The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-05-07
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80 oOdottus
THE author OF "McGinty" has drawn
$1,000 royalties so far.
A BAY CITY (Mich.) man can make
salt for eight cents barrel.
THE Irish tenants defense fund now
amounts to the sum of e5S,0OO.
SENATOR BLAR's speech on his educa-
tional bill contained 273,000 words.
THE heel Of q mans shoe should DO
just seven-eighths of an inch high.
GENERAL MILES is considered tho
handsomest officer in the United States
army.
GENERAL JUBAL EARLY lives at Lynch
Ourg, Va, where he has a comfortable
home.
BISMARCK was once offered 81 word
for all that he might contribute to an
American magazine.
TENDER sentiments are now painted
across the head-board of bedsteads to
promote happy dreams.
BETsEY Cox, colored woman who
died near Greenville, s. c., was, it is
OAoAAACu, AoV yOoIo Va o6S'
JAPANESE chickens with tails from
eleven to thirteen feet long are being
imported into this country.
HERBERT GLADSTONE announces his
intention to pay the United States and
Canada visit this summer.
COLONEL FLAGLER, the St. Augustine
money king, has just paid the doctor for
attending his daughter, $250,00
A Buckley (Ga.) man has a handsaw
which was bought in It'll, which has
been in use constantly ever since.
RAIN-IN-THE-FAcE, the great Sioux
chieftain, has applied for position on
the police force Of Bismarck, Oak.
RIGHT on top of the failure of the ice
crop comes the report that the Vermont
maple sugar supply is short this year.
A MORMON with two wives and four.
teen children was found in Provo, U. T.,
recently, living in a hut with one room.
THE oldest college dormitory in the
United States is that known as South
Middle at Yale. 1t was erected in 1752
THREE Angora goats owned by Mr.
Hlckathier, Of Drain, Ore, were sheared
recently whose fleeces weighed 10;
pounds.
Rio Proc, the last Mexican Governor
OF California, is . pauper at the age o.
ninety years. He was once very
wealthy.
MAYOR LEWIS GINTER, of Richmond
Va, is said to be worth quite 81, 900, 900
all accumulated out of the cigarette
business
A GOLD nugget, found in the Nea
placers on Block creek, Idaho, recently
is said to perfectly resemble the fgur'
OF woman.
THERE are 10 different varieties O
strawberries growing in the expert
mental gardens at the Kansas Agricul
tural college.
ONLY year ago Johnstown, Pa, wa
almost totally destroyed by the food
but to-day the property of the town
assessed at So, 5000
A GERMAN dealer in rare old yiolins
"ho huo SoAO OuU Vi OuolHCoS, says Uud
the man who pays over $40 for any sor
of violin gets stuck.
A NEW scheme among the lumbermel
Is to cut down trees by means of wir
so charged with electricity as to b
maintained at a white heat.
WASHINGTON DODGE, q printer VIII
helped to get out the first issue of tn
New York Tribune fifty years ago, i
still employed on that paper.
THE Philadelphia Times very peril
nently suggests that the question as t
free hides will be settled as soon as tn
mosquito goes into commission.
Miss RRBECCA HUHLE threw some ra
poison in the fire in Greenbrier County
w. Va, and accidentally inhaling tn
fumes from the flames, died in grea
agony.
The Postmaster-General does not ar
prove of the eight-hour proposition TO
post-office clerks, because it will produc
confusion and cost the people So, 800, 90
year.
MRS. BORDEN, of Cawker City, Kan.
sold during the month of March A
dozen eggs She gathers from IT'S to 90
eggs day, besides taking care of he
family.
The aphis or plant louise is attackin,
the peach trees in Southern Marylan,
orchards. 1t is new insect, and its an
pearance Is attributed to the mil,
winter.
A YOUNG giraffe has been born at
travelling menagerie in Cambridgeshire
1t is a healthy little creature, and
said to be the first Of its kind born il
England.
The King Of Ashantee has 1888
wives They all live on one street il
Coomassie, and when they 60 out for
walk in body, preceded by the eur
uchs, everybody else has to walk in tn
gutter.
JOSEPH WErzLER, in his paper on tn
electric railway in Scribner's Magazin
expresses the belief that ten year
hence there will not be single hors
railway in operation, at least in our ow
country"
ALTHOUGH sixty-six years have elapse
since Lord Byron breathed his last a
Missolonghi, the poets favorite boa,
man has only just died in little cottag
within few hundred yards distant Q
the house in which his master expired
TIRE steam ferryboat Robert Garrett
plying between Brooklyn and New Yor
City, carried 5000 passengers at tri
and is said to be the largest steam ferry
boat in existence.
Two Russian climbers of Noun
Ararat found in perfect preservation
minimum thermometer, which was lei