The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-09-18
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an open winter.
The month with an in it is here, and
oysters are now ripe.
A PosT-oFFIcE in North Carolina is to
be named baby Mckee"
1T is now asserted that there are fully
eighty varieties of tomato.
AN Eastern Ohio man only thirty-four
years OF age is a grandfather.
MICHIGAN's new $500 liquor tax law
begins to operate on October /.
THERE will be no watering place sea-
son" after the Goth of September.
FOURTEEN hundred men are now en-
ployed at the Brooklyn navy yard.
New ENGLAND is having no lack of
quarter-millennial anniversaries nova
days.
A PosT-oFFIcE in Fulton County, Pa,
bears the brief and unromaptic name Of
isis"
Boston spent about 100000 during
the vacation season on her school
houses.
JAY GOULD thinks Governmental con-
troll Of the telegraph both practical and
advisable.
ALICE LlEBMANN, aged nine. is as
tonishing London critics with her skill
on the violin.
P. MYETT, accompanied by a dog, has
driven in buggy from California to
Pennsylvania.
The mouth of Calumet river, empty
ing into Lake Michigan, has moved east
$500 feet since 1886.
TATAH COUNTY, Idaho, boasts of
genuine ice mine, with veins from one
to four inches thick.
In Paris something new are silk and
linen handkerchiefs made in the form
of leaf with stem.
GENERAL ALBERT PIKE, the head of
all the Masonic orders and rites in this
country, is in his sOth year.
The outgoing European steamers from
New York are no longer crowded. 1t is
now the season to come home.
d. L. MOODY is preparing to open an
evangelistic training school in Chicago
to continue throughout the year.
THERE was reunion of the Smith
family in Peapack, N. j., the other day,
bnt only 5000 of them were present.
THE new Constitution of the State of
Montana is said to be ten times as long
as the Constitution Of the United
States.
THE people of the United States
spend $25, 600, 900 yearly for baking pow
der-so says an official report promulga-
at Washington.
In point of service the Oldest pilot on
the Hudson river is Ezra l. Hunter, who
has stood at the wheel for forty-eight
consecutive years.
CHAs. YOUNG, colored cadet, gradu-
ated from West Point, few days ago,
being the second negro to receive
diploma from that institution.
HERMANN, the magician, was hocus-
pocussed out of $3.50 the other day. Even
straightforward professor has to look
very sharp after his cash these days.
The first monument to General Grant
in this country is to be unveiled this
month at Fort Leavenworth, the post
where he passed his early career as sol
der.
The Dead Sea, in Palestine, lies at
the depression of 1900 feet below the
Mediterranean Sea level, being the
lowest body of water on the face of the
earth.
EX-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND is still I'M
decided as to his European trip next
Nrtn 10 70 10 ~,
spend few months in the south of
France.
TIPPoo TIB declines to become Ger
man vassal. He will stick to his own
nationality and to his own name. The
latter is sufficiently unique to be we'll
worth saving.
THERE Is man in Schenevus, N. Y,
getting rich from dog. He owns a
canine which he has sold several times,
but it always returns home, no matter
how far it is carried.
The common looking shed used as a
blacksmith shop by Elihu Burritt, the
linguist is still standing in Berkshire
County, Mass, and until recently his
identical sign hung from it.
AN eagle weighing nine tons has ar
rived in Brooklyn from its home in the
mountains of Maine. 1t is of gran
lite, and has been placed over the main
entrance Of the new post-office.
MAJOR GENERAL ScHoFIELD has issued
an order withdrawing the troops from
Fort Laramie, W. T., Fort Hays, Kas.,
and Fort Lyon, Col. The military posts
ut those places will be abandoned.
The new Opera House in Paris,
France. is the largest structure of the
kind in the world. Its ground area is
three acres and the space inside the
walls represents a cubic mass of 4,2S7,.
600 feet.
The American iron and steel associa.
ton reports that the production of pig
iron in the first six months of 1889 was
larger than in any preceding six months
in the history of the American iron
trade.
SARAH HOLLAND, woman evangelist
preaching among the negroes at Bruins
wick, Ca, distributes load of water
melons free at the meetings. The
crowds that go to hear her preach are
enormous.
AN attempt will soon be made to ship
Alabama coal across the Gulf from
Pensacola to Havana, Aspinwall and
other ports in powerful tugs which are
being constructed for that purpose.