The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-17
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Los ANGELES is to have a $40, 1000
fruit-drying establishment.
A PORTRAIT of Mr.. Cleveland has been
hung up in the white house.
A HOME for broken down bachelors
has been founded in St Louis.
THERE is an average of 1904 ties to
mile of railroad in this country.
Mr. PoMA, the new Italian consul at
New Orleans has arrived at his post.
ONE person in every ten who died in
New York in 1889 was buried in potters
field.
BATTLE CREEK, Mich, proudly claims
a clock that has been running for 100
years.
GOLDEN ROD has been selected by the
school children of New York as state
flower.
The name of one of the blacklist col
ored men in Mexico, Mo-, is Green
Brown.
OLIVE oil is being shipped from
Southern California to fill orders in
England.
- 10 NotiihdtCu tlidu nuoold w III MltIt-
draw from London this month $15,OO0,-
600 gold.
A LONDON restaurant serves Amer
lean oysters on the half-shell at half
dollar dozen.
ACCORDING to reports from Delaware,
the peach crop will be the largest
known for years.
The longest single line of railroad in
the world is the new Trans-C Caucasian,
built by Russia
A CITIZEN of st. Louis makes living
by renting turtles to restaurants for adj
vertising purposes.
A LONDON financier writes that Eu-
ropean losses in Argentine securities
amount to $500, 900, 900.
AFTER Beaver county pa. man had
burned log he found in the ashes a
lump of silver worth $3.50.
A MAN at Athens, Ca, owns an an
tiquity in the form of water bucket,
hewn out of the solid rock.
AN attorney in Buffalo has been ar
rested for charging $50 more than the
legal fee for securing pension.
The Chicago exposition people have
decided that no fakirs shall be allowed
to come upon the show-grounds.
AT Queretaro, near Mexico, cakes of
soap are used as currency and are legal
tender for the payment of debts.
The citizens of the Pine Tree state
are to purchase an elegant silver SER
vice for the armored cruiser Name.
A PHILoLosIsT estimates sast the
coinage of>new words goes on at the
rate OF 100 annually in the English
language.
TALL crystal lamps are the newest
seen. They are gotten up as columns
and pillars. Iridescent glass is used oc.
casionally.
IT is estimated that at least $50, 900, 900
of the governments paper money sup
posed to be in circulation has been lost
or destroyed.
The late Congressman Leonidas
Caesar Houk was one of just six repub.
lican representatives from the South il
the next congress.
THE Shah of Persia has recently been
grossly swindled by persons who sold
him yellow diamonds that had been
artificially whitened.
No sooner does the czarewitch recover
from the wounds inflicted upon him by
Japanese police officer than his folks
pick out wife for him.
SOME one wants to arrange a regatta
to be participated in by all of the lead
ing professional oarsmen of the globe
as feature of the Worlds fair.
BUTToNHoLE-MAKERs in London who
operate a machine are expected to work
$500 holes in day of nine hours and
receive penny hundred or thirty five
cents day.
WHILE Mrs. Tinl1ham, of Eagle Point,
Mich, was fondling pet dog, her cat
became so overcome by jealousy that it
sprang upon the lady and severely bit
her in the arm.
The caterpillar plague is making
eastern Connecticut look as though
swept by fire. Where, oh where is the
English sparrow, and what is the mat.
ter with his appetite?
RECENT German tests have shown
that the loss in weight of steel rails
from wear and rusting is in about an
inverse proportion to the tensile
strength of the metal.
A BENEVOLENT Atchison, Kan, won.
an keeps bar of soap on board near
creek that runs through the town for
the use of tramps and number OF
them may be seen at that place every
day washing themselves.
A LITTLE boy was seen during the
late Muskegon fire trundling a wheel.
barrow almost as high as himself, in
which were two setting hens, away
from the neighborhood as fast as his lit.
tie legs could carry him.
KITIYe with dynamite is fearful de.
velopment of the aerial art. 1t is pro-
posed to simplify work by flying high
explosive kites SO contrived and man.
aged as to drop their destructive loads
into hostile camps or cities.
An odd coin purse is made of mole.
skin. 1t is the natural size of the ami
NAL, the head and forefeet being fin.
ished to simulate life, and silver clasr
being affixed to the hind quarters.
THE Indian is about to be tried as a
regular army soldier. The worst thing
to be said of this is that while his ca
pacity to fire powder and ball is prob
lematical he has too little objection .tc
fire water.
The Central park menagerie of New
York city now contains 900 living speci
mems, having been enriched during
the year by thirty-six births. The baby