The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-07-24
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The population of Minneapolis is now
over 147,S0O.
BANCROFT has 1000 rose bushes in his |
Newport Garden.
ONIONS from Egypt are being sold in the |
streets of Boston.
The Fourth of July will not come on Sun
day again until 1897.
ALBANY, N Y, is the oldest town in tho |
old thirteen colonies.
THERE is one horse to every six inhabi- |
tants in this country.
The new Prohibition law is closing up the
big hotels in Rhode Island.
THOMAS DUANE, Of Brighton, Mich,
snapped rib by sneezing too robustly.
A DEPOSIT of genuine meerschaum has
been found on the beach near Yaquina
Oregon.
The vein of iron ore discovered at Ne.
gaunee, Mich, turns out to be $50 feet in
thickness.
CHOLERA seems to have found the condi-
lions favorable for widespread harvest of
death in Italy.
LAST year 279,0O0,0OO stamped envelops
were sold by the Government. They were
worth IS, 773,0OO.
A PEKIN, Qll) girl won chewing gum
contest by wagging her jaws six thousand
times in sixty minutes.
A YOUNG man at Nevada City undertook
TO eat two dozen eggs at one sitting, but
gave up after eating twenty-one
The opinion in Washington appears to
be that Congress will hardly reach an ad-
journment before the list of August.
KATIE GOOD, eleven years old, carriesa
ladder and lights street lamps in Lancaster
She says she does it to help her pop"
The late mad King of Bavaria made his
valet wear black mask for year, as a
punishment for some imaginary offense.
A BABE was seriously poisoned at Santa
Barbara, Cal, by sucking green veil that
was used for the purpose of screening the
cradle.
OUT of 500 convicts on Blackwell's Island,
only three-Herr Most, Braunschweig and
Schenck, the narchists-refuse to go to
church.
FORTY or fifty farmers in the vicinity Of
Centralia, ILL.,, discouraged by the failure
of their crops, will sell out and go in a
body to Oregon.
MRS. s. L. BALDWIN, of East Boston, a
returned missionary from China, has petit
toned Congress to allow her to import
Chinese servant
THE young Emperor of China is reported
i'll with consumption, and the whole empire
will soon be beating gongs to brighten
away the dragon.
THERE were six births in the Storage Of
the steamer Hammonia, which arrived at
New York the other day, during her voy-
age from Bremen.
Mr.. WILMoTT, an English expert, says
that six and half tons of diamonds have
been dug up in South Africa, and these cut
are valued at $2Oo,OOO,00O.
THE flatness of Denmark is something re-
markable, geographical survey hav.
ing shown that the loftiest mountain of the
country is only 5S5 feet high.
RECENT investigations by Dr. James
Cameron and Prof. Barlow show that COWS
have scarlatina, and communicate the dis
ease to those who drink their milk.
A cLAM-oPENER in Westchester, Pa, res
taurant, found live mouse among his
clans the other morning, one clam holding
it securely by foot and another by the
tail.
THERE were 246 earthquakes recorded
last year. Only six are put down for the
United States. The fact is, we are about
out of earthquakes, but we have plenty OF
cyclones.
A BRONZE pot with about $1,000 English
silver coins in it has been found in digging
for the foundation of a building in Aber
deem, Scotland. The coins are of the reigr
of Edward l.
APACHE women are so fiendishly barbar
Gus as to compel little children to share il
the mutilation and torture of prisoners, il
order to cultivate in them taste for bloody
acts of cruelty.
A STONE plow which weighs upward o
800 pounds, and bearing resemblance t.
the sort Of agricultural implements usec
in ancient Egypt, was found in quarry a
Milford, N j., few days ago.
THE Royal Academy of Belgium offers
prize of 5000 for the ablest paper on treat
ment of nervous diseases, especially witt
view for remedy for epilepsy. Here
chance for fame and money.
J. c. BANKS, of Olney, ILL.,, caught a lam
turtle in 1865 and cut his initials on tn
shell. Recently he found the same turtl
in his garden, within short distance o
the place where he saw it twenty one year
ago.
NINE. GovULL, aged ia years, and fol-
merly maid of honor at the Court of En-
peror Paul l., was buried recently in tn
cemetery of Smolensk, Russia. Benin
the hearse with firm step walked tn
younger sister Of the deceased, aged II
years.
AN English traveller at hotel i
Halifax has a curiosity in the shape Of
South American bug, with small gol
band around it, to which it is attached b
chain to a pin. He says he has carrie
the bug for six months and it is still alive
and living on rotten wood.
The colored-shirt mania is becomin
acute and is rapidly getting beyond COZ
troll in New York. The proudest man
town to-day is the one who parades Broac
way with literally exposed shirt bosor
formed of a background of seagreer
splashed with red roses and occasional a
rows of a light shade of pink, with big
white collar and purple tie.
BETSY MOODY, of Cape Elizabeth, Me
known as woman "who never fretted,
died recently, aged 105. The moral a
xachad 70 this ipcidapt 10 opa tbot oould I