The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-08-19
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ALASKA contains six volcanoes which
are in constant eruption.
THERE is a horse-car line in Mexico
which is 79 miles in length.
1T is said that the ape and the camel
are 7 he only quadrupeds which can not
swim.
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER, of the CEN
sus bureau, denies that he is about to
resign.
PARIS has dentists now who make a
business of attending to the teeth Of
horses.
New SWEDEN, Me-, has new town
library. 1t came from Oscar, king of
Sweden.
SECRETARY TRACY has decided that
the Cramps shall build cruiser No. 13,
for S2,690,OO
Iowa has just discovered that her
statute books contain no law against
the prize ring
The car of Russia will celebrate his
silver wedding next November in a
modest fashion near Copenhagen.
ENGLAND is having great excitement
over graveyard insurance, which seems
to be a new thing in that country.
THE pope, like the German emperor,
speaks better English than many En-
glishmen. He seldom forgets face.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has the credit of
being the greatest walker the White
House has contained for many year.
The widow of Chief-Justice Waite,
though seventy.one years of age, has
dark hair and comparatively unwrin.
killed. face.
A LYNN (Mass.) shoe manufacturer
reports that the demand for cheap shoes
is falling off, especially in the South
and West. ,
STRAIGHT streets are unknown in
China. They are purposely made
crooked to confuse Satan, as the Chinese
believe the devil travels in straight
line.
The steel bridge being erected by the
Union Pacific across the Columbia river
at Vancouver, Wash, will cost over 81, :
600, 600. 1t is to be six thousand feet
long.
The largest salary drawn at present
by any diplomatist, according to for
eign papers, is that of $50, 600, drawn by
M. Waddington, French ambassador to
London.
AUGUST has five Sundays this year
And, beside that, she will have the
largest amount of moonlight vouchsafed
TO any month Of 1891, though July runs
her close.
MICHIGAN is shown by the census to
have six cities with more than 10000
inhabitants, fourteen with more than
10000 and thirty-eight with more than
1000 people.
A BEARD seven feet two inches long
adorns the face of Henry G. Cook, a
tailor, of Norwich, Ct 1t has been
growing thirty years. His height is
five feet six inches.
WASTE Stag from the basic steel works
is now used extensively as fertilizer.
Such is the demand for it in England
that its value has advanced from 60
cents to So. so per ton.
A PRACTICAL colored woman took out
a marriage license at Leavenworth the
other day, her intended husband being
unable to leave his work to arrange
that little preliminary.
Col. TOURTELLOTTE, who was buried
at Lacrosse, Wis, few days ago, was
the commander at Altoona, Ca, to
whom Sherman first sent the instruc.
tions to "hold the fort"
In the 351 towns and cities of Massa.
chusetts PAS now have free public libra.
ries, and the state has lately provided
aid for the 1903 small towns and villages
which have no libraries.
A CONNECTICUT man won a S. wager
by trick. He boosted that he could
eat 100 eggs in an hour. When the
money was staked, he ordered and ate
a nicely cooked shad-roe.
THE prettiest royal girl in eastern
Europe is said to be the Princess Hell.
ene of Montenegro, who. it is reported
is the allotted bride of the heir appar
ent to the Russian throne.
The well that is being bored al
Wheeling in the interests of science has
reached depth of three-fourths of 6
mile. Progress is being made at the
rate of about ten feet a day.
THE empress Of Germany is loyal t.
the fatherland to the extent of having
all her dresses made in Berlin and vi
emma She buys her hats in Berlin ant
only her gloves come from Paris.
THREE California lions were recent,
killed by hunter in Fresno county
One of them measured fully eight fee
from tip to tip and is being stuffed
The other two were nearly as large.
Mr.. AND Mrs. ROBERT PACKARD
who reside on farm near New Hart
ford, Ia, are the parents of twenty nine
living children The eldest is forty min,
and the youngest sixteen years of age.
A FEMALE tramp at Parsons, Kan
became intensely abusive the othe
day and INDUCED in highly offensiv,
language because she was offered las
years bonnet by benevolent Christian
lady.
LORD WoLsELEY, the famous Englisl
general, is small man. with a slim
1.-THE figure. His face is ruddy, his eye
blue and he wears dropping gra,
mustache. He is now IS, and his hal
has grown white.
A CHARACTER in one of Wilkie Col
Inns novel remarks: "Why should the.
have bells on churches? They dom
have them on theaters, and people ge
there all the same"
In 1868, Robert T. Barker. of New
Bedford, Mass. read the Bible through
for the first time. Since that date HI