The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-03-04
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The John Boyle O'Reilly fund now
amounts to $1Sl, 1000.
THE name of the present Earl Of
Portsmouth is Isaac Newton.
A MACHINE has been invented for max
ing shoestrings out of paper. II
GEORGIA was settled at Savannah,
by General Oglethorpe, February ~,
1888.
THE collection for the Bismarck mon
ument in Berlin now amounts to 913, 1886 |
marks.
GEORGIA has come into Arbor Day, |
and makes the first Friday in December
the time. t"tfs.FH
THE Yankee genius still fourishes.
The statistics of the patent office grow
every year.
THE late Duke of Bedford made. the
twelfth peer to commit suicide during
this century ta i,lsi
MISSOURI annually expends over 81
600 for tobacco for the convicts in the
penitentiary.
MARCH 10 will be the 2Sth anniversary
cess of Wales. 10 tHr1
BY the death of Admiral Porter Rear
Admiral Kimberly succeeds to the com
mand of the navy. .,,.
ROBINSON CRUsOE is secretary and
treasurer of the Piedmont Land and I'm
provement Company. f h+
Mr.. p. s. DUNN, Galloway County
(Mo.) man, has a gourd which was
brought from Wales to this country in
1888.
AN olive factory to cost $3.50, 900 in
Guiding the acreage, is about to be built
at Los Guilcos, Sonoma County, Cali
fornia. a-.
A CLERGYMAN at Lowell, Mass, has
had his salary reduced to one dollar a
year, but still he refuses to quit his
charge.
In Russia there are twenty-seven i'm.
perial princes and eighteen imperial
Processes in addition to the Gear and
Czarina
THE consumption of tea in the United
Kingdom during 1890 reached the I'M
precedently high figure of 500 pounds
per head .....
BETTING on the rainfall has been car
ried on to such an extent in India that
the Bombay Government has passed an
act forbidding it.
SENATOR COGGEsHALL, Of New York,
is authority for the statement that tho
red-haired girls are always able to take
care of themselves
AT the depth of $500 feet the tempera-
ture of the ocean is about the same,
varying only trifle from the polar lat
itudes to the equator.
MRS. GARFIELD still wears mourning
as deep as that which she put on when
her husband, President Garfield, died,
nearly ten years ago.
ACCORDING to the statistics of the
Norwegian postal authorities, $50
American tourists visited Norway dur
ing last years season.
THE census of Arkansas shows pop
ulation of /, 1913, 179, of which &c., are
whites, 81, 1927 colored and the remain
der Indians and Chinese
A STOCK COMPANY with 1925, 900 CAPT.
tai has been organized in Stuttgart for
the purpose of erecting cheap model
houses for working men.
The iron cap has been placed on the
chimney of the Narragansett Electric
Company, at Providence, r. l. The
chimney is 257 feet high.
THE bill to allow widower to marry
his deceased wife's sister has passed the
JJn,,pa Of
reading by a round majority.
SURGEONS in the veterinary depart.
ment of the Pennsylvania University
are about to experiment with Koch's
lymph as cure for tuberculosis in cat
tie.
CEYLoN yellow tea has been sold il
London at wholesale at 500 and at retail
at $3.50 per pound. An expert esti
mates that every cup of it costs forty
cents.
COLUMBUS will be honored, by the
Ohio city which bears his name, with ;
bronze statue, designed by R. II. Park
1t will cost $50, 900, and, with pedestal
stand thirty feet high.
The boot and shoe manufacturers O
Chicago and the West are moving t.
have the Brazilian tariff concession.
extended so far as to include their pro
ducts along with other products o
leather
THE Philadelphia Press is authority
for the statement that Henry Cabo
Lodge has sweet tooth, and five or 81,
times day he sends page out from
the House of Representatives to buy hin
some caramels.
A New HAVEN judge decides that tn,
boy who has been dropping three-cen
pieces into the slot and taking out ten
cent cigars is guilty of stealing. 1t be
gins to be apparent that slot-machin'
law needs calculation.
EDWARD LENNON, the Irishman VIII,
has Just died in New York at the age o
one hundred and five years, carried
pike in the great Irish rebellion of 179s
He had papers in his possession prov
ing his birth in County Derry, Ireland
1855.
MISSIONER had an abiding hatred TO
Americans. Though they bought hi
pictures with generous hand and pai'
excessive prices for them, his detesta
ton was bitter and outspoken.
THERE have been more changes in tn
present popular branch of Congress
since its election in 1883 than have eve
occurred in any other Congress. Their
were six designations ten deaths an
nine mem hers unSeated.