The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-19
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languages and dialects spoken in Mex
leo.
GLADSTONE thinks Swinburne will be
the successor of Tennyson as poet lau-
Seate.
THE taxes for State purposes are lower
in Missouri than in any State in the
Union.
SHOULDER capes of lace and beads are
to take the place of the fur ones in the |
spring.
SIR MoRRELL MACKENZIE contem-
plates making . lecture tour of this
country.
CANADA has permanently hired doc
tor, who is leprosy expert, to hunt
that disease.
LUCIA ZARATE, the Mexican midget,
died on one of the -blockaded trains
in California.
JEwETT NORTON has donated $500 to
the town of Trenton, Mo-, for free
public library.
A WICHITA man was fined ten dollars
for stealing a loaf of bread from a
bakers wagon.
SENATOR STANFoRD's degree of LII. d.
from Tennessee college has cost him
thus far $1,000.
A TELEPHONE test between st. Peters
burg and Moscow has been successful on
ordinary wires.
JOHN Fl. APPLICABLE, of Asbury Park,
made $4,000 by inventing machine
for lasting shoes.
THE newspapers of Italy are raising
subscriptions to erect monument to
Columbus on American soil.
In little Uruguay, in fifteen days, four
thousand persons have been seized with
grip. The President has it.
RHODE ISLAND was once famous for
its greening apples, but the trees have
exhausted themselves.
THEY are to have a new color in Lon
don, according to fashion magazines, to
be called India sunset"
ROBERT E. Click, although serving
out life sentence in Joliet prison, acts
as the Warden's coachman.
GERMANY is the only civilized country
in the world wherein murders are still
beheaded with an axe or sword.
BURDETTE, the humorist, is little
man who talks in sharp, quick way.
He is tired of humorous writing.
In Edinburgh it is found possible to
supply for half a penny wholesome
meal of vegetable broth and bread.
GERMANY is importing live hogs from
ho Nj Staf nd hn mt
prise is said to be profitable all around.
The five counties comprising South
ern California have an area almost 1000
square miles larger than the State Of
Ohio.
FERDINAND WARD, whose financial
Napoleonism landed him at last in Sing
Sing prison, looks like a physical
wreck.
BosToN is agitating proposition to
limit by law the number of passengers
that may be carried in street car at
any one time.
JOSHUA MONTGOMERY SEARS contin-
ues to be the highest individual tax
payer in the city of Boston. He paid
last year $50, 95O55.
A PLUcKY Franklin County, Pennsyl-
vania, widow took an axe and attacked
and killed bear that was trying to
steal one Of her pigs.
The coal dealers have Jared poor
ly this winter, but they have prospered
in comparison with the man who writes
shut the Door" signs.
VANDALs have girdled the Grant elm
at Lexington, Mass, which was planted
by the General on April 10, 1875, the
Tooth anniversary of the battle.
PHILADELPHIA's final contribution to
the Johnstown sufferers will probably
be the four fire engines that have been
In service in that town since the flood.
A KANSAS CITY family consists of six
brothers whose names are as follows
Jack Frost Winter Frost, White Frost,
Cold Frost, Early Frost and Snow Frost
A BUTLER (Pa.) County man, whose
entire property is assessed at $S5. is the
owner of five dogs on which he will
have to pay $50 tax. His property tax
is $2.75..
A SHOE trade journal says that the
best time to get fitted to shoes is tn,
latter part of the day. The feet Their
are at their maximum of size and sensi
tiveness.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON comes from
an old and formerly wealthy Southern
family. At the outbreak of the war hi
had from 1000 to 5000 slaves on hi.
plantations.
PERHAPS the youngest couple eve
married in North Carolina have JUS
been united in Davis County. Tn,
groom is thirteen and his bride tw,
years younger.
NEXT May c. ]. Murphy's Indian corr
exhibit design for the Paris exhibition
but not shown, will be displayed at the
Edinburgh exposition. There is much
interest in it there.
THE Supreme Court of Alabama does
not believe in sparing the rod and spoil
ing the child. 1t has just decided tina,
teachers may fog their scholars if they
do it without malice or immoderation.
Miss PHGBE COUSINS, of st. Louis. is
the first woman to be appointed spe.
eial agent of the census. She has been
commissioned 30 take charge of the sta
tistics of the recorded Indebtedness OF
st. Louis.
IT is reported that the Duke of Cam
bridge, for more than thirty years CON-
mander-in-Chief of the British forces.
will be soon retired and that the Onaen,s