Blount County democrat. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 1879-1883, 1880-04-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Jay Gould's income IS now estimat-
ed at $1,000 per day.
There are six ex-Governors of Geor-
gia now living, and all residing in the
State.
On the 26th inst. the Odd Fellows
will celebrate the sixty-first anniver-
sary of the Inauguration of their Or
der. -
Connecticut's State Capitol was not
only built without deficiency ap-
preparation, but there is $4,000 left
over.
A school teacher says that children
should never be stupidity ioked at
W hen they blunder in answering a
question.
BY the command of Queen Victoria,
a stone cross has been erected on the
spot where the Prince Imperial lost
his life in Zululand.
Last year the South raised 6O0,OOO,-
600 pounds of tobacco, which exceeds
the prediction of any other year bv
l2,O0O,OVJ pounds.
If you are troubled about the grain
chest with mice, watch for their holes
and scatter little copperas in item.
A few grains will drive them away.
William III. Vanderbilt received a
government check for $3l0,5OO, being
the quarterly interest on his four per
cent. bonds, a daily income of $3.50.
Don't be afraid" said snob to a
German laborer; "sit down and make
yourself my equal" II would half to
blow my prains out" was the reply of
the Teuton.
Monroe was the only President who
died in New York. His son-in-law
was postmaster of that city and his
last linoal descendant was treasury
clerk in 1858.
Last season farmer i'm the vicinity
of Portland, Maine, raised 10l bdshels
of corn on an acre of land; the largest
recorded crop ever raised in the State
of Maine.
There is contained in the corn cobs
raised in the United States fsom Il5
to l2O million pounds ofus"" e
potash. wh'oh is tllnI''
bic arris
A dozen acres
will pay better than
ly attended to. This /
realized every year by
practical men.
Savannah (Ga.) News ester
day Abraham Burke, tn, ,1-known
black man, was appoin a Notary
Public by his Honor it Fleming,
in chambers. Burke is Sfirst black
man, we are infosmed, who was ever
appointed to this Office in Chatham
county.
The average yield of potatoes in the
United States, in 1877, was estimated
by the Agricultural Department as
90 bushels, in 1873 at 50 bushels, in
1879 at So bushels, and there are but
few States in which the average for
the last 25 Years will exceed 100 bush
els per acre.
Fruit trees can be pruned at any
time, provided only small limbs or
twigs have to be cut. The rule should
be to so prune the trees that no large
limbs would have to be cut. Cuts
made in June will heal sooner than
at any other time, but it requires
more care at that time as the bark
peels so easily.
Mrs. Augustus Brooks, of East El-
liott, Me-, has cat thirteen years old
which walks around room Oh her
hind legs only, dances, turns somer-
saults, goes through the motions of
holding a jews harp to her mouth
with one paw and playing on it with
the other, kisses her paw to visitors
and holds a saucer of milk on her fore
legs while she drinks it.
Twenty ladies "chipped in" and
bought some lottery tickets. One of
them told her minister, and he was
shocked. "My dear madame" he ex-
claimed, "do you not know that is
gambling?" She ratified right along
as if she hadn't heard him: "Yes. we
are going to draw the $4,000 prize,
and if we do-then we've all agreed to
give you $1,000 of il for the new
church organ" "An excellent idea,
my dear madame; excellent, and /
devoutly trust you may win it,"
The great donation of George Pea
body for the benefit of the work-peo-
pie OF London, England, is now in full
and admirable working order. The
number of separate dwellings occu-
pied by them is 2,355, containing LILO
rooms and sheltering 9,905 people.
The average rent for each room is for
ty-eight cents per week, which in
cludes the free use of water, bath
rooms, laundries, and sculleries. The
average earnings Of each head of fam
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