The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-05-28
CURRENT TOPICS.

The champion pug Of England weighs
but five pounds.
CALIFORNIA wants ten acres OF space
at the Worlds Fair.
A NEW iron has been invented which
rs said to be rustless.
SENATOR VEST is one Of the plainest
dressed men in Washington.
THE German Labor Conference has
been fixed for June Is, at Halle.
FIRST editions Of Burns poems are
worth now in London about $780,
THE climate of China is said to be
growing not only colder, but drier
AMBER is replacing tortoise she'll as
an ornament for the hair in England.
AN Atchison man has had hundred
cases in the Supreme Court OF Kansas.
A BILL to abolish suits for breach OF
promise has been introduced in Parlia-
ment.
A PARIS letter says that Explorer
SANKEY'S face is the color of cooked
olive.
OFF, family of sixteen near Taylors.
town, Pa, thirteen have died Of diph-
liberia.
IT requires annually $1,000 tons OF
binder Irvine to bind the grain crops OF
the country.
A BOsTON man who was fined one cent,
without costs, has carried the case to a
higher court.
SPEAKER REED has a new private Sec
rotary. He is Forrest Goodwin, former
baseball player.
AN Allegheny woman has given birth
to twins weighing together only one and
aquarter pounds
THERE were 8, 587 cases OF murder and
homicide in this country last year and
only 9S hangings.
A POWERFUL magnet drew out steel
splinter from the eyeball of an Albany
workman recently.
A FULTON >(Mo.) woman has been
taken TO the asylum because she imag.
ines she is an angel.
julius STERN Is blind man of New
York who can play billiards and make
many difficult shots.
The Government pays annually to the
railroads the sum Of nearly $40, 600, DOC
for carrying the mails !.
NINE. DosNE, sister-in-law of NJ.
Theirs, owns the finest private collec'
ton Of pearls in the world.
CHARLES MILLER Of Hueneme, CAL,
has made table of ornamental woods
that contains 1850 pieces.
The New York Assembly, just ad.
journed, passed bill exempting editors
and reporters from jury duty.
ADAY Of festivities for the crew Of
the new cruiser Baltimore was held in
the Oriole City few days ago.
A MAN dropped dead in Spokane the
other day on his way to mail letter te
his wife telling her he was we'll.
A SUBSTITUTE for felt is the short cot
ton left on the seed after the cotton has
been ginned by the cotton raiser.
PITTSBURGH claims to have more mill
ionaires in proportion to her population
than any other city in the world.
THE widow Of the late General Thos
Francis Meagher is to marry John A
Creighton, millionaire, in Omaha.
THE largest perfect diamond in the
world is the Imperial, owned by syndi
cate in Paris. 1t is valued at 81, 900,
900.
A HANDSOME silver punch bowl fol-
the United States flagship Charleston
was sent by the citizens of Charleston
sc.
MONTANA cattle shipments this yeal
will reach nearly 100000 head, an in
crease of at least 30, 900 head over las
year.
ROBERT bird has a remarkable wei
in losco, Mich. 1t is eighty~ive fee
deep and has seventy-two feet of water
in it.
The wife of Theodore Hamilton, O.
Baltimore. gave birth to fine baby boy
which had at its birth lower from
tooth.
A PRIVATE dinner given at belmont
co.'s, New York, recently, cost Sl6
900. The floral decorations alone cos
s.. 900.
EX-SENATOR SAWYER, of Alabama, nov
earns his daily bread as second-clas
clerk in the War Department at Wash
ington.
IT is said that tramps will never work
And yet six Of them dug their way GU
of New Hampshire Jail with tenpen
ny nail.
THE experts at the census Office have
made guess at the population that viii
be enumerated next month. Their fig
ure is 81. 100000.
A STORY comes from Germany that tn,
scrofulous affection under which tn,
Emperor suffers has broken out with re
newed virulence. ..r
THE oyster is one Of the stronges
creatures on the earth. The force re
Quired to open an oyster is more thar
1900 times its weight
EUGENE FIELD declares that the wifi,
of a member of Parliament asked him il
oil seriousness whether Chicago was 70
connected with New York by a wond AZ
full bridge.
SPARROW heads are legal tende
among Michigan youngsters, in lots o
ten. 1t takes one lot to buy fishpole
and two will purchase baseball, whel
they have been cashed in at the record
er's Office.
AN Alpena, Michigan, justice swor
himself as witness in case which wa
pending before him as Judge. He want
ed to serve as juryman also, but the de
Tense objected
THE oldest undertaken in the Unite,