The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-10
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THE sultans kitchen costs the Turk.
ish empire 100000 annually.
THE king of Greece is the most
economical of European monarchs.
IowA's crop bulletin shows con-
tinued bright prospects for grains and
fruit.
'CoRDovA, a province in the Argentine
Republic, now has a revolution on its
hands.
IT is nineteen years since Thaddeus
Stevens died, but his will is still in the
courts.
ELECTRIC cars are now making daily
trips between the United States and
Mexico
The Itata is pronounced E-ta-ta, with
the accent on the last two syllables
strongly.
IT IS announced that the president
brought home 400 souvenirs of his re-
cent trip.
MAX DIEULAFALT, of Baltimore,
knows ten languages and is but fifteen
years old
WHEN it comes to financial matters,
there is nothing slow about the Phila.
delphia bankers.
Mr.. AND MRS. JOHN JACOB AsToR
give away 100000 year in charity.
They can afford it.
WILLIAM WALDORF AsToR, the head
of his family is the greatest real estate
owner in the world.
BARON HIRscH will buy 100000
acres in Uruguay as a site for the pro-
posed Jewish colony.
IT is proposed to introduce into the
London streets the steam carriages
which have proved a success in Paris.
NUMEROUS cities are reported as MAX
ing special efforts to raise funds with
which to make exhibits at the worlds
fair.
NEW YORK city has a flourishing
cooking school, in which free instruc-
tions are given children Of the working
classes.
IT is estimated that during the last
year about 40, 900 members of the old
union army have answered their final
roll call.
THE center of the spruce gum indus
try is St. Johns, N. B. The crop is the
most profitable Of any in the farmers
category.
IT has been arranged that the car
will visit Germany in August and will
reside at the Schloss Bahelsburg, near
Potsdam.
THE Russian department of agricul-
ture and farming proposes to introduce
the cultivation of opium in the Cauca-
sian districts.
The oyster is one of the strongest
creatures on earth. The force required
to open an oyster is more than 1900
times it weight.
The Philadelphia bankers are carry
ing on at rate calculated to make the
gold-brick and green-goods men ex-
tremely jealous
THE highest point touched by gold
during the war of the rebellion was
2s5. The Argentine Republic has beat
en- this and gone to 300.
A BILL sticking machine which sticks
without ladder or paste pot has made
its appearance in the streets of Paris
and does it's work we'll
IT was a Philadelphia man who tied
string around his finger to remind
him to call for the doctor for his sick
wife on his way down town.
NEW JERSEY importers have been
lodging the tariff by receiving pearl
buttons complete in every detail ex-
cept the drilling of the holes
New YORK has professional rag
picker with gold bowed glasses, which
he dons when he wants to investigate
the contents of an ash barrel.
A New YORK burglar who robbed the
home of wealthy citizen the other
night wiped his boots with towel to
avoid soiling the rich carpets.
1T is reported that the heir of j. Astor's
immense fortune, William Waldorf, has
promised to give S1,00O,0OO to endow a
negro university at Oklahoma.
TEXAS has Hogg for governor, a
Pig for judge, a Lamb for senator, a
Durham for representative and Buffa-
10 for sheriff. Texas is great stock
state.
PRESIDENT and Mrs. Harrison go for
long drive every afternoon, accom-
panied by one or both of their grand
children. to the evident delight of the
little folks.
THE saltiest piece of water upon
earth is Lake Urumia, in Persia, more
than four thousand feet above the sea
1ava1 II &c vary shallow apd No liy;pr
thing can exist in it.
IT is said that thirteen members of
the United States senate are natives of
New York. Ohio comes next with
eight while Pennsylvania and Ken
lucky have six each.
THE widowed Countess Lewenhaupt,
ex-Secretary Bayard's daughter, is re-
siding in the Wilmington home provid.
ed for her prior to her marriage. She
inherits $4,000, presented to her hus-
band by his father.
MRS. KATE PIER, of Milwaukee, is a
lawyer and court commissioner; her
husband is lawyer and one of her
daughters has been already admitted to
the bar and two more are studying with
the same end in view.
THE chief of police of West Superior,
Mimi, has fallen on a novel plan to
bring strike to close. The other
day 1900 men went on strike and sew.
eral riots were narrowly avoided. The
chief ut once closed. every saloon in the
town, and has nailed them up until the
strike is declared off.