The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-31
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A GOLD ROCK" was found in bag of
coffee at Blakely, Ga,
CIDER brandy made in 1920 is owned
by West Hartford, CT, man.
THE town of Cumberland, r. l., boasts
of a meeting house built in 1740.
A WOMAN of Lyons, Neb., has nose
four and three-quarter inches long.
GREAT BRITAIN has 80 inhabitants to
the square mile, the United States is.
A COIN COLLECTOR at South Bend,
Ind, has German coin minted in 1927.
EXPRESS trains in Russia rarely travel
faster than twenty-five miles an hour.
In South American countries baked
bananas are an excellent substitute for
meat.
To CLEAN brass fixtures rub them
with slices of lemon, then wash in hot
water.
GILT EDGE BRICKS is the name of a
social club recently organized at Otta-
wa, Kas.
A NEW variety of ham in the eastern
market is noted as ''cut from only milk
fed pigs"
A FIvE-CENT nickel of 1877 is worth 81
and nickel fve-cent piece of 1878
about 10 cents.
CAPT. SCHUMACHER, of Fullerton, ILL.,,
claims to have cornstalk which is Is
feet inches high.
A New JERSEY man gives as cure
e., h., ha c,,,a1rSppr nf nina
dies with tobacco.
ONE-HALF the Missouri delegation in
congress were absent from their seats
during the session.
OF 100000 women working at 100 diff,
ferent trades in New York city $4,000
support their husbands.
A MEDAL won by De Soto, the discov.
erer of the Mississippi river, will be ex-
hibited at the Worlds fair.
THE standard yard of America is said
to be one-t housandth of an inch longer
than the English standard
THERE are $1,000 women telegraph
operators in the United States, and the
number is constantly growing.
OASIOh Oll llGS lOb III dly SufoN
to remove warts to which it was ap'
piled once day for two to six weeks.
PHILIP SHERMAN, dry goods dealer
of Grand Rapids, Mich, who opposed
early closing, has been boycotted out OF
business
A "MoDEL of the figure of Lots wife
in salt" will appear in the Kansas ex
hibit to illustrate the salt industry o,
the state.
The corn crop in Kansas this yea
will be the largest in the history of tht
state, and is expected to reach 100000,
900 bushels.
A HOTEL with 1900 rooms is to b.
erected in Chicago to accommodate,
members of labor unions during thu
Worlds fair.
ALLEN MILTON BROWNING, of Hunt
ington, w. Va, is sixty years old, ha
been married six times and has sixty
seven children.
DREHER, the Vienna brewer, is re
puted to be worth over $40, 000,00 t,
which the profits of his breweries ad,
100000 year.
A MEDICAL man in Vienna asserts tina
diphtheria is thrice as prevalent anon,
smokers as those who deny themselve
the luxury of the weed.
The guests at Springfield hotel re
Gently presented one of the waitresse
with pair of roller skates in the hope
of being waited on more rapidly.
AN economical old woman at Atchiso
has brought up family of sprin
chickens on the bugs collected from tn
machinery at the electric light static
every morning.
JOHN G. WHITTIER writes in bolG
dashing, but irregular and uneve
style, as different as you can imagin
from the plain, precise, unassumin
Quaker that he is.
SOME of the largest corporations an
business houses in Chicago who emplo
young men in positions of trust, hav
issued orders making betting on race
cause for dismissal.
REV. DR.. OsGooD, of Cohasset, Mass
has been pastor of church in that cit
for fifty years. He was called to tn
church upon his graduation from tn
Harvard divinity school.
WITHIN six months Savannah, Ga
will have system of water works SUI
piled by twelve artesian wells, eac
with capacity of 100000 gallons
day, and of perfect purity.
WHILE man was digging hole i
the cellar of his house at New Haver
CT, recently, he discovered ba
containing several large pieces of 81
verware, worth about 1880.
The performance of "Uncle Tom
Cabin" at Conway Springs, Kan, tn
other night was slightly modified b
one of the bloodhounds, which stoppe
to nip flea as he was in pursuit {
ELIZA"
In recent appropriation of nearl
$1,000, 600 for an Indian tribe, attorney
claim agents, etc, got 100000. In a
appropriation of $3.50, 600 to paw anotl
err tribe, attorneys, claim agents, etc
get S67, 900.
TEN-YEAR-oLD Edith Brill, Of Woo
wich, Eng, has received the Royal HI
name society's medal for saving one {
two little boys who fell into King Wi
liam's dock.
NJ PAsTEUR disclaims possession
any of the various microbes that ha,
been reported as undermining his sy
TEN. He was at a recent meeting of Il
Academic des sciences, apparently
the best of health.
SAMUEL MILLER, an aged and r
spected legislator of Michigan, says