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Smyrna times., 1883-05-30

train runs unusually heavy, and when
late, has been known to make the dis.
tance to Wilmington, twenty-seven
miles, in twenty-seven minutes. There
is an accommodation train running
between Philadelphia and Baltimore,
leaving here in the evening, which
regularly makes fifty-fve miles an hour
between stations. This is the fastest
accommodation" in the country.
The Western emigrant train over the
Pennsylvania Road by way of Wash,
ingtoR, over the Metropolitan Branch
of the Baltimore and Ohio, averages
twenty-eight miles an hour; the regu-
lar midnight Washington express,
twenty-six; the $50 A. M. express,
thirty-five; the express mail, forty;
the Baltimore express at 11.30 A. NJ,
thirty-six, and the $50 A. M, Whining
ton accommodation, twenty-seveA miles
per hour. And now comes the marvel
of modern railroading, the New York
and Chicago limited express. This
superb train, series of luxuriantly ap-
pointed palaces on wheels, averages
forty miles per hour through from New
York to Chicago, making but three
stops between the former city and
Pittsburg, distance of 443 miles, OIL
over 100 miles on an average without
stops. This remarkable train comes
from New York to this city at the rate
of forty-four miles per hour, which il
decreases to thirty-eight between here
and Harrisburg, declines to thirty three
from there to Altoona, and increases t.
forty clear on to Pittsburg. The regu
lar fast express between New Yorl
and Pittsburg averages thirty-five mile
an hour. The mail express over tn
same route makes thirty miles per hour
Ordinary slow freights make twelve t.
fifteen miles per hour, fast freight
from twenty to twenty-five, and ordi
nary specials from forty to fifty mile
: per hour. The express train whic
f leaves Jersey few minutes before
o'clock every afternoon is scheduled t
: run between New Brunswick an
t Trenton at the rate of mile minute
8 and occasionally makes, for a short di!
t tance, seventy miles per hour.-Fetcht
4 Z. Cooper in PhiLadelphi Press.
Smyrna times., 1883-05-30

The KHEDIvE's ARMS VICTORIOUS.
1t may be inferred from present in
dications that Egypt is about to regain
control Of her indefinite and somewhat
useless empire in equatorial Africa,
The Governor of the Soudan announces
to the Khedive that Hicks Pasha, after
his victory over the False Prophet on
April 2sth, pursued the forces of the
rebels, and embarking his troops ON
vessels, intercepted their reteat at the
passage of the Nile, The result ac-
complished was the submission of the
majority of the rebel chiefs, and the
encouragement of the Governor to hope
that the rest viii soan follow their ex-
ample,
Smyrna times., 1883-05-30

The government of Canada spent
$3.50 in sending Russian Jewish refugees
to Winnepeg, and a careless custom
house officer at the other side of Niagara
Falls took counterfeit dollar bill from
an American drummer. The result is
that the government of the dominion is
seriously thinking of selling in advance
the fall crop of Canadian thistles to
meet the deficiency in the treasury,
Smyrna times., 1883-05-30

Reports up to date show that more
than three hundred persons have been
killed by tornadoes in this country
since January 1st. One hundred and
eighty-seven deaths from this cause
were reported in 1881, and three hun
dred and sixty-nine in 1882.
Smyrna times., 1883-05-30

JUMP OF REsPIRATIoN.-A man sit
ting in the back room of saloon play
ing euehre hreathes about eighteen
times per minute. A female voice sud
denly falls upon his ear, and his respir-
alton jumps to fOrty-nine quicker'n
scat
Smyrna times., 1883-05-30

ONLY THINKl-It is estimated that
the British workmen and women spend
more than a fifth of their wages, or
s75, 100000 out of $3.50, ,OeO, 900, for beer
and other strong drinks, and are SO
much the poorer and worse for it,
Smyrna times., 1883-05-30
A Mile a Minute.
RAILROAD TRAINS WHICH HAVE
BECOME MARvELs OF SPEED.

