The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-09-01
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BUcKBoARDs are fashionable vehicles at
Bar Harbor, Me.
NEARLY 5000 bathers use Brooklyn's free
baths each week.
IT has already cost 500 900 to try the Chi
cago anarchists.
A BROOKLYN professor advertises that he
will remove tattooes.
SAN Francisco has a population Of Chi
nese numbering 10000
OVER one thousand canal boats are tied
up in New York harbor.
THE railroads Of all Asia are not equal in
mileage to those Of Illinois.
A BABE was born recently in the peni-
TENT, y at Anamosa, Iowa.
A CHURCH was disposed of by rattle at
Kewanee, ILL.,, few days ago.
BosToN is trying noiseless pavement OF
granite blocks set on concrete.
Mr.. SHEBAYAMA FUNAKI YosHII, Of Japan,
is coming over here for a SPELL
In museum in an Arizona town are pre-
served the heads Of seventeen Apaches
Four new churches are building at
St. Paul, Mimi, at an expense of $3.50, 900.
Miss STAUFFER, to whom Mr.. Tilden, in
admiration, left 100000, is summering at
Vichy.
NATHAN B. MOORE, Maine hunter, aged
sixty-eight, has killed 275 moose since his
youth.
TUp otiCu otto oloecos oro ~ ;,,uor<. n =
part Of the instruction in girls schools in
Japan.
NINE. PATTI has given 81, 800 to the Swan
sea Hospital. She made the money at two
concerts. -
The number Of railroad passenger trains
now arriving and departing from Chicago
daily is SCI.
ANARRow street in Nogales, A. T., is the
dividing line between the United States
and Mexico.
THE courts Of New York, Connecticut
and Wisconsin have all declared boycotting
. misdemeanor.
THE new one dollar silver certificate soon
to be issued will bear the portrait Of Mar
tina Washington.
Now that the President has gone to the
Adirondacks ofice-seekers can take to the
woods for awhile.
The annual production of sewing-ma-
chimes allows one for every 800 civilized
people on the globe.
SENATOR JONES, of Florida, is going to
hang out his law single in Detroit, shing.
ular as it may seem.
DOLLY PAGE HosMER, aged 100 years (the
usual Bible record to show for it), died in
Boston the other day.
AMovEMENT is on foot for the erection of
monument to Butcher, the celebrated
Prusian general, at Caub.
A YOUNG lady who shook hands with the
President the other day proposes to have
the glove she wore stuffed.
New YORK CRY will have twenty seven
theaters Counting two opera-houses and
variety-show places) this season.
ENGLISH capitalists offer to invest $780,.
100000 in railways in Peru, the lines to run
to the rich mining districts of that country
CoTToN was cultivated in India $50 years
before Christ, and was gathered from the
field by hand, exactly as it is being done
to-day.
THIS, from a Connecticut insurance
agents Office door slate for brevity; "Gone
to bury my wife; VII be back in thirty
minutes"
d "a ~, To- d.
l., which has been practically dead for five
years, is enjoying boom, the greatest
since 1881.
MRS. CLEVELAND is said to write on al
average about twenty letters day, mos
of them in reply to communications from
entire strangers.
They arrested gentleman in Newpor
the other day for blowing the horn on hi
tally-ho coach. You can't 60 on toot an,
more in Rhode Island.
THE deposits made by the people of New
York City during the past eight months il
the savings banks showed an increase O
100000 over those Of the preceding pc
riod.
AT Allentown, Pa, q high school CIR
did the sensationally handsome thing b,
getting married before the assembled spec
.tators at the close Of the graduating exer
cises.
AN Albany speculator is said to be max
ing good deal of money by purchasing
Canadian silver in New York at 20 pc
cent. discount and circulating it at hom
at par.
JANE WYcoFF, . colored woman, o
Wilkesbarre, Pa, is 105 years old, and uu
hesitatingly declares that she never was
servant Of George Wa hington and neve
saw him.
Mr. TLDEN once admitted that he neve
once faced an audience or rose in court tina
stage fright did not seize him. He trie
every device to cure himself, but it coul
not be done.
BISHOP RILEY paid s35, 900 for the Pro-
estant Episcopal Church property in tn
City of Mexico, and now the same proI
erty has value Of 81, 0O0, 900, so great ha
been the increase.
OUT in Denver they have been having
serious time trying to devise means to col
serve the flow OF streams which come dow
from among the foothills, and supply tn
irrigation bitches.
In one of the executive departments Q
Washington there is employed watcl
man at $50 per month, man who held til
rank of general in the Union army durin
the last campaign.
WITHIN the past five years houses d,
signed for two families, and permitting c
complete isolation, have gone up in s.
Louis by the hundreds.