The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-02-18
, CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
CosoREss costs the people 1000 =
day.
THERE are two hundred women
preachers in the United States.
THE American saddle is being used
by the British amounted infantry.
IT il said that one-tenth Of the arabic
and of Vermont is still left uncultivat'
Cd
In France there is government tax
Of two per cent. levied on all bets on
races.
VANDERxILr's body is still seduously
guarded In stately tomb on Staten
Island.
The sun did not shine in London until
fourteen days of the new year had
passed.
IT costs about 5000 = minute to keep
the United States Government In rum
ming order.
QUEEN VICTORIA has presented rich
ly caparisoned Indian elephant to the
emperor OF MOROCCO.
NINETY thousand COWS, It is calculat-
ed, have to be MIXED twice day to
supply London alone.
The Illinois Legislature is consider
ing q bill to punish imposters who &C
about posing as Christs.
MISS MARY GARRETT, Of Baltimore,
has a bath in her home lined with Mex
ican onyx that cost $1,000.
GOVERNOR PArTIsoN, Of Pennsyl-
vania, has over three thousand appli-
cants for thirty-fve Offices
A FEW days ago John Bates picked
from one tree On his place in De Soto
County, Fla, S,437 oranges
The Massachusetts Legislature has
been petitioned to buy q sword Of
George Washington for $4,000.
MRS. RIDER HAGaARD, like Mrs.
Stanley, complains that American wo-
men keep their houses too warm.
The tailors OF New York propose to
sell the bills which they hold against
delinquent customers at public auction.
A POLICEMAN named Butter, after q
service Of thirty-ive years has just
resigned from the New York police
force.
The development of smokeless coal
mines in Tonquin shows much larger
deposits than were at first believed to
be possible. ..
The first German steamer intended
%La Uso<orso hoc
been shipped from Hamburg for the
east coast of Africa. ~ aff
A PROPOSITION is before the Michigan
Legislature SO to amend the State Con.
stitution as to permit the purchase Of
railroads by the State.
A NEGRO day-laborer Of Philadelphia
has for some time been making earnest
efforts to become jew, but no syna'
gogue will admit him.
JUDGE PETER, who succeeds ingalls,
in the Senate from Kansas, is Mason
a Knight of Labor and member Of
the Episcopal Church.
ONE of the employees of the postal tel
egraph office in st. Petersburg has in
vented a watch that will run forty-five
days at single winding.
The grounding did not return to hi.
hole any too soon for an escape from
being frost bitten. AS a weather prophet
his shadow grows no less.
The chief curiosity in the Office o.
the Secretary of the State of Soutl
Carolina is the original copy of thu
ordinance of secession of the State.
EMPEROR WILLIAM ii continues Il
shake up the Prussian officers corps
He has just retired three more Major
Generals and one Lieutenant-General.
AN English company is working sill
yer mine in Bolivia which yields NOR,
than 800 ounces to the ton, while speci
mems of almost pure silver are met with
A FARM at Pithole, which was bough
some years ago during the oil excite
ment by Chicago spectators for 81, 500,
600, was sold recently at tax sale fo
$780,
PITCHER Stage, who delivers lay ser
mons and curved balls with equal fer
vor, has taken charge of the physica
department of the University of Chi
cago.
A MEMORIAL to Lieutenant De Long
who persisted in the Jeanette expedi
ton, will probably be erected in tn,
chapel of the Naval academy at An
hapolis.
The results of the recent expedition
to Greenland prove that north of IS de
grees the land is covered with shee
of ice 5000 to 5000 feet thick over tn,
valleys.
A HUGE bronze statue of VIM. Penn
is to surmount the new city building i,
Philadelphia. In height the figure vii
exceed that of Liberty on the Capito
at Washington.
SENATOR CARLISLE is now fifty-fv,
years old. He is of medium height ant
rather spare in figure. His movement.
are easy and graceful, and his genia
manner quickly puts his visitors at thei
ease.
The latest imported slang word il
"spoof." To spool man is to hold hi
cherished opinions up to ridicule. TIL,
new word comes just as the stock of oil,
epithets was found to be painfully in
adequate.
The last official act of the late Secre
tary Window was the recommendation
to the President, which was acted upon
that James H. Young, q young coloret
man, be appointed revenue collector a
Wilmington, N. c.
DURING the forty-nine years of hi