The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1916-08-10


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Oregon cherry stems are said to
furnish much Of the syanide of pot
assium from which is made the pois-
onous gases used by the opposing
armies in Europe.
Three thousand street cleaners, re-
pair men, garbage collectors and
other laborers employed by the City
Iof Cleveland have had their pay in
creased so cents a day.
Kansas City, Mo, recently paid a
New York sanitary engineer 500 a
day to make . survey of the city
and recon ncna plan Of garbage
and waste disL osal.
Fort Worth is to install search
light, electrically controlled, on the
top of the city hall for the purpose
of signaling patrolmen in the out
lying sections of the city.
The first triple alliance, so-called,
was that concluded between England
Sweden and Holland, in 1868, to pro-
tect the Spanish Netherlands against
the encroachments of the French.
Next month will mark the 850th
anniversary of the battle of Hast
ings, one of the decisive battles of
the world, in which Harold, COM
handing the English army, was de-
feated by William the Conqueror of
Normandy.
The month of August by decree
of the Roman senate, received its
name in honor of Augustus Caesar
in the year B. c., because in this
month he was created consul, had
thrice triumphed in Rome, added
Egypt to the Roman empire, and
made an end Of the civil wars
The will of Mrs. Frederick Hecker
recently filed for probate at Belle
vile, ILL.,, contains the unusual pro-
vision that the heirs shall draw lots
for the family heirlooms, including
cold and silver service sets brought
from Germany by the Hecker family
nearly 100 years ago.
Milk is sold in bricks in Siberia.
A rifle ball covers 1900 yards in
two seconds.
London's inhabitants include 461,-
1000 fiat jewellers.
Philadelphia postoffice interior is
being remodeled.
Birmingham, Ala, has $4,000
cases of typhoid vaccination.
Cleveland street railways in June
carried 80, 045,097 riders.
Evanston, ILL.,, policemen are to
i gta- 5re 9s}ea. With slInshades.
In Japan devilfish weighing up to-
200 pounds are sometimes caught.
Under normal conditions France
makes 26,000,000 pairs of gloves a
year.
San Francisco is to have United
States marine hospital, to cost $780,
900.
William S. Carter president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
was once a Texas cowboy.
Brazilian cocoanut palms are be-
lieved to live from 600 to 700 years,
and the date from 200 to 800 years.
Twelve field parties will continue
this year the government survey of
the mineral resources of Alaska.
A mammoth oil-driven harvester
that is being tried on Australian
wheat fields strips about 60 acres a
day.
Since new telegraph cables to Cey-
lon have been opened messages have
been transmitted from London with
in half an hour.
More than forty Kentucky coun-
compared with three at the begin
ming of the year.
Japan is becoming interested in
sheep raising. The imperial stock
farm at Hokkaida has bought ami
mails in Australia.
Paris has the largest steam tur-
bine electric plant in Europe,
street railway power station pro-
ducing 10000 horsepower.
The warfare is spreading against
the prairie dogs. In Texas alone
they annually eat enough grass to
feed 1862, 800 cows.
French chemists observed the CEN
tenary of the discovery of iodine by
erecting a tablet on the birthplace
of its discoverer.
Cyprus has reviewed it's former
native tobacco industry, producing
tobacco suitable for cigarettes of
Turkish and Egyptian types.
The word "and" occurs 46,527
times in Holy Scriptures, 1O,948
times in the Old Testament and 3d.
SAB times in the New Testament.
Apparatus that simplifes the ex-
animation Of paper money under a
magnifying glass has been patented
| by a California woman.
Chief Justice White of the Su-
preme Court of the United States is
spending the vacation season at his
summer place at Lake Placid, N. Y.
Queen Mary of England is an
ardent admirer of the theatre and
few persons outside of the profess
sion have a better knowledge OF
theatrical affairs than she.
1t is fact not generally known
that Emperor William was an ex-
tensive owner of diamond mines in
German Southwest Africa, which
may be lost to him as a result of the
IWar.
Hiram w. Johnson one-time can
didate for vice-president, present
governor of California and aspirant
| for the United States senatorship,
Twill celebrate his fiftieth birthday
anniversary next month,