The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-08-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

A 165-year-old clock is owned by resi- |
dent Of Muskegon.
CRAB meat is in the New York market |
at forty cents per pound.
IT costs $500, 0O0, 600 year to maintain
the standing armies of Europe.
The farmers of the United States have
100000 acres of growing corn.
"CARp," the famous Washington cores
pendent, takes a trip to Europe.
The piles Of the old London Bridge put
down in the year 900, are still sound.
A SOLITAIRE pearl, set in blue enamel. is
the very latest for an engagement ring.
The fool-killer has evidently sub-let a
good deal of his summer work to the Mag
ara rapids.
A TEXAS paper answers correspondent
that the best way to serve good dinner is
to eat it.
WESTERN lumbermen are making extern
sive purchases Of pine lands in Louisiana
at $l.25 an acre.
PRINCE ALBERT VICToR, Of Wales, recent
ly made his debut as 6y-fsherman. He
caught one trout.
DAVID DAVIS was not among the million
aires, though reputed to be SO rich. His
fortune foots up $4,000.
THE movement to have the Geographic
wires in the large cities placed under
ground, progresses slowly.
IT is shown from reliable data that of
200 young ladies who have graduated from
Vasser only 2UO are married.
The New Zealand volcanic eruption
may give us red sunsets such as followed
tie volcanic disturbances In Java two years
ago.
The sea-selpent seems to have been fool
ing around the coast of Mexico this season.
He was caught the other day near Vera
Cruz.
Mrs. HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE gives an
intimate friend the positive assurance that
she will never do any further work in liter
AZURE.
Mus. MARTHA WRIGnr, of Addison, VT,
is over 100 years Of age, and has lived
in her present residence over ninety-nine
years.
IT is reported in New York that OK Alder
man Jaehne, now in Sing Sing, is to be
granted new trial by the State Supreme
Court.
THE return Of the registrar general shows
that in London 2,6l7 births, and ,2s2aa
deaths, were registered during the last
week Of June.
SEVEN female physicians of Boston, who
had practice worth from $4,000 to $4,000
per annum, have broken down from ner.
vous prostrati0n.
ONLY two centuries ago the white races
were estimated to be one-tenth of the
worlds population. Nowit is claimed they
are fully one-third.
A PARTY of United States Geological sur
veyors will explore Crater Lake in National
Park, where they have to be lowered 1000
feet to reach water.
steal shicycis % fkshioned that the rider
can kick out melodies waltsesN Ind reels o.
he travels along the road.
A Mr.. ROMAN, Of Asbury Park, sprinkles
his lawn, according to the Journal, with
milk. This is an insult to milkmen for
which water can never atone.
Corn to the value Of 5000 or 5000 was
found buried In cigar boxes under O hot
house ON the premises of Squire Aaron
White, Of Thompson, Conn.,, recently.
PrRM at Bath, Me-, are about to build
what will he the largest schooner afoat.
She is to be 2s4 feet in length, and about
forty-six feet beam, to register I, 600 tons
and have five masts.
A RAILROAD has been run right through
the site Of the Burr-Hamilton duel at Wee
hauken, and the landmarks SO thoroughly
obliterated that the oldest inhabitants no
longer agree as to location.
A YOUNG man in Plymouth, Mass, of.
fered TO escort Salvation Army lass home
the other evening, and was all broken up
when she replied, II have come to Plym-
outh to catch souls, not beaus."
A UTICA genius has invented farm har.
ness that weighs less than fifteen pounds,
and does away with whifiietrees, traces
and many of tho cumbersome straps and
buckles. Moreover, it is cheap
Irpersons will persist in being poisoned
by picnic ice-cream 1t Is about time that
NJ. Pasteur, or some other scientist, dis.
sewers q system Of innoculation to coun
teract the baneful effects Of the frozen
cream.
HARRY l. FALK, swimming In the Cones
tOgs river, near Lancaster, Pa, saw d
black bass within arms length Of him. He
grabbed for 1t, was lucky enough to catch
his fingers In the gills, and swan ashore
with fine fish.
MRS. LOUIS LYONS, a Jewish lady of st
Louis, Is the possessor Of q very Quain,
bracelet OF East Indian comedians, which
has been in her family for near y 800 years
She also owns silver pin, with date l5i'
inscribed upon it.
RALEIGH, the Capital of North Carolina
is now prohibition town; and what thu
Governor Of North Carolina said to tn,
Governor of South Carolina has a sad sig
nifcance at present. which 1t lacked wher
first it was spoken.
CINCINNATI has woman who claims :,
bea personification Of Jesus Christ Sh
laid herself away in tomb for three days
and then came out in white robes. She nov
claims to be immortal. She has some thir
ty believers in her dedication. In the wa,
of sensations Cincinnati is not to be out
done by any Of her envious rival cities.
ACCORDING to statistics, Cincinnati de
serves to be called the "City Of Churches
rather than Brooklyn, as it has one churcl
to every 1,s50 inhabitants, while Brooklyn
has one church to every 1 ,9s5 inhabitants.
A NEW York woman, arrested for shoot