The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-04-16
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inches in height.
LORD AcroN is considered the most
learned man in England.
THREE lynchers were sentenced to the
penitentiary at Galveston.
GENERAL Won CApRIvl, the new Ger
man Chancellor, is q bachelor.
Lolita is rated as the richest single
woman in the world who has earned her
own money.
THERE is bill before the New York
Assembly to abolish capital punishment
in that State.
The ground on which Helena, Mont,
is built yielded $50, 600, 900 in gold when
it was mined.
THE widow Of carpenter at Reading,
Pa, found $1,000 secreted in her hus-
bands tool chest.
A Miss TARDY OF Boston has sued a
DR.. Early Of the same city for breach of
promise Of marriage.
Ten miles Of railroad track, in litiga-
ton at Wichita, was torn up by one of
the parties to the suit.
A FRENCH scientist says that people
are growing dark. and that all will be-
black in few centuries
Mrs. PHEBE WILSON, of Hartnett
County, N. c., is 100 years Of ago. She
has been thrice married.
The latest automatic machine in Eng
land tells your fortune when you have
dropped penny in the slot.
WILLIAM SALMON, an English physi-
clan, who will, be soon 100 years old, is
the oldest living physician.
ALL OF the bank note currency of the
italian Government is engraved and
printed in the United States.
MISS BRADDON, the novelist, is col.
lector of bric-a-brac, and has . very
large and valuable collection.
ONE Of New York's dudes is said to
have twenty-five different silk hats, but
only one head to wear them on.
MRS. ANN FERRY, who was buried
tho other day at Leavenworth, Kas.,
had reached the remarkable age of ll3
years.
MRS. U. S. GRANT leads a very quiet
life in New York. Her eycsight has be-
come poor. and she seldom appears in
public.
IT ia a curious coincidence that the
representative sons OF Bismarck and
Gladstone should bear the name Of
Herbert"
A VIGOROUS movement is being made
in Massachusetts to induce tho Legisla-
ture to authorize women to act as nota.
ries public.
GENERAL NEAL Dow, the temperance
sgitator, has just celebrated his eighty
sixth birthday. and is still hale, happy
and hearty.
PARNELL is tall, slender. and has the
air Of confirmed i'll health His cheeks
are pallid his neck thin and his Shout
ders bowed
A BILL has been introduced in the
New York Legislature to abolish arrest
in civil cases, and it appears probable
that it will pass.
THERE are dozen factories in Am.
sterdam kept busy night and day max
ing genuine old spoons, knives and forks
for American tourists.
ACCORDING to the calendar March is q
spring month, but this mistaken CLASH
fication was never more apparent than
in the month just past.
SENATOR BLAIR's speeches on his edu
cational bill would make two volumes as
large as those composing James G.
Blaine's Twenty years of Congress-"
MARyLAND's new cigarette law re.
quires the seller to pay an extra tax OF
$50 and to make affidavit that the cigar,
cites he sells contain no injurious drug,
PRINCE albert VlcrOR has been
bucking the real tiger in India. And
with more success, it is said, than he
had with the tgurative animal in Lon.
don.
A FEDERAL official in Baltimore re-
ceived enough applications for office
in one day to easily fill, his private
secretary estimates, two bushel meas
ures. .F.
In the last ten years the State of New
York has spent S26, 900, 600 on her canals
and there are now pending appropria.
ton bills for 1900, 600 for the current
year.
THE price of ice in Philadelphia has
been fixed at 81 per hundred. As coal
sells for twenty-five cents per 100
pounds, it will be cheaper to keep warm
than cold.
THE pile of old boards at Harper
Ferry called John Browns fort" has
been bought by Chicago as companion
piece to the pile of old brick called Lib
hey prison.
Two Chester tPa.l fishermen quarrelet
about the ownership of boat ant
neither would surrender his claim The
boat was finally sawed in two, and eacl
took part
The kangaroo is doomed 20 extinction
in Australia. The farmers object t.
that animal for the reason that he eat
grass that would otherwise provid,
pasture for sheep.
THERE is large trade in alligator
along the Florida rivers. A fair speci
men is worth S25, and negroes with las
soes occasionally make two or tire,
captures in day.
THE other day Minnesota clergyman
travelled thirty miles, made six calls
visited two schools, gave an afternoon
lecture and shot seven jack rabbits al
between sunrise and sunset.
THOMAS SEYMOUR DENTON has in
vented the word "manuprint," verb, ad
iectiye and noun, for work done with