The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-05-27
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renamed Endicott.
Lucy STONE thinks thirty is young
enough age for girl to wed.
AwoMAN of Havana, ILL.,, is now living
happily with her ninth husband.
DR. CYRUS EDISON, Of New York, says
there is no such thing as hog cholera.
BELGIUM will borrow IS, 100000 to provide
occupation for unemployed workmen.
LOUISE ALcoTT says twenty-three to
twenty-five is the best age for girl to
marry.
LITTLE Japanese fans are worn in the
hair and often fasten the lace at the
throat.
PENDING pension bills would, if enacted
into laws, require the expenditure Of $685.
100000.
A CONNECTICUT court has decided that
"a threat to 'oycott is q threat to do an
illegal act"
The people of France are holding fete
over the Introduction Of the potato into
that country.
IT is said the business OF the Supreme
Court of the United States is at least three
years behindhand.
The distinguished divine, Rev. Joseph
Cook, is said to be clearing about $4,000 a
year on his lectures.
A sHoAL Of whales, eighty in number,
was recently driven ashore on the Shetland
Islands and captured.
IT is estimated that nearly 1900 people
took advantage of the recent low railroad
rates to 60 to California.
A NEW mettalloid called "Germanium,"
has been added to the list Of elements,
making the sixty-seventh.
How and where to spend the summer is
something with which to tar the brains Of
pecunious people just now.
The little Greece spot on the map OF
Europe must not make itself too conspicu-
GUS, or it will be wiped out
TENNESSEE will vote on a local option
constitutional amendment next fall, and
has already opened the campaign.
The conduct of the Chicago police during
the recent riots has received commenda-
ton from every part of the country.
RUSSELL SAaE's fortune is now estimated
at SAC, OO0,O 900, yet he lives in small village
clearinghouse, paying $l2 per week
ONE of the policemen Of st. Paul carries
an umbrella, and, when it rains, gravely
patrols his beat holding it over his head.
ENGLAND has 347 female blacksmiths who
swing heavy hammers, and 9,l3S women
employed in making nails for horseshoes.
A PuKwANA, OAK. hotel advertises as
among its attractions 'cyclone cellar"
with an easy slide into it in case of danger.
SOME genius inspired by the loss of the
Oregon, suggests that mail. bags for ocean
service be made buoyant and water-tight
"LoNG JOHN" WENTWORTH is putting up
q fifty-foot monument in his cemetery lot
at Chicago to preserve his memory after
be is dead. .4t
PAsTEuR has looked through microscopes
70 much that his eyes are seriously at
fected and his face curiously wrinkled
about them.
A CAVE large enough to accommodate all
the citizens Of the town is to be dug at
Clifton, OAK. 1t is designed as a safeguard
from cyclones
A HINDoo loom, complete, is worth sixty
eight cents and weaves shawls, silks and
muslins which our most expensive appa-
ratus can not equal.
AN old resident of Cromwell, near Mid
dletown, Conn, has taken Ill bodies of
drowned persons from the Connecticut
river in that vicinity.
JOHN B. FRINK, of Oldtown, H., owns .
six-week old colt which has no hair ON it,
body, except a few strong ones where the
name and tail should be.
THERE are over one hundred matrimonial
agencies in Paris alone. The first estab-
lishment Of the kind was set up shortly
after the revolution Of 1898.
The new Connecticut law requires every
hotel, restaurant or clearinghouse serving
oleomargarine to display a conspicuous
sign to that effect in the dining-room.
GOVERNOR JEREMIAH NJ. RusK, of Wis.
consin, is exploited as self-made model
American, who began life as stage driver
and has driven up hill to the Executive
chair.
MISS AMELIA MoRosINI, who received hel
third incubation from Pasteur few days
ago. is the first American of her sex
treated by the scientist and his $3.50
patient.
In Japan the practice of cremation wa!
common from the earliest times, and pre-
walls yet to-day. Some Of the mikado,
were burned. There is q crematorium il
in Kioto.
THE shores Of America is no place fol
the Russian Nihilist. This unwashet
wretch is despised by no one more thai
by the workingman whose cause he affect
to espouse.
The four boy babies born to Mrs. Lar
Grindahl, of East Claire County, Wis, ar
in good health and growing rapidly. The,
have been named Lincoln, Grant, CARTEL,
and Hancock.
CINCINNATI has not forgot the lesson o
the courthouse riot and extraordinar,
precautions have been taken to preserv
the public peace and prevent the destrue
ton of property.
We may begin to use the word hot il
place of warm without fear Of Offending
the ", -ther, and soon the familiar expires
sion will be heard on every side: "Ho
enough for youl"
An association of Buffalo sewing womel
consisting Of about 900 members, ha
adopted resolutions, protesting agains
the proposed purchase Of Miss Folsom
trousseau In Paris.
For once there is . complete ant
thorough unanlmity on the part Of tn,