The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-11-19
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hCCOhDlNd W NuiCubcl DoVlOb AHClouu
has $3.50, 600, 900 in savings banks.
COUNTERFEIT silver dollars are in cir.
culation in Vicksburg and vicinity.
The China Sea and Bay Of Fundy are
the two toughest seas in the world.
THERE is q man of sound mind and
memory in McDonough, Ga, 1876 years
old.
A CIGARETTE stump picker-up Of Paris
has just died leaving to his heirs 100, OOC
francs.
1000 calling cards in the course Of a
season.
The average length of life is greater
in Norway than in any other country in
Europe.
IT is said that there are $4,000 brass
bands in this country, with 100000 per-
formers.
ToLsToI has left off smoking cigar
cites as luxury unsuited to his present
principles
Two thousand two hundred trains
leave London ordinarily every twenty.
four hours.
AT the best English country houses
separate tables for supper are now in
general use
THE many friends of Emin Pasha
learn with regret that his real name is
Eduard Schuitzlet.
ONE Colorado county has 100 artesian
wells. New ones do not decrease the
flow Of the old ones.
THE Danish Kings crown is worth
S135, 900, the Queens crown SIT, 500, and
the sword of State $4,000.
A YOUNG girl named Louise Tepling
has died suddenly in a ball room, in
Rathenow, from tight lacing.
IT is reported in Germany that the
Emperor is going to introduce American
cars for the passenger service.
1T is calculated that 81, 1923 persons die
per day, 1880 per hour, 60 minute, or
one every time the clock ticks.
THERE is patient in a hospital at
Washington, D. c., suffering from the
effects of eating raw pumpkin.
FLEM JORDAN, Of Monticello, Ca, is a
direct descendant of the historic Poca-
hOntas, who saved John Smiths life.
EDWIN BOOTH is said to be putting the
finishing strokes on q tragedy upon
which he has been working for five
years.
JOHN FRANKHoUSER, while hunting
on Stone mountain, Pennsylvania, shot
q five-pronged buck that dressed 1T
pounds.
THE pyramids are being assailed. Two
local sheiks are digging out stones from
the lower courses Of the two pyramids
OF Ghizeh.
RoCHEFoRT has fought twenty-three
duels during his career as pamphleteer
and editor, having been wounded in sew
en- of them.
THE new cruiser Newark has COM
pleted her trial trip by breaking the
record for speed, at the rate of twenty
miles an hour.
THE Negus of Abyssinia has just or.
dered new crown of pure gold, weigh
ing three pounds and containing 800
precious stones.
KICKING HORSE observes that the In
dian will soon occupy the earth. He
doesn't say whether they will be on top
or under it, though.
JAKE BURROWS has succeeded his late
brother RUDE as the leader of the "Bur.
rows gang" and business has been re.
sumed at the old stand.
Miss MILDRED FULLER, the daughter
of the Chief-Justice of the United States
Supreme Court, will be married tc
Hugh Wallace, of Tacoma, about jan
uary 1.
In digging sewers in Butler Pa, they
unearthed petrifed logs and butternuts
at depth of 10 feet and at IL they
found slate containing the imprint Of
fern leaves.
THE ex-Empress Eugenie is daily
visitor to the graves Of her husband and
son. To say mass in the chapel of the
mausoleum she employs six priests and
four monks.
ALBERT FRAME, a sheep man from
DEVILS River, died at San Angelo, Tex,
the other day, from an abcess of the
neck, caused by blade of grass lodging
in his throat.
PRINCE BISMARCK, who farms on 9
large scale at Varzin, is said to have
cleared $4,000 by his cattle and geese
during the last year, and his profit from
yeast exceeded $4,000.
A BURGLAR was neatly captured a.
Hounslow, England. He became fixet
In the panel of door, through which
he had endeavored to make his way, ani
in this position was secured.
JUDGE A. L. PALMER, of the Supreme
Court Of New Brunswick, bears such
striking resemblance to General Sher
man that when in this country he il
often taken for the old warrior
The daughters of the Princess OF
Wales are excellent pedestrians. For {
number Of years they have been put
through vigorous course of physica
training, and they think nothing Of {
ten-mile walk.
GIDEON Roth, Of Limeport, Lehigf
County, Pa, has the old family Bible
that has been in possession of the Roth
family since 1887, and in the family reg
lister it gives complete family RECORD
for nearly 200 years.
EX-PREsIDENT CLEvELAND's name II
spelled in the registry list Of his cleo
ton precinct ''Cleaveland." No mar
is so great or so large as to get out o
reach of the intelligent compositor.
AMONG the queer products of Inyt
County, CAL, gardens are Mexican can
taloups. They are two feet long, foul