The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1885-01-08
Odds.And Ends.

ONN0 .&AAhN AAsA<s0'
Florida will raise 3,O00,OO0 boxes
OF oranges thisseason.
In politics the loser gets the same
returns a. the winner.
Kircher originated the germ
theory Of diseases 200 years ago.
The word Mugwump came origi-
nally from George Elliot's Indian
Bible.
Illinois has 222,47l farms, Ohio
257,1S9, and New York 24l,O5S.
Opium increased Is per cent. in
price since the Chinese war.
Frank Chanfrau, the actor, left a
hundred and sixty thousand dollars
to his wife.
Australia wants o new harvest
Ing machine, and offers $1,000 re-
ward for an inuention.
A hundred thousand dollars are
lett in charity by the will of the late
Baron R0thschild.
Infant mortality in France is
computed at from 20 to % per cent.
of the population.
The proprietors of the Century
magazine prints 100, 600 copies of the
December number.
Three hundred arrests have been
made in connection with the latest
plot to murder the Car.
The Health Exhibition recently
closed In London achieved sure
success. Its profits were 100000.
General John Newton asks $780,
200 for the defence of Boston Har-
Dor by the construction Of turrets.
The drinking habit Is greatly In
creasing in Germany, and saloons
are multiplying with feestnl rayldi.
ty. ~ g,s. e IN
The culture of salmon in Maine is
a success. Over 1O0OOO,OOO eggs will
be taken there for propagation.
The fruit crop Of this country, ac-
cording to Mr.. Marshall p. Wilder,
is worth q hundred and forty mill
lions . year.
There are over 5000 miles ofover-
head wires in New York city, and
122 miles of streets are defaced by
them.
Paris is to have an elevated road
In time for the exhibition Of 1889.
Fifteen miles will be in operation
by that time.
st. Paul's Church, London, is said
to be in a filthy condition, and is
worse kept than the smallest vii
lage church in Italy.
Ten years ago CLAIMS were un.
known in California waters. Now
there are millions of them dug on
that coast annually.
The population of the United
States increases at the rate of 81
per cent. every ten years. 1t will
be 8S,OOO,OOO in 1900.
This year for the first time, it Ii
said, the Zulus have had the whole
Bible translated for them into theil
own language.
A drug trade journal is advertis
ing a new patent medicine which i.
declared to be "the only specific fol
the fear Of lightning"
The amount of money now in thu
United States, both paper and coin
has now reached the comfortabl,
sum Of 81, 800, 100000.
The Baroness Coutts Is loaninf
distressed Irish fishermen money
for the purchase of boats, thereby
saving them from starvation.
One hundred miles in seven hours
land eleven minutes, the fastest HI
cycle time yet made, is the recort
of Mr.. George Smith, Of London.
/ The Seckel pear was a Seeding
on the ground of a farmer of Bur
lington, New Jersey, Of the name o
Seckel, some seventy-five years ago
/ The Russians are to substitute
the residuum of naphtha for coal a
| a fuel. It has much more heat Civ
ing properties and il easier to han
die and transport.
4 1t is 3,O2S miles from New Yorl
city to Mexico by one line Of rail
way and 3729 by the other. B.
water it is nearly twice that dis
ltance.