The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-04-09
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ILLINOIS wheat and fruit is seriously
injured by cold weather.
IT is proposed to create a Columbus
National Park in Washington, d. C.
NEAL Dow, the temperance agitator,
has celebrated his eighty-sixth birth
day.
ARTHUR RoTHscHILD has recently
sold his collection Of postage stamps for
$3.50, 900.
Four silver salt cellars of the six
teenth century sold in London lately
for 500.
RUMoRED that on leaving the Isle of
Jersey General Boulanger will come to
New York.
The Rainbow fire company, Of Read
ing, Pa, celebrated it's 117th anniver-
sary recently.
The new German Chancellor, General
Caprivi, is an inveterate smoker and
moderate drinker.
ZACHARY TAYLOR is the historic name
OF man who is to be hanged at Waynes-
burg, Pa, in April.
TWELVE hundred disabled confederate
soldiers draw pensions in North Caroli-
ma, and 2, 500 widows
IT is said the most skillful amateur
bull fighter in Mexico is the son OF the
President Of the republic.
Crops in South Carolina have been
damaged several hundred thousand dol
lars worth by the cold snap.
Z. A. ABBEY, the artist is to receive
$4,000 from the Harpers for illustrating
a new edition of Shakespeare.
The negro members of the Mississippi
Legislature presented the Democratic
Speaker with silver service.
The astronomer of the Cincinnati OBJ
servatory says that so far as he can dis
cover there is no comet in sight.
THE Gar has abolished the German
Court Theater at st. Petersburg, and
French Company will be introduced.
A LONDON genius has invented hot
water apparatus to warm piano keys, so
that dainty fingers may not be chilled.
JOHN Hicks, United States Minister
to Peru, informs the State Department
that the Peruvian girls are very pretty.
WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS is said to
be worth $s,000.000, the greater part of
which is invested in railroad securities.
THE newest freak of Paris fashion is
looking-glass stand for the menu, so
that the ladies can see how they look at
the table.
THE richest negro in the West is Ed
ward j. Sanderlin, Of Denver, who has
made a fortune Of 100000 out Of his
barber-shop.
TRADEsMEN of all sorts at Utica, N.
Y, not only sell their delinquent &C.
counts at public sale. but advertise them
in the papers.
AN English medical commission has
been experimenting as to the effects of
tight lacing upon female monkeys. The
monkeys died.
WILLIAM WALDORF AsToR, since his
fathers death, has had cards engraved
bearing the simple, yet suggestive le-
gend, ''Mr. Astor."
THE Archbishop of Paris denounces
cremation and orders his clergy to do
so. He says it is triumph of material
ism over spiritualism.
PHOTOGRAPHY will be fifty-one years
old this summer. What wonderful
strides that art has made in that com.
paratively brief period.
A New YORK syndicate offers to estab.
lish postal telegraph at the terms and
rates proposed in the bill prepared by
the Postmaster-General.
JACK NORTON, twelve year-old boy
of Elko, New, has made many long trips
on snow shoes this winter. Thirty
miles day is an easy journey for him.
A KANSAS woman who staked off q
claim in the Cherokee strip had no flag
to hoist, so she ran up a red petticoat on
pole at the corner of her quarter Sec
ton.
A GEORGIA editor in announcing his
marriage says: 1--WE have taken this
step for better or for worse: but it is o
poor woman that can't support one ed
itor."
A FLIPPANT contemporary viewing the
warfare between the white Landowner
and their Chinese brethren in New Yorl
concludes that it is likely to be clothe.
fight.
A STRANGE condition of affairs exist.
At Hydetown, Pa. The village has three
churches, and only one solitary member
of any of them lives within the borough
limits.
IT is reported that many farmers il
the neighborhood of Kingston, Ont, ow
ing to their heavy Indebtedness, ar,
mortgaging their farms and leaving TO
the United States.
UNDER the laws Of New Jersey "a dis
orderly person" may be person ''wh,
stands and looks over fence at woman
standing on step-ladder to wash
kitchen window"
THERE is a plague Of locusts in tn,
province of Gizeh in Egypt In fiv'
days the authorities destroyed six ton
of them. In blowing, quantities of thei
eggs are turned up. Exposure to tn,
sun destroys the eggs.
HERE are two sentences, each of which
contains all the letters of the alphabet
John quickly extemporized five TOW
bags" and The quick brown 70,
jumps over the lazy dog"
ALErTER written by George Washing
ton at Philadelphia, in 17aS, introducin,
winstanly, the painter, to the com
nander at Georgetown, was sold 70
seven guineas at Sotherby's, London
The other day.
REAL crown of pure gold with LOO