The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-11-13
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UTAH now yields s1O,OOO,OOO in gold
and silver annually.
The Royal Baking Powder is adver-
tised in over 5000 papers.
New carpets are being laid in the
House wing of the Capitol.
THE Florida orange crop this season is
estimated at 1900, 900 boxes.
A TREE was cut down at Orting, w. T.,
that measured 80 feet long.
POTATOES are selling in some parts OF
Kansas for ten cents bushel.
PRESIDENT CARNoT and Minister Reid
nave become warm friends in Paris.
THERE are about six hundred women
in Chicago who own and ride bicycles.
GENERAL RiUM, Pension Commission
or, will be sixty years old in December.
WASHINGTON is making an effort to
have the great Worlds Fair held in that
city.
IT is estimated that American tourists
have spent $7O,OO0,OO0 in Europe this
year.
II. II. WARNER of Rochester, is one OF
the most enterprising American adver-
tisers.
Ex-Governor HoADLY's income from
his legal practice is said to be 100000
syear.
MARRIAGE is mentioned by the Mime
apolis Tribune as "a temporary embar-
rassment."
The widow of the late King Luis, of
Portugal will receive yearly allow
ance of $4,000. tAfs q
PRINCE OF WALES has become extreme
ly Studious of late. He is reading up
American history.
AT last person has been caught writ
ing his name on the Eiffel Tower. He
was fined twenty francs. 49,
c. a. HOOP, the sarsaparilla man,
spends hundreds Of thousands of dollars
annually in advertising.
GENERAL MALONE does not weigh
more than 105 pounds. Mrs. Malone
tips thssbeam at full 225.
A MIsPRINTED rattle ticket from Scran-
ton announces that the drawing will
take place on January II, 500.
CHICAGO claims to be first choice for
the worlds fair of 1872 Congressman, and
the second choice Of forty more.
Louis KossUrH, the Hungarian pa.
triot, will become naturalized Italian
citizen, and will be nominated for sena.
tor.
BETWEEN the various Worlds Fail
committees, the poor Congressman will
have hard time Of it the coming SEES
sion.
SAN SALVADOR is the first of the Cen
trail American republics to establish
telephone service throughout its terri
tory.
A CURIOUS wedding was celebrated thu
other day at Getaway, Kas. The bride
groom is four feet high and the bride 81,
feet.
Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage will be &C
companied on his tour to and through
the Holy Land by his wife and daughter
Mary.
A SALINE County (Mo.) man is read,
to make affidavit that he raised swee
potato that measured two feet from til
to tip.
A NEBRASKA justice has discharged ;
man accused of stealing an umbrella OF
a rainy day on the ground that he actet
in self-defense.
1T is estimated that in the iron ant
copper mines of the Lake Superior re
gion, over sixty men month are acct
dentally killed.
The heaviest advertiser in Southern
newspapers is the Louisiana State Lot
terry. They spend between $3OO,O an,
$500, 900 annually.
GENERAL BENZ. f. BUTLER is to writ
his own memoirs, in which he promise
to tell the truth about himself, hi
friends and his enemies. "a
EMPEROR WILLIAM recently shove,
his dislike of every thing French b,
discharging an attendant whom h
caught reading French novel.
A FAMILY from Terra del Fuego,
man, his three wives and three children
said to be the lowest type of humanity
are now on exhibition in London.
DIR. R. B. PIERCE, of Buffalo, spend
100000 annually for advertising in tn
United States. Taking altogether hi
advertising bill is over $l,0O0,OOO
year.
ALUMINIUM is getting cheaper. No
long ago it was IS q pound, now it ca
be bought for 81. 1t is the comm
metal, and all that delays its advent /
its high price.
SwTT's SPECIFIC Co., Of Atlanta,
the largest advertising firm in tn
South. Mr.. Rankin lets his advertiser
direct and people 60 5000 miles to tai
to him about lads" K
A WEALTHY citizen Of Nevada, recent
deceased, left in his will single penn
to his divorced wife las q token of g.
TEEN greatly in excess of the consider,
ton which she deserves"
THE statement is made upon good q,
thority that q rich firm of Englis
traders are heavily interested in tn
Zanzibar slave trade. The Arabs CO,
duct the business, but the firm receive
most of the profits.
YORK COUNTY pa agriculturists hay
been astonished by radish in the po
session of Mrs. Samuel Clay, OF Pen,
vile, which she raised in her lot.
measured thirty-fve inches one way an
twenty-one the other. and weighed 81
and half pounds. The radish resen
bles the appearance Of child very mucl
COUNT Won MoITKE is the latest pa
ron of the photograph. The instrumer
was shown him a short time ago, an