The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-12-18
CURRENT TOPICS.

GENERAL o. o. HOWARD cries for defensss
for the Pacific coast.
ONE New York lady lays ont SlOO year
on items for pet dog
PRAIRIE fires have devastated $500, 900
acres In Texas this year.
CONNECTICUT has 2O,714 acres Of oystk
ground under cultivation.
NINE pearl peas, in a half-open golden
pod, make new hair-pin.
Snow is lying two and one-half feet deep
in portions of New Hampshire.
In Lehigh County, Pa, turkeys are driven
to market in droves, like cattle.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND saved about s25,-
Goo, from his first years salary.
THE Austrian government has prohibit
Cd the American game Of poker.
SUNSET Cox says it is like being in
Paradise to get back to America.
CHICAGO has toboggan slide 700 feet
long and Brooklyn one 200 feet high.
A MAN in Newfoundland claims to have
caught Goldfish weighing liz pounds.
A KEEN Charlestonian is selling samples
Of earthquake sand for twenty-five cents.
THE Prince of Wales has set the fashion
Of wearing wide and curly brimmed hats
in England.
A SUBSCRIPTION has been started for the
erection of monument over the grave of
Ex-President Arthur.
Parsons, the condemned Chicago Anar-
chist, is employing his time in prison wri-
ting political novel.
SIXTY sacks Of delayed mail were re-
ceived at Deadwood, Oak, by the first stage
after the recent storm.
CERTAIN phrases are peculiar to certain
times of the year. The one that is season
able now is "Shut that door,"
NEWSPAPERS which boastfully call them.
solves family journals" publish the Colin
Campbell nsstiness III all its details.
JOHN PETER RICHARDSON, Governor o,
South Carolina, is the fifth member of his
family who has been elected to that office.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD says that the people
Of New York pay sl0O,oOO annually for re.
cording the surplus words in their mort
cages
The Musquakie Indians, whose reserva
vation of 1900 acres is situated about
three miles West of Tama City, Ia, num-
ber 400.
THERE is blind boy in Brooklyn who
takes dictation on typewriter faster than
any known expert in the possession of good
eyesight
THE receipts of cotton at Norfolk, Va, now
average over 5000 bales per day, and the
season is expected to be the heaviest ever
experienced there.
ALL the prehistoric sepulchres in Mexico
are now doomed to dissertation. A solid
gold idol weighing fifty pounds has been
found in one of them.
The German Reichstag proposes to sub
! stitute for dueling the casting of lots the
loser to 60 quietly of by himself and care
fully commit suicide.
Two thousands yards of flannel have
been given to the aged poor of Derry, N.
H., this fall, according to the bequest Of the
late Sylvanus Brown.
| ALvAN CLARKE, the venerable and fa
nous telescope maker Of Cambridge, is
eighty-two years of age, but hale and
hearty, and works regularly.
KING HUMpERT, of Italy, has sent to
President Cleveland copy of the edition
of Dante recently printed for Victor En-.
manuel, Italian Prince Royal.
A GooD-sIzED hog which jumped over
board in Lake Erie when the steamer was
mile off the shore landed in little over
an hour in pretty good condition.
STALE bread may be made to renew ito
youth and become almost as palatable as
| f,,ocb hroo6 h1-r tn ooraraA
dish to prevent undue loss of moisture.
PLowING and skating are both going on
in North Dakota. The weather this fall
has been SO dry that the frost can not get
into the ground, it being thus left loose for
the plow.
FLIRTING with servant girls has led to
the dismissal of one New Brunswick IN.
J.) police officer, and several other mem
bers Of the force are awaiting trial on the
same charge.
THE lady who did the whirlpool in bar.
rel is not in receipt of many offers from
museum managers. There has been over
production in the niagara navigating in
dustry Of late.
The King Of Holland is an admirer oi
American institutions. He heats his palace
at Amsterdam with an American base
burning coal stove, and he has his eye on a
tin egg-poacher
CALIFORNIA is said to have sent 20,00(
tons of grapes to the East this season
The total crop is estimated at lis, 900 tons
worth on an average $40 a ton, or s. $50,
600 in the aggregate.
EXPERIENCE shows that in every cast
where women have taken an active part il
the Socialistic campaign their speeches
have been more infiammatory than thos,
of the male agitators.
AN iron tower four hundred and forty
feet high, will be erectsd at the top of OK
, ford street, London, to commemorate tn
Queens Jubilee. The contracts have beer
concluded and the work will be begun il
January.
IT is said, on the authority Of an old cir
Gus man, that since the Charleston earth
quake there is no money in the show bus
ness in the South; that the colored peopl
J have taken entirely to csmp-meetings an
religious Tevivals.
A DEFECT has been discovered iu the cor
struction of the Bartholdi statue, says tn
! Chicago Tribune. There is no way b
which long icicle can be removed fror
the end Of her nose except by shooting q
it from the pedestal with gun.
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