The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-11-13
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THE mouth of Miss Bartholdi Liberty 10
Just yard wide.
THERE are 794 artesian wells in the San
Bernardino (Cal.) valley.
BARONESS BuRpETT.C Courts has given
away in charity 5000 900.
EVERY girl in free America is Goddess
OF Liberty in her own right.
PAPER shoes are now manufactured In
Paris and are quite fashionable.
BIcYcLIsT STEVENS, now in China, OK
poets to reach home by Christmas.
BARON MEYER RoTHscH1LD, Of Frankfort
who has just died, left only SIS, 100000.
A MOVEMENT is on foot at st. Louis to
establish large stockyard in that city.
JOSEPH PULITzER's profits this year al
proprietor of the New York World will be
100000.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON, it is said, is worth
$S0O000, and will retire frl m the stage after
this season.
THE late Mrs. A. T. Stewart had som,
diamonds that were SO largo that she never
Wore them.
A LADY recently described ballet gin
as IAN open muslin umbrella with two
pink handles"
AN old bell cast by Paul Revere has just
been hung in the belfry Of q Plymouth
(Mass.) church.
Oh u,.1o vt khnk L,,vSo
life is lengthening with the development Of
the arts Of civilization.
KAISER WILHELM is economical. He uses
second time nearly all the envelops of the
documents addressed to him.
The Chinese population of New York IL
about four thousand. They are mostly en-.
gagged in washing dirty linen.
SHREwD Count de Lesseps got q big
"boom' for his Panama Canal out Of the
dedication of the Liberty statue.
BABY has been born in st. Joseph, Mo-,
the father of whom is seventy. one yeart
OF age and the mother sixty-five.
P. D. ARMOUR is New Yorker by birth,
is portly man with face adorned by side
whiskers, and is worth $40, 100000.
A NEW YORK bridesmaid at wedding
few days ago was herself engaged Ia
marry the bridegroom year ago.
A RECENT investigation of some of the
larger libraries shows that Dickens writ
ings lead all others in popularity.
PHILADELPHIA girls are taking to dumb
bell exercise. One dealer sold thirty pain
of three pound bells in one day lately.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND Gath die.
tates almost every line of his work to q
stenographer. 80 does Joseph Howard.
WOMEN are said to excel men in manlpu-
lating the typewriter and this important
invention has opened an excellent field for
their employment
Tom AcREFooT is the appropriate name
of a man IN Key Yves, whose feet are six.
| te inches long and six and half inches
wide.
A New YORK clergyman in recent ser.
mon exhorted his congregation to "vote as
you pray" and later on he advised them to
pray often"
THE son of ex-President Arthur and the
two sons of the late President Garfield are
studying at the Columbia College Law
School this year.
| A New JERSEY woman said she eloped
tn the hired man to keep him from kill
ing her husband. What a model of self
sacrifice she must bel
The Treasury has given it as its opinion
in the case of alleged smuggling in the
navy that only such goods as are intended
to be landed are dutiable.
A PRoMIssoRY note as we'll Endorsed al
Keely's motor could easily be discounted
But it is impossib to discount the motors
work in the world, if eminent experts are
right
In a new dictionary of biography, con
tanning 10000 names, all the Rothschild!
and Astors put together receive only 81
many lines as are accorded to Harrie
Beecher Stowe.
The French Prince who is visiting us il
now followed by a Japanese Prince Of higl
degree and his suite, who are visiting thi
country for the purpose of observing ou
army and navy.
The queen of her sex lives in Newayg,
County, Wis. She made some money re
Gently out of blackberries, and instead o
treating herself to a new hat she bough
her husband fiddle.
JOHN DURYEA, Of Jamaica, L. l., accuse
Eugene ninally of assault and Trinall
was sentenced to pay Duryea $50. Trinall
paid the fine in one cent pieces, an
Duryea took the money home in wheel
barrow.
RoLLER-sKATINs is a thing of the ever
lasting past; progressive euchre has de
parted into the dim vista of crazes thai
so to speak, have lost their grip, and Their
is nothing as yet t take their places Ho,
would the oldfashioned spelling mate
answers
The only girl on record as having elore
wi a circus clown is Miss Della Grubb
of Cincinnati, says the Philadelphia Ne.c
Instead of painting her own, she will hav
to paint her husbands face, and may q,
pect to have a perfect treasure in biz
when it comes to amusing the baby.
WASHINGTON has benome the resort t,
the newly welded. Recently at a sing
hotel twenty bridal parties were registere.
and at another ten. The White House Q,
ample was contagious.
TIE electric light in the tall tower at he
Gate is to be extingushed after Decemb,
l., on the recommep dalton of the high
house Board, who consider its brillianc