The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-07-10
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THERE are 1000 Icelanders in the city
Of Winnipeg, Man.
CALIFORNIA sent $500, 900 pounds Of
honey to Europe last year.
In France they have applied electric
ity to the playing of organs.
Mr. BAYARD's wedding to Miss Clymer
has been postponed till August 8.
A TYPEwRITING machine that will use
script type is promised before long.
ONE of every three property owners In
Carson City, New, has an artesian we'll.
SIMON CAMERON was in public life in
1929 and United States Senator in
1916.
HOG cholera is carrying off the porkers
Of Lincoln County, Tenn, at an alarm
ing rate.
A white monkey is owned by Mr.. Nc
Kay, a restaurant-keeper of McKees-
port, Pa.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA has shipped
thirty per cent. more oranges this year
than last.
The Japanese Government contem-
plates selling its railways to private
corporation.
The eleventh commandment, accord
ing to General Sherman, is mind your
own business.
The Nipsic, sole survivor of the Amer
ican fleet in the Samoan tornado, is on
her way home.
THE Duke of Portland will devote all
his future turf winnings to the erection
of almshouses.
Rev. DIR. HALL, of New York, gets
fifteen thousand dollars year and
parsonage to match.
EIGHTY-THREE cemeteries are in the
watershed of Croton which furnishes
New York with water.
Mrs. HAYES complained of numbness
In her right arm several days before she
had the stroke Of paralysis.
A TAXIDERMIsT at Paradena, Cal, has,
1t is stated, contracted to stuff 1000
horned toads, to be sent East.
IT is said that General Boulanger has
grown tired of London and contemplates
making short trip to this country.
JOHN MCDONALD, who has been blind
for thirty years, suddenly recovered
his eyesight while i'll at Waterbury,
Ct
S. G. COMBS, an Englishman, paid
$4,000 for gold brick to two San Fran
cisco sharpers. It was the same old
trick.
LAST year the number OF visitors to
Shakspeare's birthplace was $4,000,
Americans constituting one-fourth the
number. .....
THEY broke mans will in New Jer-
sey the other day by proving that he al
ways walked upstairs instead Of taking
an elevator.
Mr. CLEvELAND's fortune, which has
been greatly increased by lucky invest
ments in real estate, is now placed at
the 5000, 900 mark.
YELLOW shoes are becoming so popu-
lar that the bootblacks are thoroughly
alarmed lest the custom of wearing thera
deepen into craze.
The death is announced of John w.
Bardsley, Of Philadelphia, who in 1869
was commissioned to import English
sparrows into this country.
GIDEON L. PEAsE, of East Wilton,
Me-, who was Sergeant in the Black
Hawk war is thought to be the only liv-
ing U. s. soldier of that war;
The flood dumped fully $500, 1000 worth
Of lumber which can not be identified,
On farm near Milton, Pa. Many poor
men have thus been enriched.
THERE is man in Platt Pa, who
says he can make shoes with movable
soles, so that when one sole is worn out
it can be replaced by another.
ARCHBISHOP GIBBONS takes hopeful
view of the Irish situation. Home rule,
he has faith, will increase friendly rela-
tions between England and Ireland.
Mrs. MARGARET QUINN, aged 1O4
years, has just died at her home in New
York. She had been widow fifty years,
and had used tobacco seventy-fve years.
THE height of snobbishness is reached
at English bazars, where money is TAX
en- as the price of an introduction to this
or that beauty or titled lady presiding
over tables.
SARAH j. MACKIN, a widow, of Johns
town, Pa, who lost all her earthly pos
sessions by the flood, has just been
awarded pension and back pay amount
ing to $500.
CERTAIN citizens of Johnstown and
vicinity have in contemplation the
bringing of suits for damages against
the members of the South Fork Hunting
and Fishing Club.
THE Griffith baby boy, born at Johns.
town during the flood, has been appro.
priately named Moses, because taken
out of the water like the great leader Of
the chosen people.
Two bad boys in Georgia placed bar
of iron across railroad track and then
signaled an approaching train in order
to get free ride to the next town as q
reward for Saving" the train.
On the wrappers of rat poison sold al
the drug-stores, is q caution in re.
gard to leaving it where the house ca,
can get to it. What kind of cat is it.
the master of which has to buy ra,
poison?
HENRY HODGES, Of Lampasas, Tex, is
said to be the oldest living Mason and
Democrat. He Is said to be lea years
old. and cast his first vote for Thomas
jefferson.
The hotels in some of the larger Mex.
lean cities are now run after the Ameri.
can fashion, except that if you kick te
the landlord about the bugs he has the
porter GO up and SHOOT as many as he