The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-20
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been discovered at Philadelphia.
SEvEN-EIGHTHs of the bread used in
London is made of American wheat
JUDGE WELIHoUsE, of fremont, Kas.,
has an orchard containing l,07S acres.
INDIANA has two cabinet officers, and
the cabinet has two Secretary Fosters.
Col. ELLIOT F. SHEPARD is building a
million-dollar house near Scarborough,
N. Y.
A MAINE woman conducts a large
foundry and engine works at Dunkirk,
N. Y.
OVER 100000 postal cards are nee
essary to meet the daily demand in this
country.
THE Eiffel tower is said to be eight
inches higher in hot than in cold
weather.
A MISSOURI man ate. eleven dishes of
ice cream and did not die till week
afterward.
A MAN was arrested at Lawrence,
Kan, the other day for stealing ride
on street car.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in England to
secure the ultimate canonization of Car
dinal Manning.
ONCE every eight years the locks on
the United States mail bags are changed
TO insure safety.
ST. PAUL is the first city to make no
distinction in the wages of male and
female teachers.
THE greatest distance covered by a
steam vessel in one hours run is fixed
at twenty-siX miles.
AN ordinary day coach weighs about
$4,000 pounds; Pullman sleepers weigh
about $4,000 pounds.
WELLsvILLE, Mo-. has twice as many
dogs as inhabitants. 1t has LAO resi-
dents and $3.50 dogs.
THE old-fashioned notion of ring
in the brides cake is being revived at
fashionable weddings.
WHILE there are now about 1000, 900
Jews in the United States, there are
over 5,O0O,O 900 in Russia.
THE largest Masonic library building
and the only Masonic library in the
world are at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
IT is proposed attempting to stamp
out tuberculosis in cattle in Denmark
by vaccination with Koch's lymph.
A FARMER living near Rockport, Tex,
has been married twice, and is said to
be the father of thirty-eight children.
ONE of the Partisan newspapers is re-
ported to be experimenting with type
made of glass, with gratifying results.
CALF with only three legs is the
oddity that attracts scores of visitors
to the farm of John Rinker, Lehigh
county, Pa.
THE original portrait OF Pocahontas,
painted in 1912, now the property of a
Londoner will be exhibited at the
Worlds fair
KANSAS has four cities in which this
vote of the women is larger than that
of the men. One entire set of council
men is women.
POLITICAL riots and campaign fights
still continue in Ireland, and the candi
dates for parliament have to invok,
police protection.
A GERMAN man of science says tina
the lands in G ermany devoted to grains
used in beer production would supper
100000 people.
A MALE beauty is wanted as tn,
model for Worlds fair picture. Thu
picture is to adorn the dome of the hor
ticultural building
IT is stated that among every LOO
bachelors there are thirty-eight Grim
inals; among married men the ratio i
only eighteen per 1000.
IT is proposed to rear insects for or
namental purposes the same as foreign
flowers and plants are acclimatized il
lighthouses and gardens.
A BRASS BAND in New London, Conn.
announces that it has received two new
dirges and is prepared to play at fune
rails at the lowest figures.
THERE is sign on the entrance to
cemetery at North Wales, Montgomer,
county, Pa, which reads: "No admit
lance except on business"
GEN. BIDwELL, prohibition canddat
for president, is a native of Ohio, an
Stevenson, Presbyterian.
JOHN A. BRAsIEAR, of Allegheny City
Pa, the astronomer and manufacture
of telescopes, was once laborer in on
of the Pittsburgh iron mills.
A CALL has been issued for CONVEX
ton of confederate veterans to meet i
Columbia, S. c., on July 10 to organic
grand army of confederates.
KING OSCARS refusal to allow the es
tablishment of separate Norwegian cor
sulates has caused widespread feelin
and demonstrations of disapproval i
Norway.
A SOLID gold brick, weighing so
pounds, and worth s15O,OO0, will be eA
hibited in the Mines and Mining buill
ing at the Worlds fair by a Helen
Mont mine owner.
THE new Kansas state house, o
which over s., 900, 900 has been expended
and which is not yet completed is sal
TO be in danger of falling down, OWN
to poor material used.
LEO Mi was made pope at the az
of sixty-eight, and now, at the az
vanced age of eighty-two, will atten
his parochial duties. His life has bee
full of romantic and dramatic incidents
ONE of the most eloquent preacher
in Canada is DR.. George Douglass, who's
arms are paralyzed and who is total
blind. His arms hang helplessly by h
side, and his voice seems to come frol
dead body.
AN Ohio inventor has patented co