The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-09-02
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LABRADOR has q waterfall with q
sheer descent of 1000 feet
THERE are 20, 900 colored men occu-
plying Christian pulpits in the United
States.
PRINCE BISMARCK pockets $1,000 q
week as profits of his little poultry
business.
The European sugar beet crop has
been set back seriously by the wet and
cold weather.
AN alloy of rs per cent. of gold and
% per cent. of aluminium is the most
brilliant known.
Gov FRANCIS, OF Missouri, is a mill
ionaire. He has made all his money in
the last ten years.
A NEW YORK man has attended a
Awimming bath regularly every day for
tfwenty-eight years.
)PATTI is little short of'cash and she
rs going to make another farewell tour
in the United States
THERE are more than hundred news
papers in the United States owned and
edited by colored men.
THERE is possibility that the crown
prince of Sweden, too, may visit the
Worlds fair at Chicago
KANSAS CITY policeman's star stop.
ped bullet that otherwise would GER
tainly have entered his heart.
ACCORDING to expert figures the
permanent tramp population of the
United States numbers 10000.
A COW with seven legs is owned in
Athens, Ga. The extra limbs grow
from the top of her shoulders.
PRINCE ALBERT VIcToR shows signs
of coming badness which will reach
down to his rear collar button.
HAY fever time is terribly trying on
the man who wears eyeglasses; he is
perpetually sneezing them off.
AN army of locusts that took five days
in passing and was ten miles wide re-
Gently swept over the Punjab in India.
The king of Sweden is a great swim
mer and wears giants de Suede in
swimming to keep his hands from tan
ming.
THE objection is raised against the
reoccupation of Palestine by the Jews
that RUSSIA is going to capture Pales.
tine"
GEN. DIX is to have monument for
saying, IF any man attempts to haul
down the American flag shoot him on
the spot"
MRS JAMES K. POLK survived hel
husband, President James Knox Polk
nearly half century, he having died
June Is, 1S49.
KING HUMBERT is cook Of no NEAR
order, and can boil potato or broil I
steak in q way that would make ) dys
peptic feel hungry.
OYSTER shells fourteen inches in di
ameter and others twenty two inches
in length have been found in the deser
west of Yuma, Cal.
FULLY 100000 has been spent on tn,
empress of Austria's new palace o
Corfu. The wood-carving alone in ON
suite of rooms cost $4,000.
FIVE marriages in ten minutes i
Judge McCarthy's record in New York
Such speed is hardly in proportion II
the gravity of the ceremony.
A GRANDSON of Eugene Aram is
lawyer in Alameda, Cal He probabl,
devotes himself to murder cases,
there is anything in heredity.
You've King Alexander, of Servia, i
in love with the Cars daughter Xenia
None of the Austrian princesses seen
to be able to efface her beauty from hi
mind.
A LADY bookmaker" has appeare
in England. She is not o novelist bu
. frequenter Of race tracks, where sh
caters to the fashionable betting elk
ment.
PEACHES are so cheap that the cas-
ern shore growers can not afford I
send the white ones to market and ar
drying some and distilling others int
brandy.
The great "whaleback'' steamt
Charles w. Wetmore has crossed til
ocean safely. A possible revolution
ocean carrying is suggested by tn
successful experiment.
ACCORDING to the census bulletin O
the social statistics of cities, it cos
only cents per capita of the popul
ton to clean the streets of Chicag
while it costs II cents to clean those
New York.
WHEN few more foolish person
shall have been killed by falling out
balloons it will probably dawn upc
the mind of the professional aeronar
that the law of gravitation has N,
been repealed.
A BULLETIN issued by the Gems,
bureau shows that Chicago has pra
tically twice as many miles of stree
rs any other city in the United State
Chicago has a.O4s miles, while Ne
York has only 575.
THE Cars daughter, the Graz
Duchess Xenia, will not come to h
husband, the Grand Duke Alexand
Michaelovitch, empty handed. VIII
the wedding comes off she will have
dowry of $500, 900 besides little far
of some eighty square miles of CO
lands in the province of Kherson.
KING HUNBERT, upon the occasion
the unwilling of the statue of his ance
tor, Charles Emanuel l., next mont
will decree amnesty to the 1900 or mo
who have evaded CONSUMPTION.
IT IS understood that Vermont
ashamed Of herself for having app!
priated the paltry sum of $1,000 for t
Columbian exhibition, and that the {
ror will be rectified during the comil
extra session of the legislature.