The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-09-24
CURRENT COMMENT.

Numerous foot ball teams are already
going into training and BARRIERS are laying
away their scissors in tissue paper and
sachets-Chicago News.
Out in Missouri there is a A-year-old
woman who is the mother of twelve chill
dren. And yet some people claim that
the women of this country are not keeping
pace with the swift strides of civilization
Cleveland, O., Leader.
II is reported that Ii Hung Chang may
be decapitated when he returns to China.
And yet the foolish old man is in hurry
to get back.-Cleveland Leader.
So much fuss is made about tie wedding
of the Whitney and Vanderbilt millions
that the poor young people who are the
real objects of the ceremony are almost
lost sight of. Wealth will not buy happi-
ness.--Pittsburg Dispatch.
Sullivan's becoming a tavern-keeper in
Boston simply means that from princi-
pal in the ring he has turned to be kind
of bottle-holder Philadelphia Times.
Perpendicular drinking" is what the
English call the American habit of holding
up a bar while taking ones dram. And
the progress of the habit in England is
spelling the social attractions of the old
English dram shop, where people no longer
sit and drink and drink again." but drink
once and COST. Paul Pioneer Press.
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Weyler must have fallen under the table.
He hasn't issued proclamation in some
time.-Chicago Evening Post.
There are two good bits of advice that
might be thrown out at this time-don't
make prophecies and don't bet.-Indian-
apolis News.
Railroad men who stick up for the good
old-fashioned grade crossing point with
pride to the fact that although the trolley
strikes more people the locomotive dis
patches them more swiftly. Chicago
News
Chilli is going to raise its tariff OF
wheelbarrows and hams. 1t Is no doub
getting ready to make Its own wheelbar
rows and have its own "hams" run them
st. Paul Globe.
No wonder the Spanish soldiers aren'
5000 of them are in hospitals, victims O.
wounds and fevers.-New York Mail ant
Express.
1t can be stated without fear Of success
full contradiction that there is now
great deal of gold plate on Bourke Cock
rams silver tongue.-New Orleans States
The march of discovery srll goes on
Here's an exchange informing US tina
youths grow rapidly from their four
teenth to their eighteenth year."-Pitts
burg Leader.
The Mayor of New York continues t
refuse to kiss the bride on occasions wher
he officiates at weddings. Some day h
will be looking back upon misspent lif
and lost opportunities.-Bosto Herald.
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Ii Hung Chang will stay only one da
here, but he intends to spend whole
week in Washington. The name caugh
him, and he probably thinks 1t is the cen
ire Of the laundry interests.-New Yor
Commercial Advertiser.
Hetty Green was right at the front 1
the Republican convention at st. Louis
but she appears to have dropped benin
since Hanna began to pass the hat-Kan
sas City World.
If Ii Hung Chang can get out of Wash
ington without some Of the society girl
proposing to him he can consider himsel
in luck.-St. Paul Dispatch.
The prominent politicians who are sill
ting on the fence are not comfortable
They are beginning to realize that tn
fence has a decided barbed wire feeling
New Orleans States.
, Andree's friends are getting shaky an
expect the balloonist to get cold dec
up around the North pole.-St Paul GLOBE
Sir John Millias' pall-bearers included
former Prime Minister, the Commander
in-Chief of the army, and the most EN-
nent representatives of the learned pre-
fessions in England 1t was a filth
tribute to the profession Sir John adorned
Boston Herald.
One Of the icemans faults is small lump
warm, and big Jumps on cold days, an
what's more he lays the fault at othe
peoples doors.-Philadelphia Times.
The increase Of youthful criminals
this country would seem to indicate this