The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-12-23
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and so, 600 clubmen.
ONLY one couple in II, 500 live to cele-
brate their diamond wedding.
The Worlds fair buildings will con-
tain twenty-nine acres of glass.
ILLINOIS now pays bounty of two
cents apiece for sparrows' heads
A BRANCH of the dead-letter Office is
to be established in San Francisco.
The Chinese government is whipping
her rebels, and killing them as she does
II.
TIE only speaker of the house who
ever became president was James X.
Polk.
THE famous Winchester elm, in Bos-
ton, recently cut down, was standing
full grown in 1860.
QUEEN VIcTORIA's granddaughters
outnumber her majesty's grandsons by
almost three to one.
COoN-HUNTING with Roman candles is
NEWLY invented sport in the mount
aims of Pennsylvania.
The undergraduates of Cambridge,
Eng, have taken to drinking tea after
dinner instead of wine.
LORD LYTToN was the sixteenth earl
to die this year. Scotland lost two,
Ireland four and England ten.
THE Chinese language is said to be
the best adapted to telephone CONVEX
sation, because it is monosyllabic.
The price of platinum has advanced
fully 100 per cent, owing to its in.
creased use for electrical purposes.
II is said that the new lord mayor
of London has laid down six hundred
dozen of wine in the mansion house Gel
lars.
A French officer in Buisson has in
vented hippometer which will regis
ter the PAGES and ground covered by
horse.
The population of the Cherokee ma
ton. which has just sold 5000, 900 acres
of land to the government, is about
$4,000.
AN electric plow has been invented
in Minnesota. Horses are dispensed
with and the power supplied by stor-
age battery.
KENNEBUNK, Me-, claims the young
est grandfather in the state in the per-
son of David Parent, who is only thir.
ty-six years old.
Gov. MERRIAM, of Minnesota, has
succeeded in refunding the debt of the
state at 81 per cent, saving $4,000 a
year in the interest charged,
CHICAGO has a frontage of twenty
two miles on Lake Michigan, and a
navigable frontage on the Chicago river
of about twenty-threc miles.
The Cincinnati Southern has let a
contract for IL, 600 tons of 75-pound steel
rails to be laid on the fourth division,
from Oakdale to Chattanooga.
JESSIE BENTON FREMONT is reported
as being engaged on an important piece
of literary work, which has engrossed
her attention for the last six months.
The new speaker Of the national
house of representatives, was born in
Sheffield. Eng, on the goth of January,
ls45, and is, therefore, nearly Al years
old.
The New Orleans Picayune reports
that the cotton crop this year has been
handled SO well that 200, 900 more bales
have reached the port than at the cor
responding date of 1890.
AT the grand receptions of President
Carnot in Paris, the president does not
shake hands with the guests, but bows
to them in solemn way as their names
are announced as they pass by.
Rio DE JANEIRo is said TO have the
finest harbor in the world. The en-.
trance to it is lined by strong fortifca'
tions, and vessels can anchor imme'
diately at the quays of the city.
FLORENCE, the actor, was near-sighted
and could never recognize any of his
friends in the seats of theater from
his place on the stage. He thought he
could play better for that reason.
SENATOR PROCToR, late of the wal
department, has long worn full beard,
except that he shaved his upper lip,
He is now growing mustache, and il
is said to change his appearance greatly
FIFry.oNE young American sailors
completed the two years course Of
study on the Saratoga the other day
Her sister school ship at Philadelphia
the St. Marys, will graduate about the
same number
The Empress of Austria has ordered
that fifty thousand rose trees should b,
planted around the statue of Heine, t.
be erected on her property at Corfu, OF
rock over two Thousand feet abov,
the level of the sea-
the body of Gambetta is in Nice
His brain is in the museum of the Pari
Anthropological society His heart ha
just been deposited beneath the monu
ment erected to his memory at Vill'
GAvray, where he died.
A NOVEL wager is to be decided il
Belfast, Me-, where one man has be
IS that no one can drive pig mil,
without the porker turning to see VIII,
Is driving, and another man has risket
hig dignity and IS to prove the con
trary.
PARNELL's widow claims as her per
sonal property SIT, 800 now locked VI
in Paris. This was all sent from
America for the relief Of the sufferin,
Irish, and the late Nh. Parnell succeed
ed in preventing it from reaching it
destination.
Two fishermen at Isle au Haut, Me.
recently captured devil fish whicl
measured four and half feet in lengtl
and twenty-three inches across tn
back and weighed over 100 pounds Tn