The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1885-07-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
ms. RAxpoLpu CzuacunL wears . star
In her hang.
SAxKEY has bought himself . hone In
Massachusetts,. .e.ssz.
AFRICANS have $126, ooo. 900 invested In
Mexican railways.
MICHIGAN has, BY actual count, eyse 800
mall inland lakes.
TIE next orange crop In Florida d OK.
psctsd to be worth q 100000.
TEE death rate from cholera in Spain Il
Using to alarming proportions
Arzurich the police do mot allow the
Salvation Army to parade the streets.
NRs. CHARLOTTE WoHLABER, . Brook.
Ign woman, 10 cutting teeth ct the age Of
eighty-two.
NINETEEN years ago Lord Salisbury was
an editorial writer on . London daily
newspaper.
TwENTY-NINE murdsrers from the Indian
Territory are confined in the United States
jail at Fort Smith.
TIE young volcano discovered about one
year ago ten miles south Of Santa Maria,
Cal, 10 still burning. 49,
MORE than forty years ago tho manufac.
thre Of molasses from melons was carried
On In Central Illinois. -
By its conservative policy, the Cabinet
Il Lord Salisbury is rapidly winning the
confidence Of the people. ~
TIE Egyptian Treasury contains only
1udicient money to pay the expenses Of the
Government until September.
THERE 10 q plague Of rats at the Invent.
brS' Exhibition In London. What q tas
natter with the rat-trap inventors!
TIE cherries from one estate in Kent,
England, brought &, 700 ($S,500) this seq.
ION. In spite Of great damage by frost.
ACCORDING to the statistics In Philadsl-
ehis every third house in that city contains
Ind maintains nuisance prejudicial to
bsAlth.
MIDDLETON, n. H., has no doctor, lawyer,
aor clergyman. The last physician lived
here in 1855, and the last clergyman
moved away two years ago.
An Iowasgirl has an album in which she
keeps picture Of all the young mon who
tave dirted with her without coming to the
point She calls 1t her rogue's gallery.
Fs. CORVALLIS, . youthful descend.
UT Of the British General of the Rsvolu.
Ion, has recently, through the death Of an
amt, come into an estate Of $50, 900 year.
JOEL CHAEDLER HARRIS, the author Of
- "Uncle Remus" papers, ID described as
Gmodest. retiring man, very much like
aathanisl Hawthorne, though his hair il
tclined to rcd. y..--
TIE number Of children In San Francisco
Under age, according to tho last census,
Inst completed, 10 81, rs, Of which 33,s23 are
girls. Sixteen thousand Of this number
10 not attend school.
AN acute observer says that trying Ia do
iusiness without advertising IL like wink.
Nc at . pretty gin through pair Of green
toggles. You may. know what you are do
nc. but nobody else does.
CurLsD spse|s y only srreecidentsJ
BEAUTIFULLY contoetsd. This form IL highly
Srised BY cabinet-makers and $1,000 has
teen given for single tree.
Ar Kaskaskia, the oldest town in Illinois,
there Il hanging in rickety old church a
bell which has hung there for ono hundred
and forty years. It was sent from France,
and 10 said to bs older than the Philadel.
Shis Liberty Bell.
TEE first two sentences Of the preface "a
esnsral Grants forthcoming book are q
follows: "Aan, proposes and God dis.
poses. There are but few important events
b the Affairs Of men brought about BY
)heir own choice"
THs bridge over the SUR at Water.
ford, ireland, WAS built by Lemuel Cox, q
native Of Boston, Mass, who built several
other notable bridges In that country. II
b Of American oak.
BAKIRs ars said 70 have always expsr-
fence great difiesity in observing tho pro-
gress ef baking. This has been sur.
mounted recently IN London by lighting
ovens with electricity and providing them
with plate glass doors.
PLASTER mixed with newly .slacked nme
In the proportioa Of six parts of plaster Ia
one Of lime, cad afterward treated TO Q 80.
tuition Of sulphate Of elmo or iron, Il rem.
dered very hard. Itmakes beautiful saoasv
eooring, like polished oak.
J. L. BurfoLfa, Of Niddleburg, w., at Z
recent sheep-shearing at that place, carried
Oh the heoor Il producing the heavies
fleece. A three.ysar.old ram yielded ,
deece weighing % pounds and 10 ounces
with growth Of 81 days.
Com abraAed Or s7aeed BY natural US,
10 redssmahls at the q. 9. Treasury. 1t il
good for its taco value 90 long Is It can b,
recognised. Punching or cutting, ever
slight, destroys IL feee value. There ar,
Treasury rules on the subject.
An author, whose book has just been pub
iished In England, states that the subjec
Of kissing ID mentioned 10 fewer than fifty
>mes in the Bible, and ssts himself to prov,
that kissing, to b soiptlral, must be be.
tween membsrs Of tAs same EEK.
A RECENT report Of The French Ministe
q Public Instruetiea shows that in Januar,
last 9s,229 schools had . school saving
hank, and that 4se,sA schoolboys were de
posisors in these banks, and possessed ther,
the sum total Of II, e, 0l6 francs.
ANT ofncial attempt to supprsss fire
Warks On the Fourth must end in failure
They mean liberty and . good tine. Taxi
these from the small boy and his rsyersuc