The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-10
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over 800 inventions.
The Niagara Falls tunnel has reached
length of 3,267 feet
CHICAGO has forty married women
public school teachers.
IDAHO is the only state whose name
has never been satisfactorily accounted
for.
PRINCE BISMARCK enjoys now COM
potency closely estimated at s25O,OO0 a
year.
A NEW YORK man committed suicide
''because his wife refused to support
him"
SIX million dollars are invested in the
manufacture of dynamite in the United
States.
THERE are said to be 1000 members
of volunteer military companies in this
country.
NICKEL steel does not corrode in salt
water, which fact is of great value to
ship plates.
The salvation army is making a spe-
cialty of fashionable watering places
this season.
BISHOP MEssMER, of Green Bay, is one
of the few Catholic clergymen who
wear beard.
THE st. Louis chief of police requires
the 1000 Chinese in that city to be
photographed.
SENATOR EUGENE HALE is one of
three purchasers of an immense lumber
tract in Maine.
SINCE the Franco-Prussian war Ger
many has spent $780, 900, 1000 on her
army and navy.
A VANDALIA (Mich.) farmer killed
twenty-three rattlesnakes in his hay
field in one day.
WILLIAM SPooNER, of Milan, Tenn,
who had lived for years in hollow
tree, died lately.
AT present Mr.. Cleveland weighs
$50 pounds and his girth is more ample
than ever before.
Mr.. GLADSTONE first spoke in the
house of commons on May II, 1888,
fifty-nine years ago.
The combined weight of three
peaches seen in New York market
lately was seven pounds.
CHICAGO authorities have ordered the
removal of all nickel-in-the-slot ma
chimes from public places.
MARSHAL IMAGINATION will produce
his long expected memoirs in the course
of the next sixteen months.
CANADA has about Is, 600 Chinese in
habitants, and the number is increas,
ing at the rate of 1,5O0 year.
Mr.. NICHOLS, the husband of Char
lotte Bronte, is still living, it is report
ed, in a remote part of Ireland.
In Morgan county, Mo-, is an onyx
deposit which forms the floor of cave
for distance of 100 yards or more.
HIRAM LUKENs has been setting type
in the Office of the Doylestown pa.
Intelligencer ever since June 81, 1882.
A MYSTERIOUS ringing of electric bells
in house in Switzerland was traced t
a spider, whose web had connected two
wires.
THERE are IT'S different pieces in tn,
average watch, requiring in its manu-
facture 400 separate and distinct oper
atoms.
A REPORT is in circulation that tn,
Rev. George Jacob Schweinfurth think
strongly of moving his Heaven" t,
Texas
AMONG the new cadets at West Poin
are son of Gen. John Pope and grand
sons of Gen. Sherman and Gen. c. +
Smith.
DANIEL LAMoNT's physical condition
is very alarming, and the possibility o
his return to health is questioned by hi
physician.
THE late Jules Lebundy, the grea
Paris sugar refner, left fortune equa
to s70,0OO,OOo probably the largest for
tune in France.
THE most expensive legislature in tn
world is that of France, which costs an
nually s3,6O0,00 The Italian parlia
ment costs s43O,OOO year
THE region about the Dead sea is on
of the hottest places on the globe, an,
the sea is said to lose million tons o
water day by evaporation.
Mrs. EDISON, the wife of the man VIII
has applied the electric light to dc
mestic purposes, prefers candles t
any other form of household illumina
ton.
AN enterprising Philadelphia pull
Usher contemplates bringing out a
edition of Shakespeare in words @
one syllable for use in the prinar
schools.
Gov. PECK, of Wisconsin, was once
humble printer, living on back street
He now lives handsomely in the hous
in which Ole Bull, the famous violinist
once lived.
SOME New York hotels have now
regular woman guide and chaperon
connected with the establishment TO
the convenience of ladies visiting tn
city alone.
SOME of the electric street railroa
companies of Brooklyn are equippin
theircars with storage batteries having
found the plan of stored electricity pei
fectly feasible.
IT is now given out that the cruise
Cincinnati will he launched in October
1t is said her engines and machiner
will be the most powerful put in tn
cruisers of her class.
GERMANY is building a new double
track strategical railway between Carls
rrhe into Lorraine to be complete
early in 1895, The bridge on which
crosses the Rhine will cost four millio
marks.