The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-11-20
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OAKLAND, CAL, has gang of girl foot
pads
Miss HELEN GLADSTONE has become a
journalist. "pi
PRESIDENT HARRISON seldom attends
the theater.
ALL Europe has over 10000 periodical
publications.
ENGLAND has 5000 periodicals, of
which 800 are dailies.
A THIRD of the deaths in the French
army are due to typhoid fever.
GERMANY has $500 publications Of
which 500 are daily newspapers. "a
AMERICAN wild turkeys have been
successfully acclimated in Austria.
THE average salary of the 54,s74
fourth-class postmasters is only $l53. .
SEVENTEEN thousand dollars night
are spent for amusements in New York
City.
SECRETARY PROCTOR has earned the
title at Washington of the silent
man."
AN insurance company conducted by
women has been established in New
Orleans. SEQ ou f1
A sIXTY-PoUND skate was caught with
hook and line at the Santa Cruz wharf
few days since.
PRINCE BISMARCK is troubled with
insomnia. /. He has tried an orris-root
pillow but is still wakeful.
EMPEROR WILLIAM is the first reign
ing monarch who has visited COnstanti-
uOple since the fifteenth century.
HYpRoPHoBIA is again epidemic in
Clay County, West Virginia. ! Farmers
go armed and shoot dogs at sight.
Dr.. LINDSEY, of New Haven, has de-
clared that the great number of trees in
that city, are a constant source Of
disease.
Mr.. EDISON says he receives an aver
sge Of 1000 letters daily, many Of which
contain offers of marriage with his
daughter.
LORD WOLsELEY has accepted an in
vitation to be present at the unwilling
of the statue Of General Lee, at Rich
mond, Va. ci
A CURLY walnut log was sold by a
Logan County (W. Val man for $1,000.
Mr.. d. Williamsburg, Of Indianapolis,
being the purchaser.
A PIECE of Washington real estate was
recently sold at the rate of $50 square
foOt-the highest price ever paid for
property in the capital. II, ~,
A NINE-YEAR-oLD girl of Spring Lake
Township, Kingsbury County, S. d.,
plowed eighty acres of land this fall
with three-horse sulky pillow. m 81
The receipts of the Brooklyn Club in
the worlds championship were SO, 22s. 65.
The players, including Manager Nc
Gonigle, each received $39929.
EIGHTEEN years ago Kansas City
man paid So, 600 for lot, and was laugh
ed at. The other day he sold it for
$4,000 and now he is laughing. a
A BEAUTIFUL white marble bust of
Mrs. Cleveland, the work of G. Scanki,
of Genoa, in 1885, will shortly decorate
the Cleveland home in New York : u
THE statue OF Robert E. Lee for Rich
mond, modelled by Mercie in Paris, will
not be ready by December. The unvail-
ing has been postponed until May.
A FRESNO, Cal, woman threw cellu-
lOid cuff in the stove. Her husband will
have to pay $3.50 to repair damage done
to the kitchen and to get a new stove.
J. T. TRowBRIDGE, the well-known
writer of books for boys, is over seventy
years of age, and lives at Arlington,
Mass. He has made fortune with his
pen. .,
In his report Secretary Proctor re.
news the recommendation of his prede.
cessor, that Congress provide for the APP.
pointment OF an Assistant Secretary Of
War.
THE President has been bothered with
hundreds of letters inquiring if he is q
Mason, all of which he has answered in
the negative. He belongs to no secret
society.
CHRISTIAN FEGLEN, of ShamOkin, Pa.
is the Oldest working miner in the Key
stone State. He has worked in the Goa
mines for flfty-tive years and is still able
to do a big days work.
JOE MULHATToN, the famous 70
mancer, whose wonderful stories startlt
the newspaper world, is said to be ;
hard-working member of the Baptis
Church at Louisville, Ky.
AN infant child of Abram Lorcna, O
Tombstone, Ariz., picked up live scor
IN DO h.
reptile stung the child's tongue anG
the child was.a corpse in less than al
hour.
A TYPEWRITER will has been de
clared valid by the, courts of Berk,
County, Pa. This establishes the claif
of typewriter work to be called writ
ing" while the Patent Office has Official
ly classed it as printing. $40 Il y
GERONIMO and his renegade Apachel
will remain at Mount Vernon Barracks
Alabama, during the winter. Gesonimt
has become quite civilized. He ka.
learned to twang the bango. and bis on
surly manner has left him. n
The average cost Of a Pullman,sles
is S17,sl2. There are now in use l,s8,
standard and $50 tourist Pqllmans
The assets Of the company are plaSal
at $40, rs, 692 and the liabilities t$26,
26l,370.
CHARLES BAKER has . vegetable gar
den near Anaheim, Cal. The other da,
he brought in pumpkin that weighed
2os pounds and two beets raised from
seed that weighed 45pounds each. Tn,
big pumpkin was bought by New Yorl
man, who shipped it TO his own Stat,
fair.