Travellers very seldom have an accu-
rate idea of the swiftness with which
they are carried along over the rails.
1t is only when the speed of the train
is Immediately fast or slow that they
form a sensible notion of their motion;
of course, people who spend much Of
their time in the cars get into habit of
insensibly gauging the ''time," but they
are often as far from the truth as their
rural companions, who mentally mag
nifty an ordinary express into a limited
lightning train, and are morally GER
tain they are going at the rate of 100
miles an hour, when in reality they
are not making much over thirty. All
ideas of motion are necessarily relative,
and depend to a great extent upon eX-
perience, so that old travellers have a
decided advantage as regards the cor
rectness of their judgment in these
matters.
But there are certain commonplace
methods of calculation by which every
one may estimate the rapidity of a
trains motion. Counting the tele-
graph poles is a custom as old as the
poles themselves. With the aid of a
watch, and a knowledge of the distance
between the poles, it may be satisfac-
tory accomplished. Those who have
not a watch have but to turn their at
tention to the fence posts. At twenty
mile per hour gait the posts may DC
counted separately by a quick eye and
prompt brain. When the speed is in
creased to twenty-five miles, they go il
twos, and at thirty miles per hour they
sweep by in groups of three. An in
crease of ten miles more per hOu
causes them to appear to travel il
clumps of four. At fifty miles per hou
they flash by in confused splotches 0
five and six, and at a mile minute
they become merged in an uninterrupt
ed dull gray streak, no matter wha
5, their individual color, too swiftly to b
e counted in groups however large.
. is not difficult to train the eye to cate
and distinguish these groups, and afte
: little practice it becomes a mere ma
ter of habit, susceptible of being ca
ried to high degree Of accuracy.
mistaken notion as to the actual veloc
d. ty of railway travel very generally pr
walls. The estimate is placed much tc
high
Smyrna times., 1883-05-30
For the Smyrna Times.
The Milford Laudanum Case,
Lastly.

EDITOR TIMEs.-Kind Sir.-My note
to you, which you published, has
evidently awakened the editor of the
Milford Ne,Os to a realizing sense of his
situation as l see by his aceakly issue of
last week that he is trying to cra,U.fsh
and rest the load on the attending
physician" This Ne,V(s) editor says
plainly that tell an arrant lie when
l say the company made use of the
laudanum case as an advertising dodge,
&c.
Now, this Ner(s) editor may be ian
arrant liar u will not argue that he
is not-hqt he is certainly not a smart
liar, for his memory is too week.
In his first article ON the subject he
asserts that said the laudanum was
taken by mistake, but that "the compa.
ny sag different" and now he comes
out with the glaring contradiction of
his own statement and says "they (the
company told no story at GlI." The
question arises which of his two con-
Trajectory assertions is his "arrant lie. u
The Chronicle, of Milford, stated that
was walking tho streets of Milford
with some lady, (no name given).
would like to have that lie qualified
also; is it "an arrapt" one, or is il
merely a chronic lie of the ChrOnicIe'si
Some SO called editors imagine thai
they are privileged, through the
columns of their papers, to lie abou
everybody, and call everybody liars
Sometimes these self-styled editors ar,
sued or prosecuted for libel or slander
, sometimes they are cow=hided, ant
sometimes people treat them as tn
man did the jackass which kicked him.
merely consider the source.
Very truly yours.
S CHAs. NJ. GUINNESS.
Snow Fill, Md, May 22nd.
Smyrna times., 1883-05-30

Poverty aud rheumatism will stick
to a man closer than a brother, and
they will be with him when all his
friends have forsaken him.
Smyrna times., 1883-05-30

Under a recent law of New York
State, for every four trees aperson will
plant along the highway adjacent to
bis property, and the trees live, he is
allowed one dollar exemption from his
taxes.
Smyrna times., 1883-05-30
TRAINS TO THE SEA.

The Saturday afternoon express over
the West Jersey Road, to Atlantic City,
makes mean time of thirty-six miles
an hour. The Saturday Cape May ex-
press, over the same road, averages
forty miles per hour, and the daily ex-
press thirty-three. The fastest train
to Salem, over the Philadelphia and
Salem Road, via GlassborO, whizzes
along at the extraordinary rate of
twenty-one miles per hour, net time,
In this calculation allowance Is made
for stops to allow passengers to Chamber
down and gath er huckleberries. The
through mail train over the Delaware
division to Harrington, Delaware,
makes twenty-five miles per hour.
Between this point and Lewes, the fast
express makes sixteen miles per hour
not counting stations. The fast news
express over the Pennsylvania road TO
COatesville, which leaves Broad Street
Station at 4.S0 A. NJ, averages thirty.
four rifles an hour. The distance is
thirty-eight miles. The two tastes
trains between Philadelphia and Wash
ington are the limited express, leaving
here at 1928 P, NJ, and the Southern
fast mail, leaving at 7.20 A. NJ. Thei
mean time is slightly over forty mile
an hour the entire distance. The,
make three stops in going the 10
miles. Between here and Wilmingto
|. their time does not get above thirty
six miles per hour. Coming up tn
road in the afternoon, reaching here q
$40 P. NJ, the fast mail is known q
y the Congressional express.
THE LIMITED EXPRESS.
! The schedule time of the Limited
!. to Washington is two minutes FAST
than that Of the fast mail. The lattt
Smyrna times., 1883-05-30
THREE SrRone p orsrs.
Point One:
Point One:

Mems Spring Overcoats; a big stock that takes in
everything from the very plain low priced the finest from
the ghtest fancy color to the plain black from the smallest
volths' to the largest Of mems Sizes commanding
stock that every light buyer see- he cares
to know the market.
Smyrna times., 1883-05-30
SOME FAST TRAINS.

