The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-22
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ONE-HALF of all the people born die
before reaching the age of sixteen.
A BUST of the queen by her daughter
Louise will be exhibited at Chicago.
AN Elk county (Kansas) man recently
traded off his farm for 100, 900 cigars.
ASTRONOMERS have discovered that
the planet Mars is thirty miles out of its
orbit.
BY next winter there will be less than
three miles of horse railroads left in st.
Louis
THE post Office department has de-
cided in favor of Pittsburgh without
the ''h."
FIVE thousand whistles are to be fur
nished the regular army officers to drill
the soldiers.
THE Old Drury Lane Theater, Lon
don, is to be demolished, and large ho-
tel erected on the site.
EMBOSSED books for the use of blind
persons have been prepared in more
than $50 languages and dialects.
QUEEN VICTORIA is having some car
pets made from patterns designed by
her husband, the prince consort.
Boston has colored Samson who, ac-
cording to the Globe, once lifted three
tons of iron clear from the ground.
A NEWLY discovered vein of asbestos
in New South Wales yields reddish fibers
thirteen inches long, silky and flexible.
CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT FOSTER, of
the of city of London police, has sent in
his resignation, after forty years SER
vice.
LESS than score of members attend.
ed a session of parliament the other day.
A horse race at Epson Downs accounted
for it.
AN Illinois insurance company has
paid this season sixteen losses caused
by lightning in one neighborhood. All
horses.
THE sale of the kaiser's photographs
taken when he wore a beard has been
forbidden, and all the negatives ordered
destroyed.
A SON of the late President Chester A.
Arthur is conspicuous among the ''coach-
ing set" and opera habitues in Paris
this season.
CORRESPONDENTS say that every sue
cessive year sees increased appreciation
of and prices for the works of American
artists in Paris.
TOURIST agents in London have con-
tracted to bring large parties to this
country next summer to visit the Chica-
go Worlds fair.
ASA FIsHERFARMER and wife, of Mo-
berly, Mo-, have baby which by great
care was made to weigh one pound four
days after birth.
THE descendants of Davy Crockett will
celebrate the 106th anniversary of that
deceased hero's birth on August II at
Ruthford, Tenn.
WILSON HOWARD, who is said to have
killed twenty-three people, is on trial
at Lebanon Mo-, for one of his most
wicked murders.
LIGHTNING flashed into an Eastern
Pennsylvania coal mine the other day
and shocked man who was 1900 feet
below the surface.
AT Paterson, n j., the other night,
an electric car was the means employed
in capturing thief who had stolen a
horse and carriage.
The trustees of Shakespeare relics at
Stratford have been compelled to buy
Anne Hathaway's cottage to prevent
its removal to Chicago.
A NIECE of Sir John Macdonald is a
nurse in one of the Washington hospi-
tails and is proving herself thoroughly
adapted to the profession.
IT is observed that in antique statues
the second toe is longer than the first or
great toe, but in men of the present
time the reverse is the case.
THE shoe and leather industries of
the United States will be placed on a
solid footing at the Chicago exposition
in a 100000 building of their own.
RATS ate up $4,000 in paper money be-
longing to the late Henry Warner, of
Benton, Pa. The money had been hid
den for safe-keeping in jar in the
cellar.
GLADSTONE, a fawn rabbit, was sold
in England recently for $3.50. Its ears
are twenty-seven and half inches in
length and seven and half inches in
width.
ARCHDEACoN FARRAR says that there
is room only for two more monuments
in Westminster Abbey, and the space is
reserved for those of Gladstone and
Tennyson.
Four thousand sheep have been sent
over to be pastured in Monroe county,
Mo. They came from section of the
republic of Mexico where it has omitted
to rain for fourteen months.
AT the home of Vice President Nor
ton, Rhinebeck, N. Y, his daughters
conduct a sewing school for poor child
rem on Saturday mornings, and make
it Sunday school next day.
A BASEBALL player at St Helens,
England, died from a peculiar cause.
An opposing player accidentally kicked
him on the ankle. The injured part be.
gan to swell, resulting in death.
CARDINAL MANNING did not leave
property enough to pay his funeral ex.
penses. These amounted to 81, 100; and
to meet them subscription was started
among his relatives and intimate
friends.
The women's temple in Chicago, which
cost 5000, 600, was largely paid for on,
Of the contributions of penny banks
100000 of which were opened, it is said
for that purpose.