The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-08-26
CURRENT TOPICS.

The New York Sun thinks electrocu.
ton has not come to stay.
CALIFORNIA; forty five savings banks
have STA, 0O0,00O deposits.
THE fastest mile run By a railroad
train was made in 504 seconds.
A PROCESS for photogra phing in col.
ors has been patented in London.
JAPAN has built its first factory for
the manufacture of wooden goods.
Mrs. POTTER PALMER gets more mail
matter than any woman in Chicago.
AT the next session of congress Ariz-
ona will ask for admission as state.
THE fastest mile by man on tricy-
Gle was made in minutes 40 2-5 sec
onds.
The output of gold and silver in Aus.
tralia in 1890 amounted to about $50,
600. 600.
CHIEF BYRD has decided that no more
whites are wanted in the Chickasaw
Nation.
The fastest mile ever made by run.
ming horse was run In minute 351l
seconds.
WASHINGTON is the only city of any
size in this country that possesses nc
factories.
PHILLIP d. ARMOUR's transactions last
year reached the enormous aggregate Of
1858 600, 1000.
CANADA only lacks $4,000 square
miles to be as large as the whole CONT
nent Of Europe.
If Europe is at peace at the time, the
German emperor will visit America and
the Worlds fair.
In Russia stoves are built into the
walls between the rooms, thus heating
two rooms at once
A MASSACHUSETTS man went crazy
because he could not meet note for a
few hundred dollars.
SENATOR CAMERON is reported to oe
worth SO, 900. 900, third of which is in
Washington real estate.
THE tie that binds Russia and France
together at this time is evidently moi
that little German band.
The fastest mile ever made by a man
swimming was done in twenty-siA
minutes and fifty-two seconds.
BERLINs suicide epidemic shows nc
signs of abatement. No less than 25(
persons died there by their own hand il
July.
The widowed daughter of ex-Secre'
tary Bayard is to spend the summer in
Sweden, the home of her husbands rel
atives
MONA CARDS Romance Of the
Moors" is the first English novel to be
copyrighted in this country under the
new law.
THIS summer has had it's full quota
of horrible railway accidents, and every
one Of them has shown the existence Of
negligence
CHINA has just coined silver dollar
which will be accepted in trade in place
of the Mexican and Japanese coins
heretofore used.
A TwENTY-ToN metecrolite has beer
offered to the Worlds fair by Farmer
Rogers, of Marengo, ILL.,, upon whose
land it recently dropped.
Miss DE BAR is the name of younl
woman who has successfully passed thu
examination and received license as
steam engineer at Chicago.
Two plucky boys, with empty guns
bluffed pair of veteran burglars il
New York and kept them with ''hand
up" until the police arrived
TEXAS has Fat Mans association
the initiation fee of which is cent
pound. Men who weigh less than 90
are ineligible to membership.
Miss MABEL CAHILL, the champion
woman lawn-tennis player of America
is of Irish parentage, her father being
country gentleman in Kilkenny.
THE greatest number of successive
victories in war in one day were thos
in Mexico of Gen. Scott who had five
and Gen. Taylor, who had three.
THE youngest member of the SD con
gress will be Mr.. Bailey of Texas
He has not yet turned his 3Oth year, blu
has already acquired fame as an or
ator
DURING his last year in New Yorl
DR. VIM. A. Hammond is credited witt
having made over Sl5O,O0O, probabl,
the largest medical income ever earne,
IN America.
AMERICAN petroleum has been shu
out of the Peruvian market owing.t t,
The discovery of oil fields in that coun
try covering an extent of about $50
square miles.
Two Frenchmen, the brothers FORE
have invented new kind of harp
made entirely of wood. Instead O
strings the inventors use strips O
American fir
ONE wheat field in Colusa county
Cal, covers 572 square miles. Thi
year it yielded an average of fiftee
bushels per acre or total of nearly 8,
900, 900 bushels.
SOMEBODY has counted them up an
finds that there are 720 women lectul
ers liz this country. This doesn't in
clude those who administer their lee
lures in private.
CAPT. LAWYER who sailed from Bo.
ton, some time ago, in the dory Mel
maid, has arrived in England. II
claims shark tried to devour his boa
on the way over.
MARQUIS PRosPERo MARsIGLL tn
wealthy Italian nobleman who recent
died in Bologna, bequeathed 100, 900 lir
to the pope to say masses for the RI
pose of his soul.
A NEW YORK steamship agent say