The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-12-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
Nh. ARTHuR's last words were "Good
sight"
Much Of the pork in Oregon is fattencd
On wheat
CUTTING 10 actually executing his threat
70 lecture.
QUEEN VICTORIA has now thirty living
Erandch ldren.
The street cars Of Pensacola are to b.
gun by electricity.
THE co ton crop this year In Arkanss'
will reach 80 OUu bales.
The Farmers Alliance 10 said to have
half u million members.
Mn. GLADSTONE has rent-roll and land
income Of $40 0,ua year.
OLp-rAsnIoNkp Yule cakes for Christina
are to be offered b catersra
CHURCHILL IL now called Rushing Ran
Ay"b irrcverent Englishmen.
A Dunpour girl tried to hang herself be.
cause she a. called \ "Tomboy."
Nh. STURGEON and his enemy, the govt
have gone to the South Of France.
- 'VLpiNV, VI bVVoity. Az. UoH
aied from the effects Of hornets sting.
THE pho osrapas OF Mrs. Cleveland are
IN a'tive demand in the City Of Mexico.
LoRD WOLsELEY, as Adjutsnt General OF
she British army, gets only sl3,5o0 year
The Legislat re Of Al bams has elect d
woman for enrolling and engrossing
clerk.
The Vermont Legislature has passed
law prohibiting dancing bears in tn,
streets.
Cook County, Ill.,, In which Is Chicago
has one insane person t. every $50 OF TIT
population.
Ex-PREsIDBNT ARTHUR, it Is said. was th'
FIRST member Of the New York Thirteei
Cub to die.
ALABAMA is pro spering. The increase in
the value Of property in tho last four years
b SIS 600 OOO
By way of sharp contrasts in fashion
we now have black velvet bonnets with
white strings.
OYSTER plates are square, and have places
Tor i've Diva yes. Enough Is considered O.
good o. feast. -- ,.... ......
IT is said that Cape Cod Is slowly wash.
ing and blowing away, losing some two
feet every year.
IT is estimated that the Violet Cameron
venture in this country cost young LORD
Lousdale $4,000.
PEA UT vines in Kearney County. Kan
are said to have yielded thi ty bushels t,
The acr tn year.
DEER were never before so numerous i,
she mounta regions Of West Virginia a.
thay are this fall.
THERE are 96 ono women on the rensiol
coils as widows. dependent or relatives
deceased soldiers.
DURING the present year there have beer
seven embezz ements in Boston, which ag.
gregate 81. 233 4OO
An elderly New York lady bought sea
In street-car from a young man by pay
ing him one dollar.
THE Grand Rapids & Indiana Railwa,
Company is pant ng walnut groves alon,
its liie in Michigan.
The telegraph reports the case of DO,
Who is held in Pennsylvania as security fol
ne payment Of board bill.
Anb hoh "ho uuB tuo grave lot Jnret
husbands of Mrs. Foster, of Green Bay, be
came her fourth husband this summer.
NAPOLEON at st. Helena predicted tina
the Continent would gradually be suhju
gated by the colossal Muscovite powern
MINNEAPOLIS saw-mills cut ii O00, 0JJ fee
less of lumber, 1900 ODO less of shingc
ani 2t,OOO,OO0 iess of lath this year thar
last.
A CHINESE woman has become noted il
New York merely because she was the frs
of her age aud nationality to die in tina
city.
A CITIZEN Of Salamanca has a Unite,
States six-dolar bill dated i774. On IT
back are the words, 1t is death to counte,
felt"
NINE. BOULICoUT, Of Paris, has given
pension fund Of 81 ,O0) 1000, " hich is availab
for all who have been in her serv CO twent,
yoara
TnE Territory Of Montana wants to b
admitte to the Union of States, and vii
send committee to Washington to plea,
for her.
I'VE have socialism in our midst, an,
socialism is nothing but monarchy in di,
guise," said Henry Ward Beecher in a re
cent sermon.
In Tolt precinct. King County, W. 7.
Nys. Mile Templelon was electe consta
be and her hu band was defeated for JUS
tice Of the pea :.
The Thanks living turkey-bone havinj
been picked, iougnts of the youngster
have been turned toward Christmas with
tender yearning.
The Pope has invited the editors Of Cath
clio papers tn oughout the world to SEN
their publica, ons regularly to the pres
sffice of the V lean
Mr.. BRANDE BERG, of Philadelphia. own
the largest dog in America. Koloss is
Danish hound of noble ancestry, is min
feet long and five feet high.
The mausoleum prepared by the Empires
Eugenia, al Marlborough, is now almo,
rea for the receipt on of tho bodies of tn
late Emperor and Prince Imperial.
JOHN SNYDER, the Hoosier whose only r.
lief from the effects Of strange disease
IN almos. continual walking, shaves as b
walks. and takes his meals on the go.
Four elephants belong ng to Coic's CT Gu
we're sold at New Orleans ,or 81, so Thre
hons brought &4l2 eacn, a hippopotamu
vent for 81 500 and two-horned rhino;
VOus tor $780,
AVERY amusing incident in connectio
With the drama recently in New Yori
Vas the displacement of oue-hs If OF NJ
Booths moustache and its adherence to til
cheek of Miss Vaders during the perform
Ance of katherine and Petruchio" Tb
audience roared.
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