The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-11-02
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nest temperate country in Europe
The London zooegical garden con-
tains now no less than 3.10O animals.
The policy-shops of New York lost
nearly $50, 900 on 4-l1-44 the other day.
AN Oregon farmer boasts of tobacco
stalks which measure six feet in height.
MoNGoLIAN pheasants are being kill
ed by the hundreds in Lane county,
Ore.
ABOUT twice as much power is requir-
ed to stop an express train as to start
one.
THE costliest dresses in the world are
said to be worn by the women of Sum
atra.
In Samar beehives hang in the form
of oblong globes from the branches OF
trees.
VIRGINIA has just awarded contract
for a handsome state library in Rich
mond.
THERE is room for just five more dead
in the poets corner" OF Westminster
abbey.
70 EVERY 1000 men in the British
army only eighteen are over six feet in
height
For the first time in years in North
Carolina there are no convicts at work
on railroads.
FRANCE is to have a new subsidiary
coinage, which is to be of some metal
besides copper.
REV. ANDREW JONES, colored, is in
Chicago prophesying the destruction OF
the city by flood.
SOMEWHAT more than 1000, 900 Cana
dams have crossed over into the United
States since 1881.
BETWEEN the years 1882 and 1885 over
two thousand persons fell victims to
brigands in Italy.
LORD TENNYsoN married at the age
of forty-one. His wife was niece OF
Sir John Franklin.
BY the law of Missouri O third con-
viction for larceny carries with it i'm.
prisonment for life.
SOME New York people have taken to
putting Grape on the walking stick as
well as on their arms.
In order to collect a pound of clover
honey, bees must deprive 1900 clover
blossoms of their nectar
A PARTY near Tina, Mo-, advertises
pasture for turkeys, as he has large
lot of grasshoppers on hand.
j. L. DOUGLAS of Humboldt county
CAL, is the possessor of beard reputet
to be forty-seven inches long.
AMONG the wealthy classes of japan
it is considered undignified to ride
horse going faster than walk
A MARRIAGE by proxy, in which tn
bride was in England and the groom Il
Mexico, was recent sensation.
In Hebron, Conn, is an apple tire
that was planted 1875 years ago, an
still bears good fruit each year.
THE Chinese are to have an $780,
tea house at the Worlds fair, wit
pretty Chinese maidens to serve the tea
ONE of the new cruisers will have
smokestack 10 feet high. An Englis
mail steamer has tunnels 100 feet high
A CHICAGO newsboy has been fine
for crying sensational news" that di
not appear in the paper he was selling
SOME of the English journals are ad
vising that the custom of appointing
so-called Poet Laureate be discontinued
PoMERoY, Wash, boasts of curiosit
in the shape of carrot. 1t resemble
human hand having five fingers wit
nails"
In China wealthy people buy thei
coffins long before they need them, an
exhibit them as ornamental pieces {
furniture.
A DOCTOR in St Augustine, Fla
owns the oldest house in America an
lives in it, too. 1t was built in 1860 b
Frenchman.
THE Japanese government is said
have provided for visit of 2, 900 of il
middle class citizens to the fair in Oh
:ago next year.
AMOS GINKs, who is 1O7 years oil,
lives at Wellingsborough, Northaml
tonshire, England. His age is verifie
by the registry of births.
A PHILADELPHIA soft drink cafe di
plays sign reading: TRY one of OF
Columbus egg posphates and you wi
discover another world"
THE Marine City (Mich.) Magn,
tells of mushroom found in that tow
that filled bushel basket and weighe
fourteen and half pounds
ASTRONOMER PICKERING reports Jup
ter's first satellite, $500 miles in dian
eter, "egg-shaped and revolving en-
over end in the orbital plane"
A DENTIST in Elizabeth, N. j., HI
been directed by the local courts to pa
sl56 damages to woman whose ia "
broke while pulling one of her teeth.
THE fastest train in the world is Il
Empire express, which runs betwee
New York and Buffalo, distance of a
miles, at the rate of fifty-two miles a
hour
IT is said that Corporal Tanner h,
cleared nearly 5000, 900 from his busine
as pension claim attorney since he W,
bounced from the pension commissio
ershlp.
A POSTAL card was sold in Paris fl
$50 a short time ago. 1t had gol
around the world after the person
whom it was addressed and bore Sc
enty-two postmarks.
In celebration of the birth of b
daughter the German emperor has
cided to pardon all female prisone
now undergoing punishment for Il
first time for crimes committed throue
distress or anger.
The Pennsylvania's union depot
Philadelphia promises to be the mo
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