The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1885-08-20
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FHI temples In Dahomsy ~ almost -
tarely built Of human skulls.
TEE bath in which Charlotte Corday
killed Marat u said to be for sala
GENERAL BOOTH says the Salvation
Army will number %, o00, 900 in 1900.
A WIDOW in Harrisburg has beaten the
record by clipping with two coachmen.
1--WE have too many bath tubs; We keep
too clean TO be healthy" says New York
doctor.
TIE world il coming to an end May "A,
a866, according to the calculations Of the
Adventists.
In the rubber industry 10000 persons ind
employment, making $a0,00O.O0O worth Of
goods year.
I The Governor of Massachusetts, gets .
salary of 5000 year, and the Mayor Of
Boston $4,000.
AN English mastiR, tho largest dog of the
kind ever exhibited, sold not long ago for
the sum Of $3.50.
IT is estimated that overi 1000 persons
are annually buried In the "Pottars' Field"
ofiNew York city.
BRIDGE makers are buster than they have
been for a long time. Railroad orders are
coming in rapidly.
! By the end of 1883 the reconstruction Of
the French war material will have cost
2,170,0O0, 900 francs.
A PROMINENT dentist says that tooth.
brushes and tooth powders do the teeth
more harm than good.
MISS ALICE FIELD, daughter Of Cyrus
W. Field, is writing story, the scene Of
which Ii laid In Sicily.
CREMATION in Paris will soon be available
for the general public at the small cost OF
g 80 for each operation.
ABOUT ten per cent of the labor army is
idle throughout the United States. Wages
are about the same as last year.
GENERAL SHERIDAN ascribes the entire
Indian troubles to the leases andthe pres
enceof whites on the reservations.
GENERAL JOSEPH e. JOHNSTON is now
seventy EIGHT years old. His hair and
beard are nearly as white a. snow.
TIE Hebrew philanthropist, Sir Moses
Monteaore, is called by ono Of his eulogists
the most illustrious Jew since David and
Solomon.
THElargest and oldest collection Of penny
ballads in the United States Is said 10 DO
in . little store on North Tenth street,
Providence, Rhode Island.
A BOTTLE Of purple ink was mistakenly
opened for port wine at q Dstroit supper,
and fourteen guests filed THAR mouths with
the Liquid in pledging the host.
FIVE magnificent granite statues, all
supposed to represent Rameses H., have
been discovered at Luxor, Egypt -Four Of
them are damaged, but one ID perfect.
DURING the recent hot spell the asphalt
pavements Of Washington melted 30 nearly
into fluid condition that reports say the
sparrows stuck fast when they alighted.
In accordance with General Grants OK.
pressed wish, his grandchildren, born In
England, the children Of Mrs.. Sartoris,
will be brought to this country and edu.
Gated.
A CORRESPONDENT at Asbury Park, N.
r, says that tho Jersey girls yearn for
red heads, and anybody who can invent
the right bleach for dark tresses can make
. fortune.
TEE swimming Of the turbulent East
River BY man tightly bound with rope,
hand and foot, shows that floating and
swimming are more matter Of mental
control than physical exertion.
D1o LEWIS says that he was practicing
his profession in Buffalo during 40 and 81,
those memorable cholera seasons, and saw
at least flv. cases of cholera ON the shady
side Of the street tsone on the sunny side.
TIE Egyptian obelisk in Cantral Park,
New York, is accompanying even moro rap
idly than was feared, and Professor Egies.
ton has pronounced tho opinion that unless
It b put under cover, Il viii in fifteen years
b beyond repair.
PEANUTS were never % cheap In the
South a they now are, the price per pound
being from three and thres-fourth cents 10
6ve cents. Last year prices were high, and
the result was heavily increased acreage
and an OVERCOMING crop.
CITIZENS Of Nashville and Red Bud, ILL.,,
are kicking themselves because they allow.
silver certificate upon them. So faulty was
It that the letters r and T In certificate
were printed upside down.
GENEVA has a society for the benefit Of
invalid and weakly children, who are sent
TO summer home 1t Cette in the South Of
France, where they have six weeks hol.
day with sea bathing. Seventy -four chill.
dren were lately dispatched in a body t.
Cette.
WATERMELON seed pools are the newest
style Of gambling. Each player puts in 9
quarter, or any other sum agreed upon
makes his guess; then the melon 10 cut anc
the seeds are counted, and the best guessel
takes the pool. Something over 6O0 seem,
to be the average number.
EUROPEAN savants are now discussin,
the question: allow far can we seey'
That depends upon what We sre looking At
Some people can't see bill collector whel
he 10 In the hall and they are In the adjoin
ing room holding their breath while tn
servant girl stands him Oh.
The Goshen IN Y.) police force has bee,
supplied with rawhide whips, 10 Be carried
during the daytime instead II the ordlnar,
locust clubs. Owing to tbs ease and safety
with which they can b Welded, 1t Is sale
they inspire more terror among svl-doer
than the old-fashioued cluha
CAPrAIN FREn. znoLxA, Of Erie, Pa
died from peculiar cause . fgv days age
His mother, 70 WAom he Was strongly at