The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-27
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manufacturing center in the world.
PNEUMATIC tubes for mail will prob
ably be in operation at the Worlds fair.
The emperor of China has ten men
who's" sole duty is to carry his UNI
brella.
The most expert woman conductor of
music in the world is Miss Clara Novello
Davies
The. palace at Versailles, France,
which Louis XIV. built, cost $780,
OO0, 900.
ONE-HALF of the paper used in the
United States is manufactured at Hol-
yoke, Mass.
SECRETARY RUsK proposes to have a
plantation of rubber trees in the ever
gladcs of Florida
The fastest ship afloat is the City of
Pekin owned by the Pacific Mail Co.
She cost 81 200, 900
On an average there are l06 boys born
to every 100 girls but more boys die in
infancy than girls.
IT is estimated that about 10000
horses were ousted from street car serv-
lee last year by electricity.
JAY GOULD's unmarried daughter
Helen, has now three lovers who are in
mates Of the insane asylum.
FRENCH reporters now take notes at
night by the light of a tiny incandescent
lamp attached 10 the pencil.
RECENT data places the population of
the globe at ,4sO, OOO, 900 souls the land
area at 81, 1921 900 square miles
In 1885 n tame elephant could be
bought in India for s225; now their
prices range from $3.50 to $4,000.
The sole personal effects of man
who died in Auburn. Me-, recently,
were Bible and pack of cards
AN English doctor has traced the in
fucnza in many cases to infected post
age stamps on letters from diseased per-
sons
A YANILY now living at Helena.
Mont, possesses bones SO brittle that
they arc broken by the most trivial acci-
dents.
NINE young men are about to walk
from Americas, Ga, to Chicago. H., a
distance of 1000 miles by road, on a
wager.
THERE is brisk trade in secondhand
tombstones in London. Still stranger is
the custom Of selling family vaults part
ly filed.
DELIVERY wagons, the motive power
of which rs electricity, are the newest
vehicles in London. A green-grocer had
the first.
ALUMINIUM water bottles in the Ger
man army have failed on account of cor
rosion. They would stand water, but
not brandy.
AFTER a search of thirty-nine years a
son found his father in the Allegheny
mountains, in New York, living the life
of a hermit.
The anti-slavery societies of Europe
are to make an exhibition at the Chi
cago fair of all the instruments used by
slave captors.
A STREET letter box, charged with
electricity from crossed wires. gave u
severe shock to Pittsburgh letter car
rier recently.
THE latest discovery in dentistry is
that new teeth may be grated on old
roots and made to grow AS finely as the
natural teeth.
THE Italians invented the term influ
enza in the SEVENTEEN century, and at
tributed the disease to the influence of
certain planets.
$. r, PARK, of Mexico, No, has what
is said to be the bill of SAFE of Eliza"
one of the principal characters in
''Uncle Toms Cabin"
SENATOR VOORHEES,. of Indiana, will
deliver the Grafton at the formal open
ing of the new steel bridge over the
Mississippi at Memphis, May l2.
EX-SrEAKER REED has one of the
largest mails that come to the capitol.
Every morning an enormous batch of
letters and papers covers his desk.
New YORK scholar in tailoring has
enriched the English language with the
word pantorium, which signifies place
where pants" are pressed for hire.
A LARGE cave was recently discov-
cred in Montana which contained the
bones of hundreds of animals that had
fallen into it and were unable to es-
cape.
The Rothschild family, of Europe,
says Herr Flurscheim, the German econ
omist. is estimated to be worth 81 ,000.-
900, 900, and their income to be $780,
$1,000.
THERE is Whirlpool in the Sante Fe
river, three miles northwest of High
Springs, Fla, into which 1000 feet of
line has been lowered without finding
bottom.
In about eight out of ten cases of di-
vorce in the United States it is. from
statistics of the past twenty years,
found to be the wife who asks for the
separation.
AT the school election ct Evanston,
ILL.,, recently, Mrs. Mary Willard, the
venerable mother of Miss Frances Z.
Willard, east her first vote, at the ripe
age of 90 years.
\ NAN has been arrested at Bedford,
Pa, for sitting under the window of his
divorced wife in the small hours of the
night and playing Home, Sweet Home"
on "A French harp.
The last male heir of Pulaski, the
distinguished Pole who aided the patri-
OTIS of the revolution, lives in Savannah,
Ca, where he earns scanty living
peddling small wares.
THE coffee crop of brazil has been so
large that the railroads of one blocked,
every available car being in service,