The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-01-28
CURRENT TOPICS.

LIVERPOOL, Eng, gets 5OO, UOO year
ly rental from its street railways.
THE Emperor Of Germany is photo
grapher, like the Prince of Wales.
A DAM is to be built in Bear Valley,
Cal, whose height will be 100 feet
GOVERNOR HILL in his message recon-
mended law compelling citizens to
vote.
STRAWBERRIES are now being shipped
from Los Angeles County, Cal, to Chi
cago.
THE deepest coal mine in the world is
near Tourney, Belgium; it is 3,542 feet
in depth.
THE largest library is the Imperial of
Paris, which contains over two million
volumes.
The Sultan of Turkey has attached
to his. bodyguard a soldier who is 40
years old.
THERE were 1886 cremations in the
capital Of Japan during the month of
November.
PRESIDENT CARNoT contemplates the
entire demolition of the Notifications
about Paris.
AT coming ball in Bangor, Me-, the
prompter is to be suspended from the
center of the ceiling in basket.
The First National bank of Aurora,
N. Y, has elected Miss Emily Rowland
Q member Of its board of directors.
WALDO STORY, son of the American
sculptor, is to design the marble decora-
tions for Baron Rothschild's house.
The highest mountain on the globe
is Mount Hercules, ON the Isle of Papau,
or New Guinea, 2,76S feet in height.
THAT was remarkable pony on
which Sitting Bull was killed. Three
museums now have 1t on exhibition.
PROF. KOCH has been invited to &C.
cept the Inequalities of about every
medical and surgical college in Europe.
The Louisiana sugar crop will yield
from 100000 10 $500 hogsheads this
season, which is the largest since the
war.
AT funeral in South Bethlehem, Pa,
the undertaker's list Of mourners con-
tanned the names of forty-nine McFad-
dens.
A NEW way of serving raw oysters at
dinner is in a good-sized china shell, in
which the bivavlves lie in their own
juice.
THE State Workingmen's Alliance,
which is expected to be q rival of the
Knights of Labor, was incorporated at
Albany.
MRS. HENRY M. STANLEY says the
American women are the brightest in
the world. Henry maintains a discreet
silence.
MEXICAN contractors are importing
thousands of Chinese laborers to work
on railroads in course of construction
in that land.
THE copper shipped from the mines
in the Lake Superior region during the
season of navigation in 1890 amounted
to 1850, Ala pounds.
A NEW HAMPSHIRE saloonkeeper was
recently tried on 1000 distinct charges,
and was convicted on 715. The aggre.
gate of his fines was $4,000.
EUROPE has not had a winter such az
this for years. The weather has been
cold and damp. In some sections weeks
have passed without sunshine.
PROF. BRAMANN, one of the physi-
clans who attended the Emperor Fred
erick in his last illness, has been en-
nobled by the present Emperor.
The Imperial Tribunal of Leipsic has
decided that henceforth refusal to rise
and participate in toast to the health
Of the Kaiser shall constitute high trea.
son.
SEVENTEEN hundred of the Sioux are
members of the Episcopal Church, anG
Baptists, Catholics and Congregational
lists are also well represented among
them.
SECRETARY WINDOW has fixed the
salary Of Miss Phoebe Couzins as sec
rotary of the Board of Lady Man
ayers of the Chicago fair at $1,000 pc,
annum.
A CHANGE in the channel of the river
StOur, at Sandwich, England, has re
vealed the wreck of vessel believed t.
have sunk at that spot during the reigr
of Henry VIII.
In the search for phosphates, many
discoveries have been made which hav,
added materially to the wealth of fail
Florida, but probably the most interest
ing one is the find of deposit of genu
inc meerschaum.
JACOB KAHN, Cleveland shoemaker
claims that he has invented and will
have in operation in sixty days com
pressed-air moter that will propel
street-car twenty miles an hour at
cost of three cents.
THE vestry of the parish Of St. Sepui
chre, London, has started q fund TO
restoring the tombstone of Captain
John Smith, founder Of Virginia"
his namesakes would each-but VIII,
pursue the impracticable?
A TEST case in Maine has settled tn,
fact that man can not be legally ar
rested in that State for refusing to pa,
for q meal he has eaten in restaurant
The restaurant keepers are armin,
themselves with stomach pumps.
AT Superior, Wis, the other night,
burglar got into the house of Mrs
Katherine Hoefer. She arose and tool
gun out of bureau drawer, shut he
eyes and began to shoot. There was
yell. crash of glass as bulky form
shot through the nearest window. an.
the burglar was gone, empty-handed.
GENERAL BEALE says that Genera
Grant was wont to pronounce Ii Hun:
Chang, the Prime Minister of China