The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-08-07
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A FIvE-YEAR-oLD child in Monson,
Me-, is said to speak three languages.
The King of Italy has been limited by
his physicians to ten cigarettes day.
A CHICAGO baby that was born July 4
has been christened Gloria Columbia
Ottofy.
The Missouri law prohibiting music,
billiards. cards, dice, etc., in saloons is
now in effect
SCIENTISTS say that electric wires are
OF such quick-tempered mettle that it is
dangerous to cross them.
A MASSACHUSETTS farmer has been
fined for taking in his hay on Sunday
when it threatened rain.
IT has been estimated that the life in
surance companies have lost $25O,00O by
the Conemaugh Valley flood.
AT Nashville, Mary Ann Shaub left
her property of $4,000 to two favorite
dogs, of the commonest breed.
DE KALB COUNTY, Ala, has curiosi-
ty in boy who resembles ground hog,
and who can not talk, but grunts.
A DENTIST in York, Pa, few days
ago extracted lady's thirty-two teeth
ALI she had-at single sitting.
The belief prevails in financial circles
in New York that the present extensive
storage of refined sugar precedes great
jump in prices.
Miss ANITA MCCORMICK, Of Chicago,
who, it is reported, is engaged to EN-
hac ~
in her own right.
The Philadelphia Press very peril
nently suggests that Queen Victoria is
an earnest advocate Of the increase of
the fresh air fund.
PROF. LESLIE, of the Pennsylvania
Geological Survey, predicts the early
exhaustion of the oil fields of Pennsyl
vania and New York.
The growing scarcity of whalebone is
tempting many an old whaling skipper
to leave his fireside to again try his luck
in the Arctic regions.
A JEFFERSON CITY (Mo. man manages
to make a living by following up pic
mic parties and gathering up the empty
bottles which they leave. ...,.,
W. Il. TATE, philanthropic bachelor
OF Tennessee, has divided a fifth of his
fortune of $780, 900 between forty needy
Confederate veterans of that State.
A RUSSIAN nobleman has recently
paid l,2O0 roubles $4,000 for a pair of
nightingales that are said to render de-
lightfully various national melodies.
THE proposed State Constitution be-
fore the Bismarck Oak.) Convention
ignores woman suffrage, and leaves
the prohibition question to the Legisla-
ture.
A BELLAIRE man who sent fifty cents
to New York firm for IAN easy method
of getting rid of debts" received by re-
turn mail the laconic advice: PAY
them"
The monument to Miles Standish, at
Duxbury, Mass, is nearly completed.
1t is to be 116 feet high and stands on
an eminence 800 feet above the level of
the sea.
PROF. L. n. HORsFoRD's tower in
memory of the Norsemen at Waltham,
Mass, will be of stone, fifty feet high,
and will be on the sight of old Fort No
rumbega.
A FLINT (Mich.) girl, named Clara
Bullock, has been arrested for bold and
persistent glass smashing. She delights
in going about nights and smashing
windows.
FROM every State in the Union but
two there have been sent to President
Harrison photographs of babies named
after him, until now the collection forms
big pile.
A HORSE over nineteen hands high
and weighing $500 pounds, was shipped
from Meyerstown, Pa, to Boston recent
ly. The purchaser will put the animal
on exhibition.
The Chemical News describes new
disinfectant called Thiocamf, the basis
of which is curious liquid which results
when sulphur-dioxide is brought in con-
tact with camphor.
THE Prince OF Wales receives more
than S2S7,0O0 a year, the Duke of Edin-
burgh more than S142, 900 and the Duke
of Connaught $l25,OOO. The Duke of
Cambridge gets 1913, 1000.
A MARYLAND man sailed a ledge of
rock on his fals1 with silver and caught
a sucker who paid him $1,000 for SIS
worth of land. More than that he has
gone to Paris to enjoy himself.
Mrs. GEORGE II. CoRLIss will erect a
fine building for the Young Mems
Christian Association at Newburyport,
Mass, as a memorial of her late hus-
band. the famous engine builder.
AMoSG the authors whose manu-.
scripts are written in violet colored ink,
it is said, are William d. Howells, Ju-
liam Hawthorne, Charles Dudley Warner,
Grace Greenwood and the poet Whittier.
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to own the
costliest china in the world. The china
in the Windsor and Buckingham palaces
is Worth more than million of dollars.
The Sevres dessert set is valued at $780,
600.
The terms of the Canadian Govern
ment for the release of a U. S. vessel
accused of illegal fishing are 81, 900 fine
and costs of proceedings-which will
probably amount to more than the
craft is worth.
The question is often asked as to the
difference between worsted and wooden
goods, the answer being that worsted
goods are manufactured from wool that
has been carded and combed, while
wooien goods are made from wool that
has been carded and not combed.
BUFFALO moths and carpet bugs are