The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-10-21
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panies in London.
REV. SAM JONES was once drayman
in Gainesville, Ga.
The car is collector of birds eggs
and postage stamps.
FIVE millions OF people can not pay
their taxes in Russia Is
EGYpT's cotton crop for this year is
the largest ever known
In a mile of English railway there
are about 2, liz sleepers.
THERE is a dearth of corn in the
southern states of Mexico
LoNDoNERs write 81, 5l1 letters day,
requiring 80 gallons of ink.
BAvARIA's demented king spends
most of his time peeling potatoes.
MANY telegraph lines are now being
extended into the heart of Africa.
The Bank of Germany holds $780,.
600, 900 Of bullion in gold and silver.
MELBOURNE, who is running rain
cry in the west, gets SIS, 600 shower
The Olden fruit farm near Yves,
Plains, Mo-, has 800 acres of various
fruits.
A SHIP capable of crossing the Allan
tic in four days must have 1885, 600 horse.
power.
A SYNDICATE has offered to buy
the Washington monument for shot
tower.
The actual length of the new st.
Clair tunnel is 6,026 feet. 1t cost ST..
ago, 000
In the year 1855 tulip bulb was sold
in Holland for 81, 200; it weighed but
200 grains.
The first Indian tobacco sign erected
in America was put up in Baltimore.
and it still stands
LEAD ore, assaying so per cent, has
been found near Badenweiler, on the
right bank of the Rhine.
THE Grand Duchess Sergius of Russia
is SO strikingly beautiful that she is
known as crowned Ophelia.
H. C. BURR, of Griffin Ca, has apiece
of linen cloth taken from an Egyptian
mummy that is 2, 300 years old.
A TEMPERATURES of 22O degrees below
zero has been produced by a bath of
carbon bisulphide and liquid nitrous
acid
SOME vandal has broken off a piece
of the tombstone of Washington's
mother, and it is now on exhibition in
Boston.
The United States holds in the treas
ury and in the various national banks
somewhere about S70O,O0O,O0 in gold
and silver.
THE Bank of England, which is the
great depository of bullion in the realm,
holds at ordinary times in its vaults
$125,000, 600.
CLEAR summer sunlight is said to
penetrate the Mediterranean sea to a
depth of /, 200 feet; winter sunlight to
only 600 feet.
A WILD goose killed in California had
grain of wheat in its crop, which,
when planted, produced a variety hith-
ertO unknown.
TWICE as many crimes are committed
in Paris by persons between the ages
of fifteen and twenty as by those be-
tween twenty and forty. ,,,.ofr
BosToN is certainly the hub of the
universe so far as baseball is concerned
for she has won both the league and
the association pennant. ra'@4ri p
The proposition to reduce the full
term of military service in, Germany to
two years has been received with favor
by the emperor and the press.
IT Is estimated that the western rail-
roads have earned $3.50, 900 the past year
from. the transportation of Mormon mis-
sionaries and their proselytes. H..
SEVERAL hundred Pittsburgh people
stood in line for hours, jostling and
pushing, for the singular honor of buy
ing the first stamp sold in the new post
EIGHTy-sEvEN steamships, not tc
mention vessels of other classes, sailed
from Baltimore in September anC
took away more than SS,O00,0OO of ex
ports.
The newest change pocketbook fol-
women is fat square of leather tina
pulls out like an accordion, and is tiny
enough to be hid within the palm O
the hand.
A REVIVAL of the famous Tichborn,
case is threatened. 1t is alleged tina
the veritable Arthur Orion has turned
up in lunatic asylum at Paramatta
Australia.
SIR JULIAN PAUNCEFoTE, the British
minister to the United States, although
a thorough Englishman, was born il
Germany, and educated chiefly in Pari
and Geneva He is sixty-three year
old
THE most powerful telescopes now il
use magnify 1000 diameters, AS tn
moon is 240, 900 miles from the earth,
is thus, to all intents and purposes
brought to within 100 miles of tn
earth.
CURIoUsLY enough the people of Sgd
ney, New South Wales, fail to recog
nize any dramatic ability in John L
Sullivan's performances, and the "Bos
ton Boys" season there has proved
lamentable failure.
THE baya bird of India spends hi
nights catching fire-fies, with which h
plasters his nest. The baya does nc
kill the fly, but simply attaches it
his nest by means of piece of moi:
clay On a dark night a baya's ne:
has the appearance of an electric stree
lamp
DIR. jacob, the great specialist in di
eases of women and children, says ths
the baby of to-day has much bette
chance of life than the baby of fit
years ago Possibly this is due to tn