Take, for example, the trains run
ming out Of this city, or upon adjacent
roads. The fast" train over the
Bound Brook road makes the distance
to Jersey City, eighty-nine and one
half miles, in two hours, including FIVE
stops. The average rate of speed is
forty-eight miles per hour, and, max
ing allowance for stops and curves, a
triAe less than fifty. From Wayne
Junction to Trenton this rate is lower
ed to forty-fiye, and increased between
Trenton Junction and Bound Brook to
fifty-four, which latter is justly consid-
cred very fast travelling. The New
York accommodation, over the same
road, averages about thirty-seven miles
per hour, and the New York Express
at $50 A. NJ, thirty-two miles. The
New England express, and the BostoE
express average respectively forty and
twenty-five miles per hour. The mid
night accommodation makes abou
twenty-five miles per hour,
The fast express train from this city
to Atlantic City, over the Amboy divis
ion of the Pennsylvania Railroad
makes not much over thirty miles al
hour on an average. The distance i
ninety-four miles. The fast express t
Long Branch, seventy-eight mile:
over the New Jersey Southern ROAD
averages twenty-six miles per hour
The fast parlor car express over tn
Reading main line to Pottsyille, whic
leaves the depot at Ninth and Gree
streets at 1.S0 P. NJ, averages thirty
five miles per hour, after making du
allowance for stops at stations, curve
and grades in the road. What migl
be called the "gross" time, is abol
tweRty-seVen miles per houE.
Smyrna times., 1883-05-30
Point Two:

Fifteen Lines of Mems Business Suits little money
powerful thing in Oak Hall. Witness the following:
Fancy Cashmere Sack Suits at $780, and the same
goods in walking STYLE at 5000. Our only
boast them is that they good for the money.
Manhattan CheviOs in six full lines both sacks
and walking coats, $1,000 The buttons and
trimmings of these suits worth special attention.
Plain Cassmeres; thre varieties, in sack style, at
$1,000. Very reliable.
Five styles of Harris Cashmere Suits of quiet Styles
and in both Sack and Walking Goats, at $1,000
By their wellknOwn reputation these goods speak for
themselves.
These fifteen lines not fragments pulled together
for an advertisement. They represent two thousand
SUITS and goods to make more There is business in
them.
Smyrna times., 1883-05-30
+ MI. Arthur5,
urNTON. DEL,

sole Agent for J. H. Whites Bricks
''o'0 Easton, Md.
sz.Rates TO any point WIZ " apr 25.ly
tion
Smyrna times., 1883-05-30

For Paints, Oils and Glass, 90 To
Wilkinson's, next door to the Post
office.
Smyrna times., 1883-05-30
THE LIMITEn ExpREss.

The schedule time of the "limited "
to Washington Is two minutes faster
than that Of the fast mail The latter
Smyrna times., 1883-05-30

WheTaI N Ihe nelN 2 E'z'l' 7lsss91z|
Hives az sh,s inhabitants Ak l
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-05-10
Bananas and Plantains.

