The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-11
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famous whiskers.
New YORK girls chew $4,000, 600
worth of gum each year.
PETRIFIED elephant has been UNI
earthed near Jasper, Fla.
THE prince of Wales will be fifty
years old on November g.,
ELECTRICITY is now used in heating
fatirons used in tailor shops.
CALIFORNIA will put 2,000 900 boxes
of raisins on the market this year
THERE are 1s1, 600 foreigners in Paris,
or one-tenth of the entire population.
IT is said that eighteen British earls
have died within the last twelve
months.
A New YORK doctor thinks he has
discovered that music is cure for nerv-
BUSINESS
THE richest woman in Maine, Mrs. L.
N. Egery, of Bangor, is rated as worth
$4,000, OO0
Mr.. GLADSTONE has perfected new
Irish home rule bill more liberal than
the first one.
AN industrial school for Indians will
be established at Mount Pleasant, Isa-
bella county. Mich.
STANILAs ZALEwsKI noble Pole,
died lately at Bordeaux, Ill years old.
He was great smoker.
The sailors riot in Chilli gives occas-
ion for energetic remonstrance on the
part of the United States.
On April 22, 1864, the first United
States coin was stamped with the
legend, "In God We Trust.
NINE. ANNE MARIE MAzzINI, Milan,
Italy, has been announced as candidate
for parliament by her party.
BIRDS are disappearing from France
Their nests have been destroyed and
they are migrating elsewhere.
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL's grand.
father committed suicide, and so did
two other mem bers of his family.
THE crown prince of Japan is said to
be good and industrious boy, who did
not miss one day at school during last
year.
DIR. M. w. SALMON, of Cambridge,
Eng, was born in 1890, and is the oldest
surgeon and general practitioner in the
world.
CHARLES GoMBELL, employed in q
factory at Ballardvale, Mass, has fallen
heir to an estate in Australia valued at
$1,000, 900.
A BROOKLYN IN. W girl only eleven
years of age has found $50 Ineligible
words OF the letters found in the word
'Incomprehensibility."
CHARLES Il. MARTINE, welEknOwn
young man of Nyack, N. Y, had a
spell of coughing, during which he
ruptured blood vessel, dying almost
Instantly
A LAUGHING JAcKAss has been added
to the attractions of Central park, New
York-not the sort commonly found in
such q resort, but the bird known by
that name.
EDIsON's new electric motor to take
the place of steam locomotives is re.
garded as coming fact by the railway
men who have definite knowledge Of
the invention.
CANON HARTFORD, who is at the head
of the London Cecilia society for heal
ing the sick by means of music, has
won the appreciation of the British
Medical Journal.
THE duchess of Portland has 95(
women pledged to her society for the
protection of BIRDS None of them will
wear or encourage the wearing of any
song-bird's plumage.
Gov. STEELE, late of Oklahoma, has
explained why he resigned the gov
ernorship of that territory. He says he
resigned because he wanted to. Thai
is lucid and satisfactory.
THE government of Brazil will ap
propriate about $55O,OO in American
gold, in addition to the individual ap
preparations of the various states, for 8
display at the Worlds fair.
SENATOR JOE Brown is called the
'Richelieu of Georgia politics." 1t ha.
been one of his cardinal principles t.
acquire wealth, and he is now one o.
the richest men in Georgia.
RUBINsTEIN long ago put on RECORD
the fact that, even after he had become
famous, his mother was his severes
critic. He always said that he owed
much of his early education to her.
IT was Parnell who gave the eldes
son of the Prince of Wales the nick
name of collars and Cuffs" 1t wa
an apt name, for the young mans roya
Irish linen is expansive and immacu
late.
A RECENT eruption on the suns fac,
, was photographed and lasted for full,
fifteen minutes Its angular heigh
showed it to be q disturbance causin,
the vapors to ascend fully $1,000
miles.
Mrs. MARY WASHINGTON FINCH,
granddaughter of Gen. Washington
has the nearest thing to the histori,
little hatchet-a silver one made from
spoon once owned by the father o
his country.
VReINIA's pippin crop is said to b
"simply immense" and the fruit is of
quality never surpassed One frui
grower in Albemarle county sold 60
barrels of pippins in one week at 81 z
a barrel and has about 1900 barrels We
to ship.
SINCE the Blaine cottage at Bar Har
Dor was closed few weeks ago tn
flowers and shrubbery around it hav,
suffered at the hands of relic hunter
; to such an extent that there will be
big Job for the gardener next spring
LIEUT. SCHwATKA only confirm
what recent explorers have said abou