The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-07-03
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u raising cabbageS.
CYRUS FIELD began life as a clerk in
. New England store.
Missouri has set apart $4,000 for wolf
scalps for 1889 and 1890.
The late Sir Thomas Dakin's body
was buried in paper coffin.
TORONTO has raised more than IS, OOt
for the Johnstown sufferers.
THE sub-cellar OF the Tombs in New
York is infested by water snakes.
THERE is company organized in Eng
land which insures against burglary.
A ST. LOUIS paper notes the depart
ure Of society belle to visit "kins-
lady"
Mr.. DEPEw has invitations to speak
on July 4 in nearly every State in the
Union.
New ORLEANS capitalists are organic
ing a homestead company at the City of
Mexico.
In the circuit court at Kansas City,
the other day, twelve divorces were
granted.
THE sale and use of firecrackers is to
be prohibited on Manhattan Island after
this year.
A SPRING near Bagtown, COL, throws
sstream of scalding water to u height
of thirty feet.
THE International Typographical
Union adjourned to meet at Atlanta
Ca, next year.
Two lady delegates took part in tho
deliberation of the international Typo
graphical Union.
THE New Jersey martin Parole" or
ticket-of-leave law has been declared
unconstitutional.
ADAM FOREPAUGH was butcher in
Philadelphia when he decided to go into
the show business
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ncb., in which
Omaha is located, will pay taxes this
year on $50, 10000
ANovEL use of electricity is about to
be tested in sharpening the shoes Of car
horses in icy weather.
TIE majority of the pickpockets now
in Paris are foreigners; the most num-
erous are English and italian.
ALoNZo B. CORNELL says that New
York has $3.50, 900 for the Grant memo
rial and aims to get 81, 900, 900.
Los ANGELES, CAL, has just put in
operation cable road with twenty
miles of track, which cost 50, 600, 900.
THE English newspapers are gcner-
ally agreed that America has come of
with flying colors at the Samoan Con-
ference.
WHILE playing in Baltimore gutter
an eight-ycar-old boy was swept into the
sewer and drowned by stream caused
by the rain.
A FARMER living near Emporia, Kas.,
owns horse eighteen hands and one
inch high. 1t is five years old and we'll
proportional.
THE International Typographical
Union has decided to locate the home for
invalids and INDECENT printers at Col
orado Springs.
THERE is larger proportion of the
boys and girls of New Jersey than of
any other State in the Union who 60 to
Sunday-school.
THERE is a thrce-year-old pianist in
Baltimore that is astonishing large aud
fences by playing days of Absence
with great skill.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has been advised
by his physicians to make trip to Nor
way for the benefit of his health before
visiting England.
AT a concert in Wilkesbarre, Pa. while
every one was applauding, little child
exclaimed: 'Oh, mamma, see all the big
men pattycaking."
WIGGINs says the ocean is drying up,
and an unappreciative paragrapher ad-
viscs the Canadian weather prophet to
60 and do likewise.
TIE chief cook of the Hollywood Ho.
tel, Long Branch, followed to Montreal
man who had robbed him of 81, 900 and
recovered his money.
ONE hundred and twelve years ago the
first American flag was made in little
house which is still standing at No. 23e
Arch street, Philadelphia.
AN Episcopal bishop in North Caro-
lima has discovered that peanuts and q
glass of milk taken just before going tc
bed are cure for insomnia.
A. X. CUTTING, the Texas editor who
tried to get this country into row with
Mexico, is working for fourteen dollars
week in Texas printing office.
TIE gossips of Europe tell great yarns
about the Shah of Porsia's grandeur
1t is stated that the precious stones
Embedded in his throne are worth $50,
600, 900.
ERNEST ScIILLING, the coachman
who once achieved notoriety by his
marriage with Victoria Morosini, is
earning his living as painter at Stein
way, l.. l.
AN amateur ventriloquist in Wheel
ing, West Virginia, threw cries of dis
trcss into load of hay At once the
farmer owning it began dumping it il
the street.
SIR JULIAN PAUNCEFoTE, British
minister to this country, is promincn
bibliophilc. He spends good deal o
time in Washington cropping around il
secondhand book stores in search o
rare volumes.
a TYRONE pa. tailor, who advertiscs
asserts that on the night the water wa.
four feet deep in his store a man acatet
all the way down from Bellwood on ;
door. and came padding into his stor'
to ret measured for wedding suit.
THE encroachmcnt of British capita
upon our domains and industries is be
ginning to excite alarm. The Britol
could not subjugatc this country b,