The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-26
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not trusting him.
MESSENGER BOYS are given free rides
upon public vehicles in New York.
The House Committee on Invalid Pen.
sions already has $500 bills before it.
IT will cost about SO, 900, 900 to obtain
the information for the eleventh census.
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER has decided
that women may be census enumerators.
ABOUT 100000 are sent from this
country to Europe every year for dolls.
WALLACE WATT, Reading PA. i've
year-old, has been left entirely deaf by
the grip.
RUTH WOODS died at Lancaster, Pa,
the other day at the we'll authenticated
age OF 107.
ENGLISH capitalists are now said to be
trying to buy up the American boot and
shoe factories.
A DARING thief entered yard in New
Brunswick, N. j., the other night and
stole a hive of bees.
THE Los Angeles river has caused
great ruin Of orange and other crops by
change In Its course.
BRAZIL has law for the medical ex-
animation of persons about to marry to
determine their fitness.
The latest estimate gives New York
. population OF 100000. Chicago
claims population of 1, 100000.
A VEGETABLE cartridge case has been
invented in France. 1t weighs only
half as much as metal case, and costs
less. .., n
The son Of the late Senator Ben. Hill,
Of Georgia, is going to publish his IA
theirs speeches in volume of 800 to
1,0OOpages. t.aI ''~ .F
THERE are now 700 female physicians
in Russia, and the mortality reports
show a decrease in the death rate
throughout the Empire.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has again refused an
offer made by a firm of American pub
fishers Of 10000 yearly for everything
he writes for the public.
The grip is now raging in the Wiscon-
sin lumber camps, where it's severity is
increased by the limited facilities for
nursing and medicine to be had there.
HYDRAULIC power at pressure Of $50
pounds to the square inch is now con-
veyed about beneath the streets of Lon
don as steam is conveyed in this coun-
try.
GENERAL BUTLERs right arm is re-
markably developed owing to the
amount of handshaking he has done,
while his left arm is shrunken and
weak.
BISMARCK may keep UP his old fence
II he chooses. The great American hog
will have plenty of room to forage.
Mexico has ordered down her bars and
will give it entry.
GEORGE DARLING, brother of Grace
Darling, and only surviving member OF
the family, is living at Sea Houses,
North Sunderland, England. He is over
seventy years Ct age.
A LONDON paper tells of dog which,
having run away from it's new master,
travelled fifty miles over an unknown
country to it's old home, arrived there
the day after starting.
A BAR Of Welsh gold has been for
warded to the British Geographical So.
ciety with the request that it be used in
the making of the medal that the So
ciety is to give to Stanley.
Miss WINDOW, daughter of the Secre
tary of the Treasury, had arranged tc
spend the night at Mr.. Tracy's house
the night of the fire, and changed hel
plans at the last moment.
IT is said that almost all of the postal
clerks and carriers who become thieves
begin by stealing letters addressed to
lottery agents, which they know are al.
most sure to contain money.
THREE of the best-dressed men in
Congress, according to a correspondent
report, are Representative Gibson, Of
Maryland, Stahlnecker, of New York
and Bingham, of Pennsylvania.
AN English scientist propounds the
theory that the grip epidemic arose from
the contamination of the air by the de-
caying bodies of the million Chinese
drowned in the great floods of 1883.
LONDON was first lighted in 1414 with
private lanterns. In 1876 the lantern.
were increased to 1000, 900 in number
In 1744 the first lighting act was passed
In 1920 gas was generally substituted
for oil.
THE Henry w. Grady monument com
mittee, of Atlanta, Ga, has issued cal
to architects and sculptors asking then
to prepare designs for the proposed mon
ument. The amount to be expended il
$4,000.
THE total property of the negroes il
the ex-slave States is estimated to b.
not far from $50, 900. This is not in
Guiding the property of the wealthy Gre
oles of Louisiana which is not far from
SIS, 100000.
IT is said that John Jacob Astor work,
as hard as the driver of a leased hack will
a large family on his hands. He stays il
New York winter and summer. Hi:
fortune, estimated at hundred millions
keeps him chained down to business.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON, of South
Carolina, while on a recent hunt in hi:
native State, killed two deer the ant
lers of which he sent to Senators Gray
and Mcpherson. They now ornament
the walls of the room of the Senate Com
mittee on Naval Affairs.
LYMAN TRUMBULL, Ex-Governor, ex
Secretary of State, ex-Supreme Judge
ox-member of Congress and ex-UniteC
States Senator, is still practicing law il
Chicago at the age of seventy-seven.
w. NJ BROOKS, of Roxbury, Mass.
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