The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-06-14
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VERY handsome dresses. and window
curtains as we'll, are now made of glass
in Austria.
THE Mazarin Bible one of the first
printed in metal type, has just been
sold for s24,750.
THE bones or tombs of over two hun
dred giants have been found in various
parts of Europe.
THE United States is the first city in
the worlds history to have three cities
Of over 100000.
ADDIE f. JOHNSON, who lives near
Tallyho, W. Va, is engineer for a grist
and planning mill.
IL Malaga workmen are allowed fiji.
teen minutes leisure in every hour to
smoke cigarettes.
THE Russian authorities have forbid
den the publication of marriage offers
in the newspapers
IT would require 100000 full moons
to produce day as brilliant as one of
cloudless sunshine.
The quantity Of oranges and lemons
raised in Southern Italy last year is
placed at 81 600 tons
THE Infanta Eulalie is represented in
the Chicago fair by two pretty vases
that she herself painted.
THE emperor of Germany has had a
piano built, the case of which is made
out of bits of stays horns.
A MONSTER ur-bearing seal weighing
l.500 pounds was caught in Elk creek,
at Tilamook, Ore, recently.
THE state of South Carolina is the
largest producer of phosphate in the
world Florida ranks fourth.
OF the one hundred and seven grad
mates of the st. Louis high school this
year only sixteen are young men.
ACCORDING to the Kansas City Star
there is person living in Kirwin, Kan,
who can breathe through his ears.
Mrs. L. $. GRANT and Mrs. jeff Davis
will spend the summer at the same
hotel at Cranston's on the Hudson.
DR.. SARAH HACKETT STEVENSON. OF
Chicago, was recently appointed a mem.
Der of the Illinois state board Of health.
OLD CHIEF JOHN, of the Saanich
Indians, who died lately at Saanicf
Arm, b. c., was reputed to be 1870 years
DID
THE state of Massachusetts, at one
time previous to the revolution claimed
the Pacific ocean as its western bound
airy.
Mrs. WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS, wife
of the American minister to Germany
has crossed the Atlantic sixty-fve
times.
THE microscope made by the Munich
optical institute for the Chicago fail
magnifes II 200 diameters and is wortl
$3.50.
HAULING in the Brock mines a
Brockwayville, Pa, is to be shortly ac
complished by electricity in place o
mules
The highest masts of sailing vessel
are from 100 to $50 feet high, ant
spread from 10000 to 100, 600 square fee
of canvas.
The Chinese, and not the Germans
we're the first discoveries of gunpow
der, and, to their credit, they hav
made the least use of it.
THE head of the dead sea lion is to b.
preserved in alcohol as a relic of tn
only animal of its kind that ever put il
a winter on Lake Michigan.
THERE is cob-pipe factory at Hia
watha, Kan, which has standing or
der from an Ohio firm to take twenty
five gross of pipes every day.
A DETROIT doctor, who undertook t,
pull dislocated ankle into place, dis
located the knee joint of his patient
The victim has sued him for So, 600 dam
ages.
ONE of the dress reformers says tina
Providence intended that a woman
should wear long skirt on a rainy da,
she would have been given thir
hand.
PADEREwsKI is said to be one of tn
most pious men, and his private chap
lain, Rev. Hugo Goerlitz, travels wit,
him to conduct morning and evenin
prayers.
THE Woman's First Dental Associa
ton of the United States will hold sey
eral sessions in Chicago this summer a
the time of the dental congress, and a
a part of it.
THE remains of gigantic race of e,
tinct human beings have been dis
covered near Nasa, Mimi. Each ha
double teeth in front as well as in tn
back part of the jaw.
MICE ate hole through the bottor
of Adam Hinkleman's granary. nea
Huntington, Pa, and three hundre
bushels of wheat streamed through il
TO the horse stable below.
THE skeleton of the whale lizard,
discovered in Alaska last summer
weighs 2.40O pounds This is the secon
of the species so far known to science
1t had both legs and wings.
A MONTREAL citizen has succeeded i
getting his hired girl fined and impri.
ored for deserving his service withou
notice. The fine was five cents and tn
term of Imprisonment five minutes.
THE highest chimneys in the worl
are two in Glasgow. one being 46S fee
high and the other 455 feet, while on
near Cologne comes next with heigh
of al feet.
THERE are twentv-seven foreign-bor
members of the Fifty-third congress
Five of these are from New York. a
born in Ireland. But outside of Ne,
York. Ireland can claim only thre
members to her native soil.
THERE are stones in the Baalbe