The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-07-24
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TOPEKA is going to try vitrified brick
on one of its streets.
AN English syndicate is now after
American restaurants.
THERE are ten Indian training schools
In different parts of the Union.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE is now sixty
nine years of age and an invalid.
The forty-two-star flag will not be
legal until next Fourth of July.
A MATRIMONIAL craze has broken out
among the royal families Of Europe.
BASEBALL has taken a strong hold
among the Indians in the Northwest
LONDON consumes 10000 tons of ice
daily during its very brief hot season,
A PHILADELPHIA drug stores best
tooth powder customer has false teeth.
Z. Il. BARNUM's circus and menagerie
will sail for England about October IL.
THERE is movement in Canada to
abolish the wearing of black for mourn
ing.
A HORSE dentist is reaping harvest
up in the northern counties of Michi-
gan.
Rev. SAM JONES declared that the
Lord made him and then lost the pat
tern.
A NEBRASKA editor denounces a story
circulated about him as ''base cal
omel."
PKoF. TYNDALL accepts as sound Pas
tours method of incubation for hydro
phobia.
The new State entomologist of Cali
fornia bears the appropriate name of
Mothwell.
IT is said that there are more Ameri-
cans in London than ever before at this
particular time.
A coLoRED man at Albany, Ca, has
served no less than twenty-One terms in
> jail for fighting.
In section few miles square about
McRae, Ca. there has not been heavy
rain since April ID.
A LAW school for women is to be es-
tablished in New York next fall by
Mrs. Emily Kempin, LII. d.
ONE thousand two hundred and sixty
six persons died from violence in New
York during the year ending June.
HUMBOLDT COUNTY, New, contains
1854 square miles, and is larger than
Rhode Island, Delaware and Maryland
combined.
HoRATIo McKELvEY, aged fifteen has
died at Franklin, Pa, from having swal-
lowed creosote which dentist had put
in tooth.
The population of London is 1850, 900.
OF this number 100000, or more than
one-fifth, are in receipt of some form Of
pauper relief.
If all the telephone wires in this
country were stretched in continuous
line they would reach seven times
around the earth.
THREE daring young tOughs from New
Orleans got to the prize-fght by con-
cealing themselves under the cow-catch-
er of locomotive.
ACCORDING to recent authority, the
widow of General Grant has thus far re-
ceived about $1,000 from the publica-
ton of his Memoirs"
LIGHT or dark blue, gray, brown, bot
tle-green, purple and lilac dress coats
are coming in rage in London, with
metal or brass buttons.
THE largest railway mortgage ever
made is that recently executed by the
Chicago Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway
Company, for Sl5O,OOO,OOO.
THE oldest United States ex-Senators
are James Bradbury, of Maine, and JEFF
ferson Davis, of Mississippi. Each
served in the Senate of 1S47.
THE pistol that wasn't loaded is kill
ing about as many people this summer
as usual. 1t is one of the most danger
GUS weapons known to science.
AT the gait the new States are coming
into the Union there threatens to be a
corner in the Territories soon unless
Alaska be cut up considerably.
Cows hair is now used in making car
pets. The process is described as a
cheap one and the product as an i'm
provement on the wooden article.
Now that New Jersey woman is de.
.termined to marry Sitting Bull, it may
be that the rascally old savage will re.
ceive the punishment he deserves.
A YOUNG man and woman drove up to
a hotel in Bethlehem, Pa, and the GAL
liant registered, flames A and
sweetheart, Bethlehem Township"
RUSSIA has fixed doctors charges.
Physicians making $3.50 per year will
get As cents per visit; others % cents.
In country towns 10 cents is the usual
charge. livJr.
SINCE the food receded an island near
York, Pa, has become so densely infest-
ed with serpents that owners of timber
which has drifted there are afraid to 90
after it.
The testimony Of Charles Wood. an
English jockey. in recent lawsuit
brought out the information that he had
earned more than $4,000 a year at his
profession.
THERE is only four months difference
in the ages of sullivan and Kilrain.
Sullivan being thirty years, eight months
old, and Kilrain thirty years, four
months.
ENGLAND, after being invaded by
Buffalo Bill and two professional base
ball teams, is now 10 nave visit from
college nine to teach the young British
ers how to throw ball.
THE will of General Cameron leaves
$4,000 each to the Harrisburg Hospital
and the Home for the Friendless. His
library and $1,000 he leaves to the Young
MEMS Christian Association, Of ua=a: