The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-05-04
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PADEREWsKI, the pianist, practices
from six to eight hours daily.
WOMEN used to wear nightgowns.
Now it is dream robes that they wear.
THERE are twenty representatives, in
congress who are under thirty-siX years
of age.
A PLOT has been discovered 20 depose
the sultan of Zanzibar in favor of the
prince of Muscat.
PRINCE GEORGE, son of the prince of
Wales, will, it is announced, visit the
Worlds fair in 1898.
THERE were at the beginning of last
year s,097 artesian wells in the western
states and territories.
SECRETARY ELKINs is said to have
more daily callers than any Of the war
ministers since Stanton.
PATTI has watch no greater than a
ten-cent piece in circumference, which
is said to be worth $1,000.
THE De Reszkes, Jean and Edouard
took away $685. 900 of American money
when they sailed for France.
A BLACK man has been sent to jail for
two weeks in Lexington, Mo-, for ours
ing and swearing on the streets.
A STEAM pillow at work in Cheyenne
county, Kan, tears up the earth at the
rate of two and one-half acres an hour.
A PARTY of lads entered the Harrison
vile IN. j. cemetery few nights ago
and turned over twenty-one tomb
stones.
Col. ROBERT G. INGERsoLL stepped on
the Astor house scales the other day
and tipped the beam at exactly 231
pounds.
THE weather in Florida during the
past winter has been remarkably bad
and very discouraging to natives and
visitors.
SEvENTY-FIvE per cent. of the older
trees on Boston common are afflicted
with slow consumption, caused by the
too compact soil.
IT is reported that the opera and
Patti seasons have resulted in net
profit to Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau of not
far from 100000.
SENATOR and Mrs. Leland Stanford
have homes in San Francisco, Sacra-
mento, Menlo Park, and at two of the
Stanford ranches.
THERE will be building at the
Worlds fair where woman can leave
her baby and get check for it while
she sees the show.
ALBERT WAKEFIELD, Bangor's veteran
lawyer, wears pair of calf-skin boots
hat l,sN h,. 10 -, l,
in good condition now.
EX-Gov. NEWTON BooTH. of Califor-
MIA, is slowly dying at his home in Sac
ramento of the same disease which end
ed the life of Gen. Grant.
A YOUNG man hypnotized at an enter
tainment in Paris remained senseless
for two days, and was with difficulty
brought back to consciousness.
New YORK has 1000 saloons, or one
for every 200 people. Placed in a
row and each given twenty-five feet,
they would reach distance of thirteen
miles,
SUSPENSION bridges which were built
in the time of the Han dynasty (2O2 b.
c. to 800 A. d. are still standing: strik-
ing examples of early oriental engi-
neering skill.
A GERMAN importer of immigrants
has offered to settle 100000 Germans in
the northwestern territory of Canada.
but wants price per capita for all
whom he lands.
BECAUSE the jurors disagreed in a
murder case in Philadelphia recently,
the judge told them that they were a
disgrace to society, and were defeating
the ends of justice.
To FIND the relative distance of the
sun and stars, suppose the earth and
sun but one inch apart. At the same
relative distance the nearest fixed star
would be just eleven miles away
THERE is dentist in Rome named
Fra Orsenico who has been known to
extract 400 teeth day without the use
of forceps. He makes use of his thumb
and foretinger in drawing molars.
THE discovery is made that the Alaska
soil and climate are peculiarly adapted
to hop-raising. An Oregon syndicate
has purchased a large tract near Fort
Wrangle and will plant it with hops.
A BLUE and white ginger-iar. of the
period of Kang-cc brought s.. $50 at the
American Art gallery sale. 1t had IL
silver corncrof more recent time but
there was no ginger in it of any period.
SALT does not enter into the food of
the poor Vcnctians. They never taste it.
and the hospital for the scrofulouS chill
drcn at Lido is filled by those who have
not had this necessary article in their
food.
THE little fvc-year-old king of Spain
has a civil list of $t,l50.000 wear. His
eldest sister, now about nine years of
age. has Il fixed income of 500. 600.
Ex-Quccn Isabella receives $50, 900 per
annum.
TnE telescope we owe to some chill
dren of spcc;acle-makcr placing two
~ more pairs of spcctaclcs before each
other and looking through them at he
distant sky. Their idea was follow ed
up by older heads
BERLIN is to have u new $1,000. 900
cathedral, The city is very badly pro-
vidcG with churches, II is rccioned that
no mora than $4,000 out OF 10000 in
habitaIts could I've seated at one time in
al tie Protestant churches.
CONSIDERABLE swindlinc has been
prrpetratcd in connection with the
opening of Ike SiSsetcn Indian reserva-
ton. Persons calling themselves attor-
rcys have advertised all over the coun-
try ;lat for So they would obtain farils