The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-01-15
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QUEEN VICTORIA admires American
oysters.
LONDON fashion is smiling again on
the polka.
HALF-DRIED raisins sell for S. a ton
in California.
PATTI expects to make $500, 900 out of
her American tour.
JUG TAVERN is the name of prosper
GUS village in Georgia.
BRowNING's resting-place in West
minister Abbey will be near that of
Chaucer.
Mrs JEFFERSON DAVIS will presently
go to Kansas to live with her married
daughter.
A WHITE owl was captured by Mis-
Souri, man on his farm near Sedalia, the
other day.
THIEF stole pair of shoes from a
sleeping policeman at Sedalia Mo-, the
other night.
The inventor of the stylographic pen
Is reported to have made million dol
lars out of it.
A COMPETENT authority thinks that
the Paris Exposition drew at least $780,
100000 into Paris.
In Bridgeport, Ct, the influenza has
affected the cats, and feline sneezing is
the order of the night.
MRS. GRUMPY says that as persistent
pusher and shower in crowd nothing
equals woman shopping.
AYoUNG man in Brooklyn has sued his
ex-sweetheart for breach of promise.
lie claims $1,000 damages.
STANLEY is not afraid of African saw
ages and lions, but he will not talk to a
woman. He is woman-hater
THE supply of spruce gum in North
ern Maine, which has been regarded as
inexhaustible, is reported to have given
out.
In the wilds Of the Sierras, near Ka-
weah river, Tulare County, California,
Is sequoia tr ee, 176 feet in circumfer-
ence.
IT is said that the negroes Of Georgia,
who twenty-five years ago were slaves
now possess $40, 100000 worth of prop
erty.
CONGRESSMAN BULLOCK, of Florida, is
the father of thirteen children; Con-
gresham Bliss, of Michigan, has no
children.
The superintendent of an electric
light company in New York City has
been indicted by the grand jury for man
slaughter.
Two colored ministers immersed sew
enty-four people in seventeen minutes
in the Wakenda, at Carrollton, Mo-, the
other day.
THE deepest bore hole in the world is
in Schaadenbach-55,73 1874 feet. 1t took a
diamond drill three years and half to
reach the bottom.
AN anti-treating league has been
formed in Minneapolis, the badge of
which is White collar button, worn in
the lapel of the coat.
A. II. DAY, of Toombsboro, Ca, claims
to have been the youngest soldier in the
Confederacy. He enlisted in 1868, when
only thirteen years old.
The head of the Brazilian republic
signs himself as follows: Marshal
Manoel Deodoro da Fonseca, Chief of
the Provisional Government"
A PROPOSITION is being considered in
New Orleans to change the name of Ca
nal street, the principal thoroughfare OF
the city, to Jefferson Davis avenue.
A WEST VIRGINIA girl has saved
money enough to buy herself gold
watch by trapping muskrats, skunks
and other animals and selling their
hides.
AN American company has given two
French painters an order:for panorama
of Stanley's two journeys through AT
RIGA. 1t is intended for the worlds fail
of 1899.
Mrs. Cox, widow of the late S. S. Cox
has returned to the Sultan of Turkey
the orders and decorations which thai
genial potentate conferred upon her late
husband.
DURING the last five months thu
Treasury Department has purchased
bonds to the amount of 1886, 1858, $50
The aggregate of interest thus saved il
$56,772,5S0.
New YORK children who get no Christ
mas presents are told. that Santa Claus
does not make his visits to the roofs ant
down the chimneys for fear of touching
the deadly electric wires.
REAL-EsTATE seems to be doing fairl,
we'll in New York City. The Bennett
building, owned by James Gordon Ben
nett and situated in the lower part of tn,
city. has just been sold for one million
dollars.
CASTELAR,, the Spanish orator ant
statesman, rejoices in the downfall o
Dom Pedro. He is thorough repub
lican, and the old monarchial govern
ments of Europe are thoroughly dis
tasteful to him.
ONE of the witnesses who recently ties
titled at Salt Lake, regarding the oath
of the Endowment House, has since hat
one valuable horse killed and anothe
shot at, but not fatally injured, by hi
Mormon neighbors.
AT recent wedding in Philadelpbt
the room was festooned in red, whit
and blue, in honor Of the patriotism o
the bride, who had declined man
European offers and decided to give he
hand to an American.
THE youngest new member of tn
House of Representatives is Icema
Turner. of New York. He is twenty
eight years old. The oldest member
Isaac w. Van Schaick, of Milwaukee