The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-12-04
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divorce recently.
The latest piece Of slang in New York |
City is 'foddering up"
HAWAII, with only 60, 600 inhabitants, pays
her King sS5, 0O0 year. /
A PHILADELPHIA sign reads: 'Teeth
pulled whilo you wait"
ONE-THIRD of Jay Gould's daily mail 10
composed of begging letters
PLATT COUNTY, ILL.,, has no money in the
treasury and is four cents in debt.
THERE is strong talk of organizing a
lea ue of colored baseball players
COCAINE was $500 an ounce. Now any
body can 60 crazy on it at So an ounce.
Ten thousand cattle are killed in New
York City every week fer food purposes.
A BOY in Tennessee has mouth which he
can open to the extent of nearly six inches.
lr is said that one-third of the children
of the Mormons in Utah are outspoken inf
dels.
ST. LOUIS man estimates that Pull.
man sleeper nets the company $3.50 q
year.
LITTLE bedpost bells rung by electricity
are now used to awaken heavy sleepers in
Belgium.
AS much as fifteen cents each is paid for
jack rabbit scalps by county authorities on
the Pacific Coast-
PRESENT indications point strongly to-
ward the nomination of Labor Presiden-
tial candidate in 1888.
The Gar has decided against compelling
n rQ1nctOn nf tho In ~,
order to improve trade
a PETITION in favor Of reviving the tax
upon bachelors in France has been present
ed to the Chamber of Deputies
JAY GOULD believes, as the result of his
own experience, that ''men appreciate their
own earnings more than gift"
DooR'KNoCKs of the ldfashioned kind
are once more appearing on tho doors of
fashionable New York residences.
PROGRESSIVE jack-straw parties are TAX
ing the place of progressive euchre parties
in fashionable Louisville society.
BosToN has coined word for the women
who wear birds plumage upon their hats.
They are called "birdicidal women"
SOME ladies' boots shown in Boston
shop-window are 500 pair. The buttons
look like diamonds, but arn't, Of course.
Count MoLTKE invariably begins each
day with visit to his wife's tomb, a
practice he has observed ever since her
death.
FfETY ONE emigrarts from South Caro-
lima to Arkansas recently gave the fear of
the earthquakes as their reasons for de-
parture.
} The news comes from Paris that Mrs
Mackay compels her dressmakers to pledge
their words that her dresses shall not be
duplicated.
New HAMPSHIRE ministers boycotted the
Governors Thanksgivingpro be-
cause it contained no reference to Su-
preme Being.
AT the end of 1877, $50 telephones existed
in the United States, and at the end of 1885
there were 325,570 telephones and 7S2 tele-
phonic exchanges.
A COURT in Athens, Ga, had its atten-
ton absorbed the other day by suit
brought by one colored girl against an.
other for ten cents.
AN ample volume of compilations from
DR.. Talmage's sermons and writings will
shortly be issued under the title of "Shots
at Sunday Targets"
A HEN whose head and mouth are de-
scribed as being in striking resemblance Of
a snakes is classed among the possessions
of Pensacola (Fla.) man.
JOHN JACOB AsToR is rated at $3.50, nO0, O0O
and is probably the richest man in Amer
ica. William Waldorf Astor the ex-Miu-
lister to Italy, is his only son.
THE stomach of several cattle which
| died near Whitmore, Ia, were found to be
lined with mud taken in with the filthy
water they were compelled to drink
Mr.. F. GOODMAN, aged seventy-six, and
Mrs. Mary Ireland, aged sixty-eight, Of
Pennington, Ia, had to rua away from
their children in order to get married.
1.-THE father of the forest" in Tulars
County, Cal, is the largest tree in the
State. It is $50 feet high and measures JIG
feet around tho trunk. 1t is a chestnut
THE Emperor William and the Empress
| Augusta will hereafter confer medals II
distinction upon aged couples WHO
celebrate their golden or diamond we'd.
dings.
The locomotive whistle now wakens the
COLLINS of Mammoth Cave. The railrosd
has got there, and civilization takes formel
possession of the largest known hole in toe
ground.
TIE Indian and Colonial Exhibition, jug,
closed in London, after having been opsr
for six months and half, was enormously
successful, its visitors having numbered
$3.50, 749.
The fact that paper devoted to tricy
cling published in London has over thous
and female subscribers indicates that tn
sport is extremely popular among womel
in England.
A MAN of Springfield, d. T., went to sleel
by the roadside. When he awoke he WA
astonished to find that wagon had rul
over his leg and broken it, The leg was
wooden one.
WHEN Mrs. Mahala- Buett Lawrence, o
Warsaw, N. Y, celebrated her ninetietl
birthday recently five of the guests wer
ladies aged ninety, eigaty-nine, eighty
seven, eighty-three and eighty.
AWEsTERN man advertised that he woul
for ono dollar mail informat ton that woul
make food entirely unnecessary. A citizel
Of Jordan, Canada, seat his dollar, and b.
return ma got the directions: Take
desc of poison"
RoswELL BEARDsLEY, who has been post
ma ter at North Lansing, Tompkins Cour
ty, y. Y. since JuEs, 1928, is the oldes
postmaster in tie service. The compenss
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