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

Mrs. GARrIELDs yearly income is placed
at fully $4,000.
THERE are now in this country 800 women
employed as editors.
In New Haven, Conn, the newsboys must
now take out licenses.
THERE is one officer to every five men in
the United States navy.
ENGLAND pays more for liquorsthan for
bread, butter and cheese.
bN Austrian Princess is now serving as
waitress in Vienna cafe.
PREsIDENr McCosB, of Princeton is
nearly eighty-six years old
IT is suggested that bloodhounds be turn.
ed out to track the Apaches.
THIS years wheat crop is the heaviest
ever harvested in California.
The outlook for home rule in the COM
ing elections appears to be hopeful.
LIE GRAND LAREw, the owner Of cattle
ranch in Kansas, has mustache five feet
long.
A LOCK is on exhibit on at the French
Crystal palace which has 3,647,3S5 combi-
nations,
POISONOUS chemicals are used to ''tone
up' molasses. The prisoners ought to be
strung up.
AN East Jordan, Mich, man is accused
OF hanging out sign reading: "Knew
Syder for saile."
The wife Of Senator Hearst spends every
year in charities between twenty and thirty
thousand dollars.
The streets of Cory, Pa, are now lighted
by natural gas, supplied from point forty
one miles distant.
Two lads, aged nine and ten years re-
spectively, have been arrested in Boston
for HOUSEKEEPING
IT is estimated that the preliminary cleo
tiOns in Great Britain cost each candidate
on an average $4,000.
No FEWER than 100000 shade trees now
make Washington glorious in fresh green
and fragrant blossoms.
MENTHoL is now used as a local anaesthet-
&c instead Of cocaine. Its effects last from
fifteen to fifty minutes.
A PORT HURON young woman was hit in
the eye with quid of tobacco and is now
liable to loose the sight Of the optic.
By a new German process finely divided
tin is precipitated upon textile fabrics,
giving flexible and brilliant coating.
THE bells throughout Bavaria are to be
rung every day for six weeks, from noon
to O'Clock, in mourning for the King.
A STURGEON eight feet long and weighing
pS7pounds was caught in the river near
North Cromwell, Conn, the other day.
A SWARM Of bees settled on squirrel
house in the top of tree at Macomb, Ill.,,
drove out the squirrels and took posses
sion.
The Peter Cooper monument fund in
New York City still lacks 5000 Of being
completed. 1t does not pay to die in New
York.
SPRUCE gum gathering supports man
In Bennington, Vt. During the winter he
gathered 900 pounds, and sold it at 81 q
pound.
CURIOUS what change a little difference
Of latitude does make. In Nova Scotia
the Confederates are opposed to the Seces-
siOnists.
The work Of raising money to help Glad
stone in his campaign for home rule in Ire
land is rapidly going forward in this
country.
A WASHINGTON correspondent says that
caller at the White House the other day,
sent in his card to the President, inscribed,
'jest mint"
THE Pope has approved the decree of the
council Of the church at Quebec warning
Catholics against joining the Knights Of
Labor or any other secret society
A HORSE belonging to q Groton Conn. J
man nearly starved t. death before q
close examination of his tongue revealed q
needle two and one-quarter inches in length
in it,
A CONVICT who had his hand crushed in
shoemaking machine has been awarded
$500 damages by the Brooklyn Supreme
Courtagainst the contractors who used his
labors
ANinvention by Chicago man is said
to Increase the yield Of butter from milk to
twelve pounds per hundred-weight Of
yield.
A LITTLE boy in Bethlehem, Pa, fell out
Of bed and ran needle in his back. It wa.
not known to be there until thread wa.
noticed. and on pulling it out,came No.
needle.
A PEARL that is declared the largest il
Europe was sold in London lately for g.,
$780, 1t was two inches long and fou
inches in circumference and weighed thre,
ounces.
THE question has come before the boart
of education of jackson, Mich, whethe
Q school teacher has a right to send pupi
home or put him in quarantine for eatinl
raw onions.
A MILTON IN. W man has invented
wheelbarrow that can be used for saw
buck, wood-blOck, a step-ladder and
tool rack, besides doing double duty as
wheelbarrow.
THE first lady surgeon who has been ad
mitted licentiate in Irelandis Mrs. Mar
Emily Dawson, who has received the priv
ilege after four days examination at tn
College of Surgeons.
II is said that the Royal Brass Band CON
prises the greater portion of the standin
army of the Sandwich Islands. From thi
lit may be inferred that very harmoniou
feeling pervades the army.
The warden of the Wisconsin peniter
tiary will treat the convicts under his car
to gorgeous display of fireworks on tn
Fourth of July. Probably his idea is t
thus remind them of the wrath to come.