The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-01-21
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FORTUNE telling by the foot instead
Of the hand is the latest.
HASTE is made to get the Mississippi |
levees ready for another flood.
The United States fish commission |
can not fill the demand for rainbow
trout.
FoBTY-EIGHT languages are spoken
in Mexico and telephone girls are
scarce.
PURDY, TEX, has bride who is 6 feet-|
~ inches in height and only seventeen
years old.
ONE of the latest craZes in st. Louis
is that of riding upon the electric cars
o cure rheumatism.
THERE are 5000 Indians living on
reservations in New York State. The
Senecas number 1900.
LAMBERrvLLE, N. j., has midget
eighteen years old and scarcely two feet
high. She is Mary Kelly.
THE newest nickel-in-a-slot machine
gives you photograph Of yourself in
three minutes by the watch.
On the 14th day of April next the peo-
pie of New York will vote on the ques-
ton Of prohibiting the liquor traffic.
SENATOR SQUIRE, of Washington, has
an income of $4,000 month. He owns
a great deal of real estate in Seattle.
GEORGE VANDERBILT has already ex-
pended 100000 on the foundation and
first story of his North Carolina castle.
BIRTHS and death in New York City
last year were almost equal in number,
the deaths slightly leading the births.
Mrs. SIDNEY ANN WHITE, who has
lived in Missouri 103 years, died the
other day at Sedalia. She weighed $50
pounds.
URANIUM was unknown a century
ago, but lode has been found in a
mine in Cornwall, England 1t sells
for $12, 900 ton.
OVER 1870 species of fish abound along
the coast of Uruguay, and more than
1000 species of insects have been CLASH
fed within its borders.
Miss DAVENPORT, the Irish governess
of Spain's juvenile King, gets $500
year salary, and will soon be entitled to
q life pension of $4,000 year.
A DENVER statistician estimates that
Colorado produced last year silver worth
$20,259, 1905, besides gold, lead, and cop
per to the value of over $4,000. 900.
A TELEPHONE line about five miles
long has been established in Ireland,
and is regarded as great curiosity, be-
ing the first ever established on the
island.
J.J. WEsTLAKE, of Wheeling, has in
his possession a land grant made out
February 8, 1907, containing the sigma
lures of Thomas Jefferson and James
Madison.
THE fire department Of London has
only fifty steam engines, seventy-eight
hand engines and eighty hose carts and
sol fremen, who are mostly superan-
nuated sailors.
The family cradle of the Hohenzol-
lerns was made in 1772, and has rocked
every Prince and Princess Of the royal
house of Prussia since that time. 1t is
of stout old oak.
The physicians of Berlin assert that
their practice has fallen off 25 per cent.
since Koch's operations began, and con-
sequently they demand from the Gov.
eminent free lymph.
BLIND Tom is dying of consumption,
and the $500, 900 which he earned by his
skill as pianist has mysteriously dis.
appeared, leaving him a pauper inmate
of lunatic asylum.
The tin-plate produced in the world
last year amounted to 562,5OO tons. OF
which the United States bought and
consumed S69, 900 tons, or nearly three
fourths of the whole.
ANIMALS are kept on the roofs of the
houses in Lima, Peru, and it frequently
happens that a COW passes her whole
life on roof, being taken there as 9
calf and brought down finally as fresh
beef.
THE Seventh Cavalry boys will have
some stirring army tales to tell wher
they get back to friends and civilization
The regiment has had the hardest time
of it of any in the service since the day.
of Custer.
The Gas Light and Coke Company
operating in London, has been fined
e1OO with costs for deficit of one can
die power in the illuminating power OF
he company's gas during a recent fog
gy period.
THERE is a beautiful little artificial
lake at the Soldiers Home at Leaven
worth which covers about five acres. i
IS full Of black bass and croppie, which
are so tame that they will eat out of {
mans hand.
CLARENCE v. GREATHoUsE, fOrmerl,
. San Francisco newspaper man, ate
being appointed to q Japanese consu
late, has succeeded in winning the favo
of the King Of Corea and has been mad'
Deputy King.
ELEVEN battle-ships, with an aggre
gate displacement of 10000 tons, ar
now being built for the German Gov
ernment-three at Bremen, two a
Garden, near Kiel, one at Wilhelmshat
en-, three at Dantzig, and two at Bredow
near Stettin.
New YORK CITY has 1857 electri
lights at an annual cost Of 500 each
New Orleans has 1,010, at $3.50 each
Philadelphia has 800, at SIT each; Tole
do, O., has 400, at 500 each; Scranton
Pa, has 1872, at $50 each, and Spring
field, Mass, has 800, at $3.50 each.
The new house purchased in LOndo
by Mrs. Mackay is one of the mos