The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-11-06
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OONERNOR FRANCIS mas appOlHIcu d
st. Louis lady notary public.
ARBoR DAY is now an established in
stitution in thirty-two States.
. DENMAN THOMPSON completed his
ffty-sixth year few days ago.
The leading industry OF Heimeta, II.
j., is the manufacture Of snuff.
THE sentiment in favor of a Republic
is said to be spreading very rapidly in
Brazil. 90
KING KALAKAUA, Of the Sandwich Is
lands, is writing an epic poem on Hawiian
legends.
THE southwark navigation of wild
geese in Connecticut begins rather early
this fall.
ALABAMA ex-Confederate soldiers are
organizing societies similar to the G. A.
r. Posts.
GENERAL BoULANGER talks of sudden
ly entering France and demanding
new trial.
A NATIONAL monument is proposed to
the signers of the Declaration Of indie
pendence. l 9a- ''
A GEORGIA man, hearing that raven
would live two hundred years, bought
one to try it. ~
A FOREIGN order for 100000 cars
tridgess has been received by a Bridge
port Comm firm. ...-... ..
CARLOS l., the new King of Portugal,
is twenty-five years of age, and is very
popular in Portugal.
BUGGY wheels of steel on the prin-
ciple of bicycle wheel win be made by
aPittsburgh concern. sF5s n
THE St., Louis & San Francisco rail-
road wants to build $500 miles of rail-
road in Indian Territory. 80
IT is reported that Russia has once
moro determined to expel Prince Fesdi-
nand from the Bulgarian throne ~
.vANDERDILT's six thousand dollar
cook left his place, he says, on account
of his horror of American servants.
In 1855 James G. Blaine and Melville
W.Fuller, the present chief justice, were
both reporters on papers in Augusta,
Me. VI,
MISS RoxANNA WENTWORTH, theonly
child of Long John" Wentworth, is
one of the wealthiest women in Chi
cago. ..n
MRS. AMELIA RIvEs CHAMBER is SO
passionately fond of the violin that she
will arise in the dead of night and play
tune.
GUssIE S. CoTTLow, eleven years old,
of Shelbyville, ILL.,, is about to appear
before the New York public as pianist
phenomenon.
NEARLY $50 miles Of natural gas pipe
have been laid in Pittsburgh since last
spring, involving an outlay of about $4,-
100000 of capital. +
The painting ''L'Angelus," which has
arrived at New York, is 21A by 251a
inches in size. The customs duties on
it amount to $32,50O.
The mob which lynched Robert Ber-
riar at Lexington, N. c., for the murder
Of his mother-in-law, prayed with him
four hours before hanging him.
FOLLOWING the custom of all distin-
guished visitors to Mr.. George W.
Child's country seat, ex-President Hayes
recently planted a tree on the lawn.
Miss KATE DRExEL, of Philadelphia,
has decided to take the veil, and will
probably devote her life to the develop
ment of religious order to teach Indian
girls.
A CURIOUS episode of New Jersey
politics can be found in the fact that ex
M .,l L.
driver on Broadway horse car in New
York.
BOTH branches of the general Episcopa
convention, at it's recent session in New
York City, rejected prayer in which
there is suspicion of the doctrine O.
purgatory.
A RECENT clever invention is the tax
anon, little-lantern-like apparatu.
which ingeniously placed at the back o
cab, measures the exact distance trav
ersed by it. ......-.- ..-7 p %
A sUPERsTITIOUs quarry boss at Potts
town, Pa, spent the whole night revolv
ing wagon-wheel, thinking the opera
ton would bring back the thief tina
stole his powder.
WHILE Robert Mitchell, farm hant
at Springfield, Neb., was belaboring
horse he was instantly killed by light
ming. The moral inculcated is to b.
kind to your horse.
THE Savannah News tells of woman
in Wadley, Ca, who has become
grandmother at the age of thirty. Sh'
married when only fourteen, and he
daughter did likewise.
KING CARLOS l., of Portugal boasts O
being the best shot in that Kingdom
and is a painter of considerable merit
His wife is Princess Amelie, daughte
of the Compile de Paris.
ACCORDING to official reports, Their
are $4,000 beggars in Russia, all o
whom carry on begging as bushes
with the Endorsement of village, cit,
and churchauthorities. .
ALONG the line of the railway which
runs through the grounds of the Pari
Exposition are placards in twenty-eigh
languages intended to remind passen
gers of the dangers of the road. = "a.
a llldr SAnlulJS dt III
Paris Exposition watch only quartz
of an inch in diameter. Besides the tw
regular hands it has a third, whicl
marks the seconds, and a MICROSCOPE
dial which indicates the days, weeks
months and years. 1t also contains al
alarm.
THE city of Washington has one of tn
finest, if not the finest, market build
ings in the country, built at an expens