The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-09-15
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eight hundred square miles.
ENGLAND, according to latest reports, has
10000 more women than men.
AsTRoLoGERs are about to pick out
wife for the Emperor Of China.
A PHILADELPHIA beauty lately dazxlsd
Saratoga with s9oo, 900 in gems.
ABOUT 100 persons climb to the top Of
Washington Monument every day.
A suNYIowsa forty five inches In circum-
ference II blooming near Traver, Cal.
THERE are just soS colleges in the United
States, one for every day in the year.
WHEN the period of deep mourning is
over English women wear gray gloves.
Two Rocks and i've little TICKS is the
description Of "a Chicago family Of seven.
THB star6sh in Long Island Sound have
eaten over 80, 600 bushels Of oysters in one
bed.
ALL. the cannon foundriss Of Europe are
overrun with orders and working day and
night. E&
A CHrNANAN in Chico, Cal, has . big
black bear which he saddles and rides like
horse.
MINNIE WILSON, pretty maid Of sixteen
drives the stage between Minor and Hame-
line in Dakota.
ABRAHAM LINcoLN's funeral car is now
section hands boarding car on the Central
Pacific railroad
A rAxs bear at Ithaca, Mich, fatally bit
and clawed q little hve-year-old daughter
Of W. H. Bsasly.
ABOUT $1,000 cattle will be driven into
the Canadian northwest from tho United
States this season.
DURING . wind storm ut Rock Island a
valuable horse was choked to death by
heavy cloud Of dust. ~ ~.
GOLD bricks are to be used as the founda-
ton of throne to be built at San-hai for
the Chinese Emperor.
HUNoR does not pay in the Northwest.
Humorist Fred Carruth has found it neces-
sary to sell the Estelline Bell
A ST.. LOUIS moustache II worth $500.
That is the amount sued for by man who
lost his through practical joke.
A MRS. WHITMoRE, of Bar Harbor, .
dress-maker, is said to be heir to an estate
valued at s2OO, 0OO, 00O in England.
EIGHT Of the original thirteen of the EN-
erton family Of Bucksport, Me-, are living,
and their combined ages are SO7 years.
One of General Phil Sheridan's old scouts
has just sent him from Utah gift of a par
ticularl lively wildcat in fighting order.
A BROOKLYN man worth s15,00O,O 900 has
just died from the effects of an afdiction
similar to that visited upon the historical
job
CUTTING has his good points. He says he
does not intend to be so ungrateful to the
American people as to 60 on lecturing
tour. ,-r .,I.tl1a.lt
The meeting Of the scientists at Buffalo
has decided that men who think live thirty
three years longer than those who do not
think. % F i"'
tn. Smiths had Q reunion ct Pespack,
at the headwaters of the Raritan river, the
other day, and there was 5000 of them re-
ported '
Nh. g. B. FARMER, Of Morrisburgh, Can,
has covered trunk sls years old. 1t was
lmade in the year 1874 In the reign Of
Charles IL ....
The Duke Of Newcastle intends to make
. two year1' tour around the world. He
win leave England late in September for
the United States. 4,.,, o ..4is, /,
THE late Mrs. Ann 8. Stephens, the ia
NOUS novelist, was the first woman to send
q telegraphic dispatch under the ocean via
the Atlantic cable. agtt a4 .s
BUFFALO is to have the largest clock In the
world. The dial will be twenty-av feet in
diameter, and the center of the dial will be
S61 feet above the street.
A MAILBAG lost in Lake Pepin Minnesota,
four years ago has been recovered at
Maiden Rock. Several letters and money.
orders were recovered and delivered.
TEE consumption of lead pencils in this
country is estimated at $4,000 day. This
is at the rate Of one per day to every 100 Of
population, or about Is, 0oo, 900 year.
One Meadville Pa) editor refers pleas.
antly to another as 1.-THE spook eyed stool
pigeon that nops his ears at the CAD flies in
the alleged editorial rooms Of the 7sib-
une." .-e.,.. A..
A NAuaAruCK man saw something green
In . cake Of ice and split the cake open.
The thing was frog which, after an hour
or two in the sunlight, hoped about Wig.
orously. 4. .t
A CALIFORNIA COW swallowed o stick
twenty inches long and nearly an inch
thick, and In due course of time it worked
its way out Of her side without doing her
much damage. aas ..f
JAMES GARNER. an English railway
porter, whose wages were but nineteen
shillings per week, has just died, leaving
$4,000 as the uresult of accumulated tips
from passengers. a...
HUNDREDS OF acres Of ground at Big Flat,
Cal, were covered with very small frogs
after . heavy shower the other day. The
little fellows wezu not larger than crickets
and just as lively. Ha
NEW buildings in New York city are going
up at q wonderful pace. During the first
six slonths Of ises 1000 plans were Hled for
permits to build, and during the same
period this year the number was 2,40a
AGNES GLOVER, the eighteen-year-old
daughter of the Rev. Elijah v. Glover, Of
Hoddenfeld, Pa, was paralyzed while
kneeling by her bedside in prayer. She
was found there unconscious, and died not
long afterward.
Mr.. GEORGE CASEY has in his green
house at Auburn a century plant that Is
thirty feet high and the stem is siy inches
thick at the base. 1t has thirty-two Iower.
ing branches, with over 5000 buds and