The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-12-11
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The inventor of smokeless powder is
an American.
The population Of Berlin has now
reached 100000.
CORN is cheaper in Kansas than IL
ever has been before.
JAY GOULD has subscribed $25, 900 to
the Worlds Fair fund.
A SOUTH KENsINGroN R. ~ turkey
weighs forty-seven pounds
AN official estimate of the population
OF Greece places it at 2,1s7,2 Os.
A PENDLEToN (Ore.) man drank .
gallon of mineral water at one sitting on
awager.
The fast mail time between oceans is
now four days, twelve hours and three
quarters.
The National Grange, in session at
Sacramento, Cal, condemned the single
AK system.
AN Ottawa congregation froze out its
rector by reducing his salary to one dol
lar per year.
THE letter-carrier's monument to Sun.
set Cox will probably be erected in
Washington.
Two hearts and two livers were taken
from chicken killed at Lock Haven,
Pa, recently. ....|. 10.
By queer coincidence Governor
Biggs, Of Delaware, employs secretary
named Smalls.
GENEVA is said to be the cheapest Of
all cities in Europe for place OF per-
manent residence.
In some French laundries boiled pota-
toes are preferred to soap for the cleans
ing of soiled linen. ...
THE centennial Of the introduction OF
the chrysanthemum into England has
just been celebrated. aerlF-I p
A DEMOCRAT in Monana County, Ia,
was elected to the Legislature by q
majority OF one vote.
THE Crown Princess Of Brazil was the
last royal parsonage to receive the
golden rose from the Pope.
HIRED ushers are taking the place of
friends Of the principals at New York
and Philadelphia weddings.
A FARMER fell asleep on roadway in
Union County, South Carolina, the other
night, and was frozen to death.
WOMEN have been admitted to the bar
in all the New England States except
New Hampshire and Vermont
DAN RICE, after eight years retire
mont from the ring, will 60 on the road
again next summer with circus.
A SMITH COUNTY (Kas.) girl won $50,
the other day, by husking and cribbing
sixty bushels of corn in five hours.
MORE people visited the home OF
Shakespeare last summer than ever be-
fore, the majority being Americans.
In Idaho, floating paragraph states,
ga deer was recently shot by hunter
having horns with forty-two prongs."
Two inmates Of the Milwaukee aims
house, the man aged 72 and the woman
aged 76, were married the other day.
IRWIN A. STETLER, merchant at Fred
erick, Pa, during the fall has shipped
1000 barrels of shellbark hickory nuts
SHIPBUILDING is so active on the Clyde
that in many of the yards work is car
ried on at night by means of electric
lights.
DURING the Paris Exposition 249 pick
pockets were arrested, of whom 1856 were
French, twenty-three English and sever
American.
ONLY thirteen of the 375 Senators ant
Representatives who sat in Congress il
1876, the Centennial year, still retair
their seats.
THE garden next to the little cottage
in which Edgar Allan Poe lived at Ford
ham has been covered with ugly tene
ment houses.
A CHICAGO electrician has invented
an electric fish line. The slightest nib
BILE at the bait causes shock to the fish
that either kills or stuns it.
THE Potter's field of New York City il
located at present on Harris Island
Since 1869 more than sixty Thousand
bodies have been buried there
ALL critics agree that in the review
before the German Emperor at Constan
tinople, the Turkish troops challenged
comparison with any in Europe.
A STRANGE animal is roaming arount
in Carter County, Mo-, which, from de
scription, is supposed to be Kangaroo
that has escaped from some circus. =.
BARON DoUNEzAL, French officer
proposes that France and German,
should fight on new principle, eacl
country to have 100000 men on its sid,
only. q
AT the recent election in Beverly
Mass, one ballot was entirely blank
but on the back of it was written: sc
want to vote the same as Mauric,
Heaphy."
THERE is a good deal of wealth an,
refinement among the colored people o
Philadelphia, who number about 50, 600
One coloced physician has practice o
$50, year.
THE Cape Girardeau Democrat i
authority for the statement that figs Cal
be and are cultivated in Southeast Mis-
souri, equal to any fruit of the kin,
found in the South.
By vote "A to 5, the common council
OF Boston has appropriated $500 to pro
vide soup for 1.-The worthy poor" an,
there is such racket against the fiv
who voted mo-" that they find them
selves in the soup, also.
GENERAL BoULANGER's personal ex
penses are betrayed by his admirers il
France. Every week he receives Ger
tain amount collected from workin,
people in the provinces.
A POCKET typewriter is shortly to b
offered to the British public. The re