The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-12-16
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25O, 600 acres.
Cocoa drinking is increasing to an
extent that alarms the coffee and tea
merchants.
IT is said unless the factions in Ire
land soon unite physical force will be
resorted to-
RUSSIAN peasants besieged the car
on his railroad journey with petitions
for relief from starvation.
QUEEN VICTORIA pays her private
secretary, Sir Henry Ponsonby, $4,000
and gives him house rent free.
DOM PEDRO is described by Paris
correspondent as being much disturbed
in mind over the situation in Brazil.
New YORK is bound to head the pro-
cession. 1t now promises free life pol.
icies to those who will read its papers.
THERE were two ties in York county,
Neb., as the result of the late election,
and lots were drawn to decide the re-
suit
The newspaper offices that supported
Fonseca during his brief reign as dicta.
tor of Brazil, have been sacked by
mobs.
Mr.. GLADSTONE manages to get along
without stenographers for secretaries.
His clerical assistants are long-hand
writers.
TWENTY years ago George G. Ball, OF
Blairstown, N. j., started to save a
quarter daily. The fund now amounts
to $1,S25.
A FoUR.ACRE bed of peat, with
depth of sixty feet, has been discovered
on farm near Niles, Mich. 1t makes
splendid fuel
MEXICO, Mo-, has adopted Monday
instead of Saturday as school holiday,
so that the children can stay at home
and help with the washing.
THE oldest capital in the United
States is Santa Fe, which was the seat OF
government in New Mexico rs far back
as 1910, and yet its population is only
6,1S5
The Rothschilds brothers, of London
Baron Lionel Alfred and Leopold
are noted for their unostentatious char
ity, great love of order and attention to
business.
A PLATTE county (Mo man recently
handed in 740 pennies for a railroad
ticket He has been saving his money
for long time to enjoy the pleasures
of travel.
A PARIS newspaper says that ex-
King Milan, of Servia, will shortly
leave for Teheran, the shah of Persia
having appointed him to command Per-
sia's cavalry. .......-
The largest dry dock on the great
lakes has just been completed at De-
troit. Its length is S7s feet; beam, 81
feet; depth of water over the sill, 16
feet 6 inches
For choice mahogany, which is one
Of the chief articles OF export from
Honduras, London pays Sl75 per thou
sand superficial feet. Rosewood brings
about $40 per thousand.
The marks s, S., d., used in the desig-
nations for the principal denominations
of British money are an abbreviation
for the Latin libra, solidi ct denarii,"
pounds, shillings and pence"
FARMER GENEsEO BURKE, of Roscom-
mon, Ia, has a pippin grown on his
farm which he VOWS won't get into a
peck measure. Of all the apple records
this seems the greatest to date.
The agitation of better county roads
is steadily spreading. Georgia has
just held state mass meeting for dis.
cussion of the subject, and Texas is to
follow with similar gathering soon.
THE first chair Of labor ever insti.
tuted in Europe was decreed by the
Paris municipal council last July.
Henri Reville has been named as pro.
fessor He will lecture at the Hotel de
Vile.
The development of the cotton.seed
industry has been so great, and the
many articles now made from it are SO
useful, that it has supplanted the ia
nous olive-tree products in n ajority
of cases.
A YOUNG man who has never had the
sense of smell has been the subject OF
some curious tests, which have shown
Prof. Jastrow that many things which
we eat with relish are not tasted, but
only smelled.
The alcohol process of obtaining
sugar from cane sirup has revolution.
lied sugar making from that source.
The process is very simple and it is
said that but one per cent. of the alec
hol used is lost
Dom PEDRO. in exile, has carried on,
an idea he formed when ne was an en-
peror. He has presented medals to the
three physicians who attended him il
Brazil, when he was sick almost unto
death and was only saved by their skill
and attention.
ONE of the most curious coincidence.
of the makeup of Congress soon to as
semble is that it will have among its
members three Taylors, and that they
will represent three adjoining dis.
tricts-the Eighteenth, Nineteenth ant
Twentieth, Ohio.
DIR. LESLIE KEELEY, whose idea O
curing the drinking habit by the bi
chloride of gold treatment has made al
most as much talk as the Pasteur cur,
or the Koch remedy in other lines, is
tall, white-haired and benevolent-look
ing old gentleman.
j. A. HAzELTINE, of Mitchell county
Kan, had 500 acres of wheat this yea
which yielded 1880 bushels. He ma
Just finished sowing 700 acres of whea
for next years crop.
THE poorest paid national law-mak
orc IL appearS ara thoSa of portupal