The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-11-27
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SnINAGO All 1LS pEC5C0G UOuuunilCS VIII
tains 173 square miles. ....,
THE city Of Philadelphia is to have .
school of pal@ontology.
THE new King of Portugal is an incr-
dinate cigarette smoker.
The Emperor Of Germany left Turkey
for Greece, the other day. ,ue
A CHIEAxAE is about to enter the law
department. Of Michigan University.
SECRETARY BLAINE has moved into
the old Seward house in Washington.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS visit to Constan-
tinople cost the Sultan over 81, 900, 900.
SEVEN million persons are employed
In the cultivation of the vine in France.
IDAHO, "Gem of the mountains, Is
the accurate translation of the Indian
word.
BRANCH Of the Knights of Labor has
been formed by the rope-workers of
Belfast. .......
THE United States is credited with
$3.50 papers of all sorts, 1sA04 of them
being dailies. IT,
THE expenses Of fashionable funeral
are almost equal to those of fashion
able wedding.
CHICAGO is going into ecstasies over
the prospect Of having natural gas in
the near future. =
IT is claimed that cranberries can be
kept sound under water in jars the
winter through. ne
AS A rule the cattle-dealer makes .
fortune out of his pen great deal faster
than the author does. t..
PENNsYLvANIA's autumn Arbor Day
resulted in the planting of "a, 100 trees
Throughout the State. si8
!, A fIFrT-yEAk-oLD grapevine grows in
Germantown, Pa, on trspk which
measures ~ feet round. K. ~
The manufacture of sugar by the diff
fusion process in Louisiana has resulted
in great increase of output.
The London authorities will not al
low Barnum to parade his exhibition
through the streets of that CITY,
ABOUT two tons of frogs legs have
been shipped from the bay district
to New York during the past four
months.
The most interesting exhibition in
Europe next year will be the Loan Elk
hibition of Tapestry at the Austrian
museum. sa - 50 fsa7 -is -
The largest family in Wetzel County,
W. Va, consists of eighteen persons
father, mother eight sons and eight
daughters. ~...
AMONG the freshwomen entered this
term at Newman College, Cambridge,
is Miss Chamberlain, a niece of Joseph
Chamberlain.
PLYMOUTH Church, Brooklyn, has con-
cluded to go back into Congregational
ism, from which it declared its indie
pendence some years ago.
WHAT with the great undefeated Ell
Rio Rey and the new wonder, Sunol,
California seems to have fairly earned
the title Of ruler of the turf.
SAN FRANCISCO, with population Of
about 100000, has only 1870 churches,
with seating capacity of 10000 and an
average attendance Of $4,000.
PRINCE HATzFELDT is blonde of me-
dunn height, of square and symmetrical
figure. His hair parts in the center and
rolls back in the German way;
The finest collection of postage stamps
in this country is said to be owned by
George Gould. His fathers collection
of stamps is also notable one.
A GERMAN professor has discovered
that Mr.. Gladstone is direct descend
ant of Edward III. Lord Tennyson Is
said to belong to the same family. 'a
IT has been resolved to erect monu.
ment at his native place of Eisleben to
the memory Of Friedrich KONG, the
inventor of the quick printing-press.
ONE of the chief Industries of Sicily
is the mining of sulphur. There are
567 mines in the country, and birthstone
is one of the most important exports.
MISS MARY CLYMER, recently welded
to Ex-Secretary Bayard, is thirty-nine
years old. Her distinguished husband
was sixty-one years of age last month.
GENERAL RosECRANs, Register O.
the Treasury, has decided to introduce
the use of electricity in his office as
motive power to run the punching ma
chimes for cancelling the redeemed
treasury notes. JAZZ s-'.tt q
THE young Emperor Of Germany, al
though he has done considerable travel
ing, is having an immense steam zach
built and cOntemplates q cruise arount
the world before his crave for sight-see
ing is satisfied.
OF Cuba's $4,000 acres, 1900 only ar,
cultivated. 1t has no gold or silver cur
rency OF its own, depending upon $40,
0O0,00Q0n notes issued by the Spanish
Bank. 1t is not prosperous and its popu
lation is diminishing.
Two studies of heads-one Of al
American lady in pencil, the other Of,
Maltese girl in water-color-have beel
contributed by the Princess Louise 10
Lorne) to the Royal Scottish water-col
or exhibition at Glasgow.
In saving spruce log at the Bru
nette mill, Victoria, B. c., the say
struck an iron bullet one and thre
quarter inches in diameter. 1t was sho
from culverin used by the Spaniard
100 years ago. and it was fully eighteel
inches from the surface.
THERE are l,4OO, 1000 people O.
earth and all these, as some one com
putes, could be gathered in field tel
miles square or in 100 square miles Q
territory.
SOME Of the eastern napers are urOi NJ