Smyrna times., 1883-09-05
Foreign Facts.

Harvest reports from all parts of Ire
land are very promising. The potato
yield is large.
A party of bicyclists have been trav-
cling through the country districts of
Russian Poland. They created great
excitement among the rural popula-
ton, who followed them in crowds
along the roads, and regarded them
with superstitious awe.
The English Postoffice Savings Bank
continues to be q most successful ,nsti-
tuition. A quarter of million addi-
tional depositers opened accounts in
the bank during the year 1882. The
total lumber of depositors at the end
of the year was thus nearly 100000,
the amount of their deposits being over
$50 900, 900, an increase of nearly three
millions during the year, the largest
annual increase yet recorded.
According to the China Daily Nears,
a stranger recently arrived from Han
kOw reports that more than sixty per-
sons have been decapitated during the
rebellion and that the heads have been
exposed throughout the whole town.
The victims were not even tried. Pa
trolls passed through the streets during
the night, and whenever they encoun-
tered an individual unable to clearly
justify his presence at that late hour
he was Immediately put to death.
A few days ago two crevices sud-
denly opened in the earth southwest of
Tezontepec, Mexico. The crevices
nf hun
yards with an average width of three
inches. An Indian who was on the
ground when it parted, said that dis
tinct subterranean rumbling was
heard. The crevices run crosswise of
creek, and all the waters of the
stream are absorbed in the opening.
A rope of 100 feet in length has been
let down in the chasm without finding
bottom.
A German chronological journal
points out the fact that a vast amount
of valuable steel is lost every year in
the shape of pens that become unfit for
writing and are thrown away. Pens
are made of the very finest steel, and
can be remelted and turned into watch
springs and knife blades, and can be
dissolved and made available in the
manufacture of ink. The suggestion
is made that the children of the poor
should be taught to collect cast-away
pens, and thereby save valuable mater
ial and earn money.
The new crematory in the Campo
Verano at Rome, the fourth in the
world at present, burned it's first body
recently. In Rome the body, envel
oped in a specially-made shroud, rests
on an iron frame above fire of wooC
and coal, and it is believed that NJ
other method of cremation is so simple
and at the same time so cheap and Sc
unobjectionable. The new crematory
is handsome building in the Egyptian
style, and consists of three chambers
two of which are above ground. II
one of these latter the actual incinera
ton takes place, and in the other i
kept u register for the preservation o
full particulars of every corpse that i
burned. Beneath these rooms is spa
cious vault in which ON shelves ar
ranged ornamental urns of porcelain
bronze and silver, to contain the ashe
of the dead.
An American student at Gottinger
the son of a prominent New Yor
clergyman, Internationally gave Of
fence to three German students b
brushing against them in hurried,
passing along the street. They wen
on few steps, then came back and il
sisted on having satisfaction for tn
insult; he must fight duel with on
of their number. He declined, saying
" am an American do not fight.
But they repeated, 1--WE must hav
satisfaction" He replied, "Well,
you must, you can have it," anC
throwing off his coat, went at thel
with his fists. He knocked all thre
down and one of them rolled in til
gutter. Then, putting on his coat, /
walked away. Somewhat bewildere
over the situation, the three Germa
students picked themselves up an
went their way. The American W;
not afterward challenged to fight
duel or otherwise molested.