The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-09-09
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BALTIMORE mulatto is turning
pink.
HENRY CLEws has q $4,000 bath.
room.
CHRIsTopHER COLUMBUS is to be made
a saint.
NINE. DE LEssEPs is 40 years younger
than her husband.
The Russian language is to be taught
IN Japanse schools
Two New York doctors caught diph-
liberia from patients.
AUSTRALIA is getting up an expedi-
ton to the South Pole.
BRET HARTE's English publishers
last year paid him SIS, 1000.
THE highest altitude ever reached by
. balloon was seven miles.
PEACHES are SO plentiful in Delaware
that they are being fed to hogs.
In forty years the run across the At
lantic has been reduced one-half
The splendid crops at the far west
have awakened q demand for farming
land.
THE crop prospects in India are grow
ing worse, though the long-continued
rain has ceased
A CATTLE range in Washington is
over three hundred miles long and two
hundred miles wide.
The prince of Wales is growing so
stout that his corpulency excites the
critical comment of his friends.
Ex-EMPREss EUGENE, the kind heart
ed widow of Napoleon I'LL, has failed
visibly during the last few months.
HAILsTONEs do not occur in we'll.
wooded districts, according to the OBJ.
servations of noted Swiss forester
The total area of Chicago is 1915
square miles, or ZIG, 900 acres, being the
largest area of any city in the world
PENNSYLVANIA oil men have leased
5000 acres of land around Allegan,
Mich, and will bore six wells for oil at
once.
IT is estimated that there are at the
present time in this country more than
10000, 600 cows, valued at about $780,
10000
The recent revival of the scheme to
colonize our colored population in Lii
IBERIA is traceable to the transportation
companies.
Mr.. BLAINE's wealth has been placed
at about $75O,O0O by friend who has
been associated with him in business
enterprises
ANY engineer can say, after an acct
dent ''the air. brakes failed to work, {"
and the air-brakes can not always con-
tradict him.
For the next ten years the bulk Of
spruce timber in Maine will be made
into pulp. Spruce makes tougher paper
than poplar.
AT the ripe old age Of 81 Senator
Morrill,, of Vermont, plays skittles,
and, gun in hand, roams the hills for
small game.
THE British government has notified
China that hepceforth English officers
will not be Allowed to serve in the
Chinese navy.
ARoTURUs is $50, 900 times as large as
the sun and 1880, 900 times as far away
from the sun as the earth. Its diameter
is 10000, 900 miles.
ELECTRIC pleasure boats are in use in
many places. Storage batteries are
used in them, although the novelty is
somewhat expensive.
AT the little meeting of few New
York capitalists in a Broadway office,
the other afternoon $24, 000, 600 was
raised on the spot to help the Union
Pacific u... BIB.
The bureau of American republics is
informed that the shipments of coffee
from Rio Janeiro during the six months
ended June 80, 1891, amounted to 1,O82,.
300 bags.
THOUSANDS of mackeral are being
taken in the shallow coves of Penob-
scot bay by people who wade into the
water and fairly shovel the struggling
fish ashore
IT is now explained that the emperor
OF Germany's long seclusion was due
not to his injuries, but to his desire to
grow beard without becoming an OBJ
ject of ridicule.
FREDERICK X. RINDGE, of Cam bridge,
Mass, has within the last three years
given to charitable, religious and mu.
nicipal institutions more than S3, OO0, OOO
He inherited his money.
ONE person in every 262 in the United
States is insane. The proportion of in.
sane to sane persons is smallest in the
rural districts of England, where the
average is one in about 500.
THE fact that Pittsburgh physician
10 al %1n@
transmitted by kiss, is not likely to
have much of a prohibitory influence
on that old-fashioned, all around sport.
THERE have been seven marriages
among the female clerks of New York
weekly paper in seven years, and they
each occupied the same desk, which has
become greatly priced one among the
remaining clerks.
A LACYGNE Kan. woman has a sheet
ninety years old which was the proper
ty of her grandmother in Ohio, and
was made from flax woven at the be-
ginning of the century. She will send
1t to the Worlds fair.
WALTER WINANs, the American mill
ionaire, has made wonderful record
with his favorite revolver. At dis
lance of twenty yards with disap-
pearing target, he scored forty points
out of possible forty-two. &
DIR. VIM. A. HAMMOND says that even
well to do Americans require more rest
than any other people in the world and
get less. He thinks human being
should have a succession of lators and