The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-07-19
OVER THE WORLD.
Items of Interest from all
Parts of the World.

houses.
A single Kansas cabbage head
has produced 4OO"cigars."
More than 100000 men stand
ready for battle in Europe.
A resident Of Barton county Mo-,
has a beard seven feet long.
The score of base ball game at
Brennan, Tex, was III to IL.
The Philippine Islands export
more than 100000 cigars annually,
almost 5000 tons of coffee and 22O,
900 tons of sugar.
Aluminium is found combined
with 1875 other metals. 1t is found
in every known country on the
globe and constitutes the larger
part of the eai this crust.
The marriage rate of Germany
rose 10 per cent, in the year follow
ing the France-Prussian war. The
same phenomenon was observed
after the French war which ended
in 1915.
There are forty-seven Chinese
temples in the United States, val
ued at $4,000, claiming 100000 wor-
shippers. Forty of these temples
are in California, four in New
York, two in Idaho and one in
Oregon.
The cold storage building on the
Worlds Fair grounds was destroy
ed by fire last week. Forty fire.
men and a number of people per-
ished in the flames.
Minnie Schneider, 8, Dorcnester's
girl burglar, was sentenced to the
State Primary School at Palmer,
N Y
The twenty-seventh Saengerfest
of the North American Saenger-
bund is being held at Cleveland
Ohio.
The eleventh annual session of
the New York State Council, Cath
olic Benevolent Legion, held in Sa.
ratOga.
One hundred and fifty boiler
makers at the BigelOw Iron Works
New Haven Conn, quit work fur
a nine hour day.
All the lines entering Indianapo-
lis agreed to rate of one cent "a
mile for G. A. r men to the Nation.
al Encampment, to be held Sep
TENDER too.
Roedame's comet was observed
at many places in Europe. AS OBJ
served by Prof. Rees, of Columbia
College, the nucleus was of the sec.
ond magnitude and the tail ten de.
grees in length.
On the steamer Spree which is
due in New York to day or Thurs
day, are coming the seventeen Ger.
man Jurors and German commits
sioners recently appointed for the
Worlds Fair at Chicago. They are
all prominent persons.
The Cramps have decided tC
launch the protected cruiser Mimi
eapolis Aug. II next. Miss Wash
burn, daughter of Senator Wash
burn of Minnesota, has been named
by Secretary Herbert to officlate
as godmother at the christening
Mansfield, o., physicians are deal
ing with a wholesale case of poi
soning. In all twenty-five families
are sick, ten persons at the point OF
death, the result of eating cheese
made by a local cheese company
and sold by grocerymen. The vic
tins suffer intensely.
The st. Petersburg Advertiser
announces that the reduction in
customs duties conceded on articles
imported from the United States
and from France and the other Eu
ropean countries with the excep
ton of Austria Hungary in opera
ton.
Joseph NJ. Street, for the minori
ty stockholders in the Baltimore
& Lehigh Railroad Company, form
erly the Maryland Central, make:
charges of fraud inl petition JUS
filed for the removal of the receives
of the road in Pennsylvania and thu
appointment of another.
The Roane Iron Company makes
a ten per cent, reduction in wage
among all employees. taking effec
the 18th of this month. The con