The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-18
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cletles.
GERMANY's cavalry horses are shod
with paper shoes
A FORT SCOTT man advertses fall
styles in plum bing.
THEY are forming bi-chloride Of gold
clubs in New York.
ONE Birmingham Eng shop makes
10, 000 900 pins daily.
PHOTOGRAPHIC on metals by cleo.
tricity is announced.
A MACHINE has been invented for
tearing up old clothes.
UNITED STATES farm mortgages
amount to SIS, $50, $40, 900.
In Japan every workman has his EN-.
ployer's name on his cap.
TWENTY million acres of the land OF
the United States are held by English
men.
In Platte City, Mo-, they do not have
'hen parties" but they have dove
socials."
SEVENTEEN lines of regular ocean
steamers trade from Baltimore to for.
eign ports.
ORNITHOLoGIsTs, say that under IA
vorable conditions the frigate bird will
make 200 miles an hour.
IT has been found by actual measure.
ment that the pouch Of pelican will
hold six gallons Of water.
THos. OSBORNE. minister to Chill,
under President Hayes, says the Chill
ians are very sensitive people.
BARON HIRsCH is said to be worth
500, 00O,O 900, which he made chiefly out
of his contracts for building Turkish
railroads.
A Mr.. HARRISON, Of California. the
largest beekeeper in the world, has g.
600 hives, producing 200, 900 pounds of
honey year.
The historic locomotive Genera"
for the capture of which the Andrews
raiders were executed, is soon to be
sold at auction.
A WASHINGTON commission has made
the happy suggestion that henceforth
dangerous electric wires and the poles
on which they are strung be painted
red.
THE house of representatives of New
Zealand has passed bill granting
residential suffrage to women, and
qualifying them for election to parlia-
ment
Mr.. NATHAN HARRIS, of Rich Valley,
Va, has daughter nineteen years old,
who is only two feet ten inches in
height, and weighs just forty and half
pounds.
WHILE an angler was EN- ployed at his
sport in the White Earth river. Mimi. a
few days ago, he landed large fish, to
which was adherent lamprey eel q
foot long.
A CADET at the naval academy at
Annapolis his been found guilty Vf
hazing, and has been sentenced to thir-
ty days confinement That will do for
an example.
JACOB LAWRENCE, car inspector,
who was 80 years old and worth $780,
600, was caught the other day between
cars and crushed so that he died at
Gordon, Pa
BUTToN-HoLE electric lamps, it is
said, is being tried as part of the out
fit of conductors on London omni-
buses, the current being furnished by
pocket battery
THE cruiser Charleston created q
sensation when she appeared in Japan
ese waters. On the day the vessel was
thrown open for inspection more than
20, 600 people boarded her.
THE Hawaiian government is begin
ming to find out that the Canadian
promises, made on an empty purse,
amount to but little; and they now seek
reciprocity with the United States.
WHEN Missouri cabbage was cut
open, it was found that the outer coat.
ing contained twenty-eight perfectly
developed little heads in a cluster about
the size of a walnut and nearly as hard.
WHEN Emma Thursby reached Brit
ish Columbia recently on her return
from Alaska, her baggage was sent by
mistake on a schooner to Japan and
China. She is expecting to recover II
eventually.
JAMES STEPHENS, the famous Fenian
head center, though seventy years old,
retains all the fire of youth. Although
an indictment for high treason still
hangs over his head, he is permitted to
reside in Dublin.
IT is reported that there are thou
sands of Cinnamon on Vancouvers
Island and along the western portion
of the Canadian Pacific railroad wait
ing for a chance to slip across the line
into the United States.
GEN. HAYES is expected to visit South
Carolina this month. If he goes tc
Charleston he will be the first ex~presi-
dent to visit that city since Ex-president
Polk stopped there in 1s49 when IA HE
way home to Tennessee.
MR. GLADSTONE is almost the only
member of the house of commons who
sits uncovered in parliament Thus his
face is more readily scanned by visitors
who look at Briton's Legislators at a
distance through grating.
The proposal to remove Dickens "Old
Curiosity Shop to Chicagoi is so serious
ly contemplated that the Londoners
have begun to feel that they will need
to put Westminster Abbey into bur
glar proof safe and throw Gordon
Of soldier guards around St Paurs
TIE German emperor, with his
whiskers. is portrayed on twenty
mark coin Just issued 1t is much
sought after, and readily finds pur
chasers at one and two marks premium
HENRY GANTz, of Hazlewood. Ind,
L.. ;orao%a1 n unicvla or Locomotive