The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-24
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NoW tne pruue crop OF SdllIOrHld Is
pronounced failure.
The Boston people are raising a fund
for Gen. N. P. Banks.
ARIsTocRATIc card sharps are no bet
ter than the plebian kind
WILL the Itata sell for enough to pay
the Charlestou's coal bill?
A New YORK girl of fourteen has just
been married for the third time.
ABOUT two-thirds of the people of
New York live in tenement houses
FIFTY cents will be the price of ad.
mission to the Worlds Columbian expo
sition.
Now THAT the Itata has been found
the search for Tascott can be re-
sumed.
THREE of the five highest in the grad.
uating class at West Point this year are
southerners.
EVEN the Prince Of Wales has his
uses. He is helping to overthrow
monarchy in England.
PALLADIUM is replacing platinum for
electroplating the balance and other
movements of watches.
The car of Russia will celebrate his
silver wedding next November, in q
modest fashion, near Copenhagen.
KING CHARLES, of Portugal, though
under thirty years Of age, has grown SO
heavy that he can hardly move about
The product of gold in the United
States the last sixteen years has aggre-
gated the enormous amount of S572, 9OO,.
900.
THERE are more divorces granted an.
nually in the United States than in all
the rest of the Christian world put to-
gether.
MISS ETHEL MACKENZIE, daughter OF
Sir Morell Mackenzie, is the London
correspondent of several American
newspapers.
THE poet Whittier begins to feel that
the labors Of life are virtually over.
His fast failing sight is shutting him
off from literary work.
The number of changes which can
be played upon chime of bells is won.
derful Twelve bells will allow no less
than 479, O9l 900 changes.
The trouble seems to be that Sir VIII
liam Gordon-Cumming attempted to in.
troduce slight-of.hand into baccarat
game when he wasn't good at the art
EUROPEAN papers confirm the report
that the czarevitche of Russia will be
engaged to Princess Helene of Monte.
negro upon his return from his travels.
IT now appears that the Georgia
watermelon crop, at an average yield,
will be about 1900 cars, with the pos
sibility that good season may swell it
to $4,000.
THE model husband was seen on a
Detroit street car recently. He had a
letter written by his wife stuck in his
hat band so as to have sure thing on
mailingit.
A LONDON tradesman recently re.
ceived an order for sixty-four pairs Of
shoes for the daughter of the Grand
Duke Paul, of Russia, child less than
ayear old.
w. X. VANDERBILT will 60 ahead with
his SIS, 900 hen-house to find in the end
that hen will lay no larger or better
eggs in a $4,000 coop than she will in
a soap-box.
The Massachusetts legislature has
adopted bill relating to the punish
ment of drunkards which practically
reposes in police captains the powers OF
magistrates.
IT has been found that the juice of
the fig when filtered and evaporated,
and then treated with alcohol, yields a
white precipitate which is an excellent
aid to digestion.
oilers and criminals are, it is said,
sent to Canada from England, and from
there they come across the border into
the United States, in violation of the
immigration laws.
MRS. PRISCILLA SCRoGGINs, of Gaines
vile, Ga, is ia years old, and has in
all 1.153 descendants, IL children, 1OS
grandchildren, 636 great-grandchildre
and 4O2 Observation-Disclosures.
A FREIGHT-TRAIN on the Pennsylva.
MIA railway was stopped for several
hours the other day by swarm of bees
that settled in the cab of the engine
and drove the engineer and fireman out
PROF. CLEVELAND Able has been
appointed to make up the forecasts
for the weather bureau, and Prof.
Marvin will have the verifcation of
them. Prof. Marvin has a corpulent
sinecure.
LINCOLN university, in Nebraska, has
the youngest college president in the
country. This is Prof. f. A. Turner,
who, though only twenty-nine years
old, has, honorably filed the position
for two years
THE Quakers have $50 women preach
ers in the United States the Universal.
lists thirty-five, the Unitarians sixteen,
the Congregationalists six, the Method
lists one, and the Lutheran and Free
Raptists several
A KENTUCKY jury refuses to award
damages to husband whose wife has
been enticed from his home by machin
atoms of gay deceiver. The jury
holds that the abandoned husband
ought to rejoice that the unfaithfu
wife is out of the way and be grateful
to the man who persuaded her to leave
instead of suing him for damages.
The New York courts are again sen
fencing the men whose electrocution.
have been delayed by legal bubbles
and three murderers will be shocked t.
death on July if they can be kept out
of the reach of the lawyers.