The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-06-26
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS
AMONG the latest trusts Is school. slate
tust
LORD BUrE's mansion, 'Monstuart" cost
0000,0o0
THERE are 5000 women doctors in the
United States.
FANS Of gauze are now seen with frosted
silver handles.
BRET HARTE has made his permanent
home in E gland. u"
IT cost 5000 to cable speech by the
President of Chilli to Europe
Sir JULIAN PAUNCEFoTE is one Of the
best swordsmen in Washington.
CALIFORNIA has 1877, 500 homesteads Of
100 acres each that have not been applied
for.
A RAM recently sheared at Matemora,
Aioh., yielded 8Sk pounds OF wool at one
clip
c. P. HUNTINGTON is to build a 81, 0OO,0 900
residence on a $780, 900 lot In New York
City.
SILVER ice cream plates are made to re.
semble oyster shells In their natural
shape.
WISCONSIN educators are discussing q
proposition to establish baths in the pub 10
schools
Dr.. HOWARD says that water for drink
Ing purposes should never be below fifty
degress
BOILING sterilizes water, and within
s-kr ho- k;11a1 hor f,l1
bacteria.
FLORIDA has $4,000 900 invested in the
orange business The sales this year were
100000
AN engine on the Bound Brook railroad
in New Jersey recently covered mile In
% seconds.
THIRTY-THREE Cinnamon In New York
contributed $298 to the relief Of the Johns.
town sufferers.
PROF. BELL, the telephone man, calcu.
iates that mother in talking to her infant
speaks &c, 900 words day. -
UNDER the laws Of China the adult who
.osss his temper in discussion il sent to
Jail for five days to cool of. 80.
MAYOR STEWART, of Griffin, Ga, is only
twenty three years old, and is probably
the youngest city executive In the coun.
try. J-...S
WHEN Mrs. Ream, of Adamsville, Pa,
took In her wash from the line she found
In the pocket Of . dress a partly built
Wren's nest -~a
BUFFALO BILL Is said to be growing so
rapidly in the favor Of the French public
that the popular supremacy Of Boulanger
10 threatened.
THE cotton bagging experiment is to be
thoroughly tried. A steamer, the other
day, put off 100J rolls for single Mont.
gomery, Ala, firm.
GOVERNOR HILL, of New York, has ap.
proved the law which provides that no
one working for the State shall receive
less than - per day.
THE prisoners in the Eastern peniten.
tiary of Pennsylvania have contributed of
their small earnings 1922 toward the
Johnstown relief fund.
A PHILANTHROPY citizen Of Harvey
County, Kas. has planted three miles of
peach trees along the public highway for
the benefit of travellers.
THE multiplication Of 9S7,654, 321 by 45
gives A,444, 444, 4i5 Reversing the order,
and multiplying 123, 456, 7s9 by As gives
this result: $685., 555, $50.
THREE of the richest merchants in the
country are comparatively young men.
Wanamaker is fifty one, Marshall Field,
Of Chicago, fifty three and Phil Armour,
fifty. five.
DAVID LAURIE, Of Glasgow, has refused
SO, 900 for the famous "Alard" Straduarius
violin, but $l2,5O0 has now been offered on
behalf Of an American, and the matter is
now under consideration.
Two steel blocks, one weighing 100, 900
and the other 10000 pounds, to form
part Of the armament Of an Italian IRON
clad, were recently shipped from the
Gruson Foundry at Madgeburg.
CHAUNcEY DEPEw takes no stock in the
new.fangled theory that marriage is q
failure 10 a newly welded friend he
writes: ITO be engaged to the woman you
love is happiness; to marry her is
heaven"
A TELEGRAPH lineman fell from the
bar of pole at New Haven, and,
after descending twenty five feet, struck
astride a horse that stood below. The
horse was knocked down, but the man es.
capped with slight injuries.
LEONARD SWEET, who has just died in
Chicago, nominated three men in national
conventions for the Presidency-Lincoln
in 1850, David Davis in 1872 and Gresham
in 1888 but declined to enter political life
himself though often urged to do so.
In Holland an unmarried woman al.
ways takes the right arm of her escort
and the married woman the left. At q
church wedding the bride enters the
edifice on the right arm of the groom,
and goes out on the left side Of her hus.
band.
A PORTLAND, Ore, man pulled out his
pocketbook, when the wind seized the con.
tents and scattered them broadcast, and
$3.50 in bills were blown about the streets
Fortunately everybody in the vicinity
proved to be honest and the money was
all recovered
A REMARKABLE phenomenon was wit
messed at Cardiff lately. After fall Of
rain it was noticed that the pools of water
in the thoroughfares were tinged with red.
The phenomenon is known as bloody
rain," and was in ancient times regarded
as sure precursor of plague.
ACCORDING to the statistics Of Dr. Fodd,
Of the Georgia State Medical Society, the
life expectancy of various countries 10 as
follows: United States, IS years; Eng.
land, 50; Russia aud Chill, %; Souian, 90;
France, 45h; Europe in medieval times, %;
and Rome, In the time Of Caesar, 1S
GEORGE WADE, of Cadillac, Mich, has