The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-29
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NEw-sHAPED envelope is sealed by
the postage stamp.
UNCLE SAM provides $4,000 new mail
bags annually at a cost of $4,000.
ELECTRICAL headlights on steam 10
comotives are now used extensively.
A MAN in Jail was nominated for the
Legislature in Missouri the other day.
Rich nickel deposits have just been
discovered by three prospectors in Wy
oming.
MRS. LANGTRr made promising turf
debut, winning about $40, 600 on her colt
Milford.
PAPER napkins are now decorated
with pictures of the various World fair
buildings.
INSURANCE aggregating more than
81, 0c0, 900 is now carried on the Worlds
fair buildings.
LAKE ERIE, it is said, produces more
fish to the square mile than any body of
water in the world.
THE bicycle was invented by Ger
man baron sixty years ago, and was
first called tresina.
A WOMAN prisoner escaped from the
Niagara county Jail by digging under
the fence the other night.
SING SING prison in New York has
five lawyers among its tenants. They
were all sent there recently.
TENNYsoN is said to have made more
money from the sale of his verses than
any other poet who has ever lived
VITCn / nf hn pr,1n
court has so far recovered from his i'll
ness that he now accepts dinner invita-
tions.
PETER COOPER is to have statue,
which will be placed ere long in the
triangle facing Cooper Union in New
York.
A YOUNG st. Louis girl is said to
have made a profit of 81, 800 last year in
furnishing bread for the Womans ex-
change.
WHILE some choice fruit and other
products are canned in France, the bulk
of the worlds supply comes from this
country.
THE daily total water supply in Lon
don is 1887 ,049 gallons representing
daily consumption of 31.S9 gallons
per head
A LONDON society journal names
four young noblemen who are engaged
to be married to young women of the
variety stage.
THE poorest paid parson in America is
said to be a Mr.. Wainfeet of Moles-
worth, Me-, a small village. His salary
is So week.
AN individual in Texas has sued Gov.
Hogg for $4,000 damages for calling
him "a professional liar in one of his
campaign speeches.
The Chicago post office has received
four of the new electrical stamping ma
chimes Each machine will stamp
$4,000 letters an hour
THE speed of the fastest railway is
not much more than half that of the
golden eagles fight The bird often
makes $40 miles an hour.
THE storm at Wellington, Kan,
which destroyed twenty lives and
wrecked a half million dollars worth
of property lasted less than two min
utes
MORE people were executed in Eng
land during the reign of King Henry
VIII. than ever before or since in the
tight little island, the number reaching
Il. 400.
A MASSACHUSETTS, man has invented
recording device for scales. Upon a
roller is placed Il piece of paper, upon
which a marker records the weighingS
of the scales as desired.
J. DEFINING PERKINS. of Litchfeld, CT,
has given the fire department of that
town one of the finest engine-houscs in
the country, costing 800, 600, and placed
brand new engine in it.
FRAU PRoBsTI who enjoyed the dis
tinction of being the heaviest woman in
Europe, has just died in Traubring, in
Bavaria, at the age of forty-one. At
her death she weighed $50.
A YELLOW fish, called Alaskan mack
erel, and fully equal to the mackerel of
the Atlantic coast, is found at the west
end of the Alaskan islands. They
move in large schools, and are finely
favored.
A RAY of light which would travel
around the earth in about one-eighth of
second takes more than four hours to
come from Neptune. From Alpha Cen
tauri. the nearest fixed star, light makes
the journey in five and one-half years.
AT the trial of horse thief in Phe.
nix, A. r., recently, the prisoner rose at
the conclusion of the testimony and
asked the judge to instruct the jury to
bring in verdict of guilty without
leaving their seats He was accommo-
dated.
A LOCAL justice in Louisville has
ruled that it is not an assault to throw
pailful of water upon an organ grind
er when the water is thrown by a
householder who is on his own prem
ises and annoyed by the strolling
artists.
A NEW arrangement for the detection
of fire damp consists in pumping the air
into testing room and testing it with
a Bunsen burner. If the air contains a
dangerous quantity of fire damp it ig-
mites. and, moving a valve, sounds a
gong of warning.
\ New YORKER has made clock from
$4,000 pieces of wood. comprising over
800 varieties. For sixteen years he has
had sailors bringing him rare woods
from every quarter of the globe.
FREDERICK SCHwATkA. the traveller,
once experienced temperature of II
degrees below zero in the Arctic re-