The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-03-26
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SOHhGNI lOTISos
New YORK printers have a dramatic
club.
THE Bank of France employs 100 fe-
male clerks.
CHILDREN are punished for coughing
In school in Brooklyn.
A WINTER Chautauqua is to be estab-
lished at Crescent City, Fla.
The Archbishop Of Paris has issued
decree forbidding cremation.
THE income of Rockefeller, the Stand
ard oil man, is 81, ZOO per hour.
The statue of the late Mr.. Grady, Of
Atlanta will be modelled by Alexander
Doyle.
A HUNGARIAN lawsuit has just been
settled after having been in the courts
for 40 years
THERE are five New Yorks, nine Phil
ldelphias and twelve Bostons in the
United States.
THE town of Addison, in Maine, has
twelve couples who have been married
fifty years or over.
The New York Legislature will pass
upon bill prohibiting the placing OF
pictures in cigarette boxes. 90.
G. B. EvARTs, the Senator's Oldest
son, devotes his attention to managing
the big farm at Windsor, VT.
FRANCE has half as many people as
the United States, but her national
debt is twice as great as ours. ,r
MAINE folks are frugal. They in
creased their deposits in the savings
banks last year by over $2,0OO,0O0. 5000
SOME of the orange trees at Riverside,
Cal, are SO heavily laden with fruit that
the branches have to be propped up.
A New YORK firm sued sewing-girl
to prevent her from working with an
other firm. She is an expert sewer.
REPRESENTATIVE Charles H. Gibson,
of Maryland, is considered the hand
soonest member of the Lower House OF
Congress.
PHEMILLER BRoUssARD, of Louisiana,
aged ninety-one years, has just married
lady somewhat over fifty. 1t is his
second marriage.
hlNCE 0EOhGE VI dlCo WILL oOoA w
promoted to the rank of commander,
thereby leaping over the heads of 600
senior lieutenants.
KING Menelik, Of Abyssinia, has re-
ceived from the King Of Italy magnif-
cent crown of gold, set with emeralds
and pearls Of great value.
THERE are reported to be over 100, 900
Sunday-schools in this country, with
100000 teachers, and eight and one
third million of scholars.
MARYLAND producers expect to grow
100000 quarts Of strawberries this
year, but all the same they are ordering
10000, 900 quart" boxes.
SOUTH GEORGIA BARRIERS have rule
that is universal. A stranger is re-
quired to pay fifteen cents for shave,
while resident pays ten.
THOUGH the Chinese are for 1peace,
they are having built in England a
powerful ironclad, two swift cruisers
and two torpedo gunboats.
ELI CIRCLES, of Carroll County, Mo-,
won 1856 sewing machine by producing
twelve ears of corn that weighed eight
teen pounds eleven ounces.
THE coat shirt is said to be the latest.
1t is open in front all the way down, is
made to fit the figure, and does not have
to be pulled on over the head.
The other day barrel containing a
live baby in good shape was caught
floating down Tennessee river. 1t had
''navigated" thus for sixty miles.
The meanest one yet is the man in
Vermont who wants the Government tc
pay him interest on the money invested
in two cent stamp on delayed letter
A LARGE assignment Of cotton seed
has been received in Oklahoma, which
will be distributed among the settlers
Immediately, and planting will begin al
once.
AN old man lives in tower in the
Austrian Alps, the highest meteorolog
ical station in Europe. He gets 500
year, and hardly ever sees human
being.
DIR. BRowN-SEQUARD is still engaged
On his youthful elixir at Paris, and
persists in believing that his expert
ment will at last be successfully estab
hshed.
JOHN MILLS, of Sparta, Ca, is fatten
ing jay birds for the market. He feeds
them we'll and they grow large. He
thinks of going into the business very
extensively.
A MATCH is already being arranged
for the young King Alexander of Servia
who is not yet fourteen years old. The
proposed alliance is with Grand Ouch.
ess Of Russia.
BRIGHAM You've had fifty-six chill
dren, of whom thirty-one were girls anG
twenty-five boys. Some of them diet
in infancy or childhood, but the most O.
them reached mature age.
THERE is a colored woman living il
Dallas, Tex, who claims to be las year,
old, and people say she looks it. She il
honest enough to admit that she never
saw General Washington.
COPPER wire conductors that hav,
been in use for twenty years for carry
ing strong electric currents have beef
lately examined and the copper ha
been found extremely brittle.
WHISTLER, the artist, who is soon t,
visit this country, has black hair, bu
has on the top Of his head a perfect,
white tuft, Of which he is quite proud
as he regards it as an indication of al
ancient and aristocratic lineage.
The Gar, according to recent stats
tician's calculation, is the largest ''pri
vate" owner OF land in the world. TIL
total is about fifty million acres, abou
the size of the whole OF France.