The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-09-25
CURRENT TOPICS.

AN altar Of golden-rod was used in a
Springfield (Mass.) wedding.
The Empress of Japan has again de-
cided to come to this country.
PRINCE ALBEIT VIcToR is going to
India to investigate the tigers.
FISH have been caught in the Gulf
Of California at depth of 1,40O feet.
THE Chickasaw Nation is about to
pass law DISTINGUISHING white voters.
EDISON smokes great deal; the moro
work he does, the more cigars he con-
1umes.
A COW that always gives two calves at
birth is owned by Zeba Wog, Of Ken
nett, Pa.
FAoETIoUs Englishmcn call the Amer
lean minister's house in London Lin
coins Inn.
BUFFALO, OAK, has three-year old
boy who weighs eighty pounds and is
four feet high
/. b. BARNHART, farmer OF Pettis
County, Mo-, has lost his left hand from
the bite of rat.
The Indians predict an early and very
severe winter in consequence Of the pine
nut crop being SO heavy.
SAM DICKEY, the circus clown, died
from blood poisoning produced by the
white powder he used on his face.
A TOMS RIVER, N. j., farmer has dug
two bushels of potatoes from the seed
Of single tuber planted last June.
JoHNsTowN's new directory shows that
thirty-six groceries and fifty-one saloons
have been established since the flood.
"PUT two nickels in the slot and gets
bottle of whisky" is the sign on slot
machine which has appeared in Kansas
City.
M. BARBEKIENNE, the famous bronze
founder, Of Paris, exhibits at the Paris
exposition clock which is valued at
$4,000.
HENRY M. FLAGLER, the Standard
Oil millionaire, is going to lay out an
extensive winter baseball ground in
Florida. ..
COLORED CADET FLIPPER, who acquir-
ed considerable notoriety at West Point
some years ago, is now an officer in the
Mexican army. p.
Two fiocks of sparrows at Moundsville,
w. Va, engaged in pitched battle and
when they had finished eight birds lay
dead upon the ground.
THE Japanese government has coined
$4,000 worth of nickel five cent pieces.
The people like them much and the
coinage will be continued.
AS IRON expands with the heat, the
Eitfel tower is said to be five inches
taller when the temperature is high than
1t is IL: the cool of the day.
PAsrEUR has been made doctor Of
laws by the University of Edinburgh, in
view Of the Importance of his researches
on the subject Of hydrophobia.
Portions of Java are being deserted
owing to the tiger plague. The total
population is about 100000 and in 1887
sixty-one were killed by tigers.
Some Of the alleged Johnstown suffer-
ers are still wandering about in Mich
igan, asking aims and showing the
Johnstown mud on their clothes.
WHETHER electricity will or will not
kill criminals may be an open question;
but there seems to be no reasonable
doubt that it will kill anybody else.
A WEST VIRGINIAN trained a tiny
stream of water to fall drop by drop on
a rock, and in five years it has worn a
hole seven inches deep in solid stone.
DIR. GEORGE NAsEz, chief botanist Of
the National Department of Agriculture,
10, IF 70 In
plants for the Washington herbarium.
AMHERST COLLEGE has received an
other check for $1,000 from John H.
Southwark, of Springfield, Mass. This
and his previous 81, 900 were unsolicited.
THE dynamite explosion at Antwerp,
with it's fearful loss of life, occurred by
the constituted authorities allowing
work to continue in condemned build
ing.
SECRETARY TRACY will probably
recommend to Congress the appropri-
alton of $500, 900 for the purpose of put
ting ship-building plants at the navy
yards.
UNDER the laws of Bulgaria if a pat
ent medicine is warranted to cure GER
tain disease and fails to do it the manu-
facturer can be prosecuted and sent to
prison.
GENERAL MALONE, of Virginia, is
the son of tavern-keeper. He walked
barefooted to Richmond to secure the
Governors aid to enter the Virginia
Military Institute.
EMILY PAXTON, of Pike County, Mis-.
souri,, has permission from the Governor
Of that State to wear a mans dress ''any-
where in Missouri, outside of cities Of
10000 inhabitants"
A BULL snake seventeen feet long and
fourteen inches in diameter has been
seen near Gridley, Col. 1t has brighten.
ed several teams of horses that saw
it summing itself along the main high.
way.
A DRESDEN bank has contracted to
furnish the Mexican Government with
the funds necessary to construct rail
road across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
The Krupps are to supply the iron and
steel for the road.
MENNoNrTEs Of Lancaster County
Pa, selected minister the other day
by drawing lots. Twenty-one Bibles,
one Of which contained slip Of paper
were placed on table. and the candi'
dates walked around and each took q
book. The one drawing the slip was
ordained.
CAPTAIN L. D. SHEPPARD. commander
OF the revenue cutter Rush, the great