The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-01-07
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QUEEN VICTORIA is reputcd to be
worth $4,000, 900.
ARCTIC owls are being shot on Long
Island this winter.
TIE Utes pronounce the Government
''hcapum big liar"
THE number of winter passengers fol
Europe is unprecedented
DON PEDRO's throne brought foul
hundred dollars at auction.
A PosT-oFFICE in Charlton County
Mo-, has been named Mike.
BIsMARCK's inseparable companions
are two large Danish hounds.
A CLOCK can now be had for the eco
nomical outlay of seventy-tive cents.
THE people are taxed in the United
States for federal purposes $500 min
ute.
OF the 3G2 colleges in this country 81:
are supported by religious denomina
tions.
FORTY per cent. of Georgia's pine
forests have been killed by turpentint
farmers.
SITTING BULLS ghost has revisited
the glimpses of the moon, SO some In
dams say.
L. E. BLoCHMAN, of Cat Canon, Cal
has a perfume farm containing ovel
5000 lavender plants.
THE celebrated star Algol has diam
eter of 1,116, 900 miles, or 256,00O times
greater than our sun.
A MINISTER in England made $50, OO(
by inventing an odd toy that danced by
winding it with a string.
The Dominion fathers are establish
ing school of Oriental language and
Scriptural studies at Jerusalem.
FARMER DRIsKO, of Jonesborough
Me-, has a plow, it is said, that has
been in constant service for fifty-three
years.
MANY society girls age goes back
ward, after the manner of the crabs
locomotion, when she has been out a
long time.
The Sutlcj, large river in British
India, with a descent of $4,000 feet in
$50 miles, is the fastest flowing river in
the world.
Mrs. KELLEY, the veteran English
actress, has just entered upon her
eighty sixth year, and is still in vigor-
GUS health.
DURING the last one hundred years
$4,000 patents have been issued by the
United States. There have been 600, 00(
applications.
The pure juice of the pineapple is de-
clared to be an unfailing remedy fol
diphtheria, and has the recommendation
of being harmless.
THERE will be small spring rush to-
ward the Crow reservation in Montana
one-third of which will be thrown oper
to settlers in April.
AT the christening of Chinese baby
in New York, few days ago, eacl
guest presented the child with So
gold piece wrapped in red paper.
THEY have found the cave where the
Younger and James gang hid after the
Mortified, Mimi, raid, and in it the
skeleton of the youngest of the James
boys.
DIR. KOCH is the fourth citizen upor
whom Berlin has conferred the freedom
of the city. The others are Prince Bis
marck, Count Won Moltke and DR.
Schliemann.
MRS. RICHARD A. PROCTOR. the as
tronomer's widow. proposes to perpctu
ate her husbands name by building al
observatory on Mission Heights, at San
Diego, Cal.
The Columbus celebration of 1S9:
will be held by Spain at Huclva il
Andalusia, the ''discovercr having sail
ed from the estuary now known al
Huelva harbor."
AS THE result of an agreement arrived
at by the mayor and theatrical men o
Milwaukee, show bills must be submit
ted to the chief of police hereafter be
fore being posted.
PROF. Koch has notified United States
Minister Phelps at Berlin, for the benc
fit of Americans. that he can not dc
part from the principle of only giving
the lymph to hospitals.
The announcement comes from thu
City of Mexico that the sport of bull
fighting has been prohibited there, ant
that the arenas have been cut up into
lots for building purposes.
THE sun gives 100000 times as mucl
light as the full moon. 1000, 900, 90,
times as much as the brightest star il
the sky, and sc, 100000 times as much a
all the stars in the heavens combined.
THE largest productive farm in thu
world lies in the southwest of Louisiana
1t measures 100 miles by %, contains
more than 1.5O0, 900 acres, and is owned
by syndicate of Northern capitalists
JOHN Ross, the present treasurer o
the Cherokee nation, Bushyhead, Bou
dinot and others of them are colleg,
graduates, or have been educated in tn,
East, and don't indulge in the Sioux bal
let.
THE Chinaman, who lighted his pip,
while repairing a powder mill, ha'
given up smoking. 1t takes long tim'
for some men to learn that tobacco il
injurious says the Louisville Courier
journal.
The German Emperor has given or
ders that the schools in Berlin shall
close at noon on Mondays during tn,
skating season, so as to enable the pu
pills to indulge in the sport.
Zoe GAYToN, San Francisco woman
is walking across the Continent for
purse of 81 mile, providing she walk
more than fifteen miles day. She i
in Nevada, about one hundred mile
ahead of time.
MORE than hundred writers in Eng