The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-01
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lords and IS, 900, 600 tenants lf4sss
A MACHINE has been invented which
will turn out $4,000 corkscrews day.
In all there are 1856 representatives in
congress to be elected. next November.
A CRUSADE is on in New York city
against the littering of the streets with
paper s
PORTRAITS of six American women
hang in the present exhibition Of the
Paris solon. 3s1
( MRS. HARRISON has passion for
orchids, and the executive mansion is
decorated with them.
THE great cathedral in the city OF
Mexico is the largest in America, and
cost nearly s2,0O0,0OO.
THE Turkish government has forbid
den the importation of all patent medi-
cines into that country.
GLYNN county, Ga, has a woman
hermit who has only spoken to three
persons in sixteen years,
THE Buffalo directory credits that
city with q resident named Peterje
Observation-Disclosures.
THE writings of Mr.. Gladstone fill
twenty-five pages of the printed cata.
logue of the British museum.
The poet Burns spelled his name
Burmese (his family name) until the
publication of his poems in 1856.
PARIsIANs are SO fond Of snails as an
article of diet that they consume 100, OOo
pounds of them day, it is said.
THERE are more priests. monks and
nuns in Jerusalem in proportion to the
population, than in any other city in the
world.
GUsTAvE DoRE, who never saw the
Niagara Falls, put upon canvas one of
the grandest paintings of them ever ex-
ecuted.
A NEW religious sect has been estab-
lished in Virginia by Negro named
Nathaniel Brown, which he calls the
s'No Meat Eaters"
THERE will be more than eleven
hundred delegates to the national pro-
hibition convention that assemblies in
CINCINNATI June ~.
In her will Miss Amelia B. Edwards
endowed chair of Egyptology. Her
valuable library she bequeaths to Som
erville hall, Oxford.
THE Roumanian crown is made of
metal from the cannon that were cap
tured from the Turks by the Rouman.
ians at Pleyna in 1877.
THE fiume which conveys the water
from the mountains to the reservoir at
San Diego is thirty-five miles in length,
and composed almost wholly of red
wood.
GouNoD, the composer, is an eccentric
individual, and will only work at his
own time and to order. 1t is said that
he has twelve unfinished operas lying in
his MS drawer.
IT is seriously stated that Hassan Ben
Ali, Morocco's commissioner to the
Worlds fair, is filling in his meantime
and turning an honest penny by travel
ing with circus.
On the eastern shore of Maryland
biliousness is treated by boring three
holes in carefully selected tree and
walking three times around it, saying,
go way, bilious"
WHILE the west is suffering from the
floods, the state of Maine is suffering
from drought. Lake Sebago is eight
feet and nine inches below its normal
level at this season.
AN educated Indian who recently
spent half an hour in reading the
epitaphs in cemetery, remarked:
''Huh! guess the only good white man
is dead white man."
ARCHBISHOP KENRIcK, of St. Louis,
whose failing health and advanced age
lead to grave apprehensions, was one OF
the prelates who vigorously opposed
the dogma of infallibility.
In Japan the man of quality
never forces his steed out of walk; II
the errand is one which demands speed,
the rider dismounts. ties the fore
legs of his animal together and strikes
off at a brisk gallop on foot. n
AN Indianapolis man has invented a
process for laying violins. He claims
that in two weeks time he can impart
to any ordinary violin all the fullness
and richness of tone possessed by a
Stradivarius.
THE deepest mine in the world is the
rock salt mine at Spezenberg near Ber'
lin, 4,175 feet. The deepest perpendic-
ular shaft is in the Kuttenberg mine, in
Bohemia, 3,77S feet deep. The deepest
British mine is the Ashton oolliery, 8, 15C
feet.
THE London World declares that there
is no truth in the story that the engage
ment of Prince George of Wales to the
Princess May of Teck will soon be an
nounced. 1t says that he is likely to
be betrothed to the Princess Alex Of
Hesse.
The prince of Wales is suffering from
an affection of the throat and gossip
connects the late Sir Morell Macken-
zies name with the opinion that it may
develop into malady such as carried
off the late emperor Frederic of Ger
many. tN
PRESIDENT CLARK, of the Union Pa
cific railroad, began life as brakeman
on gravel train. He is particularly
popular with all the labor organiza.
tions, and no trouble has ever arisen
from these sources since he became
manager. H
PRESIDENT HARRISON, Grover Cleve-
land and Franklin Pierce are said to
have descended from colonists of Wo-
burn. Mass, a town which is soon to
celebrate its 25Oth anniversary.
PHILADELPHIA boasts of the prize