The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-11-06
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San FRANCISCO has one hundred and four
m;liionaires.
THE hairless Mexican dogs are becoming
popular as pets.
MINNESOTA has special State Board for
the high schools.
THERE are 10000 Indians at the Cheyenne
Agency, Dakota.
FOURTEEN people can stand in the Statue
of Liberty's head.
PIERRE LoRnLARD has spent 81, 300, 900 on
Tuxedo Park, NJ.
The population of France has increased |
only 100000 in five years.
TIE fly and the mosquito are fast sliding |
into innocuous desuetude.
DEALERS predict that young ladies will |
shortly carry walking sticks.
MARK TWAIN and Bret Harte be an their |
literary careers as book canvassers.
RELICS OF an extinct race of red Indians |
have been found in New Foundland.
A STATUE to General Francis Meagher
will be erected at Waterford, Ireland.
AN Iowa insurance company offered 500 |
for the best plan TO tornado cave
In Spain less than twenty five per cent.
Of the population can read and write.
THE French Senate has passed bill pro.
viding for the sale Of the crown jewels.
ETCHING and printing on toadstools has
supplanted the fancy for enriching punk.
SAM JONES has got on the track of the
American sinner at last. He is in Canada
The Caterer asserts that rice pudding
should be made day previous, and put on
| ice.
GREECE, the oldest of the ancient classical
nations is about half the size of Pennsyl
/ vania
Two Japanese vases worth S1,5OO have
been given to the National Museum, Wash
/ ington.
THE horse population of New York is be-
tween $4,000 and 75,000, and that Of London
100000.
The detective guard at the tomb of the
late William H. Vanderbilt is to be kept on
all winter.
A GROWING demand is that sleeping-cars
for the use of women only be provided on
our rAilroads.
The black measles, said to be as fatal as
the smallpox, is raging among the Caua
dian Indians.
In st. Louis zoos pounds Of copper have
been used in making just one steam kettle
for brewery.
THE face of the Bartholdi statute is mod
eled after the artists mother, who still
lives in Alsatia.
MICHAEL DAvITT, the Irish patriot, is to
be married to Miss Yore, an heiress, who re-
sides in Oakland, Cal
IT is stated that Premier Mcdonald will
bring on general election for the Cana
dian Dominion this fall.
FIVE hundred tons of grapes are esti-
m ted to have been spoi ed by frost In the
vicinity Of Keuka lake, n. Y.
THE star-spangled banner is seen oftener
In the towns of ireland now than any other
flag, save, perhaps the green itself.
M. BARTHoLD1's last important act before
sailing for this country was to pay visit
to his octogenarian mother, at Alsacc.
THE Canadian Booksellers and Station
ers' Association of Canada has declared
war against American Sunday newspapers
ToBACCoNIsTs say that there is a remark
able falling of in the cigarette habits Of
New York. The pipe ia becoming the fash
ion again.
IT is said that Mrs. A. T. Stewards great
s3,OOO,00O marble palace at New York will
be changed into dry goods store, now that
she is dead.
JUSTICE COY, who recently died at Dams
vile, Mich, at the age of ninety-two years,
; once visited California, making the entire
journey on foot.
The Chicago street department has paved
] and otherwise improved forty-two miles of
streets during the last year. Five miles
more are to be paved.
, THE War Department has discontinued
the issuance of permits to land liquors into
Alaska for use of medicinal, mechanical
or scientific purposes.
THERE are in this country 100000 Indians
who are no more civilized than they were
: $50 years ago, except that they know the
.. use of rifles and whisky.
Corn husking stories have began to ap-
pear. The first comes from Champaign
. County, ILL.,, where farmer is said to have
husked 12O bushels of corn in day.
AT school examination in Macomt
County, Mich, q candidate for a teachers
certificate wrote that there we're two kinds
Of gender, 'lady and gentleman"
The Northwestern Territory Council ha.
|. decided to divide the Territory into prov.
9 inces and secure q responsible Govern
: ment at the earliest possible moment.
? CHINAMEN in some places on the Pacific
3 coast are supplying themselves with arms
2 1t is noticed. One gunsmith sold seventeen
y Winchester r fies to Cinnamon in one week
\ THE Mackay- Bennett Pacific Coast Posta
Telegl aph Line, extending from New West
= = minister, British Columbia, to San Fran
j, cisco, a distance of 1900 miles, is bein,
y pushed vigorously.
4 IL the Chinese Nation were to pass be
& fore an observer in single file the proces
sion would never cease, for a new genera
, tion would be coming on the stage as fas
. as the procession moved.
y lr's scarcely possible for man and woman
to live together without quarreling. In
Brooklyn court, the other day, man wa
charged with having broken his Wife
nose merely because she obiectsd to hi
warming his feet in her back with his boot
On.