The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-03-12
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observed throughout the country.
THERE are now nearly so, 900 members
OF the Farmers alliance in Kansas.
A MINISTER of Sedalia, Mo-, preached
sermon recently against gum-chewing.
FASHIONABLE hotel has been opened
at the foot of the Great Pyramid, in
Egypt.
THE new Cornell register shows to-
tai of l,3O6 students, of whom l57 are
women.
HENRY CUNNINGHAM, OF Clark County,
ILL.,, has just sold hog that weighs 935
pounds.
IT is stated that the advertisements in
the Century Magazine amount to $4,000
month.
Mr.. CLEvELAND's friends have oh
served of late that he is growing fatter
than ever.
DURING the month of March three
army ohaplains will be retired from ac-
tive service.
EDUCATION in Russia is at low ebh.
Only twelve per cent. of the population
can read and write.
In Denmark most of tho girls are
trained in agriculture, which is there an
important industry.
THE Prince of Wales has become
very regular attendant at the sessions of
the English Parliament.
The English government proposes to
make seven hours the legal day for
clerks in the departments.
A GIANTEss is being exhibited in
Osaka, Japan, who is fully eight feet in
height. She is said to be only sixteen
years old.
j. w. KEITH, of Holliston, Mass, has
just had removed from the calf Of his
leg pin which he swallowed sixty-fve
years ago.
THERE are now on the rolls the names
of 1887 pensioners on account of the
war Of 1912, which ended seventy-fve
years ago.
A BILL has been introduced into the
Ontario Legislature extending to the
Jews the privileges of other religious
organizations.
Two hundred women Of Colby, Kas.,
have demanded Of the council that the
paint be removed from the windows of
billiard halls.
JUSTICE LAMAR, of the Supreme Court,
will deliver an address at the commence
ment of the Boston University law
school, June 4.
FATHER JEROME, of the Benedictine
Order, has compiled Prayer Book for
, the Sioux. 1t will be printed in the
Sioux language.
A SURGICAL operation has been per-
formed on that delight OF the cartoonist,
Ben Buffers dropping eyelid, and it
droops no longer.
Mr. GLADSTONE has had six private
secretaries, each of whom now holds a
political post. Their salaries aggregate
$4,000 annually.
GENERAL CIALDINI, who, with Carl
baldi, conquered Naples for the king
dom of Italy, is suffering from an incur
able disease at Leghorn.
THERE is a lady living on the east
side of the river" says an Augusta, Me-,
paper, who is in her seventies and is
cutting new set of teeth"
A sTATIsTICIAN calculates that the to-
tai tonnage of the world, steam and SAIL
is, in round numbers. 81, 100000 tons, of
which SO per cent. is British.
The last surviving signer of the Tex
an Declaration of Independence, Colonel
S. w. Blout, died at his home in st. Au-
gustine, Tex, few days ago.
Miss REGINA ROTHsCHILD starts from
Port Townsend, Wash, to encircle the
globe in sixty-one days. The citizens
subscribed So, 600 for her expenses.
A NUMBER of maids in st. Louis have
appealed to the mayor to interfere in
their behalf to prevent the widows from
capturing all the manageable men.
NATURAL gas is now used in 1O4 steel
works in this country but the supply
shows signs of failing and companies
are thinking of returning to the old
fuel.
MRS. CoRDoLLo, Of Pomona, Cal, is o
great-grandmother at the age of fifty.
She married when fifteen years DID, her
daughter when seventeen and her grand
daughter at the age of sixteen.
ONE of the keepers in Bushey Park,
England, lately discovered two fine
bucks lying dead in a ditch with their
horns locked together. Both animals
had received severe body wounds.
AoNE-LEGGED negro in Egbert Coun-
ty, Ga, has produced the first bale of
cotton every season in that county for
several years. He is prosperous, and is
accommodating a handsome independence.
r. o. PATE, citizen of Hawkins
vile, Ga, is the proud owner of a Unit
ed States currency note dated Septem-
Der &c. IT'S. 1t is thirty-dollar bill,
and was issued by the Congress at Phil
adelphia.
BY the use of the photograph it is
now possible for man to sing at his
own funeral. Captain Frank Cunning
ham, of Richmond, Va, who has sung at
395 funerals, means to have his voice
heard in melody at his own obsequies.
THE Chanute (Kas) Blade tells of a
farmer living near that town who sold a
butcher beef for two cent? pound,
agreeing to take quarter for family
use In settling up the butcher charged
the farmer regular rates and the conse-
quence was that the farmer owed the
butcher 81,
HEBERT SPENCER lives all the year
round in boarding houses. Sometimes
the clatter grows unbearable. but the