The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-12-02
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The world uses daily $50, 900 steel
pens
A BosToN alderman is paid a salary
Of 81, 500 year.
NEARLY 80, 600 pensions were granted
during October.
SLossoN's profits on the billiard
match were over so, 000
"PAINE VS. Bliss" is the title of law
case reported in the Boston papers.
A TURNIP is on exhibition in Grand
Rapids that weighs twenty-four pounds.
The American pig will soon be parad-
ing the Austrian markets with proud
curl in his tail
VIRGINIA has fully 15,0OO 900 acres OF
arabic land lying idle. 1t is owned by
large landholders.
THE phosphate mines near Charles
ton, S. c., have in use the largest steam
shovel in the world.
AT the Boston flower show forty va
rieties of chrysanthemums were named
for Ruth Cleveland.
The recent progress in railroading
shows that the wooden ties must soon
give way to those of steel
CHICAGO has followed New York in
opening an art institute on Sunday.
The result was great success.
No RAIN has fallen in Alden, Egypt,
since three years ago, when drought
Of twenty -six years was broken.
LENT begins forty days before Easter.
The latter will occur in 1892 on April
II. 1t occurred in 1891 on March 30.
THE Chicago physicians have unaDi.
mously Endorsed the bicycle as afford.
ing proper and healthful exercise for
women.
THE next New York legislature will
contain as members Of the lower
house two nephews of the late Senator
Conkling.
THE recent improvements in electric
motors would seem to indicate that the
days of cable and horse railroads are
drawing to close.
OF the 500, 600, 900 persons who were
carried last year on steam vessels but
sixty-five were killed. This shows that
this means of travel is the safest in the
world.
A NOTED American physician in Paris,
DR.. Pratt, has died lately of great pow
erty He had lived in great luxury upon
one of the most lucrative practices in
Europe.
In London the number of paupers is
smaller than it has been since 1857
Roughly, about IS, 900 paupers were re.
lieved in the metropolis each week dur
ing August
APPLES weighing three pounds each
have been grown in Southern Califor-
MIA, and apples that weigh two pounds
and half are so common as to excite
no comment.
A MANeRovE plant has been success
fully grown in the University of Penn.
sylvania Hitherto it has been found
impossible to grow this plant away
from the ocean.
THE Choctaw council has passed an
act which will have the effect of MAX
ing Negroes from the states, who seek
a promised land, go to some other coun-
try than that nation.
IT is announced that the ladies of
Tacoma have organized rainy day
club with view of inducing its
members on rainy days to wear skirts
which reach only to the ankle.
RIGEL, the magnificent star of the
first magnitude in the constellation of
Orion, has recently been discovered by
astronomers to be one of the most dis
tant stars in the celestial vault
A. GEBAUER, of bridgeport, Ct, has
issued challenge to any person in the
United States to meet him in an egg
eating contest. He is prepared to back
himself to the amount of $1,000.
THE tallest three trees in the world
are believed to be sequoia, near
Stockton, Cal, which is 325 feet high,
and two eucalyptuses, in Victoria, Aus
tralia, estimated to be 435 and $50 re-
spectively.
OF 1877 counties in the state of Geor.
gia only nineteen show decrease in
population between 1850 and 1890. The
entire population of the state increased
from l,542, $50 in 1889 to 1887, 1853 in
1890 an increase of 10. IA per cent.
THERE is man in Asheville, N. c.,
named c. P. Bryson, who is SO years
old, and claims to be quite youth yet,
as his father is still living and very
sprightly at %. His grandfather was
lis and his great-grandfather was no
BRAZIL was trying to escape lottery
incubus when the recent revolution
broke out The Rio News says the senti
ment in Brazil is that lotteries are i'm
moral and demoralizing and the cause
of vice and impoverishment among the
masses
THE Princess Marguerite, known a.
the most beautiful and most religious
woman connected with the imperia
family of Austria, and Abbess of the
community of noble ladies, is recover
ng from an illness that had threatened
her life.
The late Gordon L. Ford, of Brook
lyn, was poor boy in Connecticut wh'
went to work at the age of fourteen
after picking up slight education. Ii,
soon began to collect books, and nov
has left the largest private library il
Brooklyn.
HARRIET HosMER, who was expected
to leave Rome at about this time TO
Chicago. has been obliged to delay he
departure. But the completion of he
studies of Queen Isabella and Abraham
Lincoln for the worlds fair will not b
dola al in,