The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-16
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opened a temple.
The richest maiden in California is
Miss Jennie Flood.
EXCELLENT brown paper can now be
made out Of peat fiber.
HE national silver convention will
meet at st. Louis November 28.
SAN Francisco has home for girls
out of work, started by Mrs. Croker.
DIR. NANsEN, the Norwegian explorer,
iS about to set out for the North Pole.
The King of Italy recently visited the
tomb of Garibaldi and placed upon it
wreath.
AN Alabama man is beating the liq-
uor law by running "nickel-in-the-
slot" bar.
A TEN foot rattlesnake was killed by
Captain Frank Wyatt, of Charleston, S.
G., the other day.
BECAUSE of the busy season the ex-
Confederate reunion at Meridian, Miss,
will be postponed.
FIFTEEN thousand bushels of cranber-
ries will be picked from one New Jersey
plantation this year.
A FORTY-THREE-ACRE vineyard within
mile of Fresno, CAL, sold few days
ago for $1,000 an acre.
GOVERNOR FITzHUGH LEE is growing
so stout that he is barely able to mount
horse without assistance. :,
BETWEEN Vienna and Prague, dis
tace OF $50 kilometers, telephone
service has been established.
DURING the last twelve months the
number of cigarettes manufactured in
this country was 2,151, 512, $50. 4 :,
Miss LINCOLN, daughter of Minister
70 England Robert Lincoln, has become
the acknowledged belle in London.
A BUNCH of celery containing twelve
stalks has just been gathered at Kala-
mazoo. 1t weighed thirty-fve pounds.
A HANDKERCHIEF in the possession of
the Empress Of Russia, lis Isaid to have
cost $4,000, 1t took seven years TO make
REV. JOHN FARNHAM, of Charlotte, N.
c., wears number 351S shoe, which re-
'auires sole 20 inches long and inches
broad.
CAPTAIN KNUDsEN, of the Inflated
steamer Danmark, is now In command
of the new Thingvalla line steamer
Norge.
ACCORDING to the latest official state
ment, the contributions for the relief
OF the Johnstown sufferers aggregate
$3,50O,0OO.
r. M. VAN AUKEN, of Leadville, COL,
has invented device which, he claims,
will do away wholly with buttons and
buttonholes ......
HERR BOTEI, wonderful tenor, is
fascinating the audiences at the Krall
Gardens, Berlin. He was coachman
not long ago.
BALFoUR, who is called ''the best
hated man in England" is still young.
He was born in 1S4S and went to Parlia.
ment in 1874.
A SILVER dollar of 1895, almost as
bright as the day it was coined, was
found buried in boat-yard at Yardly,
Pa, few days ago. -
AT recent fair in San Luis Obispo
County, CAL, an onion was shown that
had girth of twenty-six inches and
weighed seven pounds.
A CALIFORNIA newspaper speaks of
Kansas City as IAN Eastern city," 1t is
little things like this that help us to
appreciate our vastness.
THE blowing of any kind of steam
whistle in Washington City is punish
able Offense and in the future the law
will be strictly enforced.
A WRITER who has made the search
asserts that our language contains NO
less than sE different terms expressive
of the state of being in love.
AN army of black, gray and red SOUR.
rels has been passing southwark over
the mountains and valleys Of Clinton
County, Pa, for some time.
THE Evangelical Alliance for the
United States will hold national meet
ing in fremont Temple Boston, the 4th
18th and 9th of December next
ROBT. H. TERRELL, the negro appoint
ed Chief of Division in the Fourth Aud
TORS Office of the Treasury Department
is graduate of Harvard University.
THE Georgia Legislature has passed 6
bill doubling the length of the schoo
term and increasing the appropriation
accordingly. This will give six month.
school.
IT is understood that Mr.. and Mrs
Morton have concluded to make Wash
ington their permanent home, and d.
not expect to occupy their New Yorl
house again.
TIE tide of Chinese immigration to
ward the East is growing to an alarm
ing extent, and scarcely a day passes
without crowd of Chinaman en- route
to the large cities this side the Missis
sippi. .~:,.~ L. .xsS t,,,.&
THE increase of value in real estat,
and personal properties in Tennesse,
during the past three years is figured a
one hundred million dollars, unprece
denied in the history of any State in tn,
JOHN JACOB AsroR died worth $40,
100000, after beginning on a salary o
81 . week for beating furs in =; dam
cellar. The s4o.00o,OoO left by him il
1919 has grown in; forty years b 5000,
600, 900
REPORT comes by way or'the Utal
commission that polygamy is solemnizet
clandestinely in many parts of the ter
ritory in spite, of all the efforts of tn,
Government -.t
LITTLE King Alexander, Of Servia. i
much impressed with a sense of his owl
dignity. He can scarcely write thre