The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-11-27
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meet at Toronto, Ont.
GEORGE M. PULLMAN Is worth $15, ,000, 900
in the Chicago tax list. /
THE proposed exh ibition at Brussels in
1883 has been abandoned.
MRS. VICTORIA SCHlLLINa, nee Morislni,
has been found--in Europe.
TwENTy-NINE postmasters earned less
than dollar piece last year.
The official census of Prussia shows
population of q, ,3lS, ,45S persons
KANSAS CRY has contracted for $500, 900
fire-proof board of trade building.
A NEBRASKA court is asked to decide the
question: what's in sausagew
A MEMORIAL history of the Jews In Amer
lea is proposed, to be issued in 1892.
A Two-PouND nugget of virgin gold has
been found in Transylvania County, N. G.
The city of Glasgow is to raise monu-
ment to Burns Highland Mary at Dunoon.
BILLIARD CLOTH green seems to have been
generally decided upon as a fashionable
color.
CHARLESTON has sent a contribution of
clothing and money to the Sabine Pass suf-
ferers
INSURANCE policies on the Thanksgiving
turkey are too near out to be safe invest
ments.
New YORK has the tobogganing craze.
This will be the chief amusement this
winter.
The red man is an expensive luxury.
Over $24,0OO,0O0 was expended upon him
last year.
A AsTovE-PoLIsH PBDDLER choked to deati
on Kansas City restaurant beefsteak the
other day.
"FIvE hundred tall ladies to wear rubbe,
cloaks as an advertisement are wanted in
New York.
A MARYLAND paper is moved to sympa-
thy for citizen who had "two of his legs
cut of by train"
The strike at the Chicago stockyards is
said to have cost those INDUCED in it no
less than $4,000 day.
The life of Syracuse lady was savedby
her corset. It caught bullet on She fly
which was aimed at her heart.
A HOPEFUL old citizen of Irwin County,
Ga. hes just married for the fifth time, the
latest bride being grandmother.
THE MASSACHUSETTS Supreme Court has
decided that the BARRIERS Of that State
must close their shops on Sunday.
| BILL providing for the application Of
the a b to wife-beaters has been intro
duced into the Alabama Legislature. a
A MONUMENT to Ovid, the Latin poet, is
being erected at Constandia Ovid has
n inn 70
LORD LoNsDALE's and Violet Cameron's
experience in this country tells the rakes
| of Europe that the American sta 20 has no
use for such.
| As THE statue of Liberty is now the
property of the United States, New York
does not hold herself responsible for the
| lighting of the torch.
| COLONEL P. DoNAU recently brought to
New Orleans from Honduras an opal which
is said to be the second largest in the world.
1t is as big as hens egg.
The inventor of the locomotive cow
catcher is living in Cincinnati compara-
lively poor, having received very small
amount for his invention.
Mr.. RorERT TREAT PAINE is building O
number of small dwelling houses in Boston
which he intends to sell at cost to deserving
people of moderate means
A DISHONEST welry peddler was mobbed
at Ann Arbor, Mich. He took refuge in q
hotel and the fire department was called
out to dsperse the crowd with cold water
The total official valuation of persona
property for tax purposes in New Yorl
City, is only s2l7,OOO,OOO, which is probably
not more than one-fourth of the actua
value.
AN Austrian who calls himself Winklee
meier is visiting London. He is eight fee
six inches in height, and is one of the TALES
men who have lived since the days of tn
Anakin.
A NEW worm is in 'esting the apple cro]
about New Brunswick, N. J. 1t looks lik
a coarse hair, and varies from two to fv,
inches in length. 1t lodges in the core an,
eats outward.
A MUsCATINE, a., man sent his brother
tombstone as a birthday present, recently
but the ungrateful recipient refused to pa
the express charges, SO the donor had t
send the amount.
In one respect the next Congress will b
. an Improvement on the last--it will cor
! tain member of the Smith family. Hi
front name is Henry and he is the Labo
representative of the Fourth Wisconsi
J district.
The Japanese national flag consists c
, the weather signal for high temperature.
1t is not certain whether this is intended a
a threat to all enemies of the might
hosts of Titipu, "or expresses the celebrate
japanese motto, "It's cold day when W
. get left"
; A CALL has been made for Conventio
!. Of the Trades Unions of the United State
: : and Canada to be held at Columbus O
9 commencing December g. The object
: trades congress.
. The nurse of the baby Alfonso XIII, ,
y Spain, is a famous girl now. When IL
I royal youngster received his three decor
tions from the King Of Portugal she e,
\ = claimed: Now trust his little Majest
j, will keep his nose clean"
= THE original letter written by Renedi
{ Arnold to the American people in vindic
! tion of his character, after the atteinptt
/, betrayal Of his country into the hand,
, the British, was found in an old loft
3 Kingston, n. y, the other day.
SUGAR iu its coarse state, called ''goor
5 has heen used in India from tins immem
I rial as an ingredient IN mortar hasoa
ceme3ted wlsh bis mortar has leso know
to de erY eff'It nf plck 1ul ste-:} n
to yield cni- o his-;ing wneu il haa bs'
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