The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-06
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EIGHTEEN of the London theaters are
occupied for divine services on Sunday.
THERE Is not lizard or snake north
OF the southern extremity of Hudson's
bay.
WHEN terrified an ostrich travels at
the rate of about twenty-five miles an
hour.
GooD players of the harp are said
to be the scarcest of all musical per-
formers.
OFFICERS of the Indian government
have decided that currency reform is
necessary.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for
the electrical illumination of Niagara
Falls at night.
New bookmarkers are in the form of
a little paper fan that slips over the
corner of the page.
A CHICAGO burglar stole some jewell
ry but subsequently returned it, saying
that it was worthless.
A LARGE lot of Heinrich Heine's
hitherto unpublished letters are soon TO
be printed at Hamburg.
SCIENCE has produced an instrument
for counting the number of dust notes
that exist in sunbeam.
GEO. APGAR, young clerk, died at
Jersey City recently from accidentally
inhaling sulphuric acid fumes.
RUSSIA seems to be threatened with a
famine next year as great as that
from which she is just recovering.
IT has been decided by Judge at Mt.
Vernon. H., that the women members
of the school board could not hold Of
fee.
THE most skillful QUOT pitcher in
Dauphin county, Pa, is John w. Kautz,
who has been blind for thirty-two
years.
THE fund for tbs Washington memoir
ial arch in New York, Sl2S, 600, has been
completed at last 1t was started May
s, 1889.
In one of the public schools in New
York city there are 40 pupils, all but
ten of whom are of foreign birth and
languages.
HARRISON and Reid were both grad
uated from Miami university, which has
just conferred the degree of LID. on
Gov. Mckinley.
AS illustrating the feminine idea Of
business, u Belle Plain (Kas woman
cut up $3.50 worth of silk and velvet to
make a crazy quilt.
A PHOTOGRAPHER says that next to
babies young married couples are the
most troublesome, the bride especially
being hard to please.
A DAUGHTER of Director-General
Davis, of the Worlds fair, took the
prize for brcadmaking few days ago
at La Sale seminary.
TUE demand for the revised version of
the New Testament in 1881 exceeded
that for any other book that has been
published before or since.
TIE house at Youghal, Ireland,
formerly occupied by Sir Walter Ra-
leigh, the great adventurer, was recent
ly sold at auction for So, $50.
So LIGHT is the spiders web that a
pound of it will reach around the world
and then leave enough to reach from
New York to San Francisco.
ENoUGn rain fell on Cove county,
Mo-, during the month of May to have
formed lake ten miles long, two and
one-half miles wide and nineteen feet
deep.
MILES DARDEN, who was living in the
state of Tennessee in 1857, was the
largest man known to history. Clad in
thin summer clothes he weighed l,OS7
pounds.
A FIRST edition of Gray's "Elegy,"
originally published at l2H cents, has
been recently sold at 1895, while first
edition of Walton's Complete Angler
realized $1,000.
RAILWAY managers of Holland have
found it impossible to get men to work
the switches who can be depended upon
to let liquor alone, and have therefore
substituted women.
AT Clifton Springs, N. Y, recently,
several languages were used by those
who united in the hymns sung during
the services. 1t must have sounded jus,
like opera in English.
MANUFACTURERS of obituary monu
ments in the United States have the
right to remove their handiwork from
graves in the event of its not being pait
for within six months.
IT is said that the little island of ia
maica annually sells to this country
sufficient bananas to more than equa
in value the entire American apple
peach and cherry crop.
THE business of preparing shrimp foi
the Chinese market is assuming impor
tant proportions in California. Tn,
shrimps are taken in huge nets, anC
boiled in great iron watts.
JAMES MILLER, postmaster at Gauley
Bridge, Fayctte county, w. Va, wa:
appointed by President William Henry
Harrison. lie has served continuously
under every president since.
THE three tallcst trees in the worlC
are believed to be sequoia near Stock
ton, Cal, which is S25 feet high, anC
two eucalypti in Victoria, Australia, es
timated to be ass and $50 respectively
THE fact that three newspaper office,
were demolished in the recent cyclon,
in Kansas leads the editor of one o
them to remark that ''even the Lord
chosen sometimes get it in the neck"
The late Father Mollinger's will ha
not been found yet, but later fact
show that he left an estate of owe
$1,000, 600, including his sacred relics
all of which, it is believed, has been de
vised to the church.
Mrs. REED, lady manager of tn,