The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-04-30
CURRENT TOPICS.

study OF French.
GENERAL BUTLER is believed to be
worth S6,OOO,0OO.
METAL ties for railroads are proving
very satisfactory.
THERE are more than SO, women
clerks in London.
A PETRIFIED deer horn has been found
near Sylvania, Ga.
EMIN PASTA nowspeaks twenty-seven
different languages and dialects.
A FACTORY for condensing milk and
coffee has been built at Buena Park,
Cal.
A WISCONSIN woman left her hair in
on it.
THERE is said to be q big opening
in Madras and Bombay for American
dentists.
FEMALE lobbyists are recognized fac
tors of legislation in England and CON-
mand high pay.
"a TITLE of most ancient and honor
able description" is advertised for sale
in English papers.
LUDINGToN, Mich, fastened the ad-
turning hose on it.
THE Presbytery for Oregon has decid-
ed that all candidates for license must
quit the use of tobacco.
A GEORGIA lawyer who charged $500
for drawing will has had his bill cut
down to $50 by the court. ....
A WEDDING had to be postponed at AL.
bany the other night because some one
had carried off the gas meter.
THE Italian Government has under.
taken to stop the manufacture OF
bologna sausage of horse meat.
A MAN named Schmittschmitt was
chosen town clerk in the South Town
district of Chicago the other day.
EIGHTEEN persons out of every thou
sand die each year in this country. In
England the average is 2O.5; in Germany
26.1.
A FARMER whose property was swept
by recent tornado says that every
thing was blown off the farm except the
mortgage.
NJ. TIszA, the Hungarian ex-premier.
is said to have smoked more cigars than
any other man in Europe. He smokes
necessarily.
PHILADELPHIA ladies will endeavor to
solve the servant-girl question by es-
tablishing training-school for domes.
tic servants.
THERE is family in France named B,
one iii Belgium named 0, river in Hol.
land called the Y, and village in Swe'
,9en named a. ,
EMIN didn't lose much by being res
cued against his will after all. He is to
receive salary of $50, 900 year for his
services in Africa.
AN English baroness has established
home for cats, where disabled and
kind purrmission.
IT is estimated that Great Britain's
80, 600, 900 population daily consume s.
643,96l pills, or what would weigh in a
years time lis tons.
IT is not generally known that DR..
Mary Walker has become cripple for
life. On Decoration day, last, she fell
and broke her right hip.
A WOMAN was restored to her mother
in Northumberland, Pa, after having
been stolen from her parent forty years
ago. There was happy Easter reun'
ion.
THE fund for the proposed Grady Me-
mortal Hospital in Atlanta, Ca, now
amounts to about $4,000. 1t is said tina,
$4,000 more is needed to carry out the
project.
ANDREW CARNEGIE has in contempla'
ton the founding at Pittsburgh, in addi-
ton to his library, of great school OF
institute for instruction in the arts and
sciences.
CUPID never cares any thing about
State lines. Miss Winnie Davis, the
Daughter of the Confederacy," is said
to be engaged to Mr.. Alfred Wilkinson
of Syracuse. N. Y.
BARON HIRsCH, the wealthy German
Hebrew, is said to have promised to con
tribute $4,000 a month for the better
ment of the condition of the Russian
Jews who have immigrated to this coun
try.
IN order to obtain small, delicate
hands, when in repose let them bangle
at your side," says Miss Jenness
Holding ones hands up makes the
veins swell and induces large, coarse
development"
A MAN named Catoni, giant above
seven feet high and proportionately
stout. with an enormous head, has Just
died in Italy. Before his death he sold
his skeleton to the Anatomical Museum
at Rome for 81, 900.
THE largest saw mill in the world is
located at Clinton, la. 1t cost $780, Ot
and is capable of saving $50, 900 feet Of
lumber in eight hours. 1t has sever
band and three gang saws and two bat
teries of ten boilers each.
A NEW and sure cure for stammerine
is said to be this: Let the stammerel
not speak word for ten days. Ther
let him resume speech, but only in ;
whisper, for ten days more, at the enc
of which time he will be cured-if the
remedy works.
A YOUNG man advertises for place
as salesman. and says he has had good
deal of experience. having been dis
charged from seven different wholesale
houses within year.
The other day the wife of special
officer at Chester, Pa, slapped him in
the face. Taking advantage of his Off
cial prerogative, he at once arrested hel
and conveyed her to the lookup.