The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-12-08
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TIE Ontario Knights Of Labor have boy.
cotted the Chinese.
A yIFTERN-YEAR-OLD Kansas girl secured
. divorce recently.
THE latest piece Of slang in New York
City Is 'fOddering up"
HAWAII, with only &C, 900 inhabitants, pays
her King $751; a year. t". rr4
A PHILADELPHIA sign reads: "Teotb
pulled while you wait"
ONE-THIRD Of Jay Gould's daily mail 10
composed Of begging letters. o-.r
PLATT COUNTY, ILL.,, has no money in tho
treasury and is four cents in debt.
TnERg is strong talk OF organizing .
lea ne Of colored base ball players.
COCAINE was $500 an ounce. Now any
body can 60 crazy on it at IS an ounce.
TEN thousand cattle are killed in New
York City every week for food purposes.
ABoY in Tennessee has mouth which he
can open to the extent of nearly six inches.
IT Is said that one-third Of the children
of the Mormons in Utah are outspoken inf
dels.
A ST. LOUIS man estimates that Pull.
man sleeper nets tho company $3.50 .
year.
LITTLE bedpost bells rung by electricity
are now used to awaken heavy sleepers in
Belgium.
As much as fifteen cents each 10 paid for
Jack rabbit soaps 10y county authorities Oh
the Pacific Coast.
PRESENT indications point strongly to-
ward the nomination of Labor Presiden-
tial candidate in 1888.
TIE Gar has decided against compelling
a reduction OF the sugar production in
order to improve trade ...
PETITION in favor Of reviving tho tax
upon bachelors in France has been present
ed to the Chamber of Deputies.
jar GOULD believes, as the result Of his
own experience, that "men appreciate their
own earnings more than gift"
Door KNOCKS Of the old fashioned kind
are once more appearing on the doors of
fashiO able New York residences.
PROGRESSIVE jack-straw parties are tax.
ing the place OF progressive euchre partie,
in fashionable Louisville society.
BOsTON has coined word for the women
who wear birds plumage upon their hats.
They are called "birdicidal women"
SOME ladies' boots shown In a Boston
shop-windOw are 500 a pair. The buttons
look like diamonds, but arn't, of course.
COUNT MoLrKE invariably begins each
day with q visit to his wife's tomb, a
practice he has observed ever since her
death.
FIFrY-ONE emgrants from South Caro-
lima to Arkansas recently gave the fear Of
the earthquakes as their reasons for de-
parture
THE news comes from Paris that Mrs.
Mackay conlpels her drsssmakers to pledge
their words that her dresses shall not be
duplicated.
New HAMPSHIRE ministers boycotted the
Governors Thanksgivinglr oclama ton be-
cause it contained no reference to q Su-
preme Being.
AT the end Of 1871, $50 telephones existed
in the United atss, and at the end of 1885
there were 3!5,57O telephones and 49, tele-
phonic exchanges.
A COURT n Athens, Ca, had its atten-
ton absorbed the other day by a suit
brought by one colorsd girl against an
other for ten cents.
AN ample volume Of compilations from
DR.. Talmage's serraons and writings will
shortly be issued rnder the title of 'Shots
1t Sunday Target"
A HEN whose lead and mouth are de.
scribed as being in striking resemba nce OF
a snakes is ella sed among the pos essions
OF q Pensacola (Fla.) man.
JOHN JACOB Aston Is rated at $50, rO0. 600,
and is probably the richest man in Amer.
lea William Waldorf Astor, the ex- Min
lister to Italy, is his only son.
The stomach Of several cattle which
died near Wb tmore, Ia, were found to be
lined with mud taken in with the filthy
water thsy We're compelled 10 drink.
Mn. F. GOODMAN, aged seventy-six, and
Mrs, Mary Ireland, aged sixty-eight, o.
Pennington, Ia, had to ru, away from
their chd on in order to get married
"THE father of the 70 est" in Tular,
County, al, is the argest tree in The
Sta q 1t is $50 feet high and measures 10
feet around tue trunk. 1t is a chestnut
THIS Emperor William and the Empress
Augusta will hereafter confer medals O
distinction upon aged couples WIT
celebrate their golden or diamond wed
dings
THE locomotive whistle now wakens tn
COLLINS Of Mammoth Cave. The railroa,
has got there, and civilization takes forma
possession Of the largest known hole in TN
ground.
The Indian and Colonial Exhibition jus
closed in London, after having been opel
for six months and halt was enormousl
successful, its visitors having numbers
$3.50. 749
TIE fact that apaper devoted to tricy
cling published in London has over thous
and female subs ribers ind Gates that th
sport is extremely popular among Won g
in England.
A MAN of Springfield. d. T., went to slice
by the roadside. Wnen he awoke he wa
aston SIZED to lind that a wagon had III
over bis leg and broken it. The leg was
wooden one.
lr is estimated that fully 50 per cent.
the worlds ocean tonnage is now in con
mission, against scarcely 60 per cent.
year ago. The tonnage in dry-dock is a
lowed for in both cases.
A DEPOSIT Of pure asphaltum. from fl
teen to twenty feet thick, has been Disco
cred near IN stle Stati n, IN Utah. 1
said to be worth 40 a ton, and the exp EN-.
of mining is only forty cen S.
Moan 5. HUNT, the rich and eccentric Ne
Yorker, who lived utterly a one in tt
midst OF Gotham's m lions, is said to hav
LETT a W II locked up IN asa g, the combin'
ton Of whichlio living person knows. ~
AWEsTERN man adv artissd that he woul
for one dollar ma information that won,