Smyrna times., 1881-12-14

The steamer Maid of Kent is making
regular trips between Leipsic and Phila-
delphia, and will continue TO do so until
navigation closes. She has lately been
overhauled and sheated with iron, and is
staunch boat. She has had quite sue
cessful season, being well patronized by
shippers of freight, who have found it to
be very convenient and cheap way of
transportation. The boat is we'll adapted
to the route, being staunch for bay service
and conveniently fitted up for the comfort
OF passengers. She is now running two
round trips a week, as will be seen by
the advertisement in another column.
/ THE APPROACH OF CHRIsTMAs.-The
crisp atmosphere as well as the almanac
reminds the careful paterfamilas that
| little more than one week remain in which
| to provide for the many wants and pleas
ures of Christmas, and he scans the paper
to learn where he may obtain the articles
appropriate to the season. The streets, in
response to the demands Of the occasion,
begin to wear bright, bustling look.
The stores display their novelties in seduc-
tive ways, tempting at once the buyer
whose memory runs over sixty winters,
and the tOddling urchin by his side.
whose mind is all bent on the bright new
toy of the present, or looks no further
than to the coming splendors of the Christ
mas tree, Each season has its wants, /
but none so numerous or so pleasant to |
satisfy those which crowd into the few |
weeks preceding the close of the year |
To avoid the inconvenience and worry of |
going from point to point in a vain search
for the thing desired, it is better, it NAV
be suggested, TO turn always to the adj |
vertising columns of the TINES
PERsONAL.-Col. Geo. II. Raymond re-
turned from his trip West last week, his
wife and son who had been in Milwaukee
for three and a-half months, returning
with him.
John S, IIoflecker, whose Southern trip
| took him to Florida, gives us on our first
page descriptive letter of that State.
: DIR. j. +. Clawson, a former resident,
was in town on Sunday.
> Mrs. Z. NJ. Collins, formerly of this
: town, now living in Lebanon, is building
three new houses there
! Jas. +. Downs, former resident. now of
: Chester, Pa, is visiting town.
Mrs. Joseph Day of Port Tobacco, Md,
formerly of this town, is quite sick with a
; complication of diseases
i Mr.. Elizabeth Streets, "a well known
lady, and until the past few years q resi-
dent of this place, died at the residence of
k her husband Edward Streets in the Mid
y die Alley" last night.
y Benjamin Money and VIM. II. Money.
IS father and son near Green Spring, whose
II families have been so seriously afflicted
for several weeks with typhoid fever, we
are pleased to learn are showing signs of
e Improvement.
le MINOR MENTION.-Thc Goldfish in the
Is window of DR.. ClOak's drug store attracts
- tho attnOtin1o Of tho cohn<J Oh
Hog killing is about over and the little
folks are luxuriating in sausage and scrap
1e 1e pie. Hog grease usually affects the butter
~ market but the influence this year has not
Is been very Visible.-IIaVe YOU been
u around yet TO look at the windows? and
IN have you seen anything you didn't want
Private advices from Santa Claus are
T to the effect that he expects to reach thi:
~ town on the oath inst.-If the world il
~ what we make it, there should be ne
b wonder that it is so crooked and unsatis
IN factory production.-Don't leave any
10 thing, even an empty spool, upon stat
steps. The danger in doing SO is Il slip,
fall, broken bones, and a large doctor bill
list 1t Is about time to 60 out in the wood
1t and select your Christmas tree.-IIouse
elk wives are anxiously looking around 70
in eggs for Christmas cake; they are yer,
ly. scarce and high-It looks as if SAINT
he Claus would have to build an extension t
his sled this year, otherwise he will b
powerless to distribute the unusually al
nd tractive gifts which are already awaitin
of him in marvellous profGsion The frost
his nip in the air has given a tremendou
les boom to holiday preparations.--The rul
Ost now is, says an exchange, for every lad
in to have her age indicated on her hat brin
in Every inch of width represents thre
years. A ten-inch brim means that til
lady is 80 years DID, twenty-inch bril-
% c%es shows that she is 60, and so ON. 1t is
m .nu charming conceit.
IAN SIGNS OF MILD WINTER.-All IL
1t signs point to mild winter. This ma
bell not be just what those young men desil
2 of who have fast horses and find charmil
bellies who are ready for an exhilaratil
:, ride, but for the old and feeble who shu,
,. ine der at the thought of extreme cold weathe
ms and for the unfortunate poor who Dire,
IhV the biting cold when they can i'll aifo
INC the bare outlay for fuel and warm clot
anu ing even for n moderate winter, we Or
lool pose to give the sunny side of these Or
Ties diCtiOns and hope with them that ev,
the least of these may prove correct.
in the first place, we have had general
orts most delightful weather during the ps
,Ivn month, while last November we h
ihla ( neaVY snow storms ana me Slcl9hll
1O0 while at and about Thanksgiving d
late many had secured their ice crop. NJ
orn the theory, thoroughly believed in by @
is watermen and duckers is that a very m
November generally means mild wint
and that the state of the wind when [
IONS sun crosses the line at the equinox will
ding the prevailing state of the wind until [
U Tor UernGl equinox. This looks, plaust
run but whether true or not we will say Il
luch last year when the sun crossed the lint
med we have it from old and experenC
'ot a watermen who carefully noted the ST
raph of the wind at that time--the wind var
yrna from the northeast to the northwest, q
ring we know that these were the prevail
but winds of last winter. Now this Y
ne OF when the sun crossed the winds were fir
Iown the southeast to southwest, and the sa
authorities confidently predict southe
/, winds as the most prevalent until
-. u next equinox. and consequently n
! tPeio weather. In the fall of 1879, when
sun crossed the line, the wind Wls fl
Poi the southeast to southwest, and dur
man nan the winter of that year there were only TIL
Ieut L''t days when ice could be gathered fiji
..,n unU house, Among the other indications
was that our rains (what we have come fl
1A tho South, the western rivers still rem
: oh L :" open and the mountains have little OI
: .n,i. nei snow upon them, and the other sign
{oul the goose bone, small mast, &C., &C.,
-" SS some say, though without any appal
o'.o5 a reason are indications, all bear In q stl
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