The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-01-22
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her husbands memoirs.
Miss EMILY FAITHFUL gets pension
from England of a53 year.
THE dynamite and powder mills Of
Germany have formed trust.
Mr.. PARNELL's favorite diversion is
said to be running scroll-saw.
TIE Bank of France has at present
$3.50, 900, 900 in gold in its cellars.
THE imperial cable from Bermuda to
Halifax will be completed in June.
GAYERRE, the tenor, who died in Mad
cid the other day, left fortune of $780,
900.
New SOUTH WALES and Queensland
have erected 1877 miles of rabbit-proof
fences.
ARTIFICIAL glaciers as a means of
storing water for irrigation have been
proposed.
OKLAHOMA settlers are importing
wives from Germany and other foreign
countries.
IT is we'll to learn how to write the
figure 9. 1t will be in every year from
now until 1000.
The friends Of Andrew Jackson are
endeavoring to make his birthday ma
tional holiday.
KING CARLOS, of Portugal, has six
teen Christian names. His younger
brother has thirty.
THIRTY German sculptors are working
on thirty new monuments to the late
Emperor William l.
LEADvILLE has produced more than
e35, 900, 900 in gold, silver and lead dur
ing the past ten years.
New YORK last year spent $17, 900
on her public schools, hiring 1887
teachers to instruct 1,sO3,667 pupils.
SENATOR STANFORD, Of California, has
given Susan B. Anthony $500 for the
benefit of the woman suffrage cause.
The German Kaiser has ordered that
all civilians that take part in the State
ceremonies shall wear knee breeches.
AT Tucamche, in Guatemala, the
boys in school recently seized the
master and hanged him in the school
house. y. .,,
CASTLE GARDEN received 315,22S en-
migrants during 1889. Every nation
contributed, with the exception of
China.
A QUICKSILVER mine has been discov-
cred in Tacoma, and the mercury of
local speculation has gone up several
degrees.
IT is stated that the wealth of the
G%a+ ~, b
But this does not mean that everybody
is $1,000 ahead.
The women of Milford, Me-, have
presented to the town hall which they
!, paid for themselves by giving entertain
I ments and fairs.
STILL another alleged Nihilist plot
has been discovered in Russia, which
means that another band of exiles will
soon start for Siberia.
A KANSAS court has decided that the
police have no right to enter any prem
ises without a warrant to search for anG
seize contraband goods.
THE Supreme Court of Georgia holds
that sun time, and not railroad time, il
the correct standard and guide for courts
and the administration of law.
EDWARD ATKINSON declares that thu
annual production of eggs in this coun
try equals in money value the country
annual total production of iron.
The Belgian Government has forbid
den the expectation of coal from tina
country because of the scarcity of tn,
fuel caused by the miners strike.
THE Government Printing Office ha
just finished the printing of 5000 bill
that were introduced in Congress in De
cember, and yet this is only the begin
ming.
FEARING that he could not finish
job in time, and that it would be take
from him, Joseph Fried, stage ma
chinist, committed suicide in Ne,
York
IT were well, perhaps, that manager
and promoters of amateur concert
should know that PATHS terms ar
$4,000 night, payable invariably in ad
vance.
The newspapers are filled with re
ports of robberies, assaults and murders
which seems to indicate that the gri
has not yet attacked the crimina
classes.
THERE is a hermit in California VIII
has not seen his own county seat fc
thirty years. By being industriou
and having no wants, he has becom
wealthy.
MANAGERS of the New York elevate
railroads are enforcing the rules agains
smoking or carrying lighted cigars {
cigarettes upon the station platforms {
into the cars.
The hegira of negroes from Sout
Carolina, continues. The colored peopl
are leaving at the rate of 500 per da,
and the tendency of the movement
toward increase rather than decrease.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is at work upon 81
important articles for magazines, one
them being a critical review of Lol
Tennyson's poems The Grand Old Ma
is about the liveliest octogenarian
the world.
SPEAKER REED has few peculi;
habits. He is strong believer in I'll
restful mental effects of good fictiol
He always carries a novel in his poe
ct, and in moments of leisure reads
few pages. He finds that he is thus e.
abled to overcome the WEAKNESS
mind which his exacting duties beget.
THE New York Board of Health,
describing la grippe as "a bad co
heightened by versatile Imagination
seems to have taken correct view
the situation. Whatever the malaG
he IL il cnrtain that q L. n