The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-08-28
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embroidered with flowers.
A TREE was cut down at Orting, w. T.,
that measured 80 feet long.
EUROPE is now agitating the question
whether to remonetize silver.
AN immense deposit OF mineral soap
has been found near San Diego.
MILE HONEY and John Sweet wero
married in Cincinnati a few days ago.
PRESIDENT CARNoT, of France, is .
literary man by inheritance and habit.
PRINCESS LoUIsE's wedding jewelry
Alone was estimated as worth f200, 900.
SOUTHERN California is figuring on
honey crop of 100000 pounds this sea-
con.
LONDON has a girl barber, four years
old, who shaves five men in thirty min.
utes.
A WOMAN at Trenton, Kas., seized and
held four of her neighbours children for
debt.
The value of the Columbia river sal
mon catch for this season is estimated at
81, 100, 900.
THE city Of Berlin is far ahead Of Lon
don in telephone progress, there being
10000 subscribers.
A COMPANY is about to engage in the
manufacture Of bagging from pine fiber
at Wilmington, N. c.
In France the doctors claim on the
estate Of deceased patient has pre-
cedence of all others.
QUEEN VICTORIA Is said to have ex.
pended nearly $4,000 on memorials
to the Prince Consort.
The New York papers are getting
greatly excited over Chicago's chances
FOR the exposition in 1892.
ABOUT $50, 900 persons have assembled
TO the top of the Washington monument
since October of last year.
It's fogy to wish long life to a golden
wedding couple. The latest form Isl:
Here's elixir Of life to YOU"
AT ball in Paris recently lady wore
shoes each of which had watch insert
ed in the leather near the toe.
KING HUMBERT has bought q phone
graph, by means of which he CORE
spends with Queen Marguerite
The Pope has made DR.. Morgan Grace,
brother Of the ex-mayor of New York, q
Count of the Holy Roman Empire.
AN advertisement in London paper
offers to pay fair price for second hand
tooth-brushes and castroff old teeth.
In England there are over S00, 900 more
widows than widowers. In France there
are 1914 widows for every 100 widowers.
A TRUMPET producing its musical note
" the vibration of circular steel mem
bfane BY means Of electricity has been
invented.
UNDER the new Schaeffer law in Min.
neapolis, which makes drunkenness o
crime, woman was the first to be SEN
fenced to jail.
NEW WORKERS devour million quarts
Of ice-cream on Sunday. A wag AYERS
that they remember the Sabbath day to
keep it coldly.
SITTING BULL, angered because the
Sioux treaty has been signed, has agreed
to 60 to Chicago and become dime mu-
scum attraction.
MRS. SLATER, of Siverlyville, Pa, had
a rooster killed the other day, and was
pleased and surprised to find IS gold
piece in its craw.
DAVID CAMPBELL, a puddler of Lam
caster, Pa, has ferret farm and sells a
good many of the animals to persons who
want them to kill rats.
GUTHRIE, with its suburbs, now has
$4,000 inhabitants, six banks, eight
newspapers, thirty-seven lumber-yards
and hundreds Of stores.
THERE will be only one Negro in the
next Congress. The single colored in
cumbent is Representative Henry r
Cheatham, of North Carolina
The Sultan Of Turkey maintains 47A
carriages, which incur an expense O.,
2,S00,OO0 francs a year. Most of these
carriages are Of French make.
EMERY ALLEN, of Hartland, Mich,
has had cherry-stone taken from his
ear. 1t was put there fifty years ago by
some Of Aliens mischievous playmates.
The ''vealiest'' wedding that ever
took place in Rails County, Mo-, was
celebrated the other day at New Lon
don. The groom was sixteen and the
bride thirteen.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN was the tallest
President in this country, being six
feet, four inches. Benjamin Harrison
is the shortest; his height is only five
feet, five inches.
DIR. PAUL GIBIER, an eminent French
physician, resident in New York city,
has gone to Paris to follow DR.. Brown
Sequard's experiment with his recently
discovered rejuvcnator.
Two prominent citizens Of Atlanta
went over into Alabama the other day
and had duel They fired ten shots at
each other. but neither was hit and the
whole affair was dreary failure.
THE population of Norway exhibits q
higher percentage (97.25) of light eyes
than any Other country in Europe.
Flaxen hair occurs in SIS per cent,
while absolutely black hair is only
found in the ratio of per cent.
BASEBALL has been introduced in the
New York insane asylum and the ply
stefan in charge of that institution says
it mas mad most ssiutary effect ON the
patients affected by melancholia.
THERE is fish pond at Delano, CAL,
which is supplied from an artesian we'll.
The fish are spurted out every day, and
belong to the same species as those at
Owens Lake, on the other side of the
Coast Range.