The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-10-20
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PREsipENr GREvY contradicts the report.
Of his i'll health.
COMPETITION has reduced the fare in Lon
don buses to one penny.
RENTS are lowering in London at re-
markable rate, it is said.
BARN-sToRMING shows are coming to
grief eli over the country.
THE visit of the Galatea to this country
cost Lieutenant HEM $4,000.
The newest shirts have got back to the
old plan Of buttoning In front.
Ara Newport MUSHROOM hunting party,
. gent fell and mashed 1850 watch
M. CHEvREUL, the one hundred -year-old
French chemist, can read in the dark.
il. CASE, tho owner of Jay Eye See, is
worth s5,0O0,00O, and began life as black.
smith.
OBJ FELLOWS talk some of removing the
seat of the order from Baltimore to Colum.
bus, o.
The st. Paul ice-palacs has been located
again and is to surpass in grandeur that OF
last year. E
GENERAL SHERMAN says he never voted in
his life and he never expects to vote or be
voted for.
The visible globe of the sun, according
to Prof. Proctor, is !, 250, 900 times Is large
rs the earth.
THERE are sixty million standard dollars
in circulation, with eighty.five million in
the Treasury. ~
The Episcopal Church will celebrate thu
centennial anniversary Of its formal or
ganization in 1889.
M. GREW has q gift from the King Of
Abysinia- two loving lions and four buffa.
loes with silken coats.
c. G. BULLARD, a Kalamazoo mich. eel.
cry grower, has shipped 5S1 tons of that
crisp article this season.
THERE are fifteen men under tho age Of
thirty years in Portland, Ore, who are
worth over million dollars.
The water in the artesian we'll at Bell
Plaine, Ia, is strong enough to throw out
a boy who fell into it recently.
GENERAL BoULANGER saves the French
Treasury $500, 1000 annually by abolishing
compulsory shaving In the army.
The fashion of wearing NO jewels il, of
course, English. There 1t is the fashion to
reserve the display Of jewels for the even
ing.
some Boston women get their hats
checked in the cloak rooms of the theaters,
and sit through the performance without
them.
In taking down chimney of tho old
Blouse Of Seven Gables" on Turner street,
Salem, pine tree shilling of the date 1862
was found.
QUAILs have become SO plenty in one
place in Petaluma valley that the owner
has been killing them of on account of the
damage done to grapes.
A valuable find of gold is reported from
British Columbia, near the Alaska line,
and it Is said $4,000 of the precious metal
has been already taken out.
WHEN John Adams was President he
bought billardtable in France, had it set
up in the White House and sent the bill to
Congress, says the Washington Post
AN Eldorado iowa imam by mistake paid
out twenty-dollar gold piece for theater
ticket. The ticket seller hunted him I'D in
the audience and restored the money.
PRINEvILLR is the only county seat in
Oregon, and in fact the only one in the
United States, that is wholly without any
school district organization Of any kind
The use of natural gas has led to the
manufacture Of mirrors in Pittsburgh. Up
to this time all mirrors manufactured in
the United States have been from import
ed glass.
If you want to know whether man is
an actor wait until he says .my wife, II
he speaks it as we have written it applaud
him; il he says Tine wy-e-u-ph" throw
things at him.
A DAKOTA widow sold her land claim for
ahorse, and when the buyer plated town
and made $50, 600 in q year she came for.
ward with breach of promise suit, which
is still pending,
THE newest shopping-bag is the best OF
all; the porte monnaie is inside, the slit fol
handkerchief outside; has strap to fasten
in front, with a tiny pocket book fol
change, car tickets, etc.
Mr.. BEECHER recently declared, in q
lecture at Gateshead, England, that ht
never yet had spoken in hall where 1,OO(
persons could breathe comfortably for an
hour and half together.
A FLORIDA negro who was nipped by q
shark says the sensation was 'sunthin' Xix,
Q Teller gwine ter stick a lot of red no,
spikes into yer foot to make ye own up tc
whar dem chickens went to-"
The Emperor of Germany is subject tt
frequent attacks of somnolence, which, hi,
physicians say, if allowed to last Longer
than is absolutely necessary to allow hin
to rest, might result in death.
THE Gar has been travelling and the Gus
tomary plot to blow up his train has beer
discovered What . large amount o.
money and energy is wasted in unsuccess
full attempts to blow up the Gar.
REPORTS from Yellowstone Park say tina,
game Of all kinds is increasing rapidly un
der protection. The herd of elk when they
get beyond the limits of the park and ars
shot at at once break for the park, and
when they reach their shelter seem to know
that they are protected, and lie down OF
20 to feeding.