The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-01
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The italian army contains nearly O..
600, 900 men.
O'DoNovAN ROSA is meditating re-
turn to Ireland.
INDIANS in Alaska are dying at an
alarming rate Of la grippe.
CALIFORNIA vineyards are substitute
ing white for Chinese labor.
A STATE official in Maine is wearing
. straw hat that he bought in 1859.
PORTER will have the first volume of
the census report finished by the end Of
July.
KAISER WILHELM has undertaken to
erect statue to Wagner out Of his own
purse.
In Austria women are employed as
hod carriers and get twenty cents day
for it.
1T takes an expenditure of nearly $780,.
900 to carry vessel like the Majestic
across the Atlantic.
CROPS, growing, ripening and ripe, OF
every kind, north, south, east and west,
are full Of promise
A CHASE county (Kaa) farmer has q
cornfield in which the rows are three
flfths Of mile long.
Two men are searching for vessel
load of copper, which is alleged to have
been sunk at Erie, Pa.
The time for famine prices for pota-
toes Is drawing to close. The crop is
progressing favorably.
ACCORDING to an Atlanta exchange,
ten widows of revolutionary soldiers
are living in the South.
A BELGIAN expert has discovered q
remedy for potato and tomato rot in .
mixture of bluestone and lime.
NEW maple Leaf league" Of Cana
da is to be organized in honor Of the
memory of Sir John Macdonald.
THE bank of Scotland issued FL notes
as early as 17O4, and their issue has
since been continued without Interrupt.
ton.
YALE's Oldest living graduate is said
to be Edward McGrady, of Charleston,
s. c., who came out in the class Of 1920
with President Woolsey.
A CHICAGO boy who could not get off
the railroad track in time, threw him
self fiat upon it The train passed over
him without harming him.
THERE are 19,35S domesticated and
domiciled dogs in Brooklyn, and it is q
very poor family indeed that can not
afford to keep its own hydrophobia pro-
moter.
IT would not be surprising if the re-
port that violent eruption of Vesuvius
was cute scheme of the people of
Naples to attract tourists to their
region.
DURING the foot ball season recently
closed in England twelve cases Of
death, directly attributable to in
juries received in Matches" were re-
ported.
BosToN policemen have been ordered
to keep their clubs concealed. Carry.
! ing them in their hand is said to be a
Temptation to use them on slight prov
ocation.
THAT Pittsburgh street railway, on
which the fare was reduced to three
cents the other day, is six miles long,
and one fare pays for a ride the whole
length Of it.
The sword which Custer used in his
campaigns against the Indians, and
which he lost with his life ut the battle
Of the Little Big Horn, Is now in the
possession Of Chicago man.
A BRAKEMAN on the Boston & Provi.
dence railroad some time ago saved the
life of Mrs Hopkins-Searle, and she
has rewarded him with grocery store
and wagons and furnished house.
THOUSANDS of cows wearing blue
spectacles is curious sight in Russia.
Blue glasses were recommended because
the reflection Of the light upon the snow
has been so binding that tens IF thou
sands of cattle have been attacked with
opthalmia.
AN invalid daughter has had the ten
der care Of Sir John Macdonald for
many years, and the sympathy he has
given to her in her sufferings had no in
PERMISSION, even when political neces-
sites claimed the Canadian statesman's
every attention.
AN Englishman has invented an ap-
paratus through which, he declares, he
can see the soul leave the body. He ar
ranges lenses that so magnify the par
ticles of dust in the air that their dis
turbance by anything passing upward
can be detected.
The greatest novelty in dolls has now
been invented in Nuremberg, the great
German town for dolls aud playthings
A machine in the doll causes it to move
its hands and write neat little letters on
slate or on paper Whole sente noes
can be writ IN
AT Gotta, in Saxony, those who have
not paid their taxes last year ave pub.
lished in list which hangs up in all
restaurants and saloons of the city.
Those that are on the lists can get
neither meat nor drink at these places
under penalty of loss of license by the
proprietor for violation of the rule.
The wife of Meissonier, tho great
French artist, recently deceased, is said
to be the biggest woman in Paris. The
artist married her when in his seventy.
eighth year. AS he was small OF stat.
ure and slight, the spectacle presented
when the two promenaded on the boule.
yard is said to have been somewhat
amusing.
THOUSANDS of pounds changed hand.
in London, it is stated, upon the YER
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