The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-08-25
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dead or alive.
STRAW hats have been worn less this sum !
mer than ever before.
INDIA has a greater acreage of wheat |
than the United States.
VENEZUELA has been favored with big
and rose-colored hailstones.
The European grain harvest will be ten
per cent. less than last year.
"TURN the Greasers out and put the Yam
KEGS in" is the. cry in Texas.
THE new Senator from California, like
his predecessor, is millionaire.
PHILADELPHIA is successfully trying cleo
tricity in the running Of street cars.
The Tilden funeral was quiet and such as
BELTS distinguished private citizen.
CHIHUAHUA is pronounced Chewawah,
and it signs for wah, does Chihuahua.
VAssAR COLLEGE endowment is $4,000.
This is the largest of any female college.
A DOZEN defaulters have stolen 100000
from Philadelphians during the past five
years.
LORD ROTHscHILD has sent Patti a knife
1t is studded with diamonds and made OF
ivory.
The wheat crop OF France is estimated
at 600 hectolitres, against lio,OO,Ooo
in 1886.
The best swimmer on the North Shore,
the Boston Transcript says, is a man who
has but one leg.
The North pole is such hoary chestnut
that the Australians are preparing South
pole expedition.
B.F. AMs, Of Oil City, Pa, has q crab
apple tree which is at the present time in
fruit and in blossom.
The Government OF the Netherlands is
about to propose q general international
treaty against anarchists.
GENERAL FREMONT is the only remaining
representative of the Presidential candi-
dates Of ante-bellum days
OwING to rainy weather in Russia re-
Gently, grain is rotting in the fields, and
farmers are greatly depressed.
THERE is living at Coldwater, Mich, =
man aged seventy years, who says he never
ate piece Of meat in his life
THE name Of the President Of Mexico is
pronounced Death. But Diaz has no tor.
rors for the American volunteer
THE common potato is full of most dan
gerous narcotic properties, that are only
rendered harmless by the cooking
IT is said that of the 651 members elected
to the new English Parliament, 3G are
openly in favor of woman suffrage
A FASHIONABLE young lady at Cape May
has let her little finger nail grow to great
length, and has had it tipped with gold.
THE New York Times notes as peculiar
ity of Mr.. Tildens political career that it
I'D not begin till he was sixty years old.
THE term ''mugwump" has been taken
up in England. Henry Labouchere ap-
piled it recently to- the Unionist Liberals.
LARGE quantities of cotton-seed oil are
sent from the South to Chicago, where, it is
said, the oil is converted into prime leaf
lard.
wHITE-HAIRED man of seventy has been
arrested in Baltimore for embezzlement.
He was too old to move rapidly enough to
Canada.
The Prince of Wales gets 500 600 from
the English Government, per annum, for
doing nothing, and his wife $50, 600 for help
ing him.
The production of gold in the United
States for 1885 was $31, SO0 900, and of sill
yer $51, 600, OO0-an increase in both cases
over 1884.
A WORKMAN digging post holes near
Uniontown, Pa, found watch which had
been dropped by one of .Braddock's officers
In battle 100 years ago.
THE oldest and one of the best newspaper
reporters in California is q Miss Genevieve
Green, who is by no means as verdant as
her name would indicate.
A CHICAGO firm dealing in architectural
Iron work, has an order for fence large
enough to inclose theigrave of young man
about twenty five years old"
A LETTER written by General Meade has
been published, in which he holds General
Sickles responsible for Gripping the Army
of the Potomac at Gettysburg.
ELECTRo-PLATING with silver upon wood
is now successfully performed, the process
being adapted to handles of all kinds, in.
GLIDING umbrellas, canes, carving knives,
etc.
A PENNSYLVANIA man has collection Of
two hundred live rattlesnakes. He caught
them in the spring, as they were leaving
their dens. Some of them are of enormous
size.
Mrs. MARY O'BRIEN, who was adjudget
insane in Chicago lately, is now believed
to be heiress to fortune of 81, OO0, 900, left
her by her uncle, John Dalton, in Aus
tralia.
CHEF BUsHYHEAD of the Cherokee In
dams, is candidate for reelection, ant
is opposed by'a gentleman also of thu
Cherokee persuasion, named Rabbi
Bunch.
A FINE obelisk has been erected at Lip
pehne in commemoration of the heroism o
Lieutenant NOV Prince) Bismarck, in saw
ing the life of fellow-soldier at the risk o
his own.
A CHICAGO woman who went to the An
archist trials, said: Il think it would be
pity to hang such handsome man a
Spies, but they ought to hang Schwab AM
Fielden, they are so ugly
A. 7. LAMPnERE, of Coldwater, Mich.
found in his office doorway suspicious
looking box, bearing his address. He set
on fire in his door-yard. and it provd to b.
an Internal machine of considerable force
A DAUGHTER of Mrs. Sarah Meyer &C
companied her demented mother to the asy
lum at jamestown, d. T., but on reach:n!
there the daughter was found to be ever
more insane than the mother, and boil
were held.
EVEN in Massachusetts,. where there ar