The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-04
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AHI ACrSiduS nave OluorcuC name
for every day in the month.
GREAT layers Of onyx have been dis
covered in Smyth county, Va.
COLORADO bids fair to become rival
OF California in fruit growing.
NOVELS constitute nine-tenths Of all
the books read in this country.
. THE queen, it is stated, has prohibit
ed the use Of tobacco at Windsor Castle.
A SECOND crop of strawberries is re-
ported on nursery farm at Newburg,
N. Y.
The state debt of Missouri has been
reduced million and half so FAR this
year.
ABOUT one-third of the human race,
40O,00O,00 of people, speak the Chinese
language.
j. D. HOWELL, of Pittsburgh, married
Miss Carrie Homemade Rome Howell,
as it we're.
A sEvENTY-FooT fn-back whale was
washed ashore at Ocean City, N. j., q
few days ago.
AN Alton Qll) girl was Rugged SO
hard by her lover that one of her ribs
was fractured.
A COLUMN of masonry in Kansas
marks the exact geographical center of
the United States.
1T is estimated that the cereal crop of
Canada has been damaged fully $685.
100000 by insects.
The Michigan copper mines are said
to be yielding larger amount of silver
the deeper they go.
CORNELL also has this year the largest
freshman class in her history. 1t num-
beers more than 600.
1T is said that linn burger cheese cut
and laid in cupboards and refrigerators
will drive red ants away.
IT takes a million pounds of ink
every year to print Uncle Sans paper
money and revenue stamps.
ULYSSES S. GRANT and Robert e. Lee
are room mates at the Washington and
Lee university, Lexington, Va
The present editor of the Chicago
Times is said to have worked at the
case as a compositor on that paper.
JOHN ]. TAYLOR, of Streator, ILL.,,
once wrote A. 100 words on the blank
side Of postal card without artificial
aid.
OWING to the salmon industry the
Columbia river is said to give out more
wealth than any other river in the
world.
THERE are in the British army 1850
Notwithstanding officers holding
honorary rank-or one to every hun.
dred soldiers.
STERN justice is costly sometimes.
Stern county, Cal paid $500, the cost OF
prosecuting man for stealing 60 cents,
and he was acquitted.
THE Duke of Portland has necktie
for every hour of the day, and he never
wears his gloves twice. His hosier's
bill is about 81, 200 year
Mrs. GEO. j. GOULD, who was Miss
Edith Kingdom, is careful and econom-
ical houseleeper. She is good cook.
and frequently makes her children's
clothes. sf ar Tg
II is claimed that the sun never sets
on American SOIL and that when it is c
p. m. at Attoo Island, Alaska it is $3.50
a. m. the next day on the eastern coast
of Maine.
A POST OFFICE has been established
at label Katerin on top of Mount Sinai
That historic old mountain is known
throughout the East as the Mountain
of Moses"
IT is proposed To establish line Of
steamships to run between Philadel
phia and Mexico and which will touch
at several important points, including
Havana, Cuba.
A FEMALE jewelry drummer is the
latest novelty on the road in Maine
She is handsome, dresses stylishly
wears mans soft ielt hat, and halls
from New York.
A KIND of bituminous rock, which j.
found in several places in California, i.
being extensively used for street pave
ments in that state. These pavement
are very like asphalt
The treasury department has decided
that a marble Lust of the prince O
Wales, imported for masonic societ,
in Iowa, is entitled 10 come into tn,
country free of duty.
PROBABLY the biggest apple of tn,
season is one grown in Maryland. l
weighs twenty-siX and one-half ounces
and measures sixteen inches in circum
ference. 1t is pippin.
MORE than four times the money re
quired has been offered for the new
Russian loan despite all that has beef
done by the Rothschilds and othe
large bankers to prevent it.
4 CURIOUS feature of this season
apple crop in York county, Me-, is tina
it is unusually light all over, except il
belt about five miles wide, where tn
yield is phenomenally large.
The fruit and potato crops of Cali
fornia are so great that a large per
centage of them will not be brough
to the market owing to the price bein,
SO low that it will be Improbable
IT is unusual to see grain standing il
the field ready to cut while three inche
of snow covers the ground But thi
could have been seen on the first da,
of October, 1891, in Snake river valley
Idaho.
THE cranberry crop of New Jerse,
this year is valued at 5000, 900. TIL
cost of getting the berries to marke
averages 81 bushel and the marke
prices range from s.. so to So. 35 bushel
WHAT was long supposed to be wa:
figure on crucifix in the Burgos Cattle