The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-10-26
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THE influenza bacillus IS the smallest
yet discovered
AN inch of rain means 100 tons of wa
ter on every acre.
ONE church in Chicago is furnished
with regular opera chairs.
A FULL grown elephant is capable OF
carrying load of two tons.
The new gymnasium at Yale is said
10 be the finest in the world.
THERE are more than 300 silk factor.
les in operation in this country
PALESTINE is about one-fourth as
large as the state of New York.
OLD gold is to be the color of the Chi
cago university million dollar building
In is calculated that a signal passes
through the Atlantic cable in 31.l00 of
a second.
THE smallest church in New York is
the Peoples in Harlem, room over a
drug store.
THE emperor of Germany has over
1000 different suits of clothes and 500
pairs of trousers.
THE brass ball on the courthouse
spire at Independence, No., is the habi-
tation of a swarm of bees.
The credit for the first Worlds fair is
generally awarded to Albert, the prince
consort of Queen Victoria.
A VERNON county (Mo.) man has a
sack of black sand mixed with gold
washed in California in 1919.
A PATENT office man says that forty
three automatic couplers were filed in
that office on one day last week.
The marmot is civil engineer: he
not only builds houses, but constructs
aqueducts and drains to keep them dry.
THE courts have decided that Thomas
A. Edison has the only patent on an
incandescent electric light in this coun-
try
SINGLE women live longer than single
men, while married women on an aver
age live two years longer than single
ones
THE shucks on the corn this year are
unusually thick and heavy, which the
farmers say indicates hard and cold
winter.
Ten thousand dollars has been offered
for the first coin of the Worlds fair
half dollar series. The fair officials ex-
pect still higher bids.
Six peppermint distilleries are run
ming day and night at Decatur, Mich,
and it is estimated the yield will be, at
low estimate, 5000 pounds
The new Cunard steamship Campo
MIA, recently launched, is $50 feet long.
This is sixty feet less than the length
of the famous Great Eastern.
a NEW variety of wheat, the grains
of which are almost twice as large as
the ordinary kernels, has been grown
this season near Moscow, Wash.
The total presidential vote in 1885,
was 10,04S, 461, and in 1883 was H., $685..
03S 1t is estimated that this year tn,
vote will go rs high as 14,00O,O O0
IT requires about double the power tc
propel steamship twenty-one miles an
hour as it does to move along the same
vessel at the rate of sixteen miles ar
hour.
A FAMILY in Walla Walla county
Washington, consists of ten members
the average weight being pa pounds
and the average height six feet si0
inches.
The contract for the new revenue
cutter William Window has beer
awarded by Secretary Foster to tn.
Iowa Iron works. of Dubuque for
s9S,0
TwENTY-NINE acres of glass are to be
used in the roofs of the exhibition
buildings at Chicago. The thickness OF
the glass is to be uniform, viz: BIG Of
an inch.
A PORTLAND (Ore.) Chinaman soaked
his queue in coal oil. A match did tn,
rest His countrymen in the neighbour
hood attended the funeral in larg,
numbers
Hoy. WILLIAM DICKEY was sent tc
the Maine legislature in 1912, and they
are sending him there yet lie was re
elected at the recent election. He is s.
years old.
MARSHALL FIELD has subscribed fol
$500, 900 of Worlds fair bonds The
Chicago banks have taken $500, OOt
worth, and the entire 81 900, 900 ha.
been taken.
CHlLDREN's clothes can be made unin
flammable by adding to the last rinse
of water two ounces of pulverized alum
A prominent English chemist says thai
all childrens dresses should be thu.
treated
LORD TENNYsoN gave to Sister Emml
Durham, who nurSed him through ar
illness preceding the one that proved
fatal, a check for 81. 900, and she CAV,
the money to the National Pension Func
for nurses
j. ii. CROUCH, of Dawson, Ga. proba
bly, has the largest hog in the state L
is three years old and tips the beam a
200 pounds. Competent judges say i
will weigh LOCO pounds when fatteneC
this winter.
II. A. Brown, of Reading, Mich, ha.
dug twenty-five pounds of bullets on
of trees on his farm. 1t is though
they were relics of a conflict with In
dams, though there is no record of any
battle at that place.
A NEwsBoY at St Louis jumped from
a third-story window to escape beat
ing. When picked up his ankle wa.
found to be broken and his head seri
ously injured.
ALADY having written letter. con
clGded it as follows: Give everybody,
love to everybody, 50 that nobody may
he argrieved by ANYBODY being forrot