The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-12-22
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The orange crop has been dead failure
In Louisiana.
GENERAL o. o. HOWARD cries for dsfsases
for the Pacific coast.
OSE New York lady lays out 500 year
on items for pet dog.
PRAIRIE fires have devastated 100000
acres in Texas this year.
CONNECTICUT has 2O,7l4 acres of oyster
ground under cultivation.
NINE pearl peas, In . half open golden
pod, make now hair-pin.
Snow is lying two and one-half feet deep
in portions of New Hampshire.
In Lshigh County, Pa, turkeys are driver
b market in dr0ves, like cattle.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND saved about $25,.
90, from bis first years salary.
The Austrian government has prohibit
cd the American game Of poker.
'SUNsLr" Cox says it is like being In
1sradise to get back to America
CHICAGO has . toboggan slide 700 feet
Bong and Brooklyn one 200 feet high.
A MAN in Newfoundland claims to have
caught Goldfish weighing Il2 pounds.
A KEEN Chsrlsstonian 10 selling samples
81 earthquake sand for twenty-five cents.
TEE Prince Of Wales has est the fashion
Of wearing wide and curly brinmed hats
in England.
Parsons, the condemned Chicago Anar.
chist, is employing his time in prison wri.
ting political novel.
SIXTY sacks of delayed mail were re-
csived At Deadwood, OAK, by the first stage
aftsr the recent storm.
CERTAIN phr ses are peculiar to certain
times Of The year. The one that Is season
able now is "Shut that doori"
NEWSPAPERS which boastfully call them
se.ves ".amily journals" publish the Colin
Campbsll nastiness In all its details.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD says that the people
of New York pay tl00,Ooo annually for re-
oording the surplus words in their mort
cages.
The Ausquakie Indians, whose rsserva-
vatiOn Of l3O00 acres 10 situated about
three miles West Of Tams City, L., num-
Der 400.
THERE is blind boy in Brooklyn who
takes dictation ON q typewriter faster than
any known expert in the possession Of good
eyesight
The rsceip's of cotton ct Norfolk, Va. now
average over Sou bales per day, and the
season is expected to b the heaviest ever
experienced there.
ALL the prehistoric sepulchrss in Mexico
ere new doomed 70 dissertation. A solid
gold idol weighing fty pounds has been
found in one Of them.
THE German Rsichstag proposes to sub
stitute for duelng the casting Of lots, the
ieser to 60 quietly o6 by himself and care
fully commit suicide.
Two thousand yards of flannel have
been given to the aged poor Of Derry, N.
H., this fall, according to the bequsst Of the
late Sylvanus Brown.
ALvAN CLARKE, the venerable and "a
NOUS telescope maker Of Cambridge, Is
sighty-two years Of age, but hale and
hearty, and works regularly.
KINe HUMBERr, Of Italy, has sent to
President Cleveland copy Of . edition
OF Dante recently printed for Victor EN-
manuel, Italian Prince Royal.
A soopsIzED hog which jumped over
hoard in Lake Erie when the steamer was
. mile OF the shore landed in . little over
an hour in pretty good condition.
STALE bread may be made to renew it's
youth and become almost as palatsble as
fresh bread by relocating it In . covered
dish to prevent undue loss Of moisture.
PLOwINa and skating are both going on
in North Dakota. The weather this fall
has been SO dry that tho frost can not &c /
into the ground, it being thus loft loose for
The pillow.
FLIRTING with servant girls has led to
the dismissal Of one New Brunswick IN.
J.) police officer, and several other men,
bers Of the force are awaiting trial on the
same charge.
The lady who did tho whirlpool in bar
rel is not in receipt Of many offers from
museum managers. There has been over
production in the Niagara navigating in
Austry Of late.
The King Of Holland 10 an admirer Of
American institutions. He heats his pelace
Ut Amsterdam with an American base
burning coal stove, and he has his eye on q
tin eeg-pOacher.
CALIFORNIA Ia said to have sent q, 600
tons Of grapes to thu East this season.
The total crop Is est mated at 1850 tons,
worth IN an average so . ton, or %, $780,
600 in the aggregate.
EXPERIENCE SHOWS that in every case
where women have taken an active part in
the SOcialistic campaign their speeches
have been moro infsmnatory than those
Of the male agitators.
THEY say woman can rot keep 9 secret,
but commercial traveller il under arrest
In Washington charged with marrying q
whole family OF sisters without letting one
know his relations to the others.
AAspERo, the Psychologist, says 1t 10 all
Aumbug to claim that tho pyram ds Of
Egypt were long in CO 'struction. Three
or I ur years, he believes, sufficed for the
building Of tho highest Of them.
ENGLISH people are aghast ct sentence
recently pronounced BY an English clsrg,
man who was sitting as q magistrate An
old man sixty-nins years ofags was bruugh,
before him, accused of stealing Q SHIRT
He was at once sentenced BY the rever
END gentleman 70 i've years penal serv
titude.
A NOVEL attempt at suic' de. highly disa
lgreeable in its consequences, was that Of
lone Mrs. Carnahan, in Jamestown, N. Y,
who placed nine-pound can Of gun.pow
der in her lap and dropped into it u lighted
match. Mrs. Carnahan lost an eye and
destroyed tho house, but sic 10 still in "a.
land of the living
A QUILT containing 8, lss pieces Of calico
has just been com ,le'ed BY Mrs. Matte