The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-07-31
CURRENT TOPICS.

LOT next year.
A VoLAPUK convention is to be held
at Paris in August.
A HAT made of moss is the latest no
ton in London millinery.
LEGrrIME is arming women and
placing them in the ranks.
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ca, people are en-
gagged in killing mad dogs.
THIRTY years ago our people knew
nothing about cloud bursts.
JOHN CHRISTIE, Marion, Kas., man,
has field of oats six feet tall.
The possessions of Trinity Church, in
New York, foot up $140, 900.
The Eiffel tower is capable of holding,
IN its different landings, 10000 persons.
Missouri is the only State in the
Union in which . price is put on the
head of rat.
ABIa piece of ice in tub of water
will lower the temperature ofyour room
fifteen degrees.
The wealth of Frederick Douglass,
United States Minister to Hayti, is esti-
mated at 100000.
A PETRIFIED tree was recently I'M
earthed at Farmingdale, N. j., sixteen
feet below the surface.
The Worlds Fair in 1899 to celebrate
Columbus lucky find 400 years ago.
promises to be big affair.
A PHILADELPHIA man hanged himself
the other day because he had been
dunned for his house rent.
As result of the Paris exposition
gold is flowing into the Bank of France
at the rate of $4,000, 900 week.
WILKIE COLLINS, the novelist, is rap
idly improving in health. His friends
now consider him out of danger.
CALIFORNIA will have the largest
grape crop this year ever grown, and
Spain reports the same prospects.
CAPTAIN MOUNT is well-ftting name
for the man who is to have charge of the
Washington monument at the National
Capital.
ONE steamer recently took twenty
eight Italians back to Italy, each carry
ing from So, 900 to SIS, 900 earned in this
country.
Ex-KING MILAN, of Servia, will take
up q permanent residence in England
or Scotland under the name of Count
Takoyo.
SWITZERLAND talks real sassy to
Germany, because she knows the rest
OF the world will not let her be interior
ed with.
The negroes of Texas are going to
hold a State convention to discuss
measures for their advancement in vari-
GUS ways.
THERE is a prospect that the projected
railroad from Jaffa to Jerusalem will
soon be built. The steam engine goes
marching on.
The late S. L. M. Barlow, the great
corporation lawyer of New York, had
received during his lifetime several fees
from $25, 900 to $780,
The New York Evening World has a
great charity on foot 1t has raised a
fund to provide doctors for the sick
babies of the poor of New York.
THREE boys of Jackson, Miss, recent
ly saved girl from drowning, and the
grateful father gave them five cents,
telling them to divide it among them.
ACCORDING to the reports of recent
visitors in Oklahoma there are more
people located in the towns than there
are settlers in all the rest of the coun-
try.
PRINCE EUGENE of Sweden, and the
Princess Kalakaui, of the Sandwich
Islands, are said to be engaged. The
Prince lives at Paris, where he studies
painting.
In the Paris circus trained lion is at
present being exhibited who rides on
horseback, jumps through hoops and over
bars, fires off pistols and performs anum'
Der of similar tricks.
SOUTH DAKOTA is starting in with q
spirit of parsimony. Its constitution
provides that the pay of the new Gov
ernor shall be $1,000, and that of the
Supreme Judges $l,s0O.
j. R. GRAHAM, of Wetumpka, Ala.
is in possession Of single-barrel mus
ket, found near Wetumpka, that is 81,
feet four inches in length. The stocl
had almost rotted away.
SAM WAN KEE, the richest Chinamar
in New England, is worth about 800, 900
He is an importer and wholesale dealer
of Chinese staples and has made a for
tune since he came to America.
the fastest regular express trains il
the United States run between Philadel
phia and Washington. They maintain
an average speed of forty-five miles al
hour during the entire distance.
A WELL of so-called electrical waite
has been tapped at Fit. Scott, Kas. II
place both hands in the water at the sam,
time is utterly impossible. The shocl
is so forcible that it throws one asid,
with vigor.
PRINCE MURAT, whom Miss Gwendo
line Caldwell is to marry in the autumn
isawell-preserved man of fifty-five. II,
is rich, and is also connected by mar
rage with some of the best and oldes
families of France.
The clothing worn by the Prince o
Wales is copied so infinitely by his Eng
lish admirers that Mr.. Labouchcre as
serts that if the Prince were to appea
in petticoats the streets of London woul,
soon be filled with men in the same gar
ments.
The largest body of fresh water Oh
the globe is Lake Superior. 1t is 40
miles long, 100 miles wide at its creates
breadth, and has an area of g.. 900 squar
miles. Its mean depth is said to be 90
feet and its greatest about 900 fashoms
Its surface is 635 feet above the sea.