The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-12
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1HE UnlJed states Is SenulnB ice u
Canada via Detroit.
GENERAL RAUM has issued $4,000 PEN
sion certificates thus far.
A DOG that can't bark is one of the
curiosities of EdinborO. N. j.
Two-THIRDs of all the children born in
Connecticut in 1889 were boys.
GENERAL SHERMAN will be seventy
years old the Sth of February
LEO XIII. will be eighty years old on
March 2, should he live till then.
No less than 1000, 900 prairie chickens
are marketed in Chicago every year.
COLONEL North, the English nitrate
king, has private dog-house that cost
$3.50.
The Farmers Association of South
Carolina will nominate a State ticket
this year.
D'ALBERT, the pianist,is strict vege-
tartan and eats an enormous number
of apples.
RUBBER pavements have successfully
been tried on bridge in Hanover and a
street in Berlin.
UNCLE SAM pays his 200, 900 employees,
including soldiers and sailors, an aver
age salary of SS25 apiece.
A PHILADELPHIA shoemaker'sdog died
from swallowing piece Of sole leather
in mistake for beefsteak.
EIGHT HUNDRED pennies were received
in single collection in one of the Chi
cago churches not long ago,
SIR WILLIAM GULL says that when
tagged out by professional work he re-
cruits his strength by eating raisins.
THE new Spanish Minister of Com
merce, the Duke of Veragua, is reported
to be lineal descendant of Christopher
Columbus.
A BILL has been introduced in the Do
minion Parliament to abolish French as
the official language in the Northwest
Territories.
BUFFALO JONES'" of Garden City,
Kan, killed buffalo from his herd the
other day and sold the meat for fifty
cents pound.
LEVI WILLIAMSON, of Ansonia, Conn.,,
has hog that is seven feet long and
weighs 1000 pounds. 1t is so fat that il
is unable to get up.
CHICAGO is to have fourtcen-story
hotel, costing over million of dollars
The projectors expect it to pay for it
self during the Worlds Fair.
A BUNDLE of spider webs, not large
than buckshot and weighing less thai
one drachm, would if Strengthened out
reach distance of $50 miles.
THOMAS E. BLACKsHEER, of Thomas
vile, Ca, is eating new potatoes from
paintings made in September, and ha
ripe Strawberries on his place.
The freedom of the serfs in Russia ha
been repeatedly declared a great failure
They are said to be far worse off nov
than in their former condition.
CoNCURRENTLY with the reports Q
restitution in the Northwest are assel
lions that cattle are so cheap that
does not pay to ship them East.
ONE of the lessons taught by Nelli
Bly's girdling the earth is that youn
woman may 60 on an extensive trip wit
no other baggage than grip-sack.
THE first convert to Christianity i
the Upper Congo valley was recent
baptized at Equator Station. The va
ley contains thirty million people.
AN observant contemporary has mad
the discovery that the fair should nc
be held at Chicago, New York, StLoui
or Washington, but around the waist.
IT is figured that 1,664 houses wer
lost in the Johnstown disaster, an
property in the flooded district is value
at S77O, 693 less than before the flood.
THE mild, damp weather in Ne
York has developed sort of moss-lik
fungus which fastens itself OF wall
stone fronts, every thing, in fact, of a
architectural nature.
M. EIFFEL not only got his idea of
great tower from American suggestion
for the Centennial Exposition. but q
American elevator lifted the patrons
his tower to the top of it.
II. BAILEY ALDRICH, who is a recel
victim of the grip, compares the sens
ton to that of ''misfit skull, that
too light across the forehead and tn;
pinches behind the ears"
ONE of the professors of the Univers
ty of Vienna, is said to have discovere
the bacillus of the influenza, and
seems to be a near cousin, if not I'll
twin-brother of the pneumonia germ.
THE German imperial administration
effort to pass bill for the expulsion
the socialists from the empire has bee
beaten in the National Reichstag by Il
overwhelming vote of 1869 nays to
yeas.
AT a recent autograph sale in Londo
the signature of Voltaire brought on
two guineas, while that of Isaac Wat
sold for three; and while ten pount
were given for a Boswell letter, one
johnson brought only nine.
THE Shah of Persia in addition to Il
masses of jewe.s in the royal treasur
has private fortune slowed in vault
elsewhere which is known to consist
at least fS,0O0,0 600. To this he is pc
petually adding fresh accumulations.
GEORGE NEwcoMB. the English Ii,
tanner. who died recently, in 1874 had
terrible encounter at Swindon with fl
African lions. when he received nil
wounds on the right arm, in addition
other injuries. Three of the lions di,
in 1.-THE struggle. Newcomb had previous
had his left eye torn out by leopard
TIE Cloverdale Call Reveille say