The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-08-09
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and nve Kings.
INDIA has greater acreage of wheat than
the United States.
decline reelection.
DR.. TALMAGE and family are in Asheville
N. c., for the summer
SAM JONES has back -slidden on tobacco,
and now uses the weed
BANANAS, kept cool, are being expert
mentally shipped to England.
A FATAL horse epizooty prevails in the
towns of Warsaw and Perry, N. Y.
A New YORK phlanthropist has estab-
lished cooperative farm for tramps.
In Des Moines five teams, hitched to
wagons, ran away, all at the same time.
JAPAN is to have a national assembly
hall, modelled after the German Reichstag.
A RICH Newport spinster pays a New
York doctor $4,000 for his summer attend
ance.
On seizure Of 5000 worth of opium
the award to the Selling officer is about
$1,000
The number Of idiots in the United
States increased from "a, 527 in 1870 to &c, 1896
Ill 1880.
The best female lace makers of Saxony
are not able to earn more than sixty cents
. week.
HONEY making has become profitable
branch of industry among the women of
Canada.
The ice-cream disaster is becoming con-
ventional catastrophe among the summer
picknickers.
HE Russian authorities admit that there
are 1874 penitentiaries in the country, with
4,9l5 occupants.
A LETTER addressed "g'big,' safely
reached Little Chebeague, Me-, for viii h
place it was intended.
The advance Of Canadian population will
be seriously checked if the new extradition
treaty goes into effect
IT is said that Secretary Lamar intends
to make tour of inspection among the In
dian agencies Of the West.
MRS. FREMONT is still the fascinating
talker she ever was. She is the Blessing
ton Of Washington society.
A LITTLE boy in Maine borough school
named cayenne pepper and Jamaica ginger
as 1.-THE warmth-producing foods"
EIGHTEEN bumblebees, twenty-five wasps
or thirty eight ordinary honey bees con-
tain enough poison to kill an adult.
AN essay, bya Tennessee lad, contained
this brilliant passage: Honesty is, like
angels visits. few and mighty scarce"
MORE than 800 out of the 1000 convicts in
the Massachusetts, State prison are idle,
and the warden is advertising their labor
to let.
Four new crematories will be opened in
Paris by the end of August, and thereafter
the cost Of cremating corpse will be only
about $3.
THE arid region is one half the area of
the United States, and less than one-third
of it is susceptible of being reclaimed for
hnsbandry.
CAPTAIN BLACK, the lawyer who is de
tending the Anarchists now on trial in
Chicago is brother to tho Commissioner
of Pensions.
The oldest and largest tree in the world
is said to stand near the foot of Mount
Etna. It is 2l2 feet in circumference, and
is chestnut, of course.
IT 10 authoritatively announced that the
President and his wife will take their only
summer outing at an obscure point in the
Adirondack wilderness
SOUTHERN countries - Italy, Spain,
Greece-have the largest number of revo-
buttons; northern countries-Russia, Swe-
den, Norway-have the least.
THERE are fresh developments daily re.
garding the devilish plotting of Anarch.
lists in Chicago; and it is cheerful to note
probable demand for hemp.
The sufferings of the fishermen of New.
foundland and Labrador are such as to
move the most callous heart. There is no
three-mile limit to human sympathy.
A PIoUs old lady of Bangor, Me-, re-
Gently sent as wedding presents a pair Of
flatirons, rolling-pin, and motto
worked on cardboard, reading, Eight
On"
SEBAsToPoL and other Russian ports il
the Black sea are now protected by an
electric apparatus placed in the sea by
American engineers to destroy hostile tor
pedo boats
some Detroit BARRIERS have been cuttin.
rates on baths until free baths have beer
advertised by one, and the public is await
ing the announcement Of special induce
ments to battle free.
FRENCH women are dressing their hair il
what they call the Chinese fashion, combe,
perfectly smooth up to the top of the head
then twisted into coil on one side, with
large comb, specially made, On the other.
MANY names of Maine towns and village
are puzzles to the uninitiated A posta
CLERK in Penobscot County had a puzzle O
the kind the other day. He found two lei
tiers in bis mail, one going to Whitoo BED
lock and the other to White o pedlock. II
sent them to Wytopitlock and they hav
not yet been returned.
ELIZABETH TROUT, aged ninety-twC
Maria Updegrove, aged eighty-two, an
Maria Trout, aged seventy-six. helped t
bind sheaves on the farm of Reuben Updt
grove, at Shanesville, Berks County, Pa
LdCu VI tutul uOuu
all day and in the evening had complete
almost as much as any of the men.
A NEGRO who attacked the Italian Minis
ter at Tangiers was stripped tied to dor
keys tail and led through the town, Will
two soldiers gave him 1000 lashes wit
knotted ropes
FRANK JAMES, the once famous OUTLAW
denies the story that he is to go on the stag
this coming season with play based on h