The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-01-14
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be nearly $500, 900.
A PRESIDENTS expenses amount in
four years to about $4,000
Mr.. JOHN w. MAcKEY has just paid
$3.50, 600 for home in London.
THE steel bridge across the Columbia
at Vancouver, Wash, will be 5000 feet
long.
ELEVEN battle ships are now being
constructed for the German Govern
ment.
Mr.. DRAKE took the premium for
ducks at the Wellington (Kan.) poultry
show.
A CHIMNEY 1875 feet in height is to be
erected at New Haven, c., at cost OF
$1,000.
A LOBSTER weighing sixteen pounds
was displayed in New York store the
other day.
THE Ontario mine, located at Park
City, Utah, has paid to date 11,S75,OOO
in dividends.
THE Anti-Poverty Society, Of New
York, gave DR.. McGlynn Christmas
purse Of $1,000.
RocHEFoRT's list of duels up to date
number twenty-three, in seven OF which
he was wounded.
New HAVEN has decided not to fur
Aish free text books to the Roman Cath
ole parochial schools.
RUBINsTEIN is literally dying of mel
ancholy. He processes most profound
disdain and disgust tor life.
THE miners of Europe and America
are preparing for concerted action in
demand of the eight-hour day.
THERE is Polish doctor practicing in
Paris who bears the remarkable name
of M. Observation-Disclosures.
Ex-CoNFEDERATE friends of General
Patrick Cleburne are raising funds for a
monument to him at Helena, Ark.
THE announcement that Kansas last
year raised $685. 800 pounds of cotton
will be surprise to good many peo-
pie.
The best thing with which to polish
eyeglasses and spectacles is a bit of
newspaper. Moisten the glasses and rub
dry.
GLADSTONE is perhaps the best paid
writer of the day. His contributions
are in constant demand, regardless Of
price.
The large landed proprietors of Pisen,
Germany, are seriously alarmed by the
wholesale migration of their laborers to
Brazil
VIRGINIA will adopt system of leas-
ing it's oyster beds. Maryland receives
an immense revenue from similar
source.
CALIFORNIA this year produced 5,OOO,-
600 gallons of wine. Of this 1,75O, 900
came from the vineyard of Senator
Stanford.
A REVOLUTION in Peru, in the inter-
est of ex-Dictator Pienola, was sup
pressed in its incipiency with sacrifice
of forty lives.
THE Princess Alexandra, of Wales, is
the Queens favorite daughter-in-law,
and has always been most affectionate-
lyregarded by Her Majesty.
IT is reported that Edison is now at
work upon patent appliance which
will make the "hello" girl in the tele-
phone Office useless luxury.
To accommodate various shades of
faith and opinion there are in the
United States, according to the census
returns, 140 distinct religions.
SIXTY thousand workmen of Switzer-
land do embroidery. They are paid
6bout slO,0OO,O 900 annually, and their
machines are worth $S,00O,0OO.
SOME unfeeling person is said to have
expressed as a Christmas gift to Colonel
1ngersoll, on the c. 0. d. plan, copy
of Evidences of Future State"
PERHAPS the Oldest living Indian in
the United States is Muddy Water, a
Seminole, residing in Indian Territory,
who has just entered his 100 year.
THE Sultan of Turkey has conferred
upon Mrs. Whitelaw Reid the order
of the Shefkat, the highest Turkish
decoration that can be given to wom-
an.
AMONG the funniest birds known are
the umbrella Bird" which has a crest
like an umbrella, and the "bell Bird
which has voice like the tolling of a
bell.
AT the Ames-West wedding in Boston
the father of the happy groom, F. l..
Ames, settled the sum of 81 ZOO, 900 upon
his son as his share in the joyous occa.
sion.
ONE of the new appointees to New
York police captaincy is Max Il.
Schmittberger, Bavarian, who is near
ly 8 feet 6 inches tall, and weighs 225
pounds.
WHEN the boys were out skating in
Eastport Me-, the other day, Benjamin
Capen beat them all in skill, speed and
endurance. He is only sixty-seven
years old.
THE parrot has not the monopoly OF
talking among birds. The mynan, a
species of startling, is very initiative and
says Good morning" very plainly in
response to salutation.
PosT-oFFIcE officials have agreed in
formally upon the establishment of a
sea post-office service upon all vessels
of the German lines plying between
New York. Bremen and Hamburg.
AT the War Department card cata.
logue is being prepared that will give
the military history of every man who
served the Union, from General Grant
down to the last man who enlisted.
DR.. Z. II. LANpEs, of the veterinary
department of the University of Penn
sylvania, and DR.. Roswell Park, of But
falo, think they have discovered the
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