The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-02-25
CURRENT TOPICS.

oENAIOh lNuALLS Has MpiStCu ITO
6fty-seventh year.
MRS. P. 7. BARNUM is forty years old,
just half her husbands age.
STATISTICS show that the birth-rate in
the United States is declining.
The five-franc piece of France con-
tains 1884 grains of standard silver
A PENNSYLVANIA Judge has decided
that piano playing is manual labor.
SENATOR INGALLS, will take himself
and family to Europe after March next.
HENPECKED HUSBANDS are in favor OF
the closure rule. Closure means shut
up.
THERE will be seven natives of Yer
mont in the next United States Sen
ate.
NECKLACES and bracelets of the gen.
uine small gold coins of all nations are
seen. ...t..- .tr..
Observation-Disclosures is given
as the longest word in the English Ian
guage. i"H'
PRESIDENT DIAz, of Mexico, is re-
ported to have arranged for a trip to
France.
WATER in which orange peel has been
soaked freshens and softens the COM
plexion. "#ir H't''
The medical colleges of this country
alone turn out 5000 young physicians
every year.
GOLD veins rich enough to be worked
at profit have been discovered in the
French Alps t4. go.
THE Molly Maguires are coming to
the front again in the Pennsylvania
mining regions, ..
THE Prince Of Wales must appear on
the witness stand in court, and in a
gambling case, too. I'D p.H tt
AMONG the recent novelties in silver
goods is match box with compass
Embedded in one side.
A MAN now proposes to walk from
Panama to Alaska carrying the United
States flag all the way. sH T. Hf
THERE are about IL, 600 nickel-in-the-
slot machines in use in this country and
they comprise fifty varieties. F. I.'''
The Pennsylvania Legislature is try
ing to repeal the blue laws, which have
stood on the books since 1894. ...,..t
THE death roll of the present Con-
gress is a long one, eleven Representa-
tives and one Senator having died.
PRESIDENT CARNoT has an idea of sug-
costing the demolition of all the FORTH
cations in the neighborhood of Paris.
A RIVAL to the Maltese cat is the
Maltese dog, bit Of canine beauty re-
Gently imported from Paris by the fash
ionable. t.. 1854
MASSACHUSETTS hasn't got navy,
but the constitution of that State makes
Admiral VIM. e. Russell commander-in-
chief of it.
A SWAN was killed in Trinity County,
Cal, recently, whose wings measured
seven feet when spread out It weighed
sixteen pounds. ,,-...,.. ......
B. f. STEARNE, Of Lynchburg, Va,
has in his possession curiously carved
violin, said to have once been the prop
erty of Thomas Jefferson. sG adi /,
REWARDS aggregating $4,000 have
been offered for the capture Of the two
men who attempted to assassinate three
members of the New Mexico Legisla
ture. stiry - fw ,0Ht
Mrs. MARY B. MATTHEWS, of Asbury
Station, N. j., ,succumbed, q few day
ago, to the pain of cutting her thirt
SIT Of teeth, at the age Of ninety-nint
years. DFsl .t boa / 30 ilae
" TEHAhA COUNTY, in California, pait
out $195 for scalps in December, Tn
lot included lions, 10s coyotes, SO wild
cats, 1852 rabbits, 50 crows, 10 bear
and Q eagles. no 80 siadsu' (f,d hH
The mama, which fell from tn,
sky in Asia Minor last August and wa
baked into bread has recently been ex
amined by men Of science, and is iden
titled as lichen. 79V 1'a'6 ~ bta'
GRouNDHoe, day, Valentines day
Lincoln day, Washington's birthday an,
Easter follow each other this year il
rapid succession, all Of them being in
cluded within two successive months
THERE ere two counties in Georgi
that have not lawyer. The two coun
ties are Echols and Charlton. The re
turns for 1890 show further that Char
ton has neither doctor nor dentist.
WOMAN suffrage is symbolized in Wy
oming's new seal of State, which show
the figure of woman from whose ur
lifted arm is suspended broken chair
while the States motto is "Equs
Rights"
The twenty-five savings banks
New York city did good business las
year, handling in amounts deposited c
withdrawn over $1Ss, 900, 900, and ha,
ing in the aggregate over 77O,ssO ope
accounts.
JUDGE GRINNELL, Of Chicago, VIII
prosecuted the anarchists before hi
elevation to the bench, is about to n
tire to private life, and has accepte
employment as counsel for the Chicag
city railroad company.
If machinery was only everlasting
young man at GAINESVILLE, O., woul
have solved the perpetual motion pro,
lem. He has perfected an electri
motor which, when started and tn
circuit shut off, will 60 till it wea,
out.
THE electrical underground railwa
in London has proved that speed {
twenty-four miles an hour is PRACTICABLE
There are bills before the House {
Commons from many other BIRTHS
cities for rapid transit railways on Il
same plan.
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