pound of bananas contains more
nutrlment than three pounds of meat
or many pounds of potatoes, while as a
food 1t IS III every sense of the word far
superior to the best wheaton bread.
Although it grows spontaneously
throughout the tropics, when cultivated
its yield is prodigious. for an acre of
ground planted with bananas will re-
turn, according to Humboldt, as much
food material as thirty-three acres of
wheat or over 100 acres of potatoes.
The banana, then, is the bread of mill
ions who could not subsist without it.
In Brazil it is the principal food of the
laboring classes, while it is no less
priced in the island of Cuba Indeed,
III the latter country the sugar planters
grow orchards of it expressly for the
consumption OF their slaves. Every
day each hand receives his ration of
salt fish or dried beef, as the case may
be, and four bananas and two plantains.
The banana-it should be called plan
tain, for until lately there was no such
word as bananas divided into several
varieties, all of which are used for
food. The platino muzanito is small ,
delicate fruit, neither longer nor stouter
than lady's forefinger 1t is the most
delicious and priced of all the varieties
of the plantain. Eel platino guieno,
called by US the banana, Is probably
more in demand than any other kind.
1t is subdivided into different varieties,
the principal of which are the yellow
and purple bananas we see for sale in
our market; but the latter is so little
esteemed by the natives of the trop;c,
that it is seldom eaten by them. FL
platil.o grande--known to us. as simply
the plantain-is also subdivided into
varieties which are known by their
SAVIOR and their size The kind that
reaches our market is almost ten inches
long, yet on the isthmus of Darien there
are plantains that grow from eighteen
to twenty-five riches. They are never
eaten raw, but are either boiled OF
roasted, or prepared as preseryes-In-
diaHdpolis Stock ReuieW.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-05-10
The Chickadee.

The chickadee, or black-capped tit.
mouse, Is very small bird, with the
top of the head and throat black, be-
meath light ash color and brownish.
white on the sides. This bird is uni
yersally known; it confines itself chiefly
to the woods in summer, and in the win
ter pays frequent visits to the garden
and orchard for certain insects which
are abundant In the fruit trees.
Prompted by hunger, it sometimes en-
tiers our Enclosures and picks up crumbs
of bread and meat from the ground.
These little birds seem more numerous
In winter, because hunger renders them
more familiar, and the absence of the
summer birds and the leafiess condition
OF the trees mako them more conspicu-
GUS and cause their voices to be more
audible in the greater silence that pre-
walls in this season.
We marvel at the power of resisting
cold in birds so minute as the chicka-
lees; but they are thicklv clad in
1owny feathers. and constantly in mo-
lion during the day At night they re-
sort to the hollows that contain their
nests, where they find warmth and pro-
lection: but in the daytime they seem
mindless OF the severest cold. They
seek fatty substances, like other winter
birds; and, if piece Of suet be nailed
20 q tree or post, the chickadees and
other small birds will frequently peck
rom it. This contributes to their
animal heat
The benefit conferred upon agricult-
ire by the chickhdees from their CON
of insects is immense They
are exclusively insectiyorous, and, being
permanent residents, their good work
never ceases. Each individual accord
ing to computation, consumes annually
learly 300, GOO of insects with their
aryH. This seems to me moderate
calculation. The companions of the
:hickadee JOIN in the same good work,
md are equally useful in proportion to
their numbers. The least valuable
species as checks to the multiplication
Of insects are the granivorous birds.
The English sparrows, especially, con-
line their foraging to the little aesthetic
mounds that temporarily adorn our
'treets and roads, and to those aesthetic
coverings which are spread upon the
Enclosures of fanciful people who are
especially neat in the management Of
heir lawns. -lIilsOp Flag, IN The
Boston TRANSCRIPT
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-05-10
The Iusy Zee.

Probably the most careful and inter-
esting investigations of the habits of in
sects are those conducted by Sir John
Lubbock. TO test the hearing of bees
he trained some of them to find honey
placed on a music-box which was kept
going several hours a day for fort
N ght on the lawn close to window.
The musicbox was then taken into the
house and set clio beside the window.
though out of sight. The bees could
not find it, though when it had been
shown TO them they went to it eadily
enough. As regards the industry of
Iwasps, Sir John timed bee and wasp,
for each Of which he provided a store of
honey, and he found the wasp began
earlier in the morning and worked on
later in the day. He did not, however,
quote this as proving greater industry
on the part of the wasp,as it may be that
lwasps are less sensitive to cold. More
over, though the bees proboscis is adj
lmirahly al pied to extract honey from
tubular flowers, when the honey is ex-
posed, as in this case, the wasp appears
to swallow it more rapidly. This par
ltlcu'ar wasp began work at o'clock in
the morning, and went on without any
rest or intermission till a quarter to s
lin the evening, during which time she
visited the store Of honey 116 times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-05-10
Was Willing to DO His Share.

At wayside inn in the South of
France is roasting-jack moved by ami
NAL power. Two dogs turn the machine,
working al 'e,na ely. One day the dog
whose proper turn it was being absent,
the other was caught and put on the
wheel. He firmly refused, However. to
work, and neither coaxing, threats nor
Establishments produced any effect. After
some delay the missing dog was found,
and set to the task After he had
nearly completed the job he was re-
leased, and the first tr ed again, and the
animal so lately reeus 1T now offered
no opposit on, and made the wheel re-
volve with hearty goot till the
roast was finished.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-05-10
Where TIE Man.MilIiner Gets His
Hints.

