The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-06-07
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extinction by law.
THERE is in Japan no kissing, not
even in the nursery.
FOREIGN tourists spend about $780,
100000 year in Italy.
A BARBER in Brooklyn gives "a free
shine which every shave"
a MACON, Ca, policeman goes his
Wounds on bicycle in full uniform.
a MAJORITY of the summer hotels are
advertising to open earlier than usual.
SIGHTSEEING titled foreigners are
quite numerous company at Niagara,
A LARGE number of seals are report
ed on the Columbian river bar in Ore
gon.. t:..
A wAvE-PowER motor has been in
rented by, Joseph Serb of San Fran
cisco.
THERE is new rose, an exquisite
blending of pink and white, called
cupid.
CATHEDRAL dining room chairs are
the kind that compel one to sit up
straight.
A TRENTON (Mo.) lawyer is accused
of asking for a "change of venus" for
his client.
IT is said that nearly $4,000 people
die of consumption in New England
every year.
THREE women each claim to be the
legal wife of Stephen Tobin of Law
renee, Mass.
IRELAND sends annually 40, 900 tons
in round numbers some 100000, OOO-of
eggs to England,
FREEMAN higgins, who lives near
Charleston, ILL.,, has killed during his
life $1,000 squirrels.
Miss FRANCES WILLARD will prolong
her stay abroad till September on ac-
count of her health.
KENTUCKY leads the southern states
in the production of tobacco, with crop
of 221, $50, 900 pounds.
AN Atchison woman declined an offer
of marriage because it is too hard to
get divorce in Kansas.
TwENTY-THREE Laplanders, with nine
reindeer, five dogs and several sledges,
are on the way to Chicago.
A PEAR tree which is said to have
been planted in 1880 still bears fruit on
a farm near Danvers, Mass.
THERE have been nearly thirty sui
cides committed on the Eiffel tower in
Paris, since its construction.
WoRKINGMEN in New York sent s15,.
600 to help the workingmen in Ger
many to defeat the army bill.
Mrs. HEwETT, of Dobbs Ferry, has
loaned to the Worlds fair clock form.
erly owned by Gen. Winfield Scott.
LEWIS NORRIS, the Welsh poet, is
said to have been asked to write an ole
on the approaching royal marriage.
The canyon of the Colorado is SOC
miles long, and the cliffs on either side
are from 5000 to 5000 feet above the
water.
A WOMAN in Allentown. Pa, is re.
ported to have been shot at three times,
and each time her life was saved by her
corset.
GEN. BUCKNER has has constructed q
little steam river yacht in which he eX'
poets to take cruises down the Ohio anL
Mississippi.
REAL estate around Jerusalem, re
ports the United States consul, has APP
preciated in value 900 per cent, within
eleven years.
THE City of Mexico is to have a new
hotei to cost $4,000, 900. Among the
directors of the hotel company are New
York capitalists.
MEASURED by the size of the recen
bank failures Australia is great coun
try. The total liabilities are placed a
about 100000, 900.
A HORSE belonging to Allen Wikof
of Buena Vista, Ind, has as handsome
and perfectly formed mustache as an,
man in the country.
CHARLES CHADWICK, of Hannibal, Mo.
who went to England to get the 81
Charles Chadwick estate of s1S7, 900, 00C
has returned without it.
A THIRTY pound block of salt, hol
lowed out and lit up inside wit
incandescent lights, is one of tn
curiosities of the Worlds fair.
Two brothers who had not seen eacI
other for twenty years met on adjacen
cots in Maine general hospital war
the other day. 1t was a touching SUI
prise.
FOXES have become so numerous i
certain parts of the highlands of Scot
land that they are looked upon as n st
rious danger to the grouse and groun
game.
CENTRAL PARK, New York, contain
S62 acres, Phoenix park, Dublin, Lie
acres; Hyde park, London, 400 acres
Yellowstone National park, 2,2s0,0O
acres.
A NINETY-sIx-Y wanderer wa
found in the streets of Pittsburgh tn
other day and was returned to tn
county home from whence he ha
strayed.
THE climate and grass of the state {
Montana are regarded as being yer
fine for cattle, and the annual woo
clip of that state is placed at $4,000, OF
pounds.
LILIES are raised as regular feel
crop in the Bermudas. In one of III
largest fields over one hundred thol
sand may be seen in blossom at III
same time.
A HEAVILY yelled young woman cal
ed on Collector Hendricks at the Gu
tom house. in New York city. and S
lently handing him three $50 bill
pinned to slip inscribed Restitution
departed.
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