The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
THE connterfeiters cost the Government
10000 year.
GENERAL GRANTS book has been trans
lated into Japanese.
CARDINAL MANNING denies that he is an
opponent of home rule.
REPORTS of accidents from the use of the
toy pistol are coming in.
IT is a rose Of clear green that the Par
isian florists now talk about.
JAY GouLD's income is said to be ten
cents every time the clock ticks.
Corn eight inches high is reported from
the northern counties Of Kansas.
ACCORDING to General Rosecrans the war
of the rebellion cost So, 1876, 92O9Os.
PHOTOGRAPHS of the President and his
bride have appeared in great floods.
THERE are $4,000 volumes in the Boston
State Library, and not one novel among
them.
THE Supreme Court of the United States
has decided that the Indians are foreign
nation.
ARCHBISHOP GIBBONS will be very effemi.
nate in his new cardinal hat. 1t will cost
him $4,000.
MRS. GRANT will soon be paid another
$250,0O0 installment of profits from her
husbands book.
The number OF women lawyers in Chi
cago is placed at fifty, the physicians at
three hundred.
IT is announced that Miss Rose Elizabeth
Cleveland will become editor of literary
publication in Chicago.
A MAN shook hands with Ida Baker at
Decatur, ILL.,, and shook SO hard that he
dislocated her shoulder.
ACCORDING to the Almanach de Gotha for
the present year, the total population of the
empire of Russia is 104, 0Ol, $50.
A MASSACHUSETTS woman has just given
birth to her second installment Of triplets,
both within fourteen months.
THE most violent enemies of King Lud-
wig are obliged to admit that. with all his
faults, he never wrote book.
HENRY GEORGE, after investigation, re-
ports that the miners are the worst paid
workingmen in the United States.
IT is claimed that the actual prayer-book
used by Mary Queen of Scots on the scaffold
was lately sold in London for 9l27
CANADA would be wiser to establish a
three-mile limit for American defaulters
rather than for American fisheries
VERY warm, light blankets and feather
cloth are now made from the waste feath-
ers Of domestic fowl and game birds.
IT is said that the lady physicians of
Philadelphia will soon be numerous enough
to form medical society of their own.
FURTHER honors for DR.. Oliver Wendell
Holmes. The University of Edinburgh has
conferred upon him the degree Of LII. D.
AT John" picnic in Pennsylvania,
every son Of man named John was given
aplate of cake and dish of ice cream, scot
free.
MACKEREL are scarce on the Eastern
coast. Orders for the fish continues to
them.
A MONUMENT is to be erected to the mem,
ory Of General Israel Putnam, Of 1evolu1
siouary fame, In Brcoklyn, Windham CounJ
y, c.
In Guatemala, ushsr ! recent enactment
biscuit pass ~ currency. All enterpris-
ing merchants advertise that they take
the cake.
THE accumulation Of books in the Public
Library at Boston has increased so much
that the city has appropriated s45OOO0 for
q new building.
BUFFALO, N. Y, sent Parnell 5000 re-
Gently, with a message saying; "All Buff
falo throbs for the triumph Of Gladstone
and home rule"
A WOMAN in North Adams Mass, has dug
a cellar this spring for new house without
any help whatever. She quarried the
stone like man.
A BosToN boy who has played truant
eight times has been committed to reform
school, where he will be compelled to at
tend to his duties.
BEN BUTLER is said to bank annually
from seventy-five to a hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars as the net proceeds
of his law practice.
MEASLES have closed all the schools in
Brattleborough, VT, where about half the
pupils and some of the teachers have been
down with the complaint
The biggest log jam ever heard of has
formed at Taylor's Falls, on the st. Croix,
in Minnesota. 1t is two miles long, and
has about 14O,OOO,OOO feet of lumber in it.
GLADSTONE is seventy-six; Oliver Wen
dell Holmes is seventy-six; Barnum, the
genial Snowman, who officially announces
that he is not dead, will be seventy six next
month.
The expelled French Princes are remind.
ed that we have a few desirable acres in
this country not yet occupied, If they are
striving to make themselves generally
useful
SECRETARY MANNING's health is reported
to be rapidly improving, and it is among
the possibilities of the near future that he
may be able to resume his seat in the Treas
ury Department.
A YOUNG man who was admitted to the
Poughkeepsie bar three years ago, has jus,
secured his first case. He has sued hi.
washerwoman, who won't return his liner
because he owes an old bill.
IT is said that Miss E. R. Scidmore, on,
of the most enterprising of Washington
female correspondents, supplied news t
ten Of the best papers in the country dur