The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-08-21
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THE the town of Lee, Me-, has neither
lawyer, doctor nor minister.
AN electric motor has been applied to
running brushes used in grooming
horses.
MASSACHUSETTS in November next
will give the Australian voting system
trial
A PIPE line to convey spa water from
Saratoga to New York City is the latest
project.
NORTHWESTERN people talk seriously |
OF the project of a railroad from Spokane
Falls to Alaska.
SENATOR SHERMAN is said to have
become skillful chess player since he
went to Europe.
HERoIc-sZED monumental statues OF
Grant, Sheridan and Farragut are to be
put up in Boston.
A TURTLE weighing 300 pounds is on
exhibition at Mexico, Mo. 1t was
Matched in Texas.
ATHENS, Ca, has COW that walked
on the crossties overa trestle IS feet high
and $50 yards long.
A PROJECT is on foot to transport the
entire population of Iceland, $4,000 in
numbers, to Alaska.
MILAN OBRENovITcH, ex-King of Ser
via, has an income Of 100000, and is
steadily running into debt.
The Emperor of China, who is young
and progressive man, is very anxious to
make trip to this country.
THE blight has again appeared in the
New York hop fields, threatening the
destruction of the whole crop.
LONDON has more than fourteen thou
sand policemen, fact that shows that
Jack the Ripper is something of an ex-
pert
THE baby King OF Spain has had
severe attack of cholera infantum.
In spite of fourteen doctors he recov-
cred.
GLADsToNE's speech on the royal
grants was caught by a photograph and
will 60 down to posterity just as he de-
livered it.
A MERCANTILE house in Philadelphia
finds it cheaper to send for customers
and pay all train expenses than send out
drummers.
DURING recent storm stone weigh
ing eleven pounds dropped from the
clouds into the yard Of farmer living
near Essex, Ia.
New YORK papers say that the con.
victs of that State, who have been in en-
forced idlencss for some time, will soon
be put to work again.
A PIoUs old lady of Toronto devotes
the profits accruing from the sale of all
the eggs laid by her hens on Sunday to
the missionary cause.
A New York city court has decided
that children can't pawn goods, or if
they do, the pawnbroker is liable to a
years imprisonment.
A PERFECTLY sane man in appearance
recently entered theater in San Fran
cisco. BY the end OF the third act he
was raving maniac.
The Prince of Wales is petitioning
his royal mamma to please retire to her
knitting and allow him chance at the
uuTOllc DClOTc ~ ID UOO ldJe.
TWENTY-FIVE years ago Coney Island
was a sanded waste. To-day there are
S20,000,000 invested in it's railroads,
hotels and diverse enterprises.
THEY are making an attempt to accli-
Matte Connecticut oysters at several
places on the coast of Sweden. So far
the young oysters have thriven we'll.
AT the Schuylkill United States Ar
senal, near Philadelphia, there is manu-
featured each year 100000 rounds of
ammunition and 5000, 900 of rifle balls.
In looking through the papers in his
safe, the other day, Russell Sage discov-
cred that he was the proprietor of a rail-
road out in Iowa that he had forgotten
about.
A RATTLEsNAKE kept by an Orlando,
Fla, jeweler, lived eighteen months
without eating. His owner then put an
end to the snakes misery by chloro-
forming him.
AN English clergyman is reported to
have remarked to daughter of Bishop
Huntington: HAS your father many
Mormons in his diocese? Utah, think,
is in New York;"
THE Empress of Germany will in fu-
ture be attended by special bodyguard
of the twenty-fOur tallest men in the
Prussian army, with five colossal SER
geants and commanding officer to
match.
WIN. KILNER, of Mercer, Pa, has
gooseberries which weigh three-fourths
of an ounce each, and says they will
grow to be an ounce in weight when the
bushes are older. They are an English
variety.
THE elephant has moro muscles in his
trunk than any other creature possesses
in it's entire body, their number being,
according to Cuvier, no less than 40, 900;
while the whole of mans muscles only
number $50.
JOSH DE LA Rosa, an old printer in
San Diego, CAL, is one hundred years
old. He was sent by General Santa Ana
to Monterey to start paper in 1883. He
still has a wonderful memory and the
control of all his faculties.
IT is not generally known that Mr..
Gladstone has only three fingers on his
left hand. The index finger was shot
of, forty-seven years ago, by an accident
in the hunting-field.
JOHN c. COLLINS, of New York. form.
erly of Cincinnati. has not been able to
sleep, it is learned, for seventeen wears.
The only inducemcnt to sleep is by re.
peating the Lords prayer. He presents
strong and healthy appearance.
Horse stealing during the past few