The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-12-18
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CHERRY trees are in bloom in Heads
burg, CAL
ONE thousand silver dollars weigh
seventy-one pounds.
CANvAs-BACK ducks are very scarce in
Chesapeake bay this season.
THERE are $4,000 workingmen and
10000 workingwOmen in Berlin.
BRoOKLYN's mayor has had his salary
raised; he now gets $4,000 year.
PHILADELPHIA will have next year an
exhibition of American iron work.
A WOMAN in Missouri boasts that she
has been led to the altar ten times.
JAY GoULD's recent re tirement from
business Melted him several millions of
dollars.
AN average of 10000 boxes of oranges
day are being shipped from Gaines
vile, Ga.
A SPRINGFIELD (O.) man requires a
No. 9 shoe for his right foot and No. 6
for his left. fsrs
THE sign "Mealers Wanted" in Maine
signifies that table boarders can be ac-
commodated.
THERE are five New Yorks, nine Phil
adelphias and twelve Bostons in the.
United States.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER has presented
to the Cumberland (Me.) bar fine por-
trait Of himself.
IT is remarked that in pleasant wealth
er ladies who come late to church often
have on new clothes.
SINCE 1860 the amount of conscience
money sent to the Treasury Department
foots up over 81. 500, 00O sA9N'i '''
THE American Bible sSociety in its
seventy-two years Of existence, has is
sued 100000 of Bibles.
The term ''speak easy" applied to a
drinking place without a license, has
become popularized in Philadelphia.
'TYPoscRIBE' is suggested as the best
word to be applied to the person who
manipulates writing machine.
A LONDON journalist, realizing the
overcrowding of the professions, is hav-
ing his Oldest son trained to be cook
HENRY M. STANLEY has sold his
forthcoming book outright to the Samp-
son Low publishing firm of London for
100000.
Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND declines to
sell his Brick Top" residence near
Washington, refusing an offerof $3.50, 900
therefor.
WE shall have to cease talking about
american ire-proof buildings. Recent
fires have demonstrated that there Is no
such thing. q.
BMc-A-BRAc was never SO cheap,
which Is usually the case when the sup
ply of any thing is much greater than
the demand.
PHILADELPHIA has day nursery where
the young children of working women
are cared for at the rate of six cents
each per day.
CHRYsANTHEMUM is Greek for gold
flower, and gold-fower would be good
enough English name If we could bring
ourselves to it.
BRooMCoRN is said to be the most
profitable crop in Kansas. The farmers
OF Mcpherson County realize from this
years crops $4,000. YF
HICKORY nuts were never so abundant
in Missouri as this year. Five car loads
We're recently shipped from Montgomery
County to New York.
AN auctioneer at Bath, Me-, disguised
at the low price offered for his gooGs,
sarcastically put up rs bill, which was
promptly bid off at $3.50.
In her last lecture on ancient Egyp,
Miss Amelia Edwards tells of king
who acquired immortal fame by the in
vention of hair restorative.
BY the re-survey of the boundary line
between Nevada and California the lat
ter gains a strip over 200 miles long ant
three-quarters OF mile wide.
P. T. BARNUM is determined to return
from Europe with title. The fact tina
has excited Mr. Barnum's ambition.
THERE is advertised for sale in WOr
cestershire, Eng, a piece of propert,
on lease which has It'll years yet t.
run. 1t was made for 1000 years il
1900.
A MACHINE that cuts matchstick
makes 10000, 900 day. They arc al
ranged over vat and have the head
put on at the rate of 5000, 900 per day b
one man,
A JAPANESE nun is a novelty in
Catholic convent. However, a youn
Japanese lady belonging to a hig
family will soon take the vail to enter
Bavarian nunnery.
AN astonishcd navigator has arrive
in New York with the information tina
ne has found the gulf stream flown
west OF north instead of the time-hOr
ored course of east of north.
A NEW JERSEY inventor has col
structed an electric railway that demo,
strates a new principle in electric pr
pulsion. 1t docs away with overhea
wires and continuous currents as we'll.
Mr.. LAMBERT, q corn doctor from Bin
hamton, N. Y, recently forced his wa
into the White House looking for I'll
President and his wife. He said he ha
treated Mr.. Clcveland's corns success
fully. He was summarily hustled GU
THE wires seem to have had dOub
responsibility for the Boston fire; #
they not only prolonged it by obstruc
ing the fire department but. If suspicit
is we'll founded, actually originated 1t.
EuowArTs is the term which is to
used hereafter to express the power
electric machines. The. word horse-po'