The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-01-31
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ONE Brocton family of four persons de-
voured S02 pies last year.
The pay roll of the Public Printer is stat
ed to be over $1,000 per day.
The motto of Keely, the motionless motor
man should be $50 mote it be-
PRESIDENT GARFIELD's portrait has
been hung in the House library.
A CONNECTICUT paper offers village lot
among its premiums to subscribers.
THO Gear of Russia gets $S,21600O a year,
with an occasional dynamite boom thrown
in.
OVER 81, 100000 has been invested in shoe
manufacturing in New Hampshire in two
years.
MRS. APPHIA FISHER, of Salem, N. H.,
ninety-seven years old, reads without
glasses.
CASTLES in Spain are more shaky than
ever; the everlasting hills themselves are
slipping.
EDMUND YATES, the London journalist,
sentenced for lbeling Lord Lonsdale, is
now in jail.
A YOUNG English lady has been arrested,
in Holland for wearing felt hat and hav-
ing short hair.
If the Grant Relief bill passes it is said
President Arthur will allow it to become
law without signing it,
A NINETY-YEAR-oLD Fair Haven woman
"shucks oysters with the rest of the girls"
and beats most of them.
THE Duke of Marlborough has proposed
marriage again to his divorced Duchess,
and she has refused him.
MYRA CLARK GAINES probably knew
more about law than any woman in the
world during the last decade.
A WASHINGTON girl answers the currenu
conundrum, "Will the coming man work?"
thus: "He will if get him."
CHELL1s SARGENT, of Tilton, N. H.,
eighty-six years old, has just read the
Bible through in thirty two days.
LYNN and Haverhll together made near
ly shoes enough in 1884 to shoe half tn
population of the United States.
JOHN EDWARDS, who began to set type
on the Portland Advertiser in 1916, claims
to be the oldest printer in Maine.
The Empress Eugenie ownes several
houses in New York City which give her
handsome income from the rents.
In the present Maine Legislature thaN
are thinty' SIX farraels, nineteen merchant
fifteen lawyers and eleven manufacturers.
BISMARCK is said to drink more beer than
wine, and absolutely refuses to wear
blue ribbon. He still eats sausage on the
sly.
The cut in ocean steamships to $40 for
the passage from Europe bids fair to swell
the tide of immigration to unusual proper
tions.
CALIFORNIA has no asylum for the blind,
but the State Legislature, at its coming
session, will consider the project of build
ing one.
Two ladies were baptized in mll-pond
at Gagetown, Tuscola County, Mich, re-
Gently, with the mercury twenty degrees
below zero.
SOME New York ladies, who give Sunday
evening receptions, have been requested
by clergymen to discontinue for the sake of
social morality.
Mr.. PHILETUs SAWYER, with one excep-
tion the richest man in the United States
Senate, is dis inguished for never having
made speech there.
Miss CLEVELAND, the future mistress OF
tln ,,, %N la,
faculty of never forgetting a face or the
name that goes with it.
A WASHINGTON writer says that Presi-
dent Cleveland is regular in his sleeping
and can not sit up all night. This may ex-
plain why Mr. Cleveland is still single
man.
FLOATING sawmills are common on the
lower Mississippi. They pick up the
drifting logs, turn them into lumber, anG
sell the product to planters along tn
shore.
BY her marriage the Princess Beatrice
will become sister-in-law to her own niece,
the daughter of the Princess Alice, who
married the elder brother of Beatrices be-
trothed.
A CHIN-HoLDER has been invented FOR
violin players If it can be applied to the
fellow who is always Cabling during the
atrical performance the inventor will make
fortune.
A TYPE Settlers business is always
picking up, except when he is throwing
in" Then he exemplifies the ancient
do &c hot ~
increaseth."
LARGE numbers of colored people, who
emigrated to Kansas year or two ago,
now find the climate too severe, and are re-
ported to be leaving for New Mexico and
other points in the Southwest.
To Illustrate the changes in New Hamp-
shire weather, the Dover Republican say
that NJ. V. Falker plowed on The lst day
of January with a pair of nine hundred
pound horses, doing the work as easily as
in May, the ground being in fine condition.
The next day the mercury was below zero.
To get even with their doctors, two fam
lilies in Atlanta recently orDamented the
graves of their dead children with bottles
containing what remained of the medi-
cines prescribed hv the attending physi-
CLAUS. The bottles bore the druggists la
bells, the prescriptions and names of the
physicians.
AT the surgical clinics at Florida Uni
versity few days ago. tumor weighing
over five pounds was taken from the back
of colored boy, eight years old. The re-
moval of the tumor reduced the boys
weight one-fifth.