The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-11-24
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markets.
SALT and water should be used for clean
ing willow furniture.
A GIRL in a Kalamazoo paper mill founo
tlOO while sorting rags.
SOCIAL leaders In Now York are using
cinnamon as perfume.
JOAQUIN MILLER thinks that men who
write poetry shou d die early.
HORSEBACK exercise is ultra-fashionabls
Tor New York ladies this season.
FRENCH army officers are experimenting
with the bicycle as an adjunct ofw
Two young ladies, students of tho State
college, Me-, have been suspended for hax.
ing.
TIE United States Fish Commission dis
tributed ninety million shad fry during
1850
MRS. NELLIE GRANTSARTORIs will soon
come over from Europe ON visit to her
mother.
LAKE TEMIscoNArA, in the province OF
Quebec, is the deepest fresh water lake in
America.
SEVEN thousand miles of railroad tracks
have been laid in the United States since
January
REV. DR.. SroRRs has been pastor Of the
Church Of the Pilgrims, in Brooklyn, for
forty years.
GERMANY has forbidden the employment
Of railway workers for more than eight
hours day.
The Philadelp ia Press says that some OF
the school-houses of that city are dis
grace to humanity.
TRE new oleomargarins tax Is said t.
have started boom IN the manufacture Of
the imitation butter.
"KAsCH pads for dido Knuze-papers" Is
the announcement at the door ofa Water
street, New York, junk shop.
BARONESS BURDETT- Courts is to accom-
pahy her husband on his tour to this coun-
try, planned for next spring.
lIBERTY does not enlighten the world 70
much as they thought she would. So tar
her light has been rather dim.
A DRIVER Of the Lacrosse (Wis.) street
railway has received notice from Germany
that he has fallen heir to S2O,ON.
DIAMONDS are now found in South Africa
at the rate Of ton a month, and tle Lon
don market is glutted with them.
The tai est boy in Lancaster, Pa, is
George Kersey, son Of DR.. Kersey. He is
thirteen years old and seven feet high.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT was not elected
mayor of New York, but hs IS going to
marry one of tho incest girls in England.
OSCAR WILDE was sinking into 0bscurity
80 fast that he has again taken to wearing
hts hair long, that he may attract atten'
ton.
MEN will argue sometimes that they have
no time to be polite, torg sitting that it takes
the same amount of time to be uncivil aud
disagreeable.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, now visiting Lon
don, is mentioned in the London NeacS as
"a man who has been marshal of the
United States"
THE her day the remains Of General
Israel Putnam Were removed to the site for
the monument at Brooklyn, Conn, and
buried there in a metallic casket,
WILD geese are being slaughtered by the
Thousand at Bes 'er Lake. in Northwestern
Canada. Two men recently killed 1900
and dried the meat for winter USE
ONE million eggs Of the white fish, with
5GUO eggs at our lake trout, have been
sent to Switzerland. When Matched,
the young fly will be placed in the Swiss
lakes.
A rEssELATED pavement made in white,
black, reG, yellow and pale blue pieces has
been found in Colchester, England, aud
transferred bodily to the museum of the
town.
TINE newest buttons are large balls Of
wood highly polished and showing the
grain. Beans and seeds are employed as
buttons. Etched ivory buttons show fine
designs.
ARCHER, the English jockey, who killed
himself, is reported to have left fortune
of over 81 900 900. His hobby wa, winning
horse, and on that he galloped on the road
20 wealth.
TIN oldest old maid in the world, wo
man named Benoite, has been discovered
at Auch, n France. She is 1903 years old.
born the year before our declaration Of in.
dependence.
A CHlNAMAN has purchased for SIC 900 the
exclusive privilege Of selling opium in
Panama. The money is devoted partly to
hospitals and partly to reducing the Gov
eminent debt.
WHEN Minnie Hauk sang At Tin Cup,
Aris., twelve Apache chiefs retired behind
the theater after tho entertainment and
drew lots to see who should marry her.
Minnie escaped.
IT is estimated by internal revenue ofh
Gals at Washington that the income to the
Government FOR tho fiscal year from the
tax on oleomargarlne will amount to more
than 500 000,0O0.
Tue records in the Bell Telephone cases.
now before the Supreme Court st Washing
ton, comprises 5000 octave pages, and
copies enough for the judges occupy ff;y
cubic feet OF space.
"BoOsE, the busy mans lunch, cts >
"Nose PAINT cts, :" "Blood sizsler and
eve bulger, s cts" are some of the sign,
conspicuously disp aged in Chicago barrel
house whisky saloons.
A CURIOSITY in the shape OF a full grown
white buEzarl has been frequently seen Of
late on Captain Troupe Randle's prairie
plantation, near Union Springs, Ala. The
bird is perfectly white.
PARTISAN dolls are now constructed after
the model of famous actresses. Sarah
Bernbardt Mary Andersen and other
theatrical celebrities appear faithfully rep.
resented in the wax playthings.
MEDICAL students don't seem to be wild
over torchlight professions A company oil