The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-27
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CHIcAGos new directory gives the city
q population of APO, 600.
EVERY fifth boy in India is at school,
but only every fiftieth girl
AS LATE as l772 women rode astIide.
Side saddles are modern inventions.
MISS RAY BEvERIDGE, of San Fran
cisco, is an accomplished blacksmith.
ONE pound of cork is sufficient to sup
port man of ordinary size in water
SITTING BULLS daughter, Miss Stand
ing Holy, has joined a wild west show.
The humber of men employed in the
railway industry in this country is
ia, $50.
The leaf of the banana is usually six
feet long by two feet wide. The flow
ers are pink.
THE Adirondack wilderness embraces
an extent of 5000 square miles, or
100000 acres.
EHE mouth of the Mississippi river,
curiously enough, is three miles higher
than its source.
In the old testament only one wom-
ans age is recorded, that of Sarah,
Abraham's wife.
THE first king to whom the title of
majesty" was applied was to Louis XI.
in France, in 1863.
The hardest wood known is cocus
wood; it turns the edge of any AK, how
ever well tempered.
NEIL BYRANT, one of the once famous
troupe of minstrels, is a government
clerk at Washington.
TWELVE members of the senate have
been governors of states, and five have
been cabinet officers.
The German emperor is said to have
posed before camera 40 times since he
assembled the throne.
GEO. M. PULLMAN gives his daughter
Harriet one hundred dollars for naming
each new Pullman car.
LAKE MICHIGAN boasts of gospel
ship that makes a tour each year to the
lake villages and cities.
The longest journey taken by any
European train is from Paris to Con-
stantinople, 1857 miles.
AT the beginning of the present year
166,s17 miles of railway were in opera
ton in the United States.
Miss ADELINE M. IRLsoN retires from
the Cambridge, Mass, corps of teachers
after fifty years of service.
A NIECE of the late James Russell
Lowell, Miss Ruth Burnett, is soon to
become Sister of Charity.
Four pounds of gold were recently
collected from the SCOT of the chimney
of the royal mint in Berlin.
COLUMBIA river contains trout covered
with large red spots. They have been
named Dolly Warden" trout.
The constitution of Louisiana per-
mits women to hold any office in con
nection with public education.
JOHN c. FREMONT, son of the famous
"Pathfidner," is acting as a reporter al
the scene of the Homestead riots.
The Presbyterians are about to es
tablish a college in st. Lake City, ant
have purchased site of 100 acres.
A SOUTH JERSEY paper makes the re
markable statement that "thin people
are very thick in this neighborhood."
The Chinese, Japanese, Malays
Siamese, New Zealanders and the Nortl
American Indians are all but beardless
BISHOP JOHN +. HURST, of the Meth
odist church, is to be married in Sep
TENDER to Miss Ella Agnes Root, of Buff
falo.
SECRETARY OF STATE FOSTER is tn,
only man in the nations diplomatic his
tory who has held three first-class mis-
sions
THE Arkansas City Traveller thinks
that the Fourth of July is all right, bu
that the 5th of July ought to be abol
ished.
No bird can fly backwards withou
turning; the dragon-fiy, however, car
do this and can outstrip the swallow il
speed.
THE price of reserved seats at the Sui
livan-Corbett fight in New Orleans ha.
been fixed at $40 each, and chairs a
SNo SdCll
Few lovers of Walter Scott recall tn,
fact that he wrote five plays, none o
which, however, has ever been put OF
the stage.
GREAT BRITAIN has two lady lawyers
Miss Frances II. Gray and Letitia Walk
ington. Both are Irish women and ma
tives of Belfast.
DANCING is taught in many of tn,
public schools in Scotland, and made
feature of the closing exercises at tn,
end of the term.
THE longest canal in the world is tn,
one which extends from the frontier O
China to st. Petersburg. 1t meas
ures in all 4,472 miles.
THE largest county in the Unite,
States is San Bernardino county, Cali
fornia. 1t is over 400 miles long an,
half that distance in width.
THE longest straight stretch of rail
road without a curve, is on the Argen
tine Pacific. From Buenos Ayres to tn
foot of the Andes, 211 miles.
BEATRICE VEHoN, Chicago girl O
French parentage, has achieved a nota
BILE triumph as singer at the Roya
court theater at Stockholm.
A BUFFALO IN. " man proposes t
furnish the Worlds fair with an attraC
ton in the shape of a collection o
snakes. He claims to be able to SHOW
as many as 1900 different varieties.
THE largest grain elevator in tn
world was built at Minneapolis juno
ton in 1886. The main building is IS
feet long. 90 feet wide and 175 feet high
Its storing capacity is 1900, 900 bushel
"a rr..,sr.