The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-21
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ise to summer resorts.
RHODE ISLANDS prohibitory law il re.
ported to be full Of flaws
IT 10 stated that several more American
Cardinals are soon to be created.
CHOLERA is spreading with great rapidity |
and deadliness in Southern Japan.
Francis MURPHY, the temperance apostle,
is to marry lady Of Newcastle, Pa.
A PErRIYIED ham has been found in Q
gravel-pit at Oak Hill, near Peoria, ILL.,
A CHILD was born recently in Williams
burg, Pa, which had beard an inch long.
Two HUNDRED THOUSAND tenants are
wanted in Paris for the apartment houses
SENATOR STANFORD says ''there is room
In California for fifteen millions Of people"
YALE College, after an existence of =
couple Of centuries, IL about to become .
university.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES delights III
handling the oar even at his present adj
vanced age.
Mr.. BEECHER has taken an active interest
In the politics Of England. He has joined
the Gladstone forces.
BANANARcHlsTs are defined by the Provi-
dence Star to be persons who cast banana
skins on the sidewalks.
Gas has been cheapened in New York, but
consumers complain that their bills are just
% big Is ever they were.
INSURANCE. COMPANIES will not insure
freight brak man. They regard his as the
most dangerous occupation.
The New York police department is going
to put in telephones. It pays at present
$4,000 year for kilograms.
MRS. ALLEN, Of Liverpool, has presented
Queen Victoria with q parasol Of satin
made by poor 'Irishwoman.
THERE have not been so many bears in
the Catskill Mountains for many . year
past as during the present season.
The desperate Canadians continue to
take into port such American fishing crafts
as cross certain imaginary line.
CAvALRr regiments in the Prussian army
are being CAREFUL. drilled in the art Of
swimming their horses across rivers.
WOMEN are employed Is guards at the
crossings of Prusbian State railways. They
are paid from twelve to nineteen cents per
day.
THERE is large Japanese colony in the
Hawaiian Islands A single steamer land.
ed 800 recently, the majority of whom were
women.
PHILADELPHIA syndicate has purchased
12,O00 acres Of what is said to be the richest
tract Of iron ore in Pennsylvania for ST.
100000.
THERE are about 5000 newspapers pub
lished in Asia, of which 1900 appear in
Japan, and most of the rest are published
in India.
IT is said that Peyon, the French lion
tanner, keeps his money in a box in the
lions cage. This is safer than an average
savings bank.
CAPTAIN ERICSSON, of Monitor fame,
though long past eighty years Of age,
spends an hour or two each day in gym
nastic exercises.
THE New York papers are moving to
have ice-cream inspected, in view Of the
fact that there are so many cases of poison
ing through its use.
A MEMBER Of a prominent Congressional
committee has written $1,000 letters to his
constituents since the Inauguration of the
new administration.
AN advertisement in an English paper
calls for cook, mo fringe, no beer" which
being interpreted meaneth no banged hair
allowed in the kitchen.
GEORGE BANCROFT, the historian, who i.
now in his sixty-sixth year, attributes his
phenomenal mental and physical vigor te
his daily exercise in the saddle.
THE number Of gigantic defalcations de
veloping during the past few days go tt
prove that the directors of certain largt
corporations are not doing their sworr
duty.
Roscoe CoNKLING walks, handles the In
dian clubs and boxing gloves, and other
wise disports himself like man who be
lieves that sound health depends upon ex
ercise
AN exch ange says that it is just as i'm
portant for girl to make good bread a
portant 70 tickle the palate as to tickle tn,
pa.ette.
ABOUT one hundred carloads of excur
sioDists went to Gettysburg on the Fourtl
aud encamped on the battlefield. Gen
eral Sickles reviewed dress-parade a
nightfall.
HENRY WARD BEECHER prayed within tn
Is f.
greater wisdom for the Queens counsel
ors." It is said the Tories will make CAP
ital out of it.
'TD HANG 'em first and try 'em after
ward" was the prompt reply of a Chicag
hardware merchant, whose qualification
for a juror. in the anarchist cases were un
der consideration.
ONE man appears likely to make his fol
tune out Of the dynamite bomb whic
played such havoc among the Chicag
policemen. A doctor, who appears to hav
had monopoly in the manner of treatin
the injured men, has sent in his bill TO
$S,Cc0.
PUBLISHED returns show large numbe
of persons that received State or parochia
relief in Prussia during the past year, tn
number assisted being more than 81 pc
cent of the population.
EDWARD PEYsoN WESTON, the profes
sional pedestrian, has walked $4,000 mile
during the last twenty years, and the Lon
don doctors pronounce him the heathies
man they have ever seen.
THE much-dressed heroine Of this year
summer resorts is five-year-old heiress o
millions. She has vita her over hundre
dresses many French hats n watch an