The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-09-17
CURRENT COMMENT.

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.
1t 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 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
.no;Ii,rr +ba social attraotionc of tha ola
English dram shop, where people no longer
"sit and drink and drink again." but drink
once and go.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
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-dont
make prophecies and don't bet.-Indian-
apolis News
Railroad men who stick up for the good
d-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.
Chill is going to raise its tariff on
wheelbarrows and hams. 1t is no doubt
getting ready to make it's own wheelbar-
rows and have its own "hams" run them
st. Paul Globe.
No wonder the Spanish soldiers aren't
smashing the Cuban revolution. More than
5000 Of them are in hospitals, victims OF
wounds and fevers.-New York Mail and
Express.
1t can be stated without fear of success.
full contradiction that there is now 9
great deal of gold plate on Bourke Cock
rams silver tongue.-New Orleans States
The march of discovery sr.h goes on
Here's an exchange informing us that
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 If,
and lost OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Herald
Ii Hung Chang will stay only one daJ
here, but he intends to spend a whole
week in Washington. The name caugh
him. and he probably thinks 1t is the cen
tire Of the laundry interests.-New Yorl
Commercial Advertiser.
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the Republican convention at st. Louis
but she appears to have dropped behint
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 sit
ting on the fence are not comfortable
They are beginning to realize that tn,
fence has a decided barbed wire feeling
New Orleans States.
Andrees friends are getting shaky ant
expect the balloonist to get cold dea
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 emf
nent representatives of the learned pro
fessions in England. 1t was a fitting
tribute to the profession Sir John adorned
Boston Herald.
One Of the iceman's faults is small lump
warm. and big Jumps on cold days, ant
what's more he lays the fault at othe
peoples doors.-Philadelphia Times.
The increase Of youthful criminals Il
this country would seem to indicate tina