The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-12-25
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MR. GLADSTONE tnlnkS tnat beethoven
10 the greatest composer.
THE clock has been stolen from
6touchsburg (Pa.) church.
PENSION attorneys only got 81, 500, 900
last year out of the soldiers.
IT is announced that General Boulan-
ger will lecture in this country.
OVER 100000 people have moved to
Kansas to stay, within the last eight
years.
No ATTEMPT will be made to build
State house in Washington for five
years.
Mr.. GLADSTONE will celebrate his
eightieth birthday on the 29th Of shis
month.
THE entire sewage of Paris will soon
be used for the purpose OF market gar
dening.
LORD DERBY owns town land in Liv-
srpool which brings him in an income OF
$75O,OOO.
PRINCESS CHRISTIAN, the second and
most popular daughter of Queen Vic
toria, is on the eve of entirely losing her
sight.
DIR. BAUER, an Erfurt chemist, is said
to have just sold to Paris perfumer for
$50, 900 a patent for making artificial
musk.
THE Maritime Conference has plaus-
ible idea that Permanent Information
al Maritime Commission may be estab-
lished.
A HOG that weighed 900 pounds, was
recently butchered near Laurel, Del.
It was heavier that one of the farmers
horses.
REV. w. H. MILBuRN; the blind chap
lain of the House of Representatives, is
q native of Philadelphia and was born
in 1922.
A LARGE tract of tea land in the neigh
borhood of Canton this year yielded per
acre $1,000 in tea leaves of the finest
quality.
IT is said that the juice of a lemon
squeezed into cup OF coffee and drank
will afford immediate relief in neuralgia
headache.
A PLAGUE of rats is reported in the
vicinity of Galcsburg. Ill. Some farms
are rep ortcd to be honey-combed with
their holes.
SUPERsTlTIOUs people are impressed
by the fact that the present Pope is
Leo XIII. and the King Of Spain is AL
fonso XIII.
THIS country is getting along with one
office holder to 1877 adults. The civil
servants of Uncle Sam draw about $685.
600, 900 yearly.
The latest musical prodigy is a young
boy in Luzerne, who is said to be able to
play ''Parsifal," on blade of grass held
between his thumbs.
ACCORDING to weather record in pos
session of Martin Mcloney, of Avon
dale. Pa, this is the wettcst year we
have had in two centuries.
"FEET' sOcials are MELVILLE, Pa,
fad. People stand behind a screen
where only their feet can be seen, and
you guess which is whose.
OF late years the number of women
entering the professions of painting and
sculpture has enormously increased in
rrdHce, uerInaHy anu Russia.
THE benefits that would result from
an extradition treaty with Canada have
been forcibly brought to the attention
of the House of Representatives.
AT Waterville. Me-. a 1,OOO-pound
weight dropped from the clock in the
Unitarian church, crushing the costly
organ beyond the possibility of repair
FASHIONABLE marriages in Chicago
are now conducted with two wedding
rings, the groom receiving from the
bride plain gold circlet to match her
own.
SOMEBODY has discovered that the
cry of the Florida palmetto shrub is
an excellent remedy for soreness of the
throat, cough, catarrh and colds in the
cad
Miss HATTIE BLAINE, the Secretary 8
youngest daughter, who is to make her
debut in Washington society this win
ter, is described as the beauty of the
family.
GEORGE BANCROFT who is now eighty
nine years old, still remembers his
early literary days, when he received
two dollars for an article, and was glad
to get it.
The Eiffcl tower will remain unvisit-
ed on the Champ de Mars at Paris this
winter. In the spring it will be reopen
ed to visitors. NJ Eiffel has a chamber
at the top.
The first printed ballot was used in
Massachusetts in 1880, by David Hen
shaw, and was refused. 1t took de-
cisiOn of the Supreme Court to establish
its validity.
The express charges on car load of
dressed turkeys shipped from Paris,
Mo-, to Boston, were 5000. The con-
signor thinks he will drive the next lot
across the country.
SAMUEL MORSE, of Essex, Mass, has
to eat twelve hearty meals and
drink three quarts of water day to
q sustain life. He is sixty-one years old,
and weighs 1856 pounds.
ADVERTISEMENTS for proposals for the
erection of a quarantine station at San
Francisco has been issued from the
Treasury Department. The last Con-
gress appropriated 100000 for this pnr-
pose.
A BEAVER FALLS, pa paper tells a
preposterous story about an old man
who has been dried up by the natural
gas fires in his house, until his weight
is hardly that of a seven-year-old child.
DON PEDRO is having a good time in