having disbanded
rather than accept reduction in pay from
s12 to % per year.
MAxwELL, Of the st. Louis trunk-murder
mystery, while on trial, received the SYM
patty, fruit and flowers Of half the foolish
women in st. Louis.
IRA DAVENPORT, the New York million
aire Congressman, 10 ready to follow the
Presidents example and marry in the fall
. lady Of Elmira, N. Y.
A BILL has been introduced into the Lou
isiana Legislature which proposes to fix
the rate of railroad fare chargeable in that
State at three cents per mile.
ErNA has exploded as II to keep alive
human consciousness that this II world OF
trouble and tribulation. There be few
things this year not sadly out Of joint
To the present movements OF Jupiter,
Mars and the moon are said to be due the
storms the country is suffering, and which,
It is predicted, will continue during the
year.
JoHN c. CALLAHAN, . Warrington paint.
Or, has brought suit for 5000 damages
against members Of . painters' union fol
conspiracy to injure hisabusiness through
boycotting.
MRS SUTTON, the new postmistress 81
So merset. Vt, . settlement In Windham
county containing sixty-seven Inhabitants
refuses to open the post-ofiice more thar
two days in the week.
Two MEN were noticed at Council Bluff
working out their poll TAI. They had but
one shovel, and while one used the shove
the other rested In this way they vert
worrying along, making two days work il
one.
IT seems to be taken for granted tina
Jaehne will make all the good time" thu
Laws Of New York allow to convicts; and hi
friends are already figuring that he will b
out in six years and little over instead o