The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-05-24
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and OF excellent quality this year.
THERE are more than 20. 900 varieties
Of apples raised in the United States
KANSAS is rated as the first egg-pro.
ducing state and Missouri the second.
A MuskALoNGE weighing S9N pounds
was caught recently at Alpeng, Mich.
THE Maryland peach crop this sum-
mer is expected to be unusually heavy.
IT is said to cost $50, 900 year to
Keep st. Peters church at Rome in re-
pair.
ONE out of every $50 inhabitants OF
the United States owns or rides
bicycle.
THE population of New York state Is
greater than the entire population OF
Canada.
1T is reported that an effort is being
made in London TO re-introduce the
sedan chairs.
A GALVESTON artesian well was sunk
5000 feet without eucountering either
rock or water.
THERE are two towns in Kansas which
report an even 1000 population-Alma
and Cherokee.
OWING to the rate war in Colorado
one can ride 300 miles in that state for
twenty-five cents
TExAs man has stone which he
claims will cure al aches and pains to
which flesh is heir
PENSION Of 5000 francs year has
been granted to Mme Renan by the
French government
WEST VIRGINIA boasts of a two headed
woman who has two distinctly differ
snt voices--bass and tenor
ALL sorts Of wonderc are found in the
soil of Jasper county. Mo a petrified
hornets nest is the last one.
A JACKSONVILLE (Ore.) man has sued
one of his neighbors for calling him
bigger ass than Pennoyer
THE total number of American news
papers has grown from 5.3l9 TO 20.006
during the past twenty-five years.
THE empress of Russia's physician
when in attendance upon his august
patient receives a fee of $3.50 a day.
THE mail carrier between Troy and
Ashe boro. in North Carolina. walks Il
distance of thirty-:hree miles every
day.
THE royal family of England is the
largest in Europe. Her maicsty's fam
lily circle numbers fifty living descend
ants.
THE backward season 10 Nevada has
protected the fruit, and the pasturagc
will be exceedingly tine, owing to heavy
rains and snow.
SEVERAL letters written by Queen
Victoria, an oddity in the autograph
market, were recently sold at good
prices in London.
RAFTsMEN have found the petrified
body of a man named Graham, who dis
appeared eight years ago, in the Big
Sandy river w. Va.
DR.. WIBoRG, chief immigrant iuspec-
tor for Chicago, and his assistant iu-
spected, last month, 100 trains of Az
cars, with 1877 passengers.
A GIRL residing in Lake Michigan
town has recovered $500 damages from
steamboat company for naming
boat after her without asking her per-
mission.
EVEN in Finland women have gone in
quests of their rights. and with success,
for they are now employed there as
clerks. doctors, dentists, house build
ers, etc.
A CHICAGO man has constructed a
checker board in which there are 2s,-
0TO separate pieces of wood. glued to-
gether with the finest art. 1t is valued
at $1,000.
TIE total attendance at the Worlds
fair during the first eleven days is near
ly 2l9, 900 greater than that at the Cen
tennial exposition during the cores.
ponding period.
THE Harvard authorities will make
use of the legacy of Sl50,000 left to the
versity by katherine Page Perkins
erect a dormitory to be known as the
erkins hall.
GEORGIA editor recently bought a
cycle, so that he might run down
delinquent subscribers; but the sheriff
,evied on the bicycle and is now run.
ming down the editor.
THE only member of the British royal.
ty who does not pay postage is the
duke of Cambridge, exempted as com.
mander-in.ch All the Others have
to put up their stamps
THE state capital at Albany, n. Y,
even in Its unfinished state. is the cost
liest building of modern times. Nine
teen million six hundred Thousand dol.
lars have been expended upon it tc
date.
The most expensive municipal hall in
the world and the largest in the United
States is the city building of Philadel-
phia. upon whose yet unfinished tower
the largest clock in the world is 10 be
displayed.
DURING the recent cyclone an old
barn on the plantation of Mr. Johnson,
near Quitman. Ala, was blown apart,
but several hundred bushels of field
peas that were upon the floor remained
undisturbed.
THK largest gold nugget ever found
In Colorado weighed X pounds; the
largest in the United States weighed
ISL pounds and ounces: the largest in
the world. s2S pounds and ounces.
THE Butler Mo Times says that G..
A. Todd has a new design for Jail.
The cells are made of water pipes.
When one is cut into the water shoots
out and the pressure being relieved,
gives the alarm in the jailer's Office.
MINK. IDA LANE NKY of Vienna has