The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-01-29
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"A CHESTER tVt.) woman dlslocated |
her shoulder in making her bed.
THERE are forty-fve veterans of the
late war in the Iowa Legislature.
Mr.. STRAUSS, of Vienna, who is mu-
stefan of note, says the waltz is on the
decline
New YORK city has received during
1889 fourteen inches more than the aver
age rainfall
A NEW railway in Wisconsin is called
"the Waukesha, Pewaukee, Oconomowoc
and Eastern. u r...
CHICAGo's Auditorium hotel is on
leased ground, and cost to build and fur
nish S2,5OO,OOO.
HENRY WATTERsoN's father, at the
age of eighty-three, continues to write
newspaper letters.
AT Williamsport, Pa, five red-headed
girls have give white horse bazar' in
the cause of charity.
HENRY M. STANLEY has been offered
an engagement for fifty lectures in this
country at 200 each.
PENNSYLVANIA man wants divorce
because his wife danced for Joy when he
chopped his finger off.
THREE pounds and a half is the COM
5ined weight of twins presented to a
happy couple at Topeka.
The Cape Cod cranberry crop for the
year 1889 has been in excess of any sea-
son for the past eight years.
The circuit court at st. Louis has de-
cided that a legal advertisement insert
ed in Sunday paper is no good.
A CROWD of five hundred school chill
dren mobbed school teacher in Boston
for thrashing one of their mates.
YOUNG lady, Miss Ella Herman, has
been recently elected vice-president of
the Mobile Typographical Union.
THE only territorial delegate in Con-
gress who was born in his own territory
is Antonio Joseph, Of New Mexico.
THERE were S1O0,OOO,OOO worth of
jewels worn at the New York New
Years ball and not one was stolen.
THE Mississippi Senate has passed a
bill providing for the formation of a
new county to be called jeff Davis
County.
GREAT FALLS, n. H., has Justice of
the Peace, j. b. Shapleigh, who has
been in Office continuously for fifty
three years.
A KID GLOVE with a little outside
pocket in the palm, for the wearer to
keep car fare, is one of the latest de-
vices for comfort.
AN actress in Germany has actually
had the courage to celebrate the seven
ty-ffth anniversary of her first appear
ance on the stage.
A scAvENGER of Los Angeles picked
up pair of trousers from pile of drift
wood the other day. He found SIS in
the pockets and silver watch.
A MORTGAGE on Cuba of S124,000, 900,
which has been running since 1866 at
six per cent. interest, has fallen into the
hands of German national banks.
OUR squadron of evolution now in
European waters is much admired for
the fine appearance of the ships and the
skill with which they are handled.
THE prices of camphor and gum prom.
Use to rise. The German government is
making gigantic purchases of these ar.
ticles for the manufacture of smokeless
powder.
THE entire French cavalry is to be
armed with new helmet. 1t is of nick
eled copper, with a cockade, worn fol-
the first time by the French soldier up
on the top.
BOYS of Gold Hill, New, enjoy first
class coasting nowadays. They go from
that town to Silver City, three miles, il
five minutes. 1t takes them an hour t.
climb back.
KING HUMBERT has great predilec
ton for going out in wet weather. A.
soon as the rain appears he orders hi
horse and off he sets with one of hi
aides-de-camp.
A BILL has been introduced in tn,
New York Legislature providing tina
every school building in that State shall
have the stars and stripes furnished a
State expense.
AMOS A. LINCOLN, young inmate o
A>'N Aolh hoopitdi' SdNcu JIe llle U
an asphyxiated girl by allowing thu
physicians to transfuse two pounds o
his blood into her body.
THE loss by fire in Boston on Thanks
giving Day has been finally figured dow
to 50, 7S4, 800, instead of from five to tel
millions as originally stated. The los
to the insurance companies was So, 1854,
500.
The whole wardrobe of the King o
the Belgians was burned up at Laelen
the other night, and the shops bein.
closed, it was several hours before Hi
Majesty could get clean shirt to hi
royal back.
"A TELEGRAPH message costing So 81
word was recently sent from Portland t,
Hong Kong, and an answer received il
IL hours. 1t was first sent to New York
thence to London, ACROSS the continen
to Yokohama.
THE Armours, in Chicago, did bust
ness of S60,000,00 last year. s.. 900, 600 il
excess of 1SSS. Six thousand men wer
employed, and paid SS,O00,0oo Tn
firm killed 100000 hogs, COO, 900 cattl
and 100000 sheep.
KRUrr, the maker of big guns, ha
founded fund of Sl25, 900 for the bene
fit of those of his workmen who wish t
borrow money at low rates for the pur
pose of building homes for themselves
A BILL pending in the Legislature Q
North Dakota provides that both inter
est and principal shall be forfeite