The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-08-18
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ported nearly failure.
LAcoN, QLL.) boys are fined 81 each il
found guilty Of swearing.
THIRTY-oNE Universalist women are now
regularly ordained pastors.
In Poland the male guests have to pay
dollar each to kiss the bride.
The owners photograph must now APP
pear on all passports in Turkey.
A CALF entered the parlor of Blooming
ton woman, stole Bible and ate it,
BAR silver in New York has reached 9l1z,
which is the lowest point yet touched.
ABBE FRANZ LIszT, the pianist and musi-
cal composer, died at Bayreuth a few days
ago.
LONDON has a female cab driver. She ex-
poets to elope with nice young man of
fine family.
Two Ainsworth (Neb.) farmers haze
spent $500 in a lawsuit over the possession
of a plowshare.
Two THOUSAND and forty of the 1851
Pennsylvania post-oflices are in the hands
of the Democrats.
NOTHING makes the average Rnoae
Islander ''shell OUT quicker than the sight
of porcelain egg.
ACCORDING to the latest census Paris has
population of 2,254, 3O6, an increase Of
only 1879 since 1881.
The production of cane sugar in 1856
was 2,N5,000 tons, an increase of $4,000
tons over that of 1SS4-S5.
NEW JERSEY man, while in bathing.
had his clothes stolen, and was compelled
to walk home in barrel.
JOHNsTowN PENN woman has been
sued by neiehbor for the theft of a pair
of scissors valued at ten cents.
NINE one-legged men played a game Of
base ball against nine one-armed men in
Southern Illinois the other day.
Fly is said to have 10000 eyes. No
wonder he is careless where he leaves his
specks, says the Philadelphia Item.
AN Ottawa dispatch states that the pur.
chase of bait and supplies by American
vessels has been effectually stopped.
"MArHILDE" is the name just given the
small planet picked up in the vastness of
Heaven by Dr. Palisa November II last.
AN enormous serpent, thirty feet long, is
said to be one of the latest attractions at
Yellowstone Park. People come miles to
see it.
TIE Boston courts have decided that bar
bers in that city may keep open shops on
Sunday. This was close shave for the
BARRIERS.
The Court of Common Pleas in New York
City refused to issue naturalization papers
to man because he announced himself as
an Atheist
THE sons-in-law of the late Brigham
Young intend to hold convention in Utah
if building can be found large enough to
hold them.
QUEEN VICTORIA proposes to make royal
progress through the United Kingdom next
year to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary
OF her reign.
The Welsh members of the House of Com
mons propose to form national party in
Parliament on the same lines as the Par
nellite party.
JOHN HINER, once the wealthiest and
most influential colored man in the West
is now an inmate of the poor-house at
Keokuk, Iowa.
OREGON pays bounty of two cents for
every squirrel killed, and one man was re-
Gently paid for 1a5, 600 squirrel tails which
he had collected. ....
The Burgomaster of Amsterdam has for
hidden the sale of newspapers in the streets,
because they infiamed the populace dur
ing the recent riots
RIFE and palatable bananas have been
grown in Sacramento garden this season
without any sort of artificial protection,
and fully exposed to the air.
A MAN in Pittsburgh has just patented
machine with which to blow window glass
by compressed air, which, it is claimed,
will revolutionize the business.
The prolonged and serious drouth in the
Northwest has been partially broken by
recent light rains, and the crop prospects
are improving in consequence.
JOHN W, KEELY, the Motor man, used to
be head-waiter at hotel The Motor
stockholders consider him the most won
derful waiter" that ever existed.
EDISON is now devoting his time to exper-
ments with the magnetic currents of the
earth He hopes to locate them SO as to
render telegraph wires wholly superfluous.
The Commodore Garrison house at Long
Branch is considered the costliest and most
magnificent in New Jersey. The commo-
dore's young widow, it is said, values it at
100000
HENRY PALMER, colored, of Harrisburg,
Pa, is surprising all who know him by
turning white. The transformation has
been going on for some time, and he is now
spotted all over.
The border of Rhode Island is being
greatly extended by recent boundary
survey. 1t was discovered on running the
boundary line between Connecticut and
Rhode Island that the latter State was en-
title to four acres of additional land
MARY SMITH stands six feet in her boots
and works single-handed a large and
fiourishing farm few miles from Still
water, Mimi When she plows she wears
mems trowsers, and her physical aspect is
always intimidating. She has no use in the
world for any man, and seems to love only
her mule team, which she drives into Still.
water three or four times week.
A SHEPHERD dog, raised in Valinia, Mich,
was taken to Nebraska by its master A
few weeks after it appeared at its old
Michigan home, having every appearance
of having made the long Journey
The successful trip made recently by two
French aeronauts from Cherbourg to Lon
don in balloon, provided with steering