The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-02-10
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just died in Bavaria She weighed $50 |
pounds.
ONE of Bsmarck's amusements is
he was an expert.
THE English language is now more
generally spoken than any other by
the educated world
Mr. CHURToN COLLINS has recently
published book aiming to show that
Tennyson is plagiarist.
The United Kingdom has $50, 900 land
owners who possess between them the
whole of the landed possessions
The statue of Queen Isabella will
bring to the sculptor, Miss Harriet Hos.
mer, the sum of $4,000. Pretty good
figure.
QUEEN EMMA, of Holland has insur-
ed her life in trust for her daughter for
sum equivalent to over half million
sterling.
THERE is a map of Delaware, N. Y,
on file in Albany, which Jay Gould made
forty years or SO ago. when he was
surveyor.
MAX O'RELL the witty Frenchnan,
expresses the opinion that the people
of Boston are educated beyond their
intellects
IT is stated that in some of the Eng
lish agricultural districts, the popula-
ton has decreased 40 per cent. since
the last census.
ACCORDING to the census mortgage
statistics, Tennessee had per capita
mortgage debt in 1889 of 1928 against
$170 for Kansas
The late Cardinal Manning said of
the United States: ut is a great coun-
try, a wonderful country, the hope OF
the human race"
VIM DEAN HowELLs receives ST., 1000
gar Allen Poe saw in the whole time OF
his literary career.
Dom PEDRo's daughter, the countess
d'Etee, has fine soprano voice and
might have been prima donna if she
had had it cultivated.
A POOR man in St Louis, who some
years ago befriended beggar in dis.
tress, has just received $50, 900 re-
membrance from that individuals es.
tate
THERE is a young woman in Mime.
apolis who has contrived to amaze her
friends by boasting that New York
sculptor was making bust of her
foot
SENATOR STANFORD will press his bill
for government loan of 500, 600, 900 on
farming lands to the amount of one
half their assessed value at per cent
interest.
The carmorant is still occasionally
used for fishing in preserved waters in
England. The bird generally wears a
light collar to prevent it from swallow
ing the fish.
CURIOUS sign has been adopted at
Bombay, by native baker, proud of
his knowledge of English, European
loafer," being printed in large letters
over his door.
JUDGE PATTERSON, of Lancaster, Pa,
has sentenced two men who pleaded
guilty to stealing keg of beer to terms
of three years and eight months each in
the eastern penitentiary.
Ex-TREAsURER ARCHER, of Maryland
now in the state penitentiary, is en-
ployed as steward of the hospital and
in the care of the sick. He is visited
once month by his daughter.
THE congress of Nicaragua has order
ed that ten young men, to be selected
from the different provinces of the re-
public, be sent to Europe to be educat-
ed at the expense of the State.
IT is sign of fair weather if the
cluster of small air bubbles formed by
the sugar collect and remain in the Gen.
ter of the cup. If they rush to the sides
it will! surely rain before night
IT is said that Swiss savant has
made discovery by which he reduces
milk to dry powder in such manner
that by the addition of water it at once
assumes all its natural properties.
THE Delsarte remedy for insomnia is
to rise from your sleepless couch, shake
your hands, wiring them, twist them,
and then, rubbing yourself with rough
mittens, you return to bed-to sleep
LARGE heads do not always indicate
intellect Prof. Virchow, the German
scientist, points out that the Greeks,
one of the most intellectual of nations
are also one of the smallest headed
race
ALMONDS are such near cousins tc
peaches that one can be grated upon
the other and the analogy is made
palmer in this instance because the
almond on the tree is also covered by q
pulp.
Practical ELECTRICITY announces
that new electric carriage will soor
be exhibited on the streets of Boston
that will go up hill and down hill
at rate of from ten to fifteen miles ar
hour.
MRS ELLSWORTH MILLER of Colo
Springs, n. Y, is the mother of tive
sets of triplets, three pairs of twins
and two other children, making in all
fourteen children born to her within
eight years
The county of Sussex, in England
yearly sends up to London 100, 900 tons
of chickens. Five hund ID and sixty
thousand chickens are reckoned tC
make 1000 tons.
THERE are some curious things II
Yellowstone Park, among which is Z
hole which has no bottom that has ye'
been reached A line has been dropped
down nearly 5000 feet and yet it die
not touch bottom
Tbs LATEST man in Michigan lives in