The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-05-25
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CAL, are said to restore hair to bald
heads.
GEORGE EIFFEL is said to have made
$4,000, 900 as his share in the Eiffcl
tower.
AN American has made large fortune
by introducing the American pie into
England.
A READING pa clergyman has been
awarded 25 cents in his suit for $1,000
damages
NOTWITHSTANDING the disordered con-
dition of affairs, Paris is crowded with
Americans
DARK brown is the prevailing color
of the hair of the people of English
nationality.
The absence of tourists in Germany
is great source of complaint from the
hotelkeepers.
John McWinter, of Boltonville, Conn,
lived to be 105 years old, and then died
of heart disease.
RIDER HAGGARD thinks Egypt the
most interesting and the least explored
country in the world.
THE Kansas City statutes present the
citizen the alternative of voting or pay
ing poll tax of $3.50.
A COLT was born on farm at Irving,
N. j., with only one eye, and that in
the center of the forehead.
THERE are $50 women students in the
University of Michigan distributed
through all the departments.
IT is estimated that the German
Empire will lose 10000 of its popula-
ton by emigration during the current
year.
A FAMILY named Bates in Lawrence
county, ILL.,, claims to have the original
manuscript of Bunyan's Pilgrim Pro-
gress.
THE duke of Westminster offers re-
ward of $4,000 for the discovery of the
culprit who poisoned the race horse
Orme.
SINCE the Franco-Prussian war Ger
many has spent two thousand two hun
bred million dollars on her army and
navy.
THE private railway train designed
by the emperor of Germany, for his own
use, is at last completed. 1t cost
S750,OO0.
IT Is said the street preachers in Lon
don are merely blind" to have crowds
collect to give pickpockets oppor-
tunities.
SIIA p, tpnthHr has
ordered her son to marry one of three
young ladies of the town whom she has
selected.
The California state board of health
is trying to start movement for the
esta blishment of a lazarette for the
care of lepers.
The house of representatives passed a
bill appropriating s150,000 to pay our
share of the expenses of the Behring sea
arbitration board.
In "a court in Mississippi an important
case was interrupted because one of the
jurors caught the mumps and gave it
to the other eleven.
THE earth, at the equator, moves at
the rate of mile in 3.6 seconds, four
tenths of second slower than the
velocity of cannon ball.
THE office of college president seems
to go a-begging nowadays Seventeen
colleges have just eked out a full year
with the head chair vacant.
The Legislative assembly of Syria, in
Austria, has passed a law forbidding
poor people to marry without special
license from the authorities.
BARON HIRsCH turn winning amount
cd to S35, 600 last season, and he intends
to benefit his own race by devoting the
entire sum to hospitals and like institu-
lions.
The Chinese have a kitchen god,
which is supposed to go to the Chinese
Heaven at the beginning of each year tC
report upon the private life of the falni'
lies under his care.
A PARIS policeman begins service
with seventy-seven cents a day and
after twelve years he gets eighty-tive
cents day. The police have asked for
81 day as the minimum.
SENATOR BLACKBURN is credited with
being the readiest of congressional.
speakers. He carries at his tongues
end a vocabulary which is remarkable
for its range and copiousness.
THE farmers of Iowa and Texas are
greatly encouraged over the condition
of the crop prospect this season, ant
from the present outlook a great croI
of oats. wheat and corn will be So
cured.
JOSEPH MURPHY is put down as the
richest of actors. He is said to be worth
$500 most of which represents the
savings from his annual income, for hi
is one of the most economical of stage
artists
\ LITTLE colorcd boy was struck 10y
the tail of an alligator while he was
wading in pond, in Jefferson county
Fla, the other day, and had one leg
broken in two places. The stroke
threw him on shore.
A TOPEKA man was born Elder ant
christened Berry, but the people in
sisted on calling him Elderberry, anc
lc finally yielded to public sentimen
and the name Elder Berry now appear:
over his place of business.
THE French papers have a story thai
the young crown prince of Germany
used as a target for his pistol practice
an image of French infantryman. anC
that he recently asked his father if h'
would not be permitted after his pro
motion TO a licutcnancy to ire at a Rus
.ian officer.
CEEUsor. France. has the most gigan
tic iron chimney that has yet been con
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