The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-01-03
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BEN BUTLER is to get $4,000 for writing
his "reminiscences.
THREE billion wooden tooth-picks are
made in this country every year.
"TURKEY ACTORS" is the name for those
who only get holiday engagements.
SAMUEL j. RANDALL wears broadcloth
suit an unbrushed silk hat and pair of
eye glasses.
A LIFE insurance man calculates that in
1888 there will be living 1888 survivors OF
our civil war.
KING ALFONSO, Of Spain, is again very
i'll. He is going soon upon cruise on the
Mediterranean.
A NEW scheme in Dakota is to utilize the
blizzard for running windmills to grind up
their No. hard wheat.
New ORLEANS confidently announces
that the Crescent City has room for every
body-and his pocketbook
PRESIDENT ARTHUR owns the handsomest
gun in the country. 1t was present from
Victor Bogy, of Belgium.
JOHN C. Emo, the retired Ito Canada)
millionaire, has won gold medal at Que
bee for proficiency at billiards.
THEY propose to put up at the Paris Ex-
hibition in 1889 an iron tower 1000 feet
high, with passenger elevator.
CouRTsHIp on roller skates is the latest
rink-le. Skating for suspended turkey,
blindfolded, is new amusement.
THE young Prince of Galatro, whom Miss
Mackey, the American heiress, is to marry,
is twenty seven and good looking.
ONE dollar gold pieces are said to be so
scarce that they bring twenty cents pre-
MUM. Bring forth the old stockings.
How. THOMAS A. HENDRICKS has con-
sented to deliver the annual address before
the Yale Alumni and the graduating
classes in June next.
AS an evidence of the absolute freedom
of suffrage in Washington Territory it is
stated that five squaws voted in Chehalls
County at the last election.
Ar a Territorial fair in the Northwest
an Indian sent a war bonnet fringed with
human scalps as specimen of his skill. lie
got the first prize in that line.
AN aged applicant for relief at the JEFF
ferson Market Police Court, New York.
was recognized as Judge who presided
over the Marine Court thirty years ago.
AN internal machine was fnund on tne
Jersey Central Railroad track, near West;
4 ieid. n .oirsa a.. 7 ~ y-Ss5ss .''s's-'
of dynamite and lot of giant powder.
A TEXAS editor of scientific turn o
mind says: "If in proportion to size
man could holler as loud as baby ther'
would be no telephones needed in this
country"
IT is said that certain rich New Yorl
man has had professional fancy penmal
write his will on parchment and then in al
ebony box, consigned it to the safe deposi
company.
Two ladies of Neenah, WIS, encountere
two burglars in their house tho other da,
and held them at bay with the stove-poke
, until the police arrived and arrested tn
two men.
A RAINBOW about twenty five minute
after sunset was recently witnessed in Ire
} land. 1t was evidently caused by the ligf
rejecting upon the clouds from the glow
ing western sky.
THE Florida orange crop this season
reported to be SO much larger than til
packing-box manufacturers anticipate
p that the shippers now find it difficult to bu
boxes for their fruit.
THE statement is made that four reg'
larlv organized military companies OF 81
| cialists are in existence in Chicago, two
y which are armed with breech-loadiI
b rifles.
' A CANVASS of Congress shows that
members received the endorsement or a
election, which speaks well for their wo
either at Washington-or among their co
stituents.
BEN BUFFERS only son, Paul, is engag
In the manufacture of percussion caps
II Lowell, Mass. His mind has mechanic
turn, and he has quite record as an
ventor.
- All TT. full-blooded Chinaman, aft
working thirty five years in the Sierr'
nc has accumulated S2,0O0,000, and when
has settled his business will return to ,
y land from which the laundryman Gomez
a ONE of the largest salmon ever known
ii is have been taken from a European riv
It, was netted recently at Tay, near Per-
Scotland. The weight was about eigh
" pounds, and the fish was five feet long.
ne SECRETARY CHANDLER has notified
ye clerks of the Navy Department that u
must stand off their boarding house keep
until Congress gets in the humor to max
naval appropriation.
Mn. VEGAN, a ranchman OF Texas
'n- said to own 675 square miles OF land IN
0f- nodv on which he has 10000 head OF she
ne ne o. GOO head of cattle, and 10000 horses.
;er is extremely doubtful whether Mrs. VeI
in would consent to wait breakfast whlie
I'VE hubby went out to feed his stock.
on buckwheat cakes would certainly be
~ and heavy before he got through.
raj PARIS is to have a new museum devc
md 10 the exhibition of objects of every
ms cripton used in tue religious rites OF
ao; of and present peoples III all parts OF
the world. and to q collection of Oriental CO
N " mics.
GENERAL. HAzEN, Chief Signal 9th
ers ,..,;..oa e. tho Sacratarv of
ca- mas suUihi'.eu w r
we charges against Assistant Adjutant l
lily sral McKeever for having made deroga'
remarks concerning the management OF
recent Arctic expeditions.
TIE total production of cigars III
:. country, as estimated by oneof the lar
ILL., manufacturers, is about S,Ooo, ,OOo,VVoa