The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-09-28
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CHILDRENs shoes are now being half
soled with tripe.
THE royal standard of Persia is
blacksmith's apron.
PARROTS cost but ten cents each to the
dealers in Central America.
THERE are thirty towns called Wash
ington" in the United States.
A SCHOOL of law is soon to be opened
in Toxic for japanese women.
New YORK has S,1G2 dwellings which
contain over ten families each.
SAM JONES was paid 5000 for preach
ing three days at Richmond, Mo.
In Southwestern British Columbia
there are fully 1000 wild horses.
HEN PECK valley is the name Of set
Element in Marshall county, Kan
NJ. DEIBLER, the veteran eXecutioner
of Paris has beheaded 22O persons.
A STREAM near Tucson, Ariz., petri-
fes all soft substances thrown into it.
AMONG the nobility of England
twenty-one per cent have no children.
GUAvAs are becoming quite an article
of export from Manitee river, Florida.
QUEEN VICTORIA has a cabinet of Rose
du Barri china which is said to be worth
$3.50, 900.
Mrs. TED LON is to open a school in
Japan for teaching the native women
of her rank.
For the first time in years in North
Carolina there are no convicts at work
on railroads.
THE original "Declaration of indie
pendence" is in the state department in
Washington.
THE girl of the period is to inhabit an
other article of male wear this season.
1t is known as vest
THE harvesting of wheat in South Da-
kota is about over and the reports indi-
cate an average yield.
THE emperor of Austria has ordered
the newspapers of the empire to quit
talking about the cholera.
THERE are said to be I JAP patent rem
edies for cholera in the list of the
United States patent office.
AMONG the Digger and Ute Indians
there is no edible so highly esteemed
as the common grasshopper.
GERMANY has decided to adopt the
American grapevine, because expert
ments show it to be phylloXera proof.
THE democratic nominee for congress
in Texas, Judge Pascal, has mustache
that measures sixteen inches from end
to end.
THE other day a St. Paul surgeon
made an incision into woman's neck
and recovered the false teeth she had
swallowed.
THE democrats at judicial conven.
ton at Carrollton, Mo-, broke the rec
ord, nominating Judge Rucker on, the
5,645th ballot.
NEW YORK dealers have taken advan
tage Of the cholera scare to advance
and even double the prices of nearly al
kinds of disinfectants
RoCKLAND (Me. burglars accidentally
dropped a roll of bills amounting tc
$3.50 in Mr.. Robinson's house and wen,
off without any plumber
The fish commission steamer, the
Albatross, has brought from Alaska ar
assortment of black bass, with which il
is proposed to stock the waters of Puget
sound.
SURFACE indications point to a great
oil basin in the flathead country il
Washington. and an attempt will bt
made to prove its existence in paying
quantities
ENGLAND is reaping q rich harvest by
reason of cholera on the continent. Al
the tourists and many native French
men and Germans are summering or
the island.
THERE is nothing so potent in causing
the average American tourist to awaken
to a sense of the scenic glory of his OWL
country as a visitation of cholera t
foreign countries.
PROF BARNARD of Lick Observatory
announces the discovery of fifth satel
lite of Jupiter. The discovery is con
sidered one of great astronomical i'm
portance and marked distinction fol-
America.
The latest triumph of Yankee inven
tive genius is an India rubber fish
worm. 1t is said to be a remarkably
good imitation of the common earti
worm, is indestructible, and in actua
use proves as alluring to the fishes al
the genuine article.
A STRANGE custom is followed 10y
Mexican farmers. They use oxen o
one color in the morning, and anothc,
color in the afternoon. They do no
known why: but they know that i
must be the right thing to do, because
their forefathers did it.
OK the occasion of the episcopal JUDI
lee of the pope next year, there will b,
200 priestly pilgrims from the Unitet
States, besides many hundreds fron
other ports of North America and fir, Il
South America, attended by numerou
bishops and archbiShops.
CHCKENs have been acting as gol,
collectors for j. \. McCouville. of Butte
Mont in one chickens crop and gig
zard he found some gold nuggets. III
therefore killed the remainder of hi
brood. thirtv-one in number. and fovu,
in them god to the amount Of S3S7.
4 MARVELLOUS lake is reported &
have been discovered in the mountain
in the Big Bend county, Washington
The lake i said to be of considerab.,
size. and brimful of boiling water
FLocHS OF young Chinese pheasant
are reported at various points in east
ern Washington. With a few years Q
protection the fields and forests of tina
section viii be wejl-slockcd with thi
superior table fowl