The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-02-11
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A sKIRT-DANCERs costume contains |
nearly 100 yards of material.
GERMAN hostility to American pork
seems to be insurmountable.
AN academy for scientific travellers
u tc be established in Genoa.
Mr.. PARNELL contradicts the report
that he intended to visit America.
MASSACHUSETTS last year expended
$3.50, 900 for educational purposes.
A CHARITABLE lady has presented
brand new graveyard to jefferson City,
No.
The newest ball bodice is nothing but
two bits of shoulder tape and awaist-
band.
nIsHOP BOWMAN, OF st. Louis, has
passed more than fifty years in church
work.
LORD SALISBURY is said to work four
teen hours day, writing and reading
dispatches
An English writer speaks of Oklaho-
ma as surrounded by the Great Amer
can desert"
A TwELvE-YEAR-oLD boy of Dearborn
County, Ind, has feet which are fifteen
inches long.
IT costs the corporation Of Glasgow
n,750 to bestow the freedom of the city
upon Stanley.
SARAsATE, the violinist, has pocketed
$4,000 rs the net profit of atwo months
tour in England.
The largest olive oil factory in the
world will soon be built at Los Guilicos,
in Sonoma County, Cal.
FIJI is going into the cultivation of
tobacco on large scale, and under Gov
eminent encouragement.
The sea-serpent has appeared in q
river near Knoxville, Tenn, and has
tried to devour two men.
The proprietor of a Philadelphia
cigar store has posted sign in his
place forbidding smoking.
A CLUSTER of fine ferns frozen in the
heart OF block of ice decked Phila-
delphia dinner table lately.
A RUSSIAN paper says that Siberian
exiles are clothed, lodged and fed bet.
ter than German soldiers are.
Foes in London have lately been
thicker and blacker than for years,
and gas is frequently lighted at mid
day.
AT dinner given in New York the
other night to thirty-three persons, the
bill was $1,000, or just about $500 a
plate.
The largest county in the United
States, it is said, is Custer County, of
Montana, which contains SO, 900 square
miles.
CHARLES VILLERs, the Oldest member
of the House of Commons has record
as a diner-out extending over sixty
years.
A SUFFIE1D (Ct )man is taking sleigh
rides this winter in a sleigh which was
owned 100 years ago by his great-grand-
father.
A PROFESSORS strike is in progress at
Bucharest. 1t is not as painful as the
strike of an ordinary district-school
master.
SENATOR SQUIRE, of Washington, has
an income of $4,000 a month. He
owns a great deal of real estate in
Seattle.
Therapeutics of the letters that are
received at the Worlds Fair headquar-
ters are from persons who want en-
ployment.
ALL of the Chinese of Milton, Ore,
were driven out of town with ropes
around their necks by white mob the
other day.
The road from Jaffa to Jerusalem
will be completed next year. Tarsus,
st. Paul's town, has had railroad for
several years.
A STURGIs, Mich, burglar caused the
postponement of wedding recently by
stealing the wedding trousers of the
prospective groom.
MRS. E. O'DUFFY,a young woman
about twenty years old, is one of the
largest importers of and dealers in
wild animals in this country.
In the German Empire, for the year 1890,
the consumption of beer was 1O6 $40
quarts for every man, woman and child.
In 1889 it was only 81 $40 quarts.
A CARLOAD of maple sugar was re.
ceived at st. Joseph, Mo-, the other day
from Canada. II contained 20,41C
pounds, and was valued at 81, 4SO45.
The English telephone patents have
expired, and the monopoly there has
come to an end. The Bell patents in
this country have still three years to
run.
EMPEROR WILLIAM owns an estate in
Norway and recently let contract for
the erection of hunting lodge and fine
villas on it. The Norwegians expect
him to visit every year.
The late Historian Bancroft, says
Miss Munford, who was at one time his
amanuensis, used to reply by letter to
every one of the kilograms and letters
that poured in upon him at every birth.
day.
ScHLIEMANN, the Pail Mall Gazette
states, died while "eight doctors, all
leading authorities, were considering
about the question Of trepanning" to re.
lieve him of the trouble which caused
his death.
FAIR HAVEN, in the New State OF
Washington, in September, 1889, had a
population of $50, and in December,
1890, of 5000, with buildings worthy oil
city ten times its size.
FRENCH army authorities are discus
sing the question of replacing the lance