The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-11-09
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L. S. FLAGG is one of the peculiar
names on Uncle Sans pension roll.
FIVE young women acted as ushers at
a recent Plainfield IN. j. wedding.
A COLONY of about 1000 Japanese is
TO be established in Sinaloa, Mexico.
THERE are six peppermint distilleries
in active operation at Decatur, Mich.
In st. Louis it has been decided not
to sprinkle streets paved with asphalt
UNI.
THERE is veil dotted with moles to
match those on the wearers face and
neck.
A MOUNTAIN of carbonate of zinc is
the latest discovery near Hillsboro,
n NJ.
CHARLESTON will hold an earthquake
carnival from October 30 to Novem-
Der j.
MARRIED couples in Norway are privi-
legged to ride on railroads at fare and
half
CHINA kas vast undeveloped coal
mines-twenty times more than all of
Europe.
CRIPPLEs are rarely seen in China.
Any child born deformed is at once put
to death.
THE state of Washington lays claim
to 800 Indian voters, while Oregon
boasts of so.
IT is ALLEGHENY" in Pennsylvania,
"Alleghany" in Virginia and "Allegany"
in New York.
THE oldest church in America is that
of San Migul, in Santa Fe, N. M. 1t
WIS built in 1915.
WIN. GLASS, of Norwalk, Ct, was
nearly killed short time ago by being
stung by hornets
THERE is one Chinese, one Portuguese
and one Cherokee newspaper printed in
the United States
ALL Greek girls are dressed in white,
colored goods being regarded as im-
modest for maiden.
AN incorrodible metal, which is like
wise very hard, is made by amalgamat-
ing nickel with steel
THE Sioux Indians have opened their
ghost dance and intimate yearning
for some white blood.
THE annual tobacco report for Vir-
ginia shows falling off from the trans
actions of the previous year.
IRON ore from new mines on the south
side of Cuba is being landed at Phila-
delphia. This is a new trade.
The queen of Siam has the smallest
feet yet seen on titled woman. She
wears one and a half in boots
DEER are so plentiful around Michi-
CANINE, Mich, that they have to be
stoned out of the turnip fields.
AN Australian fnancier who has Just
failed for $500 offers his creditors
one-ffth of cent on the dollar.
The next telephone feat will prob.
and London by submarine "hello'
wire
The professors of the Ann Arbor
(Mich.) university have had their
salaries all raised from $500 to $500 by
the regents.
SOMEBODY claims that an electric
plant has been discovered in India, which
will influence a magnetic needle twenty
feet distant.
The cry of a young seal when wound
ed or about to be attacked resembles
that of child in distress, and tears
flow from its eyes.
A CHUTE, measuring three-quarters Of
mile in length in the logging camp
at Clifton, Ore, is described as one O,
the longest in the world.
A WOMAN teacher at Topeka, Kan.
has taught school there for twenty-five
years, it is said, without ever having
missed days attendance.
A Kingman county (Kan) farmer liv
ing in Hoosier township produced 6
pumpkin this season which weighed
ninety-one and one-half pounds.
A JUDGE at the Holton (Kas.) fail
awarded the first premium on Hubbard
squashes to cow pumpkin and was
promptly fired by the committee
THERE is Hebrew Bible in the Ii
brary of the vatican for which s1O3, zoo
has been refused. 1t is probably the
most valuable book in the world.
A FooTPAD was lately arrested in 6
Hungarian town, and with him a beal
that he had tanned and taught to crap
pie with pedestrians whom he desired
to rob.
THE wife of the treasurer of well
known corporation in Philadelphia has
hair which is sixty-three inches in
length, an inch or two longer than she
is tall.
JERUSALEM has been enjoying a boon
since the completion of the railroad thai
connects it with Jaffa. Over 800 houses
hotels, stores and residences have beer
erected.
A WASHINGTON expert declares that
the Lotto portrait of Columbus selected
for the souvenir half dollar is IAN al
most grotesque effigy" of the great
Genoese sailor.
TALK has always been quoted a.
cheap, but try it over the telephone
from New York to Chicago for five min
utes and nothing less than nine dollar.
settles the bill.
To OBTAIN the pressure of water t.
the square inch in any pipe multiply
the area of the tase by the height O
the fluid in feet and the product by the
weight of a cubic foot of the fluid.
JAPAN Worlds fair commissioners
just arrived, say that their exhibit
will weigh over 1000 tons and be worth
over $1,000, 900. They will show sam
Piles of art never before seen in thi.
country