The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-09-07
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SPAIN has fewer daily papers than
any other European country.
CGUR D'ALENE is three French words,
and means heart of an owl"
THE winner of the Sullivan-Corbett
fight at New Orleans will get $4,000.
THIRTY rich mineral veins have been
struck in the Mt. Kelso tunnel, in Colo
RADIO.
CANADA whacks a duty of five cents a
dozen on eggs imported from the United
States.
THERE are 800 mountains in the United
States, each exceeding 10000 feet in
height
THE car is the richest sovereign in
Europe, his income amounting to S4,-
600, 600
MORE than two-thirdss of the whips
used in this country are made at West
field Mass.
LONDON buries $1,000 dead every year.
enough to ELL cemetery of twenty
three acres
AUSTRIA will have forty of her most
expert woodcarvers at work at the
Worlds fair
Mr.. AND Mrs. CLEVELAND are much
annoyed by idle gossip concerning their
everyday life.
A BERLIN inventor has invented an in
strument which measures the 1,0O0th
part of second.
In England one person in every SO is a
pauper; in America the rate is one per.
son in every $50.
The New Orleans messenger boys
struck because they were ordered to
wash their faces
Two farmers in Harper county, Kas ,
chased lightning rod peddler three
miles with pitchforks
A SOCIETY has been organized in Iowa
whose object it is to push the pansy as
the flower of America.
A DAUGHTER of resident of Nor.
witch, Ct, was turned black by bolt OF
lightning the other day.
The one topic of interest in England
just now is the war in this country be-
tween labor and capital.
Hin LUNG, Chicago's wealthiest tea
merchant, is going to set up big tea
house at the Worlds fair.
G. P. r. JAMES began novel writing
at seventeen, with series of stories
called "String of Pearls"
CONNECTICUT, spelled in an Indian
l,o1anf univ oh, t,,1- ci,rni nJ
'land on long tidal river"
The largest theater in the world is
the opera house in Paris. 1t covers
nearly three acres of ground.
In Chinese the letter 81" has 145 ways
of being pronounced, and each pronun'
citation has different meaning.
NEARLY three-fourths of the fires il
the United States last year were the re-
suit of the upset or explosion Of
lamps.
A STORY of a COW in Washington that
eats hops and yields bucketful o.
brown beer twice day is going the
rounds.
ICE-CREAM is served at seaside resorts
in the shape, size and color of billiard
balls. 1t is an idea borrowed from
Geneva.
HoPs in Sacramento valley are threat
ened with much damage from small rec
spiders which have appeared in large
numbers.
THERE are about one hundred Jewish
places of worship in New York city
The finest is the temple BETHEL, which
cost 100000.
In the executive mansion at Raleigh
N. c., is a card table presented to Gov
harrington by King George II. about
the year 1775.
ST. LOUIS was selected as the place il
which to hold the annual convention o,
the National Association of American
Florists in 1898.
THERE are few uncracked houses il
Essen, Germany. The testing of the
big guns manufactured by Krupp has
damaged them.
A. SOUTH HAVEN Mich farmer pait
s145 for 145 acres of swamp. He planted
it to peppermint and his income is 50;
an acre this year.
A CONVENTION of German horse butch
ers is to open restaurant in Berlin to
educate the upper class to the use o
horse flesh as food.
A WATER moccasin six feet long wa!
lately killed at Utica, Ill. When Gu
open sixteen frogs were found, severa
of which wore alive
ATEXAs newspaper tells us of couple
that were ''nuptiated. The possibili
ties of the English language have MOI
been half exhausted.
The original standard chain author
lied by the act of congress of May IS
1907, made for the purpose of executing
surveys of the public lands in the north
western county, will be exhibited a
the Worlds fair.
VICToRIA's maids of honor, who ar,
paid $1,000 a year for their services
earn their salaries. They are obliged
to appear before the queen in new
gown every day and to be in readiness
to attend her majesty at any and every
hour of the day.
AN Atlanta newspaper recently re
ferred to lucky young woman as +;
flair flower of the south, born o
the marriage of Amaryllis and mag
nol;a."
A PRIVATE soldier, while stationed a
Salt Lake City, Utah, invested som,
money in real estate and erected som,
frame houses on it. He rented tn,
houS Is to comrades, and is now repateC
10 be worth S35, 600.
Az Abilene Kan. man keeps himself
supplied with newspapers by writing