The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-20
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The authentic history of China COM
menced 5000 years B. c.
HORSES are dying from the grip in
certain parts of Maryland.
THE first photographs produced in
England were taken in 1902.
SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN says he is too
old to be president He is SO.
The directors of the Worlds fair have
spent $4,000 already in postage.
New YORK state has thirty-three cities,
Niagara Falls being the youngest.
A MAINE boy of eight years is said to
be able to repeat forty chapters of the
Bible.
IT cost over 5000 recently in legal fees,
in South Carolina, to settle claim
of IS.
The contractor who built an Indiana
Jail now occupies one of its cells as a
prisoner.
LYNNE, Ct, has citizen who owns
communion cup with the date 1887 in
scribed on it.
HERBERT SPENCER has an intense dis
like to eating his meals with or before
other people.
Four thousand one hundred and sew
enty-fve men are now employed upon
the Worlds fair grounds.
A PRESBYTERIAN pastor at Greenville,
ILL.,, has pulpit made of olive wood
from the Mount of Olives.
FORTY thousand people witnessed the
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Norfold, Va, the other day.
PHILADELPHIA has the biggest reel
truck 1t weighs 10000 pounds and can
carry or bear $50, 200 pounds.
THERE seems to be an epidemic of
elopments in Scranton, Pa, five couples
having disappeared in ten days.
Ex-QUEEN ISABELLA receives S150,000
year during her exile, but even that
large sum fails to cover her expenses.
THE Jains of India, frequently I'M
dergo fasts of forty days, partaking
during that time only of warm water
A CASE of the United States against
Chicago bank for $4,000 damages has
been pending in the courts for fifteen
years.
If all the money in the world were
equally divided among civilized people
every person would get six dollars as
his share.
FEWER patents are granted to Missis-
sippians in proportion to population
than to the citizens of any other state
in the union.
WHILE attending college at Oberlin,
Steve Dorsey used to do odd jobs, such
as painting houses, to keep body and
soul together.
THE Koh-i-Noor, or mountain of light,
is said to have been discovered in the
diamond mines of Golconda, more than
5000 years ago.
ANDREW CARNEGIE has given 800, 200
for library and gymnasium at Home
stead, Pa, to be used mainly by his
own workingmen.
OF the confederate generals only one
full general survives-P. T. Beauregard
but there are upwards of 1870 surviving
brigadier generals.
THE artistic work of the spider in
spinning his web is shown by the fact
that it takes &c, 900 of the fine strands to
cover an inch of space.
THE empress of Russia is the first
lady to answer from European throne
to the invitation to take part in the
women's work of the Columbian EXPOSE
ton.
MRS. JACKSON, the confederate SOL
dier's widow, is devoting all her time
now to the education of her two moth
erless grandchildren, Julia and Jackson
Christian.
SOME American surnames in Maine
are peculiar. For instance, Coolbroth,
Youngbaby, Lovely, Law, Look, Sensa-
bough, Comforth, Suckforth, Skeetop,
Segar, etc.
A PATENT has recently been issued for
this ''hair-tonic': Oil of onions, oil of
cabbages, oil of parsley, borax, sulphur,
sugar of lead, aqua-ammonia, salt, al
cohol and bay rum.
OLD peach trees are now being re-
ported from various parts of the coun-
try, but southern papers claim that the
oldest free-bearing tree is living in
Georgia and is tifty-two years old.
THE temperature of well that is be-
ing sunk at Wheeling, w. Va, which
was 70 degrees at a depth of $500 feet,
is said to have increased to los degrees
at 1880 feet and Ill degrees at 5,4O0
feet.
KING LEOPOLD. of Belgium. desires to
give his subjects voice in the govern
nent by allowing them to vote on
public questions, but strange to say
the Belgians are loath to accept the
proffered power.
TWENTY-FIVE cents was paid for a
horse at a sale in Bucks county. Pa, the
other day, and the auctioneer threw in
a halter to make respectable bargain.
The horse dropped dead before the pur-
chaser got him home.
THE French minister of war has issued
an order that henceforth every officer
and every man in the French army shall,
when on active service. carry on his per-
son material for first dressing in case
of his being wounded.
THIsrrEs in the pampas grow to a
height of ten feet. and clover rises four
or five feet. Marigolds and camomiles
in North Africa grow to four or five
feet. In India the rhododendron grows
to the height % thirty feet.
In an article upon the recent Rou-
manian election, a French paper says:
One of the candidates, NJ. Protopopesco,
former mayor of Bucharest, hit upon an
ingenious way of increasing his chances
at the poll. Some time before the cleo
tim he nnrrhasnd a lnr.,rn stnclr of ton