The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-12-09
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very gloomy.
GREEN apples are going very freely to
the united kingdom ports.
THERE are sixty miles Of snow sheds
on the Central Pacific railroad.
THE output of matches in the United
States amounts to S12, 900, 900 year.
WHITE mules are in great demand
in the South, owing to their docility.
VERSAILLES, Mo-, claims vein of
coal 80 feet thick, the thickest vein on
earth.
Two doctors and a livcry-stablc man
were caught blowing open bank safe
in Gardner, III.
TROUBLE in Madagascar is feared on
account of the natives resisting claim
made by France.
The largest chicken ranch in the
world is on an island in Bellingham
bay, Puget sound
1T is estimated that 5, 900 car loads of
oranges will be shipped from California
during the coming season.
IT is generally believed that congress
will make thorough investigation of
the Maverick bank failure.
THE mail line between Halifax and
England has just been discontinued for
the first time in fifty years
MRS. ROBERT LINCOLN, wife OF the
United States minister to England, is
spending the winter at Tours.
Two hundred and twenty women are
now in the Harvard annex, but they
don't count in football statistics
THE sufferers by the great Boston
fire, nineteen years ago, who still sur
vive, were paid 81, 800 during the past
year.
BY rabbinical law the Jew is allowed
to drink to intoxication ON two days
of the year-Purim and Simchath
Torah.
IT is stated that the crops Of this
west to pay off 100000, 900 Of mort
cages.
DURING last year $50 men were killed
outright and 7,S4l MANNED and mangled
while coupling cars on the railways of
this country.
\
covered process of manufacturing
smokeless and odorless coal at cost of
dollar ton.
Posi- OFFICES were first established in
France in 1464 The first English post
Office was opened in 1881, the first Ger
man Office in 164l.
A CONNECTICUT man has invented
machine which automatically feeds his
chickens at night and morning. 1t is
run by clockwork
The fame of some men is preserved
by their cast-off clothes. An old hat
of Dillon, the Irish leader, recently sold
in Australia for $25.
Mrs. THOMAS NELSON, of Astoria,
Ore, drowned herself few days ago
because her husband refused to allow
her to hold the baby.
MUCH of the barley arriving at Chica.
60 is going on sales previously made,
and the stocks there are less than half
that of last year at this time.
The arm of a compositor who works
eight hours at the case setting type,
travels distance of from six to seven
miles, according to etatistician.
THERE is a new element, Q mineral
discovery in the Boleo mines. 1t is com.
posed of cubic crystals of fine blue
color, and has been christened "bole.
ite."
The wooden shoe-peg was invented
in 1918 by John Walker, of Massachu-
sets. Millions of walkers have since
then pegged along enjoying his inven.
ton.
The first iron bridge, built in ITS,
still spans little river between Wor'
cester and Shrewsbury, England. II
is about 96 feet long and weighs S7s
tons
THE fashionable point for grasping
sticks and umbrellas in London is
about six inches from the ferrule, the
handles being allowed to bangle down.
ward.
AN equestrian statue of Gen. William
Henry Harrison has been designed by
Rebisso, of Cincinnati, for that city. II
will be cast in bronze at Chicopee,
Mass.
The Tower bridge over the Thames,
built on the Bascule principle, has
caused the underwriters of Lloyds to
refuse to insure vessels that have to
pass beneath it.
WIN. SAvEENY, of Catasauqua, Pa,
aged 1903 years, believes that he is the
oldest tobacco chewer on earth, having
used the weed without days break
for over ninety years
AT the newly discovered metallifer.
GUS mines in Texas, the miners struck
q blanket lead" of silver ore almost at
the surface of the mountain into which
they had been tunneling.
CHINA has been warned that at the
end of the appointed time the com bined
powers will seize her customs receipts
and hold them till satisfaction for the
mission riots has been given.
THE amount of wheat which the
United States will be called upon tc
send to help out the European demand
is round 1000, OO0, 900 bushels, which
will make big hole in the surplus.
MACON, Ga, is rejoicing over the fac
that the Ocmulgee river is now naviga
ole from the city to the Atlanti,
ocean," and has within a year becom,
an important highway of commerce.
II has been generally supposed tina
Rev. Arthur Bell Nichols the HUSBAND
of Charlotte Bronte, was dead, but h
is still living in an obscure parish il
Ireland, where he occasionally breaches