The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-23
TIMES.
A. J. NEFF, Publisher.
CURRENT TOPICS.

An attempt Is making TO form an
aluminium trust. 4a
The death of Lady Holland, itis'said,s
closes the very last salon in London.
THE Edison Doll company expect to
make million dolls for the holiday
season.
A LANDSCAPE by Rosa Bonheur, paint.
ed in 1s47, was sold recently in London
for $12,50O. 5...
NEARLY 100000 worth Of diamonds
were taken from the Kimberley mine
in August.
DIAMOND rings for dogs tails are the
latest within of New York women dog
worshipers.
A FLORIDA Judge eats his lunch on the
bench while the lawyers are making
their pleas.
DocToRs who recommend auinine say
bhat onions are the next best thing to
knock chill.
A LoGDE Of Odd-fellows to work in the
Italian language has been instituted in
San Francisco.
GIANTEss ELIZABETH LIscA, now in
Paris, is six feet six. She halls from
the Cars country.
The King of Bavaria receives an in
come of 81, ZOO, 900 a year from the profits
of the Hofbraeuhaus brewery.
THE all America delegates are to have
another month of travel in January.
Then they will go through the South.
Mrs. MAcKAY wears at times a haws
less sapphire nearly an inch'in diam
eter, which is said to have cost $1S5, 900.
IA SCHOOLGIRL frolic was given in
honor of Mrs. Cleveland by her college
mates during her recent trip to Buffalo
sTHE revolts against the 1.-THE gather
ing Of the Church of England, ate most
frequent and fierce Ia Wales at present.
HENRY BRADLEY, the head porter Of
the Lafayette Hotel, Philadelphia, is
said to have made $1OO, 900 out of his POI
sition.
A CHICAGO husbaAdg and wife both
filed petitions for DIVORCE, ON the same
day, each without the knowledge of the
other.
APRoPos of the season, it is we'll to
know that . solution Of salt and vinegar
will clean the blackened mica Of the
stove.
OwIN9 to a scarcity of labor it is re-
ported large portion of the cotton crop
in Southwest Georgia will likely 60 I'M
harvested.
PEAT fiber is coming into considerable
Tin the manufacture of brown paper,
being about fifty per cent. cheaper than
weed pulp. ~
The town councilo Morgantown,. Pa,
has passed an ordinance prohibiting citi-
zens from putting single roofs on their
residences.
CnAzED by religious enthusiasm, Miss
Harriet Bartlett, Of Pittston, Pa, climb
ed the tallest trees in her efforts to get
nearer Heaven.
Ex-QUEEN NATALIE, of Servia, intends
70 build mansion in Belgrade and es-
tablish a court independent of the one
already existing. y
"A FAMILY has arrived at Weatherly,
Pa, after driving all the way from Paw
Paw, III. The journey was made in
thirty-eight days.
The new dynamite cruiser, Vesuvius,
can pour about 1900 pounds of the terri
rible explosive per minute into an ad-
versary mile off.
TIE Empress of Japan has just taken
possession of her new palace, which has
cost 100000. She proposes to visit
America next spring. M
SOLDIERS reunions have been more
numerous this year than ever before,
and the attendance has been larger in
proportion to number living.
THERE is at least one case on record
where the punishment fitted the crime.
A young man has been sent to Sing
Sing for stealing sheet music.
MAYOR GRANT, of New York, says he
will cut down the electric wires if the
companies do not adopt better safe
guards against deadly accidents.
Miss PROCTOR, of Lima, o., has pat.
ented a process by which. it IS claimed,
10000 cubic feet of Illuminating gas can
be extracted from one barrel of Lima oil,
"A MAN who is in the Birmingham
(Ala.) Jail, charged with murder, weigh.
ed only eighty pounds two months ago
His weight is now one hundred and
sixty.
IRELAND in 1879 had 1895, 625 inhab
itants, and the population just made ur
for 1889 is but 4, III, 534 A decrease like
this is true of no other civilized country
in the world.
THE famous horse Axtell, which has
just changed hands at 100000, wa,
named for the superintendent of public
schools at Independence, Ia, near which
place the horse was bred.
A WOMAN living near the line of JET
ferson and Walker Counties, Ca, i.
seven feet two inches high, twenty-h
years old, weighs 100 pounds, and car
whip any man in the neighborhood.
Mrs. HENRIETTA SMELL, Of Chicago
is to erect in Union Park, in that city
q fine memorial to her husband, thu
millionaire whose death is supposed Il
have been the work of Burglar Tascott'l
pistol.
ONE of the visitors to the Eiffel tower
has expressed his sense of its height
VI would throw myself down from tn,
top" he writes, but that am afraid O
dying from hunger before l reach thu
bottom"
A sUBTERRANEAN river has just beer
discovered in the department of Lot
France. The discoverers worked theil
way down stream for a couple of mile
through a succession of wonderful grot