The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-06-04
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in California.
PRESIDENT DIAz, of Mexico, is about
Fifty years old.
BUFFALO BILL now owns King Bomba's
house in Naples
THREE wife murderers will be hanged
in Memphis June "a.
DURING the past year 2O3 persons were
killed by wolves in Russia.
THE largest cabbage ever grown in
Florida weighed 36% pounds.
G. 0. p. stands for genuine original
package" in Kansas and Iowa.
EX-PREsDENT HAYES is to erect "a
handsome monument over his wife's
grave.
GENERAL Jos. E. JOHNSTON is eighty
four, but as buoyant and active as man
Of fifty.
NAPKIN rings are absolete, because
you are not supposed to use napkins a
second time.
THE inflow of immigrants at New
York shows steady increase as the sea-
son advances.
A KANSAS man says he cleared $500
last year off patch of walnut trees OF
his own planting.
A ST. JOSEPH ONO. woman was fined
in the police court the other day for
swearing at her pastor.
JAPAN has celebrated the 2555th ami.
versary Of the coronation OF the first
emperor Of the country.
A FULL-BLOoDED Sioux maiden, Jo-
sephine Crowfeather, has just taken
VOWS as Benedictine nun.
A LONDON grave digger died so sud-
denly that he fell into grave that ne
was excavating for another person.
IT is expected that the bronze statue
Of ex-President Woolsey, to be erected
on the Yale campus, will cost $4,000.
INDIA ink is made from burnt camphor
and gum. The Chinese and Japanese
are the only manufacturers of this ink.
AMERICAN physicians are forming par
ties to attend the Tenth international
Congress of Physicians at Berlin next
August.
JULIA HoNoRE GRANT, the sixteen
year-old daughter Of Minister Fred
Grant, can speak Spanish, German and
French.
ALAN ARTHUR, son of the late Presi.
dent Arthur, has no taste in the direc'
ton of politics. All his predictions
are social.
THERE are ninety more firms carrying
! ON business in the food-swept district OF
Johnstown than there were before the
flood came.
BY an overwhelming majority the
school children Of New York City have
voted in favor of the golden-rOd as g
State flower.
A FEW days ago Hon. Chauncey M
Depew was summoned to appear in cour
for the first time in his life, and he i!
ffty-seven years old.
The use of electricity as motive
power for street cars will be an import
ant section of the census investigation
Of the electrical industry.
WALT WHITMAN has chosen his buria
place. 1t is in Harleigh Cemetery, neal
the little New Jersey town of Camden
where he has lived so long.
THE quantity of Arctic icebergs me
with by ocean steamers this spring ha
been enormous, and it is pretty SAT-
indication of cool summer.
THE new German Chancellor is a de
,cendant of one of the oldest Italia,
families, Caprivi, branch of the house
of Caprara and Montecuculi.
DR. c. E. BLIvEN has discovered
prototype Of Volapuk in the Chinool
jargon which is used by the Indians il
the northwestern portions Of this cont
nent.
NOTWITHSTANDING the constant heav
emigration, the population OF Great Bri
tain has increased more than 1900, 90
since 1885. The total population is abou
SS,0O0,O00.
BARNUM having declined to give tn
Brooklyn aldermen free passes to hi
show, those statesmen increased the L
cense fee for circuses from $3.50 year t
$500 day.
LARGE numbers of applications fo
pensions are daily received in Washing
ton from the Southern States from so
diers who served in the Mexican an
Creek Indian wars.
The charred stump of "Old Sequoia,
the giant of Californian forests, is forty
one feet in diameter. 1t has been ca
culated that the tree must once hav
been nearly 500 feet in height.
JAMES SEwALL, 101, and Mrs. Am
Torrance, SO, were married recent
at Laurel Forks, w. Va. The childre
of the groom did not object, as the oil
gentleman had outlived them all.
TEN thousand dollars is now the high
est recorded price for a violin. Tn
Alard Stradivarius has passed frol
France to England for that sum, to 6
into the collection Of Scotchman.
is dated 17l6.
THERE is a plan afoot in New York
establish a flower market in Unto
Square that shall rival the famous ma
kets of Paris and London. Five hui
dred men 60 to New York every da
with flowers to sell.
THE lady whom Mr.. W. O'Brien, tn
Irish leader, is about to marry is by rae
and religion Jewess. She will, befol
her marriage, be received into ii
Roman Catholic Church. She has an il
come of "a, 200 year.
A COLoRED dentist in Macon uses 7
instruments except his fingers in e.
tracing teeth. BY means of long pra
tice his fingers have become as strong
forceps. and he claims that he can pu