The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-20
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churches.
A PROSPEROUS year In the iron market ie
predicted. ~ . - t'-Aas''' "
The average age Of the British peer is
6fty eight E1r5 l.1 i5&t
TEE st. Paul Pioneer Prsss has eightlibel
suits on hand. - --.,s.-T "a
PORE LEO XIII has an income OF over
million year.
CHICAGO is to have elevated street cleo
Eical railroads.
DuN & Co. report 1O,637 business failures !
for the old year.
Two Chicago men pay $4,000 year for
9heir pews in church. " atis-,s-u,,. Z
WOMEN are admitted to practice as law
yers in the Oregon courts. iih'i ""o''''
LADY Was arrested three times in one
day at Detroit for drunkenness. - d.,
TEE German Government has ordered
census Of tramps in that country. bnHl15
BISMARCK, SO says French publisher,
charges twenty dollars for his autograph.
A MICHIGAN girl committed suicide when
shs found out that 1886 was not q leap
year.
PnAraIs chickens have this year appear
Cd In abundance In the valley Of the Col
erado. -.
ALrHouaH repeatedly urged Canon Far
rar firmly refuses to write 10 book about
America. ,,..t.t,f la. ,,a,,c.,, .f.St
IT is asserted that there are more col
leges in Ohio than in France and Germany
compineo, sd uiU filof qqd ~ tsu7 :.
n PAsrEuR, having conquered hydro
phobia, might now turn his attention TO
trichinosis. l,, .s,4.taC
NAsT's wife is said to be the original of
the figure Of Columbia which be depicts in
his cartoons. .,.t ..f ....,f ot ,.,,.
IT is probable that between February l
and June 30 there will be four bond calls Of
ten millions each. .t.f, sdt i,is -.
The number of commissions issued to
fourth GLASS .Postrh masters, since the 4th Of
March last, is 1895. Yoi ui.uo,-tH p.
Mrs. TALNAaE, the wife of the Brooklyn
preacher, lectures every Sunday to class
Of 800 women and men. !nnY JHl Ia y
The city government Of New York costs
t50,OOO,OO0 annually This amounts to the
sum of $3.50 per head. iO' .l"il '''ii 70
Two gluttons at Warsaw, Wis, ate buck
wheat cakes on wager. They both stop
ped on the ninety-first cake.
New ZEALAND, with population of about
100000 has debt Of nearly e3l, 100000, or
over $3.50 for each inhabitaat.
"JuLIET's TEAMS" is the name of new
correction much priced in Paris Each
globe has in it a drop Of brandy.
AN admirer of ex-senator Conklin has
sent that gentleman q barrel of chewing
gum, believing it will cure his dyspepsia.
SINCE the million and half dollar fire
in Detroit, the other day, the papers of that
city are crying; down with the wires.''
JOHN s. MORTON, of Arkansas, colOred
man, has been appointed to position in
the Postoffice Department at Washington.
NATURAL gas has the curious effect of
hardening salt While salt will put out .
coal fire, 1t adds to the flame of natural
gas.
PETER B. SWEENEY, Tweed's old pard,
who has just returned to this country, pro-
poses to resume his practice of law in New
York
In 1885 the United States lost by death
twelve scientists Of note, England lost
fourteen, France thirteen and Germany
sixteen.
SIR WALTER RALEleR's original tobacco
pipe which excited the disgust of Queen
Elizabeth was sold recently at auction in
London.
LEADING Cherokees are endeavoring to
set aside lease Of six million acres In the
Nation, made in 1883, to prominent Western
cattle men.
GERMAN soldiers are such good gymnasts,
it is said, that they can scale twenty foot
walls or clear ironspiked fences without
getting caught. iE .H.
JOSEPH PULITZER, Of the New York World,
recently purchased 100000 worth Of Gov
eminent bonds. Joseph has the World and
wants the earth.
IT is estimated that the depredations of
the British sparrOws in England last year
will reach $4,OoO,0Oo, and that they are
great nuisances
The new umbrellas of elliptical shape to
accommodate two persons are called
''match-makers" by the people of Berlin
who carry them.
The New York police arrested during the
year 1885, n, 372 persons, against 70,243 in
1854 During the year there were 2,1lt
alarms Of fire, and 2,4l7 fires,
NINE. BARRros, widow Of the late Pref
dent of Guatemala, is spending the white,
in New Orleans. She has a fortune of s.
10000, and said to be very handsome
TIE new British man-of war Camper
down, built Of steel, at cost Of e2,S7J, 600
il the heaviest ship ever launched In Eng
land Il will be three years before - IL
ready for sea.
In . recent speech of Senator Beck's OF
the Hoar Presidential Succession Bill oc
ours single sentence containing two-hun
dred and forty-one words. Whewi it a
most takes ones breath.
A YOUNG man in Independence, No., is in
speculiar strait He wants to marry q
girl, but can not get license, as she is an
orphan Of seventeen, and has no guardian
"a nonenity, in short, in the eyes Of thu
law. HH
A CHINESE syndicate recently offers
$4,000, 600 for the Palace Hotel in San Fran
cisco, and were prepared to pay 8, 5co, 00(
but finally concluded that the investmen
would be an unwise one at the presen
time
CONSCIENCE" money to the amount o
two hundred and fifty dollars was receive,
st the Treasury Department a few DAYS ag
in letter postnarked Memphis, Tenn.
also thirty-two dollars from resident o