1t is not generally known that NJ.
Worth is a Lincolnshire England man,
and that he served his time at we'll
known London establishment. He has
a country house at Plassy which is one
of the most interesting hou es in the
neighborhood of Paris. 1t has an
aviary attached to it, which is perhaps
the finest private one in France. NJ.
Worth gets many valuable hints as to
color and combinations from his brill
iantly-feathered birds - Nep York
Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-05-10
Negro Superstition.

While superstition is very general
trait, believe / may say the negroes
are, of al races, the most superstitious.
They have as many omens as the ancient
Romans, some of these being connected
with birds, somewhat like the Roman
For instance, if forest bird
takes refuge indoors, as sometimes hap
pens in great storm, negroes look
upon this as q certain announcement
that death will soon visit some member
of the household
Negroes also take it as a sign of death
if the "whip-poor-will" comes into the
porch and utters his notes. A great
many of them seem to hold doves sacred,
anil consider it sinful to shoot them,
probably because the Holy Spirit mani
tested Himself in dove at the baptism
of our Lord.
Anoth superstition they have about
birds is that if they get hold of the
combings of your hair and twist them
into their nests you will have head
ache in consequence.
They used to have mortal terror of
b inc conjured, and this feeling, though
on the wane, is not yet entirely extinct,
i believe. Certain negroes, generally
old Women, got the credit OF being CON
Jurors in SLAVE y times, and if they tuck
up two sticks under the window OF any
of heir felow-servants against whom
t ey had a grudge that negro was con-
side, Il doomed.
They have many signs and supersti-
tons coneected with corpses and funer-
ais. Nothing would induce one of hem
to sweep beneath a bed on which a
corpse was id. If a gr.ve proves too
sho t, they always look on that as
sign hat another member of the fam
i y will soon de. Their morbid love Of
seeing corpses and attending funerals
is very marked characteristic with
them.
Their movements are very much reg
ulatel by The moon, Ike the tide. For
ins ance, in plant 6 vtge'abes, killing
hoes, making soap, and various other
opera ons, they are careful to select a
time when the moon is supposed to be
favorable. IRISH potatoes are always
planted 10y them "on the dark of the
moon" as they call it, and hog-killing is
also done under similar auspices.
n, groes are very prone to having
visions, and nearly all of them profess
to be favored with these while they are
being converted-a process consisting
of two stages: First, the anxious state,
called seeking" and, secondly, the
iubilan state, called coming through"
when the religious aspirant is immersed
and avows a conviction of having had
all his sins washed over the mill-dam.-
Southern correspondent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-05-10
Ventilation in a 81 eD;ng.Car,

A fat man from New York engaged a
lower berth, and after he had retired
he raised the curta Of bis widow and
gloated in the COO moon light and the
fresh. pure air that came in at tie par
italy opened cas- men+. lie was a
grea' stickler for ongh We tilat on.
and the thought that lie " get!ipga glo-
Ilons draught of heavens pure air made
hun happy. + nally, bat ed in the
magnificent mooni~''t, lie sank to sleep.
In the morning awoke TO find that
the ndov was double, and that only
one OF them was open. Aside from the
man who got mp in the dark and kicked
four ranes of glass ut of bookcase
IN order to get more air, and went to
bed happy, | do not know OF sadder
case OF misplaced confidence BIN Nye
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-05-10
American Beer Glasses Abroad.

1t may seem surprising to our read
ers that 10 per cent. Of the beer glasses
used in Berlin are imported from this
country, mostly from Wheeling. w Va.
Many of the other glasses are "imita-
ton American, and come from SclleSia,
the rest from the Rhein. About one,
third of the whole number passes
through the hands of single house ir
Berlin. Scientific american.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-05-10
" Home. Sweet HOme.,'

| What a precious possession is that
of the elderly lady in Athens who owns
the original manu- cript OF the Home,
Sweet Home, a, vritt ten by John How
ard Payne. Tie words of the poem, as
first Written, are all inter med, with
he and there ei d airing expression
from the writ + to the lady who now
holds it. In TIE Old days Payne was
devoted!y at ached to her, and she has
many of his .etters that no eye save
hers will ever see. She is a noble and
Ihigh-minded woman, ard the fit lega ee
% the memories of true poet, and the
manuscript of the best-knowh American
poem. She has been offered large
sum for the manuscript, but, of course,
no money could buy it.-1tlGnta Con-
StitltiOn.