The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-11-12
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"A COAOhhD WOWeu 0XCu8uko 10 l6t0
enterprise at Atchison.
SIAM is to have q 100000 electric
railway thirty miles long.
SEATTLE charges from 5000 to 1000
day for licenses for circuses.
A LETTER from London says Queen
Victoria is passionately fond Of babies.
A WISCONSIN packing company has
paid out $26, 500 for cucumbers this fall.
A ''MULTI-MILLIoNAIRE"is a term that
has been invented in the advance Of the
times.
GEO. JONES, butter vender, of Pleas
antviiie, n. j., has fallen heir to $50,
100000.
BUSINESS men arc complaining of the
scarcity OF paper money Of small demon.
nations.
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mimi. is about
one and q quarter times as large as Con-
necticut.
POPULATION OF Davenport Ia, (cor-
rected), is 2S,500; increase, $500, or 30.h5
per cent.
LATEST reports from Michigan and
Wisconsin are that the corn crop is the
best for years.
THE new baby hippopotamus In Gen.
trail Park, New York has amouth seven
teen inches wide.
NEW ORLEANS Committee OF Fifty
wants $4,000 to arrest and convict the
assassins Of that city.
The leading citizens Of Austin, Tex,
determined to put up cotton mill cost
ing half million dollars.
A BUNCH Of Louisiana rice shows a
yield Of four thousand five hundred
grains from single seed.
A cENsUs of fruit bearing trees has
been taken in Los Angeles County. The
total number is 1O,365,375.
THE name Of Wayne is the title or
part Of the title Of more places in the
United States than any other.
MARRIAGE with deceased wife's sister
% again disturbing the Pittsburgh Synod
Of the United Presbyterian Church.
Roswell P. FLOWER complains that
every morning he finds on his table
pile Of political mail two feet high.
A CHINAMAN in store clothes, wearing
Eyeglasses and riding q bicycle, is one
Of the curiosties Of life in Brooklyn.
AN association Of housewives in Phil
adelphia is to abolish kitchens and es-
tablish . cooperative central cooking
house.
The Empress Of Germany dresses with
great plainness and thus sets an excel
lent example to her husband. which is
wholly lost.
The Hollanders get along pretty we'll
and their national BREAKFASTS very SIM
pie, consisting of coffee, brown bread
and herring.
THERE is not much more than half a
crop Of potatoes in the United States
1913, 100000 bushels, against 234, 600, 900
bushels in 1889.
The Sultan Of Vitu is in open "rebel-
lion" against British domination, and
Portugal is again biting her thumb at
the same power.
JOHN SHEARER and Alex. Fleet, Of
Washington, Pa, during the past season
have killed two hundred and eighty
three groundhogs.
A LASTING machine that enables one
operator to last 5000 pairs Of shoes .
week is one Of the latest things in labor
saving machinery.
A BALTIMORE scientist declares that
unless dredging is stopped the Maryland
oyster will disappear from the market
within three years.
A LAW went into effect in Louisiana
recently requiring the railroad com.
panies to furnish separate cars for white
and colored persons.
GENERAL BOOTH, the Commander
chief Of the Salvation army, wants
$4,000, 900 in cash, right Of, to carry on
tho work In England.
TIE Western cattle raisers are talk.
tng OF forming . combination to handle
their own products from the field to the
market thus doing away with middle
Men.
JOHN HAcKLxY, who has given .
100000 library building to Muskegan
Mich. worked his way from Philadel
phis to that city twenty years ago, 9
poor boy, on lumber vessel
SENATOR MORRILL,. Of Vermont, is the
third man who has been elected for q
9th term in the United States Senate.
The other two were Benton, of Missouri
snd Anthony, Of Rhode Island.
A NAVIGATION company is in course
OF formation at Rome, with 60, 600, OO(
lire Of capital, for the purpose of estab
fishing three rapid lines Of steamers be
tween Italy, India, China and Japan.
TIE best pictures so far taken of tn,
moon show that parallel walls, whose
tops are no more than 200 yards or so i,
width, and which are not more thar
1000 or 1900 yards apart are plainl,
visible.
TRIPLES change the course Of events
George Stephenson, the engineer, coult
not raise the passage money to come t,
America, and the United States lost tn,
honor Of giving the locomotive engine t,
fhe world.
Four tame ducks have cost the count,
of Cascade, Mont, about $1,000, owinl
to cross-suits among neighbors for tres
pass, perjury and threats of bodily harm
One Of the men has been sent to tn,
penitentiary.
SOME few years ago the Paris pictur'
dealer, Ferret bought picture for s
in rag and bone shop. He soon dis
covered that it was portrait by Jor
dean, and got rid Of it for $1,000 to tn,
late M. Rothan, the diplomatist. Tn
picture-which is in Jordean's bestman