The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-28
CURRENT TOPICS.

THE population Of Minneapolis is now
over l4zsR.
BASCRoDg has 1000 rose bushes in his
Newport Gorden.
ONIONS from Egypt are being sold in the
streets II Boston.
The poarth Of July will not come on Sun
day again until 1897.
ALBANY, n. Y, is the Oldest town in the
old thirteen colonies.
THHRB is one horse to every six inhabi-
tants in this country.
THE new Prohibition law is closing up the
big hotels in Rhode Island.
THOMAS DUANE, of Brighton, Mich,
snapped rib by sneezing too robustly.
A DEPoAT Of genuine meerschaum has
been fOand On the beach near Yaquina,
Oregon
THE vein of iron ore discovered at Ne
gaunee. Mich, turns out to be $50 feet in
thickness.
CHM.M1A seems to have found the condi-
tions favorable for widespread harvest of
death IN holy.
LAST year 270ooOOOO stamped envelops
were sold By the Government. They were
worth sa7aAsoa.
A PMW. GILL girl won chewing-gum
confess by wagging her jaws six thousand
times in sixty minutes.
A fouSs man at Nevada City undertook
to eat tvO dozen eggs at one sitting, but
gave up otter eating twenty-One.
The opinion in Washington appears to
be that Congress will hardly reach an ad-
journnent before the 1st Of August.
KAr1s Coon. eleven years old, carries a
ladder end lights street lamps in Lancaster
She says she does it to help her pop"
T1IB late mad King of Bavaria made his
valet war black mask for a year, as
punishneI1 for some imaginary offense.
A BABs Yves seriously poisoned at Santa
Barbara, Cal, by sucking green veil that
was used fer tho purpose of screening the
cradle.
Our OF SO convicts on Blackwell's Island,
only tiree-Herr Most, Braunschweig and
Schenck, the Administrations to 20 to
church.
FoRrY OF fifty farmers in the vicinity OF
Centralia, ILL.,, discouraged by the failure
of their crops, will sell out and go in IA
body to Oregon.
Mrs. 8. l.. BALDWIN, of East Boston, a
returned missionary from China, has petit
toned Congress to allow her to import a
Chinese servant.
TIE young Emperor of China is reported
I'll th MI on1 thu yhnla m nj m
will soon be beating gongs to brighten
away the dragon.
THERE were six births in the steerage Of
the steamer Hammonia, which arrived at
New York the other day, during her voy-
age from Bremen.
Mr.. WnhOTr, an English expert, says
that six and half tons of diamonds have
been dug mp in South Africa, and these cut
are valued at $2OO,0OO,OO.
The Aatness Of Denmark is something re-
markable, q geographical survey hav-
ing shown that the loftiest mountain of the
country is only 535 feet high.
RECENT investigations by DR.. James
Cameron and Prof. Barlow show that cows
have scarlatina, and communicate the dis
ease to those who drink their milk.
A CLAM-OPENER in Westchester, Pa. res
taurant, found alive mouse among his
CLANS the other morning, one clam holding
it securely by foot and another by the
tail.
THERB were 246 earthquakes recorded
last year. Only six are put down for the
United States. The fact is, we are about
out Of earthquakes, but we have plenty of
cyclones.
A BRONZE pot with about $1,000 English
silver coins in it has been found in digging
for the foundation Of building in Aber-
deem, Scotland. The coins are of the reign
of Edward /.
APACHE women are so fiendishly barbar.
Gus as to compel little children to share in
the mutilation and torture of prisoners, in
order to cultivate in them taste for bloody
acts Of cruelty.
A STONE pillow which weighs upward Of
200 pounds, and bearing resemblance to
the sort Of agricultural implements used
in ancient Egypt, was found in quarry al
Milford, N. j., . few days ago.
THE Royal Academy of Belgium offers /;
prize of $500 for the ablest paper on treat
ment of nervous diseases, especially with
view for remedy for epilepsy. Here il
a chance for fame and money.
j. c. BANKS, Of Olney, ILL.,, caught lane
turtle in 1865 and cut his initials on thu
shell. Recently he found the same turtle
in his garden, within short distance O
the place where he saw ittwenty -one year,
ago.
MMB. GOvuLI, aged ia years, and for
merly maid of honor at the Court of EN-
peror Paul l., was buried recently in thu
cemetery Of Smolensk, Russia. Behint
the hearse with firm step walked thu
youngT sister of the deceased, aged Ii
years
AN English traveller at hotel il
Halifax has o curiosity in the shape of ;
South American bug, with small gol'
band around it, to which it is attached b,
a chain to pin. He says he has carried
the bug for six months and it is still alive
and living on rotten wood.
The eolored- shirt mania is becoming
acute and is rapidly getting beyond con
troll in New York. The proudest man il
town to-day is the one who parades Broad
way with iberally-exposeds shirt bosom
formed of background of seagreen
splashed with red roses and occasional al
rows of light shade of pink, with a higl
white collar and purple tie.
BETSY MooDY, Of Cape Elizabeth, Ne.
known as a woman ''who never fretted,
died recently, aged l05 The moral at
tached to this incident is one that could b.
read at any distance by a blind man.