The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-25
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ONLY per cent Of the population
OF India can read and write.
The Island of Malta is the most
densely populated spot on earth.
In per cent. of the marriages one
OF the parties has been married before.
ALARM clocks are set in the headboard
OF new bedsteads in which early risers
sleep
WHEN Queen Victoria travels she
wears no jewelry, and is clad simply in
black
THERE are more than one thousand
islands over which the flag of Japan
floats.
ALL the principal cities in the Repub-
lie of Colombia are now light with cleo
tricity.
VICTORIA, queen of England and
empress of India, has forty grand
children.
ALBERT BIERsTADT has sold his great
painting, 1.-THE Last of the Butfaloes,"
for $50, 600.
THERE are only 10000 Hawaiian
islanders left. Fifty years ago there
were $4,000
A NUREMBURG watch in the form of
an acorn has tiny pistol which serves
as an alarm.
THE genuine Shetland pony can be
bought on it's native heath for about
forty dollars
LONG ear rings, such as were worn a
quarter of century ago, are coming in
fashion again.
THE latest estimate shows that there
are only fourteen people to the square
mile IN America.
LECKY, the celebrated historian, has
been so unfortunate as to find that he
can write poetry.
A PUMPKIN, weighing 10 pounds, was
recently grown by William Spencer, of
Sudleerville Nd.
The earl of Dudley holds the largest
life insurance ever effected, the amount
being for 5000, 900.
MRS. BLANCHARD places high value
upon Millet's "Angelus." She has in.
sured it for $40, OOO
A RATTLEsNAHE with two heads has
been captured in California. 1t has
fangs in both its mouths.
Gov BoIEs, of Iowa, is a native of
New York. He started west for wealth
with only a few cents in his pocket.
A BosToN lady has invented a spoon
for measuring medicine by which a
dose can be administered without spill
ing.
The two-year-old boy of Frank Fet-
tiers, of Camden, Pa, got hold of his
fathers pipe, sucked a lot of nicotine
out of it, and died.
THE germs of yellow fever, it is
thought, may be conveyed from tropical
countries by the pet birds exported in
so large numbers.
KATE FIELDS definition of plagair-
ism is pronounced very clever by the
critics. She calls it lack of skill in
effacing coincidents.
IT is rumored in Tennessee that the
prison guards We're in collision with
the miners who recently made whole
sale release of convicts.
ACCORDING to official figures from
half the counties of Pennsylvania over
$1,000, 600 will be spent this year in re-
pairing the roads of the state.
DR.. HELENE DRUsCHKowITZ, one of
the first Women in Austria to acquire
the title of Phi d., became suddenly in
sane few days ago in Vienna.
THE wettest place in the world is at
Cherra-P onjee, in the Khasi-Hills of
Assam The fall of rain for a single
month has ranged from 100 to 200
inches.
AMONG the coming events of the
winter season in New York will be
ball given in honor of the duke and
duchess of Marlborough by Mrs Paran
Stevens.
WITHIN the past month work and
wages have been offered to the Russian
Jewish exiles by $500 industrial estab-
lishments, factories and mining corpo-
rations through the United Hebrew
charities.
H. P. CHEATMAN, of North Carolina,
the only colored member of the next
congress. is a college graduate, and is
said to be the best educated Negro, with
single exception, that has yet sat in
the house.
ASSUMING the population of the
world, according to latest estimates. to
be about 145O 600, 600, it is estimated
that 1850, 900, 900 are non Christians,
and, of course, 400, 200, 900 only are
Christians.
A LUMINOUS crayon has been invent
ed which enables lecturers to draw on
the blackboard when the room is dark
ened for the use of the lantern. 1t is
likely to prove of value also to students
who take notes.
ONE of the longest chutes in the
world is in a logging camp at Clifton,
Ore. 1t is three-quarters of mile
long. The bottom is shod with railroad
iron. A log slides the whole length in
twenty second.
Mr. G. w. Dunn, the California nat
uralists, has collected more than seven
ty thousand insects belonging to the
horn-winged family, five thousand of
the cricket tribe and about four thou
sand butterflies.
A GEORGIA man five years ago. it is
said, discovered growing in his field a
cotton plant the tint of which was
bright red. by saving the seed each
year he this season gathered bale of
this curious cotton"
THE vote of Riley county Kan. J
man was challenged because he had
been in the penitentiary seven times.