The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-06-05
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
TIE New York Herald 10 advocating
knee brooches. MS no
GOVERNOR BIoas, ef Delaware, owns
1000 peach trees.
Cole & WOOD are dealers in wood and
coal in New York city.
I MRS. FRANK LESLIE 10 going to start
fashion paper in London.
b The latest imported novelty Is an artif.
DIAL sausags casing Of paper.
TEE new Governor of Utah was once
messenger boy in Pittsburgh
A SMOKE consumer that really consumes
y reported as one Of the latest inventions.
RUMoRED that James Russell Lowell has
gone to England to wed woman Of rank
SIR JOHN LAWS has just given 1900 900
Tor the promotion of agriculture in Eng.
hnd -. =,
TEE leading city of Oklahoma has grown
at the rate Of Ave thousand per cent
month. 1f iytt "ode 81
NEW YORK hasn't had enough Of glory
Now her good people are talking Of having
. worlds fair in 1892. ~..... ..,..
CHICAGO is wrestling with the annexation
question To annex or not to annex the
suburbs is the question.
POWERFUL interrupted voltaic currents
have recently been used in England to ar
rest the growth of cancer. dEu,. 81
The real reason for the sudden departure
Of Senator Cameron for Europe Is said to
have been the state of his health.
LETTERS in the handwriting Of Piggott,
the notorious forger, are now advertised
for sale in London at two guineas
apiece. -. - v---
MISS KATE SHERMAN, buxom Tonnes
SEQ girl, met her father at the depot the
other day, and broke two Of his ribs at a
single hug. ...... $50 ...-.s A.. %
RECENT experiments with sugar as a
preventive for incrustation Of steam boil
ers are reported as giving very satisfac.
tory results a3f I'D. CIV rod " OIt
THE New York Legislature passed law
providing for the appointment Of women
inspectors for factories where girls and
women are employed. n YiGnj9E ~
A STEEL mat for the Office Of the Hotel
Richelieu, Chicago, is forty zone feet long
and four feet wide, the largest ever made
in tho world in one piece a.l.ls rs ,-. 3
GENERAL BoULANGER seems to have the
ability to interest women Of wealth in him.
0elf and his cause. The Baroness Burdett-
Coutts is his latest conquest
In new born child the pulse beats $50
in minute; ct one year old, no; at two,
d; from seven to fourteen, 81; in the adult
man, y, and in the woman, 80.
VIRGINIA Episcopalians, after full dis.
cussion of the question, refuse to strike out
the word "white' in their list of qualifi-
cations for church membership
A GENTLEMAN has opened free choco.
late school in New York. He instructs
housewives how to make chocolate and CO..
Goa and retain their delicate flavor.
SEA LIONS are SO plentiful on the coast of
California this year as to be nuisance,
especially to fishermen, while their bark
ing aggravates the farmers for two miles
inland. i.
The late Crown Prince Rudolph Of Aus.
tria had an annual income Of ST50,00l ex-
elusive Of free house rent Still he man :
aged to run in debt to the amount Of 81, :
900 nm
PENNsYLvANIANs will vote on two con.
stitutional amendments on the 18th of
June: one to put prohibition into the Con.
stitutlon, and the other 10 take the poll.
tax out
AN astonishing story comes from Cali.
fornia telling how Claus Spreckles has
been paying taxes, owing to defective
maps, on hundreds of acres that he does
not own.
ALABAMA ex-Confederates will give a
mon ster barbecue July complimentary
to the g. A. r., and skrmishers will DO
sent all over the State to bring in the
yankees" ... l......
SOUTHERN Kentucky and Northern Ten.
nessee are being visited by seventeen year
locusts. The prophets read a W on the
wings Of the insect which they interpret
to mean war.
WM T. WALTERS, of Baltimore. is the
awner Of the famous peach-blow vase
which attracted so much attention a few
years ago when sold at the Morgan auc-
ton for $4,000. 1854" Ii
A PEACH GROWING corporation is Con-
necticut idea. Its immense orchards at
Meriden and Berlin will come into bearing
this year, and a yield Of forty thousand
baskets Is expected.
The late Allen Thorndike Rice's estate
b estimated variously at S5,000000 and
$40, 900, 900, and as he has no immediate
relatives not little curiosity exists in re-
gard to its disposition. ...-
A PHILOSOPHER on a Western paper finds
that only one person in every 10000 dies
in bed while asleep, and concludes that IL
il waste Of time to lie awake and worry
over the danger of that
LOUIS CoNIoN, Of Montlucon. France,
has probably the longest beard in the
world. He is scarcely five feet in height,
his beard measures seven feet and he
wears it around his neck
The Interstate Commerce. Commission
has begun an inquiry into the nature and
causes Of railway accidents. The deadly
car stove and the mutlating freight car
coupling are now to undergo official scru.
tiny.
SEVERAL women in Houston, Tex, who
were sitting near where the unfortunate
aeronaut, St Clair, fell, assert that they
heard him mutter to himself in his rapid
descent: Nearer the end, nearer the
end" .rrI. 1t DID, 1853
A NEWARK burglar jumped through q
window, taking sash and all, and fell
twenty five feet to the ground, where q
dog caught and held him. They could moi
find one single cut or scratch from his dar.
ing dash ..ut ,t
1T has been found in experiments a,
Leipsic that skin grated from white tc
colored person becomes gradually black
and that black skin grated upon white
person in time turns whita.