The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-08
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MRS BONES is q prominent litigant in
South Dakota.
THERE is herd of three hundred
buffalo in Yellowstone park. Fl
The Oldest inhabited town in the
world is said to be Damascus 9ie
MRS. P. T. BARNUM has gone to
England Her people live in Lanca-
shire.
A woMAN's thimble will hold 100, 600
Of the little screws used by watch
makers
A WISCONSIN woman was recently
turned out of church because she snor-
ed in her pew.
IT cost Pennsylvania over $4,000 to
maintain and transport troops during
the coke regions riots. 30.
A PLAN is alleged to have been dis
covered in Guatemala to annex that re-
public to the United States.
KREIsAN CASTLE will be made into a
sort of museum of articles associated
with the late Count Won Moltke.
ONE day recently only one steamboat
lay at the Pittsburgh wharf, the first
incident of the kind in forty years.
THE republic of Nicaragua has ac'
cepted the invitation of the United
States to participate in the Worlds fair.
RELIABLE statistics show that the
percentage of insanity among farmers
wives is greater than in any other class.
IT is said that the wine product Of
California this year will reach $4,000
600 or 20, 600, 900 gallons-the largest fol
years.
AN immense deposit Of yellow ochre
has been unearthed near Gainesville,
Fla, on the property of DR.. T. f.
Thomas
A WOMAN at Ardmore, Kan, has sued
her husband for the recovery of her
false teeth. She bit him and he took
them away from her.
THE Baltimore man who worked the
godfather racket on the United States
senate has been sentenced to nine
years in the penitentiary.
CHARLES MEYER was sent to Black
wells island for six months, the othe,
day, for trying to shoot himself while
in Central park, New York. ~
A KENTUCKY doctor wishes to sell the
exposition management the ripsaw
which Abraham Lincoln used in saving
the timbers of his log cabin.
WAsHMGToN's exhibits at the worlds
fair are to include ''stick" thirty feet
in diameter. 1t is now being hewn out
near the Johns river in Chehalis coun
ty.
MRS. O'SHEA's coming marriage tt
Mr.. Parnell will bring her still another
sorrow, her daughters deserving her fol
their father on the day she goes to The
altar.
The most valuable dinner service il
the world belongs to Queen Victoria
and occupies two rooms at Buckingham
palace, over which two men watch con
tinuaily.
AN Atchison man told secret tx
three women and three men. In /,
week he discovered that each man hat
blabbed, but that not a woman hat
told thing.
SwARMs Of big flies swooped down Oh
Eastport, Me-, the other afternoon
making life there miserable for tn
time they remained. Where they cam,
from is mystery.
The advertisement of the ordinance
office for one hundred modern higl
power steel guns of the large caliber
for coast and lake defense begins I.
look like business.
W. G. M. THOMAS, son of prominen
lawyer at Sheffield, Ala, listened to al
amusing story told him by friend an,
then laughed SO hard that he actual,
broke one of his ribs
FIVE brothers from Cape Elizabeth
Me-, who went into the war and cam
out unscratched, are all dead: and n
one of them died a natural death no
any two in the same state.
CHARLES EMORY SMITH says he di
not try to learn the Russian tongu
while he was at st. Petersburg; for a,
educated people there speak, English
French and German fuently.
THE Kickapoo Indians refuse to di.
pose of their land, giving as reaso
that they fear the wrath of the Grea
Spirit. The Cherokee commission ha
pleaded with them three times
FROM New Haven, Conn.,, comes tn
story that one hour after obtaining
divorce woman had secured licens
and was again married. She must hay
been afraid he would get away.
Hon. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS b,
lieves that a railway from Winnipeg
Alaska will be one of the needs of tn
future, but does not think it will be III
dertaken within the next ten years.
UPON nobody's memory will the di
comforts of the hot wave be more III
pleasantly stamped than upon the ma
who has been carrying around a wa
of postage stamps in his vest pocket.
THE census office has in press an
will shortly publish for distribution a
elaborate report on lumber productic
and allied industries for the states
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
ROBERT LINCOLN was one of the fe
cabinet officers who have been oppose
to the employment of women as clerl
in the Washington departments. Du
ing the time that he was secretary
war he was never once known to sig
the appointment of woman for an
position under his jurisdiction.
HEINRICH SCHMLINsKI, one of Il
millionaires of Hamburg, has decide
to leave his immense fortune to his n
ul,a