The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-06-12
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BEER is now sold in New York City by
the pound.
QUEEN VICTORIA has just passed her
SEVENTEEN birthday.
The International Salt Trust has been
substantially completed.
A GEORGIA man has a red bat which he
captured few days ago. "a
ALBANY, Ga, rejoices in the possession
OF three-legged alligator.
THERE are 1856 applicants for one Consul
lar place In South America.
COLONEL ISGERsoLL's law practice is said
to bring him SltO, 600 year. f
MORE than $4,000 600 acres of American
soil belongs to nom resident aliens.
STOCKHOLDERS of the Suez Canal will
receive this year a dividend of 80 per
cent
HOME rule for India promises to give
England as much trouble as home rule for
Ireland.
ENORMOUS icsbergs have been reported
20 be floating around in the North Atlantic
this spring.
CHARLES WEBER, Cincinn att plumber,
is the father of five pairs of twins. All are
alive and healthy.
JOHN G. WHITTIER the poet, says that
he expects to live to be hundred, though
Q is not anxious to.
Two friends met on the streets of Water
bury, Conn.,, few days ago for the frs
time in seventy years.
A SHADE of pink scarf very much at.
fected by Harvard boys is commercially
known as raw VEAL"
The Chinese Government refuses to
agree to the treaty restricting Chinese
immigration to Australia.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT paid a Paris
doctor $1,000 for three minutes work in
cutting wart off his neck.
ABOUT one hundred and fifty colors are
obtained from coal tar, which has almost
entirely supplanted vegetable and animal
dyes.
AT the Troy polytechnic the students
have craze. They paper their ceilings
with envelopes Of letters from their best
girls.
The Kansas State Historical Society is
negotiating for the purchase of the rife
which John Brown used at Harper's
Ferry.
A LAW Of the New York State Leg isla.
ture forbidding the heating of railway
cars by stoves, has been declared constitu.
tional.
In Roostoen, Holland, there is giant
rose tree belonging to Nine. Regnen, which
few years ago held 5000 roses at the
same time.
PAPER clothing is being made by a
Minnesota inventor. 1t is as soft as cloth
and it is claimed that the cold can OF
penetrate it,
AMERICANS are expected to spend this
year. for one purpose or another, aside
from purely bu iness, the snug sum Of
500. O00 900 in Europe.
"A DYNAMITE cartridge one foot in
length takes only 1-24O0ths of second to
explode, scientists say" We are will.
ing to take their word for it.
The Count tess Crosby, of the old nobility
of Austria, has gone on the road with her
circus troupe. She will take it to Paris
before the Exposition closes.
A SWARM Of bees, attracked by comb
of honey in the window, took possession of
a grocery store in Plaintield, N. j., and put
an end to business for ths day.
WHITELAw REID, minis ter to Paris, has
rented the house OF Comtesse de Gram
mont, in that city, at an annual rent al of
$4,000 His salary as Minister is SIT, 500.
GEO. A. WEsTERKILL, Chicago young
man, fell In love with Lydia Thompson,
the burlesque actress aud growing des-
pondent after she left The city, killed HIM
self.
LEVI CLowDIs, Of Livingston, Mo-. used
to boast that he had not read a newspaper
for fifty years. The other day two stran.
gers played the bunko game on him for
$500
The Navy Department has decided to
send the remains of CaptLin John Erics-
son to Sweden, his native land, for burial.
They will be taken on the new cruiser
Chicago.
BETWEEN fifteen and sixteen thousand
children are lost in London every year,
almost all of whom are found and restored
to their parents by the aid Of the Metro
politan police.
VIM H. CAMPBELI, an old fashioned
Democrat who has been postmaster in a
Vermont town for four years, has just
stepped out and his wife, 'staunch Re.
publican" has been given the commis-
sion.
Or ten English business men seven die un-
10,
men eight die under that age. In the
United States the ratio is less than six
How about that old howl that we are living
too fastl I'D.
JOHN D. DAVIS, a farmer, residing at
New Diggins, Ill.,, put his milk cans OH the
wood-pile to dry, and the ref sction of the
suns rays from them set the wood on fire,
doing considerable damage to his house
and barn.
Ten leading coal firms of Pittsburgh
engaged in shipping coal South have
combined, it is said, to buy cut al the
small operators and secure a monopoly, by
which they can dictate prices to consumers
from Wheeling TO New Orleans.
In theater a. Ashton, England, during
the performance Of a melodrama, an ex-
cited woman threw hsr bonnet and UNI
brella at the "villain" on the stage when
he was strangling one of the characters.
She brought down the house"
THE japanese Government has engaged
two German lawyers in Berlin to proceed
to Toxic and reframs the Japanese penal
code to conform to the German ms tead OF
the French code, as now. go.
The Mormon Church has bought large
amount of land in Manitoba and many Of
the saints, with their h)cks, their herds,
their wives, children, man servants and
maid servants, are leaving Utah and Idaho
and g Ding to the new promised land.
IT is proposed to erect monument to