The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-30
CURRENT TOPICS.

ticing in Seattle, Wash. 3..t m =.
OATS are selling for five cents bushel
In some parts of Kansas.
IN Boston during certain months cab
bages are sold by weight.
MASSACHUSETTS machines make paic
OF shoes in twenty minutes. t.
OVER 2,000 tons Of raisins have already
been shipped east from Fresno, Cal
INCENDIARY fires in Helena, Mont,
have awakened the old vigilante spirit.
A LARGE cOpperhead snake found its
way through Columbia pa hydrant.
MRS. "SToNEwALL" JACKSON Is en-
gagged upon biography of her husband.
A PATIENT figurer has found that in
$4,000, 900 years the sun will be as dense
as the earth.
MRS. GRUMPY says that big hats and
tiny bonnets are to be the rule in fash
ionable head-gear.
Ex-SECRETARY BAYARDs wedding
with Miss Mary Willing Clymer is to o.
cur early next month. ..ir. .I..f..
SOMEBODY who conceals his identity
behind typewriter remarks that the
food was Noahtable affair.
ONE of the new Partisan follies, fresh
from the exposition, is silk socks dyed
in the cOlors of the French flag. -e ~
ROBERT BONNER once paid Tennyson
$4,000 for poem which made only tven-
ty lines in the New York Ledger. 81.
A STATUE Of Wilkie Collins is to be
placed in Westminster Abbey, If per-
mission to place it there can be secured,
A NEW law school for women is short
ly to be established in New York by, Dr.
Emily Kimpen, graduate Of the Uni.
versity of Zurich 8l3t5sS ~
THE richest heiress of Mexico is
Senorita Ysahel Echequeren. her father
having fortune of $50, 900, 900, of which
she will inherit one-third.
AN enormous eagle recently, alighted
on house in Monongalia County, w.
Va, but few away before the owner
could hunt up his shotgun.
THE four largest churches in the
United States are the Roman Catholics,
1885, 1894; Methodists, 4,723,sS1; Bap-
fists, 4,O7s,59 and Presbyterians, 1,1SO,-
113. 5..s. a. r.
Miss BRUCE of New York, has given
$4,000 to the Astronomical Observatory,
of Harvard, to be devoted to the pur-
chase Of telescope for celestial photo
graphy. &
The melancholy days, with their
frosty air, will moderate the foulness Of
our American cities. Until we learn
cleanliness, the bitterest cold will be
blessing.
THE Queen Regent of Spain now
smokes at State dinners and permits
her guests to do likewise. To her credit
be it said that she prefers cigars to
cigarettes.
Mrs. EVA HAMLToN's occupation
during her two years stay in the peni-
Tertiary will be laundry work and the
making of shirts and blouses for the
male convicts.
MARSHAL Won MoLKE began his prac
teal military studies when a boy CT
twelve years, and on the Goth of this
month he enters upon the ninetieth
year of his age.
THE price of $4,000 offered for base
ball player by the Philadelphia club, in
dicates that baseball players are rising
in value like pig-iron and other leading
staples of commerce.
MIR. VAN. f Nebraska City, who has
been burned out fourteen times must be
getting somewhat behind. If he has any
thing left, he would do we'll to take part
of it and buy himself a fire-engine.
SIR JULIAN PAUNcEForE, who is on
his way back to this country. brings
with him his wife and daughters Wash.
ington society is prepared to give them
a warm welcome.
JULIAN STERLING, of Bridgeport, Ct,
lately had his eyeball removed by a doc
tor to get at cinder, and while it lay on
his cheek, insensible to pain from CO.
caine, he could see his ear with it.
MEMBERS of the Iowa tribe of Indians
are very well off. They have been reduced
in number to eighty-three persons, and
have 100000 acres of rich farming land
which they are to sell to the Govern
ment-an average of over 2,40O acres
each.
E, J. BALDWIN, the California million
aire, has been blacksmith. farmer
stable-keeper, commercial traveller, boat
swain of canal-boat and grocer
during his extraordinary career. liz
is now sixty years old and worth SIS.
OOO,OOO ~
APARTMENT houses are multiplying
with great rapidity in London. especial
ly in the better neighborhoods. On the
South side of Hyde Park there are vas
mansions arising. There is an activ,
demand for them, although they arr
very expensive. 81 n
THE irony Of fate is powerfully illus
trated in the report from Johnstowl
that one William Baker. survivor q
the flood that swept thousands of hi
fellows to death in the Conemapgl
Valley, has been SHE'D into the great be
yond by bucking mule.
ii. L. PHARRIs. of Superior, Neb., ha
raised two remarkably big beets. On
measured feet = inches in length, an,
1917 inches in circumference, and weigh
ed 10 pounds. The other measured
feet inches in length, and ii inches il
circumference, and weighed l. pounds.
THE Indians of the Five Nations TAX
great interest in news from the SUI
rounding States. as well as within tn
borders of their own nations. Tei
weekly newspapers are published With
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