The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-11-17
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CURRENT TOPICS.
ASPLss are only thirty I've cents barn..
In Oregon.
TROUSERS are larger than they have bssn,
lt's English.
THE mouth Of Miss Bartholdi Liberty b
just yard wide.
THERE are 794 srtesiau wells In Tie San
bernardino (CsL) valley.
BARONESS BURDsrr- CoUrrs has giveA
away in charity e2O,oOO 900.
EVERY girl in free America il ae5oddess
Of Liberty in her own right
PAPER shoes are now Manufactured i.
Paris, and arc quite fashionable.
BlCyCLIsr STEVENS, now in China, %
poets to reach home by Christmas.
BARON MEIER RorHscHILD, of Frankfort
who has just died, loft only SIS, 00O,000.
A MOVEMENT Is on foot At st. Louis 10
establish large stockyard in that city.
JOSEPH PULIrzER's profits this year -
proprietor Of the New York World will be
860O,00Q
JOSEPH HYPERION, it is said, 10 worth
ESQ., GOO, aud will retire #, m the stage after
this season.
The late Mrs. A. T. Stewart had some
diamonds that were SO large that she never
wore them.
A LADY recently described . ballet girl
a. ian open muslin umbrella with two
pink handles"
An old bell cast by Paul Revere has just
been hung in the belfry Of . Plymouth
Mass. church.
THERI is abundant proof that human
hfe Is frightening with the development Of
the arts OF civilization.
KAISER v ILnELx is economical He uses
. second time nearly all the envelops OF the
documents addressed to him.
The Chinese population Of New York 10
about four thousand. They are mostly en-
gagged in washing dirty linen.
BHREwD Count de Lesseps got . big
''boOm" for his Panama Canal out OF The
dedication Of the Liberty statue.
A BABY has been born in st. Joseph, No.,
the father Of whom il seventy. one years
OF age and the mother sixty-fve.
r. D. ARMOUR is New Yorker By birth,
10 portly man with face adorned ny side
whiskers, and is worth 100000.
A NEW YORK bridesmaid ct Q wedding
. few days ago was herself engaged to
marry the bridegroom year ago
A RECENT investigation Of some Of the
larger libraries shows that Dickens writ
ings lead all others in popularity.
PHILADELPHIA girls are taking to dumb,
bell exercise. One dealer sold thirty pairs
Of three pound bells in one day lately.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND Gath die
tates almost every line of his work to o
stenOgrapher. SO does Joseph Howard.
WOMEN are said to excel m N in manipu-
lating the typewriter and this important
invention has opened an excellent field for
their employment
TON ACREPooT is the appropriate name
Of . man N Key West whose feet are six
to inches long aud six and half inches
wide.
A New YORK clergyman In recent SER
mon exhorted his congregation to vote as
you pray" aud later on he advised them TO
'.pyay often"
The son of ex- President Arthur and the
two sons Of the ate President Garfield ar
Studying at the Columbia College Law
School this ear.
A New JEasEY woman said she elopeo
with the hired man to keep him from kill
ing her hui band. What . model Of self
sacrifice tAe must be!
The Treasury has given 1t as its opinion
in The case Of alleged smuggling in the
navy that only such goods as are intended
to be landed are dutiable.
A pAONIssoRr note a. we'll Endorsed "a
Keely's motor could easily be discounted.
But it 10 impossib. o to discount the motors
work in the world, IL eminent experts are
night
In . new dictionary Of biography, con-
tanning 10000 names, all the ROthschilds
and Astors put together receive only as
many lines as are accorded to Harriet
lBeecher Stowe.
TIE French Prince who is visiting us Ii
now followed by Q Japanese Prince Of high
degree and his suite, who are visiting this
country for the purpose Of observing our
army and navy.
The queen Of her sex lives In Newaygo
County, Wis She made some money re.
Gently out Of blackberries, and instead OF
treating herself to new hat she bought
her husband fiddle.
JOHN DuRrEA, of Jamaica, L. l., accused
Eugene Hinally Of assault, and Trinally
was sentenced to pay Duryea so. Trinally
paid the fine in one cent pieces, and
Duryea took the money homo in . wheel
barrow.
RoLLER-sKArINa is . thing OF the ever.
lasting past; progressive euchrs has de-
parted into the dim vista of crazes that,
90 10 speak, have lost their grip, and thers
is nothing as yet t, take their places. How
would the old-fashioned spelling match
answefi
TEE only girl on record as having elore ed
with circus clown is Miss Della Grubbs
of Cincinnati, says the Philadelphia, Neus
Instead of painting her own, she will have
to paint her husbands face, and may ex
pect TO have . perfect treasure in him
when II comes to amusing the baby.
CLARA BELLE, the fashion writer criti
cises the clothes Of Bartholdi's grea,
statue, and says that he must have drap
ed her skirts at the time of the aesthetic
crase when clinging medieval garment,
were in vogue; but We have now come into
an era Of bustles, and she really won't do ;
WASHINGTON has become the resort Of
the newly welded. Recently at a single