The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-06-19
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NEW YORK CITY has appropriated
s., 600 900 for new school houses.
BISMARCK Is about to adopt severe meas
ures to check strikes in Germany.
Rosa BoNHEUR still vigorously wields
the brush at nearly seventy years.
In England check reins are now entirely
out Of use, being forbidden by law.
Or the 1874 inmates in the Fulton (Mo)
insane asylum, but one is a woman.
The cable cars on State street, Chicago,
are driven at the rate of 10,S to IA miles all
hour.
MISS FRANKIE RAYMOND, an eight-year-
old Chicago girl, has three lion cubs to
play with.
LIE MATIN, the Paris newspaper, says
that the next Pope must be either Ameri'
can or English.
In New York on the 1st Of June the law
prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors
went into effect
The nineteen creameries in New Hamp-
shire produced in 1888 about 1,25OWO
pounds of butter.
KING KALAKAUA, of Hawaii, wants to
borrow 10000 to have a good time at the
arts Exposition.
1t is safe to say that there Is not reser.
voir of any size in the country that will
not be vigorously inspected. "'s
The Philadelphia market is completely
ylutted with strawberries They 60 beg
ging at three cents quart.
SECRETARY BLAINE declines to make
public the provisions of the Samoan treaty
till it is laid before Congress.
A NEW underground light, operated by
compressed air, is to be introduced in the
zinc mines at Friedensville, Pa. '~sssr-ss~ss
"CLOUD BURSTS" are terrible things. The
one in Canada about eight years ago re.
suited in the loss OF $50 to 300 lives.
II the success of Hyppolite in Hayti
means stable government for that un.
happy country it will be q cause for re.
joicing.
In England births are advertised in the
newspapers quite as generally as deaths,
and the announcements are even sent by
telegraph.
THE annual letting Of contracts for furn-
ishing supplies to the Indians is complet.
cd. The aggregate Of ali contracts is about
s27OOO,OO0
Nor less than 500, 900 young peach trees
have been planted thi, season in the New
Jersey counties of Warren, Hunterdon
and Somerset
THERE are only two women living who
have gowns embroidered with real pearls.
They are Queen Margbarita, of Italy, and
Mrs. Bonanza Mackay.
SECRETARY TRACY proposes to push the
completion Of the ironclads Puritan and
Amphitrite and all other vessels now in
process of construction.
MRS. HARRISON, it is related, in referring
to some contemporary newspaper por-
traiturs, wittily remarked, wood cuts
are the unkindest cuts of all"
ANNIE DENNIsoN, a fifteen year. old
Pennsylvania lass, is the youngest station
agent in the country. She handles the
business of the Lackawanna at West
Pittston.
AUGUSTINE HAMILTON, or North Cole
brook, Ct, uses razor with which his
grandfather, Ebenezer Edgerton, Of Gran.
by, used to shave the face Of George
Washington.
The total loss Of life by the food and
flames, in the Conemaugh valley, probably
can never be known. Entire families
were swept away, mono being left to tell
the number that persisted.
A PORTLAND, Maine business man lost a
$40 gold coin on his way to work few
days ago, and returning at night found
the same piece on the pavement, where 1t
had remained unnoticed all day.
BRlGADIER.GENERAL DRUM, who has
just been placed on the retired list, is be-
lieved to be the first private soldier that
ever attained the rank of a Brigadier- Gem
eral in the regular army Of the United
States.
A NEGRO testified in st. Louis police
court the other day that while he had good
clothes to wear he preached the gospel
but as soon as his clothes wore out and his
money ran low he went to work as day
laborer.
In consequence of the decline in the sup.
ply OF gum arabic the Post-office dep art.
mont has been obliged to abandon Its use
as sealer Of letter envelopes. In lieu Of
gum arabic foul tasting compound has
been substituted.
SPLENErIC apoplexy has for many years.
thinned out the herds Of sheep in New
South Wales but experiments indicate
that the herdsmen are in fair way to gel
rid Of the scourge by means Of Pasteur's
system Of incubation.
A. c. WNsLow has presented to the Ma.
tional Museum at Washin gton the first key
to the National Treasury, made by Alex.
ander Hamilton, who was Secretary. 1t Is
an excellent specimen Of handiwork, and
while large is not clumsy.
MRS. A. g. GORDON travelled all the way
from San Francisco to Saratoga in bag.
gage car in order to be with her pet q
huge st Bernard dog which weighs 26(
pounds, and which is said to carry an in
surance Of $4,000 on its life.
The woman who will be declared the mos
beautiful in the department of beauty al
the Paris Exposition will be given Sc, 900
The public decides who the fortunate on,
may be, as each visitor is entitled to regis.
ter his vote in favor Of the woman of his
choice.
ANAsA SPRAGUE, elder brother of tn.
late Governor VIM. Sprague, Of Rhod.
Island, and once the owner Of SO, 0OO, 900
has just accepted an election to the offict
Of sheriff Of Kent County, in that State
an office worth three or four hundred dol
lars year.
MRS GEO THOMAS, Dubuque woman
arose in the night to shut blind, and ,hel
husband bobbed up after her and arcd 81,
shots at the supposed burglar, not one o.
which came within foot Ct her. -.