The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-05-17
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HE Seconu-Hanu stores al Lawrence
Kan, keep tooth brushes for sale
A HENS egg, resembling a pie, it is
.]aimed, is an oddly of Ellijay, Ga.
The longest bridge in the world, over
'he st. Lawrence river, is 9,144 feet.
THE average weight of adult Bosto
lians of both sexes is only 1873 pounds.
OF LOCO deaths in Europe sixteen are
by violence; in the United States forty.
one.
TIE highest falls in the world are
feet.
SOLDIERS in the Italian army are al
lowed cigars as part of their daily ra
tions.
A LIFE-sAvING kite, invented by Prof
Davis, was successfully tried at New
port, R. |.
THE income of the duke of West.
minister is twelve and cne-half cents
per second.
Mrs. c. H. GREEN is secretary of the
society of Cliff Dwellers' Archaeology
of America.
A sMoKELEss powder for field guns
has been invented by Leonard Mason,
Virginian.
ALABAMA is to have the first post of
fee named Bissell, in honor of the post
master general.
A NUGGET of galena, said to weigh
1900 pounds, was recently unearthed
near Joplin, Mo.
EACH of the four British Australian
colonies has Scotchman at the head
of the government.
THE first paper published in the his
tory of the Indian territory recently
made its appearance
Two pigs that have only three feet
each are said to be owned by colored
man near Boston, Ga.
PULLMAN sleeping and dining cars
are now in use on all of the three rail-
roads in South Africa.
Miss S. E. FULLER, of New York, is
the first woman to receive government
contract for engraving.
A CHURCH near Pittsburgh is reported
to have paid its debt by opening an oil
well III une cnurcnyarQ.
FRENCH Canadians, at the rate OF
about $50 day, are reported to be leav-
ing Quebec for the United States.
In Albany, N. Y, about 1914, the first
carriages were made, all previously
having been imported from England.
A CLOTH of very fine texture is made
from the bark of the paper tree, null
berry growing in the South Sea islands.
THE late VIM. B. Astor's personal es-
tate in Great Britain has been officially
valued at e2e4,OOO or about $3.50, OOO.
GREEKS have become SO numerous in
Boston that journal has been started
IA their interests in the modern Athens.
IT is said that Frank James and Will
liam Dalton, brother of the notorious
outlaws, intend opening a saloon in
Chicago.
AT the coming commencement OF
Roanoke college, Virginia, full-blood.
ed Choctaw Indian will be among the
graduates.
Mrs. Dr. ELDRIpGE, of Toxic, Japan,
has made collection of 1000 teapots
which she intends exhibiting at the
Worlds fair.
WHAT is claimed to be the largest AK
in the world is owned by William Nc
MILAN, of Atlanta, Ga The ak weighs
$500 pounds.
A MARYvILLE, Mo-, man recently sold
hog for thirty-seven dollars and with
seventeen dollars of the money bought
good horse.
Mrs. CHARLES STEWART PARNELL is
to publish a selection of the private
documents and correspondence of her
late husband.
A DETECTIVE from St. Louis, who
went down into southern Missouri, was
twice arrested by local officers for the
bad man he was after.
Mrs. HENRY WARD BEECHER, although
eighty years old, is an interchangeable
worker with her pen. She spends hours
at her desk every day.
THE champion lady steeplechase rider
in Europe is the blonde Countess
Ugarte, one of the ladies in waiting OF
the empress of Austria.
A YOUNG child of Charles E. Lambert,
living at Williamsport, Pa, died from
the effect caused by an orange seed
which lodged in her lung.
A PHILADELPHIA girl who had fur.
nished house and completed all other
arrangements for her wedding post.
poned the event because she couldn't
get good servant.
In New York the odor of ammonia
that comes from stables is regarded as
disinfectant, and there is popular
belief that burial in stable manure is a
cure for smallpox.
A CRYSTAL MAZE is one Of the novelties
of New York. The maze is constructed
with apparently numberless mirrors, in
which the wanderer finds himself re-
Elected in every direction.
PRINCE BISMARCK is determined to
never grow bent. When taking his
daily walk he carries a stout cudgel
across his back, held between his ell.
bows; this helps him to keep himself
erect.
The Rock Island railroad has hit
upon a combination which beats the
record by naming town kanorado,
which is located on the state line be-
tween Kansas and Colorado.
Mrs. SUsANNAH CHADWICK, of EN-
porium, Pa, is a revolutionary pen
sioner and receives s25 per month. She
is "a years of age and the daughter OF
Lieut. Elihu Chadwick, who served in
the New Jersey militia.