The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-15
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city where liquors are sold.
SEVERE storms have done great dam
age to the fruit crop in Spain.
A NEWSPAPER called the Missouri
Colonel is published at st. Joe.
SEVERAL Turkish brigands captured
recently have been decapitated.
PHILADELPHIA may be slow, but she
is to have $4,000 dog hospital.
The patentee of the drive well" has
royalties estimated at 81, 900, 600.
THE inside works of the church clock
at Antioch, Mo-, have been stolen.
SURVIVORS of the Black Hawk war
hold reunion at Lena, H., June "a.
THE value of the fruit crop this year
in California is estimated at $50, 900, 900.
THERE is a laundryman in Wichita
who charges for his work by the pound.
PARIS provides new employment for
woman in the capacity of dinner
faster"
In the dreary deserts of Arabia the
rosemary and the lavender flourish to
perfection.
A ScHUYLKILL county Pa.) man has
cut three sets of teeth and is getting
out fourth
The Cumberland Presbyterian church
has decided that women may become
ruling elders.
IT is now the fashion in New York
high society to hire affairs for use at
home weddings
THE state of Pennsylvania has or
dered $4,000 voting booths from Sagi-
nav Mich firm.
WITHIN the past few weeks seals and
Arctic looms have been caught off the
Connecticut coast.
OK an average there are JOG boys born
to every 100 girls, but more boys die in
infancy than girls.
The existence of the milkmaid is
threatened by machine that milks
thirty cows an hour.
THE American dress reformers are
preparing to renew their crusade at
Chautauqua this year.
POTATOES in Montana attain pro.
digious size, often weighing three, four
and five pounds apiece.
IT is proposed to make an historical
collection of railway tickets for exhibit
ton at the Worlds fair.
THE New York Commercial Adver-
tiser is the oldest newspaper in New
York, having been established in 1897.
In making gold threads for embroid-
cry it has been found that six ounces
of gold can be drawn into 200 miles of
wire.
Gov. MCKINNEY, of Virginia, has APP
pointed Gen. Eppa Hunton, United
States senator to succeed the late John
S. Barbour.
TIE duke of Alba, leading Spanish
grandee and nephew of Empress Eu-
genie, will represent Spain at the
Worlds fair.
A SOCIETY has been organized in Stock.
ton, Cal, whose members believe in the
efficiency of Limberger cheese as cure
for dyspepsia.
PEOPLE who desire to settle in Russia
will regret to learn that under new
law settlers will have to learn the Rus
sian language.
COSTA RIGA is about to have law
making the sale of Indian antiquities tc
foreigners a crime punishable with
severe penalties.
COLORADO has commissioned R. IL
Park, the sculptor, to make a statue o.
pure silver to surmount the states eX
hibit at the Columbian fair.
JAMES CHAMBERS, of Philadelphia, has
q calf with three ears and two rows Of
upper teeth. Its rear hoofs are not
cloven, but resembles mules foot.
TRAFFIC has been delayed at Una
tillon, Ore, by millions of large crick'
cts, which cling to the rails and make
it impossible for trains to move over
them.
The new president of Cornell univer
sity, j. G. Schurman, is a Nova Scotiar
by birth, only IS years of age and {
man of broad culture and profound
learning.
DURING last year there were onl,
$3.50 marriages in San Francisco, les
than eleven to 1000 of the city's popula
ton. The rate in London is more thar
eighteen per 1000.
ACCORDING to Madame PATHS maid
the perfume of violets causes hoarse
ness in the singers throat, and n,
plants or cut flowers are allowed to re
main in the prima donna's room owe
night.
In April 64,565 Storage passenger
landed at New York. How many i'm
migrants arrived at other ports anC
from Canada is not ascertained. Prob
ably this April arrivals footed VI
10.,O0
PRINCE GEORGE, of Wales, has beef
created duke of York, earl of Inverness
and Baron Killarney, thus represent
ing the three divisions of the Unite,
Kingdom as in the case of the late duk
of Clarence.
ACCORDING to Rev. DR.. Paine, in 1891
seven black men were burned alive il
the south, one was tayed to death, on
was mutilated, disjointed and torture,
for two hours before he died, and 12
Negroes were lynchcd during the pas
year.
AN orator in western Kansas recent,
electrified his audience by the follow
ing statement: There are in this grea
country 100000 cows, ladies an,
gentlemen"
Mile. ELSIE ST. 0MER, the Frencl
explorer, who has travelled through
Europe, Asia and America, prides her
self upon journeying without any lug
gage and carrying all she needs in he