The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-13
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SALMON, pike and goldfish are said to
be the only fish that never sleep.
KANGAROO farming is to become an
established institution in Australia.
OVER 200 wine growers from the
Rhine region will exhibit at the Worlds
fair.
HARRISON, Reid, Cleveland and Ste
venson are members of the Presbyterian
church.
GILT engagement slate on tripod
is now conspicuous thing in the
boudoir.
In Danish cities it is against the law
to ride on bicycles faster than the speed
Of cab.
The fiavoring used under the name
of vanilla is obtained from the fruit of
an orchid.
OLD-FAsHIONED white beaver high
hats OF many years ago are back again
this season.
The leaf of the banana is usually six
feet long by two feet wide. The flow
ers are pink.
The Salvationists are about to go in
for an extended line of operations in
this country.
A TUNNEL, to cost s1,OOO,OOO was
started at Leadville, Col, to drain the
mining camps.
RUSSIANS are colonizing the arid
counties of Rush, Lane and Ness, in
Western Kansas.
The emperor of Germany has over
1000 different suits of clothes and 800
pairs of trousers.
HENRY IRVING has had the degree Of
LII. d. conferred upon him by the uni
versity of Dublin.
A TOPEKA woman thanked her friends
through the newspapers for helping her
to obtain divorce.
THE drive well, one of the simplest
inventions, has yielded its inventor
100000 in royalties.
BETWEEN Paris and Berlin mail mat
ter is now transmitted in SIS minutes by
the pneumatic process.
The railway dining cars in this coun-
try earn more than the sleeping and
aggage cars together.
THE first Italian Methodist Episcopal
church in the United States was recent
iy dedicated at New Orleans
Headache almost always yield to the
simultaneous application of hot water
to the feet and back of the head.
GEN. EPPA HUNToN, Virginia's new
senator, rose in four years from the
confederate ranks to a major-general.
ship.
FOURTEEN logs, each sixteen feet
long, were cut from one sugar pine
tree fellcd last winter in the Sierra
mountains.
VIM FELHAGE, of Hartford, attempted
to open a bottle of ginger ale, when the
cork flew out and destroyed the sight OF
his right eye.
There are over 1000 tons of silver
bars, $4,000 900 silver dollars and $685..
000,0 900 in gold coin stored in the Phila-
delphia mint.
GALILEo's first telescope was made
out of common lead pipe, into the
ends of which were glued ordinary
spectacle glasses.
AN Atchison county (Kan.) man has
a rose hedge $50 feet long. 1t is mass
of bloom and sends forth cloud OF
sweetest fragrance
The regulation afternoon costume
for the New York swell is frock coat
gray trousers, white overgaiters an6
high black silk hat.
MEXICAN bricklayers, it is said, car
only lay 500 bricks day of clever
hours, while an American can lay 2,5Ot
in day of nine hours.
A RowDY who disturbed the Salvation
'rmy while they were trying to save his
wretched soul, in Nevada, Mo-, has beer
sent to Jail for sixty days.
THE famous TreaGwell mine in Alaska
which has yielded more than $1,000,
600 in gold bullion, was purchased by
the man for whom it was named fol
$500.
Miss CATHERINE ANNIE HorPIN, Of
0berlin, O., was the one woman in the
graduating class of twenty at the late
commencement of the Oberlin Theolog
zeal seminary.
One of the flourishing industries il
Cairo, Egypt, is the manufacture o.
paint from mummies The mummie.
are ground to powder and this powder
is mixed with oil.
A SERMON which had been preached
in the Presbyterian church at Yelling
ton, Kan, the Sunday before the cy
clone was picked up the day after the
storm on farm five miles from Wei
lington.
A committee of the Manchester On
H. Central church is going to set aside
one of its horse sheds for the use OF
bicycles. Quite a number of the con
gregation ride to and from the church
on cycles on Sundays as we'll as during
the week.
E. p. Brown, the unique evangelist
and ex-newspaper man, who edits the
religious paper called the RAMS Horn
of Indianapolis, Ind, seems to have ar
inexhaustible fund of epigram to draw
from. He Is more widely quoted than
any other Photographer of the day.
AN Alpena (Mich.) boy patented q
nutmeg crater that was by all odds the
best on the market An eastern firm
has taken hold of it and will pay the
boy $4,000 year for five years
WHAT is believed to be the larges,
ranch in the world is owned by WON.
an-Mrs. Richard King. 1t lies forty.
five miles south of Corpus Christi, in
Texas, and covers 700, 900 acres in ex.
tent