The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-02
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town in Maine.
HEz BOOZE is the name of Pawnee
Rock kan man.
CEYLoN will spend $40, 600 on an ex-
hibit at the Worlds fair.
FRANCES last torpedo boat made
twenty-three knots and a half in bad
sea.
CRIMSON and the old magenta red
will be the fashionable shades next
season.
THERE is a weed in Northern Or
egon which renders horses that eat it
insane. "
THERE are only 20, 900 people in Ice
land, but they print eight newspapers
on the island
1t is said that the best Welsh scholar
living is an English woman, Mrs Ann
Walter Thomas
GEN. ANNENKoFF is at work on the
plan for a canal between the Black sea
and the Caspian.
AN Augusta (Me.) dentist is credited
with having taken gas and extracted
one of his own teeth.
THE average duration to human life
is said to be increasing at the rate OF
ten years each century.
MAIL matter is sent between Paris
and Berlin, a distance of 700 miles,
through pneumatic tubes.
A BILL before the Illinois senate pro-
vides for only women jurors in coro-
ner's inquests on women.
L. W. WEBSTER, of Beckwith, New,
attempted to kick horse and while
doing so broke his own leg.
A YELLOW dog with two toy balloons
keeping his tail taut stampeded Phila-
delphia shoppers the other day.
ARTIFICIAL teeth are so much in use
nowadays that it took 40, 600, 900 of them
to supply the demand last year.
RossINIs centenary occurs on Febru,
airy 30 and the day will be extensively
observed in the large Italian cities.
THE Scotch parliament passed law
permitting women to propose to men
during the reign of Queen Margaret
THOMAS A. EDISON was born forty.
five years ago, in Alva, O., the town
from which he gets his middle name.
ALONG the coast of the United States
during the past fourteen years there
have been 16, 1913 casualties to vessels.
In cases where nature intends that
insects shall feed on flowers at night,
the flowers they select are all of white
color.
PORTUGAL, which has the population
of Pennsylvania, with smaller area,
has nearly as large a debt as the United
States.
JOSEPH FRANCIS, founder of the
United States Life Saving service is,
at the age of ninety, writing his auto
biography.
Mrs. MILLER, twenty years of age, is
a courageous deputy marshal in the
Indian territory. She shrinks from nc
fatigue or danger.
The energy of a stroke of lightning
is estimated by Carl Henry to be equal
to that of 100 horse power engine
working ten hours.
BLESSED are the merciful' is the
text that is engraved upon the cross OF
ST. George, which was presented by
Queen Victoria to Florence Nightin.
gale.
BosToN is. considering three plans foi
new city hall One would cost 81 0OO,'
600, another So, 400, 600, while the pres
. ent structure could be enlarged for 81,
400, 900.
NURsERYMEN now sell trees on the
fifteen-year plan-that is the nursery
man is to receive choice of any two
crops grown on the trees inside of fiji
teen years in payment of the trees.
Miss MATHILDA PHILLIPS, the only
sister of Adelaide Phillips, and herself
a noted opera singer, lives in the fam
ily's old homestead at Marshfield
Mass, the old home of Daniel Webster
A srERNLY just English magistrate
fined grocer at Wolverhampton, {
pound and cost for weighing the paper
in with some sugar and charging the
buyer for a full pound of sweetness.
WHITE tar is one of the latest inven
tions or discoveries. 1t will not becom,
soft under the suns rays in any eli
mate and is expected to be used large
ly in callSing the deck seams of fine
yachts.
IT is figured out that if the entire
population of the world, comprising
1,4O0 600, 600 people, were divided into
families of five, Texas could furnish
each family with half acre lot ant
have plenty of land to spare.
So MANY spurious works by old mas
tiers and celebrated modern artists have
been palmed off lately in Europe thai
the Belgian police are doing their ut
most to discovery the factory, which
has been located in that city.
THE watchmakers of Switzerland, a
recent convention in Berne, decided
to make an exhibit at Chicago of theil
finest and costliest watches, but not t.
attempt any competition with Ameri
can manuf acturers in cheaper grades.
AN English method of keeping the
dainty embroidered cover of the toile'
table fresh and clean, is to have piece
of plate-glass cut to fit the top of the
table exactly. This is laid over the
cover, and while all its beauty is JUS
as apparent, no dust can come near it
BENZ. Poor was born in Raymond
n. H., September "a, 1875, enlisted
June, 1912, and was in service as fifel
until mustered out November follow
ing. He is still living in Raymond, ant
drawing pension as veteran of the
war of ~, and is in remarkable vigor
Gus health.