The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-06-30
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~ aIis tno CITY owns tine street cars.
NEVADA has 10000 acres of land foy
sale.
Or 1855 colleges in the United States, $50
publish papers.
r. T. BARNUM's leisure hours are spent |
in playing whist.
ONIONS from Egypt are now hawked in
the streets Of Boston
ST. Louis is to try the experiment of an
electric street railroad.
FIFTY-FoUR savings banks in Maine hold
deposit Of $50, 293, 5O4.
THERE are thirty cc!orca students in the
freshman class at Yale.
CHILL is harvesting the largest wheat
crop ever known in that country.
THE Mount Vernon Association pro-
pose to restore the tomb Of Washington.
THE present has been a wonderfully pro-
life year in the production of small fruits
IT now costs $3.50 to wear Mother
HUBBARD dress on the streets Of Kansas
City.
The National W. C. 7. u headquarters
have been removed from New York to
Chicago.
The servant girls of st. Louis have
formed an assembly, and joined the Knights
Of Labor
"A REGULAR root soaker and gully wash
err is the description of q recent Texas
rain storm.
FRINGE CHARLES and Princess Amelie, of
Portugal, have but $4,000 year to begin
housekeeping on.
TIE jealous rivals of Omaha, Infatuated
at its prosperity, have taken to calling its
inhabitants Omahogs.
THE Princess Louise Of Wales is studying
the Swedish language in anticipation Of
her marriage to Prince Oscar.
COFFEE il taken in the morning on an
empty stomach, is said to act as a prevent
i've against infectious diseases.
A swARM of bees attacked freight train
in Nebraska, and it was fully an hour be-
fore the engineer would proceed.
The Vanderbilt mausoleum at New Drop,
Staten Island, will be ready for the remains
of its first occupant about July1.
A CHICKEN with four heads and four
wings, the body and head being natural,
is on exhibition at Big Rapids, Mich.
THE Prince of Wales has conferred on
Sir John Mcdonald, Premier of Canada, an
exceedingly handsome masonic jewel.
Mr.. WATERLOO is about to run for the Of
flee Of State Senator in Illinois. He pre-
diets Waterloo defeat for the other fell
low.
THE Ulster people are not in favor Of
home rule, but the way some of them advo-
Gated home riot is appalling to law-abiding
men.
PEOPLE still advertise in Washington
newspapers offering large premiums to
those who can get them Government posi-
tions.
For several months to come Gladstone,
with his whitened locks will continue to
show the young fellows what activity
means.
POLISH couple in Jersey City asked a
justice of the peace to marry them for two
years which, Of course, was declined with
thanks.
PRESIDENT JAMES K. Folks papers, in the
possession Of surviving members of his
family, ARE undergoing close revision and
editing.
AT Cedar Rapids, Ia, bolt Of lightning
tore from a Bible on church pulpit the
Book Of Numbers, leaving the other pages
uninjured.
The 233 cities and towns in the United
States that have horse street railways use
1888 cars, H,577 horses and have 3,34(
miles of track.
SECRETARY LAMAR has given up riding fol
the summer and now hides under the cover
ola delicate phaeton in going to and from
the departments.
DR.. E. c. SPITzKA, of New York, does MOI
believe in hydrophobia in men and say.
soft soap will produce it in dogs as readil,
as will rabid virus.
The mocking-birds are so numerous il
Dry Valley, New, this season that durinJ
the night they drown the yelp Of the coy
otes with their songs.
A BILL is pending before the Louisiana
Legislature to establish the whipping pos
AS punishment for persons guilty of Ger
tain criminal offenses
DURING the year 1884, 1861 divorces ant
S,o21 separations were pronounced il
France. During the same year, 2S9,55
marriages were celebrated.
PARCHMENT paper blue ink, auils an,
plotting sand are the correspondence ma
terial used by fashionable young womel
who delight in ancient things.
THE shad season in the Delaware rive
aas closed with complete failure. The ifs
only ran in plenty about two weeks. No
one fishery has paid expenses.
THE Congress to be chosen next fall wi
be the fftieth and will complete the cer
fury under the present constitution. Th
rst Congress convened March 4, 1883.
Mr.. PARNELL says that Mr. Gladstone
Home-rule bill is the. first cup of col
water that has been offered to our natio
since the recall of Lord Fitzwillam."
GEORGE WOODWARD, of st. Louis, hi
filed third suit against Jay Gould fC
E$5O0,0OO for breach of contract in come
ton with the building of the San Francisc
road.
THE Savannah Times reports that grow
er of garden truck in Alachua Count,
Fla, sent six crates of beans to New Yor
recently, and received twenty cents
return.
YsEuLT DUDLEY, who shot ODonova
Rosa over year ago, will be taken
England and cared for by friends Their
She is now an inmate of the Insane As,