The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-08
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'Ho pNth ocCluIti lISdHe.
Two more Russian war ships have
been 'aunched, the keels of four laid.
RUSSIA is planning to build STRAIT
egic railway along the Prussian 'front.'
Ter.
A PATENT has been issued to woman
for an improved fastening for shirt but
tons.
PROF. SwIFT's new nine tailed comet
travels at the rate of fifty miles
second.
JAPAN has no fewer than 700 earth
quake observing stations scattered over
the empire.
THE town of Roanoke, Va, has grown
in ten years from a population of 600 to
one of $4,000.
A New YORK couple were recently
married in the head of Bartholdis god
dess of liberty.
A NEW herring bank 100 miles long
has been discovered off the west coast
of Newfoundland.
THE French war Office has provided
for the enrolment of between 5000 and
1000 bicycles in war.
The guests at party recently given
in San Francisco came arrayed in gar
ments made of paper.
Two little islands, Zanzibar and
Pemba, furnish four-ffths of the cloves
consumed by the world.
MASSACHUSETTS has more cities with
population of $4,000 or over than any
other state in the union.
PHILADELPHIA has the biggest reel
truck. 1t weighs 10000 pounds, and can
carry or bear 100000 pounds.
AUDIENCES in Russian theaters are
forbidden by law to manifest their dis
pleasure at actors by kissing.
DANIEL BAUGLE, ST., resident of
Jacksonville, Ind, claims to be 103
years old. He is in good health.
PRESIDENT ADAMS, who has just re-
tired from Cornell university, has been
voted a years salary by the trustees.
MRS. KIMBALL, of San Francisco,
wants divorce because her husband
toted coal upstairs ''for another wom-
an"
ABRAHAM is in the Missouri legis-
lature from Cass county, and Noah
edits paper at Spickardsville in that
state.
The Cottonwood river at Emporia,
Kan, varies in width during the course
of the year from three feet to seven
miles.
The senate has received 1,476 petit
tions, signed by s25, 92O persons, in favor
of having the Worlds fair closed on
Sunday.
A FAMILY now living at Helena,
Mont, possesses bones so brittle that
they are broken by the most trivial
accident.
The Horse Accident Prevention So
cie1y in London reports that thousand
hot ses fall upon asphalt to five hundred
on wood.
SIX pairs of white swans from the
Thames river have arrived in Philadel
phia for distribution in public and pri-
vate parks.
If well could be dug to the depth of
forty-six miles, the density of the air at
the bottom would be as great as that of
quicksilver.
THERE is brisk trade in secondhand
tombstoncs in London. Still stranger
is the custom of selling family vaults
partly filled.
A CHICAGO furniture house has intro
uced pneumatic tube system for car
rying cash. The work is done with
marvellous rapidity.
A CHICAGoAN will construct three
lookout towers in different parts of the
city for Worlds fair sight-seers. Each
will be $50 feet high.
Mrs. PIKE, of Dunsland, Ireland, has
become more or less celebrated by
catching thirty-fve pound salmon
with six-ounce trout rod.
THE estimate of the United States en-
gineers for improving the Mississippi
is SO, 1000, 900 for levees and $40. 900, 600
for improving the river bed.
ONE of the natural curiosities of Asia
is the Great Salt desert of Persia. 1t is
many miles in extent and is solid in
crustation of salt several feet thick.
A DRESS album is the latest. Tiny
cuttings of every gown are placed in it,
chronologically arranged. To wom-
ans eye this would be as good as u
biography.
THE Presbyterian General Assembly
has accepted the offer of John R. Wild
dicmas and others for the endowment
of Presbyterian college to be called
Westminster"
A TREE was cut in Puget Sound for
est the other day from which seven cuts
were taken without n knot, their COM
bined length being 179 feet The tree
scaled $4,000 feet.
THERE are two yew trees in the de-
partmcnt of the Eure, in France, which
are supposed to be 1900 years old.
They measure about thirty and twen-
ty-six feet in circumference respect
lively.
The Jerusalem & Jaffa railroad will
not enter the former city, but will have
its terminus about three-quarters of a
mile outside the city limits. 1t is ex-
pected that town will grow up around
the terminus, which may be called
Jerusalemville or Jerusalemhurst.
WALLACE EDDY and Win Mccoy, on
trial at Portland Mich, charged with
train wrecking struck jury that dis
agreed after being out all night Both
men had confessed their guilt.
IT is said that German family iv-
ing out West have in their possession a
tame fox with beautiful bushy tail,