Smyrna times., 1884-12-24
WHOLE NO. 1851.
Here and Elsewhere.
London bridge is falling.

America is the home of frogs, fogs
and betting.
For some reason the Department of
Agriculture hangs fire.
1t looks as if we will have to take
the Spanish treaty back.
A well made banana pie makes you
wish you were child again.
AS a Christmas present an umbrella
at least makes a good spread.
1t is nearly half past seven in the
morning when the sun bobs up.
Dynamite is the way to pronounce
but the safest way is to renounce it.
Cars can be built so per cent cheaper
than when the car trust loan was made.
Mr.. Blaine has abandoned his libel
suit against the Indianapolis Sentinel.
FL Mahdi has shown French cor
respondent that he is not so bad as
painted.
Just think of the Germans making
the most delicate watch wheels from
paper pulp.
Mr.. Bell, of telephone fame, is like
"Giotto" who loved painting more
than money.
a German company will spread
itself on the plains of Texas to grow
AngOra goats.
Secretary of State Frelinghuysen has
expended $40, 900 more than his salary
in entertaining.
New Smyrna" rugs fresh from the
loom would sound very we'll if they
were only made here.
Old Abe Buzzard, the Welsh Noun
tain outlaw, wants to live in peace
with his Winchester rifle.
The utmost sanitary precautions
against decaying vegetable matter is
in order every where now.
Queen Victoria never mas taken
kindly to the royal hound hunt and
proposes now to abolish it.
The Pennsylvania National Guard
dOntt know whether they will get to
go or not at the Inauguration.
Subcutaneous injections of the ex-
tracts from marshy soil have produced
in animals malarial poisoning.
Exhaust steam which condenses into
the purest of all water is sold now in
some cities for washing purposes.
Perhaps when man spends his last
dollar whatever after that he promises
may be called his bottOmry band.
Mexican fnanciers absorbed $13, ,0O0,-
900 in commissions and what not in
placing Mexican loan of $50, 100000
in the English and French markets.
The wealth and beauty of Philadel-
phia made the " Kirmes at the Acade-
my of Music a blazing success the other
night.
) The Emperor William opposes the
washing of family scandal linen in pub
lie, and says "DO nothing, say nothing.
Time will bring all right"
Aliens cannot take up and settle on
the lands of the Public domain, is
bill reported favorably by the Commit
tee on Public Lands in the House.
, Water in freezing parts with its lat
: ent heat which is however of sufficient
2 expansion to burst pipe, but it will
: not do SO if the pipe is covered with
D felt.
Now is the dry season on the Isthmus
of Darien and an army of $4,000 men
are engaged in hewing way through
an altitude of living rock 800 feet high
to the sea.
. The rental from two fur sealing
T islands off the coast of Alaska bids fair
, in few years to reimburse the Gov
q ernment for the outlay of $7,OOO,OOO
originally paid Russia for the mainland.
;, In Wilson Crokers memoirs of the
n Duke of Wellington he gives it that
1 the Iron Duke had a very indistinct
= recollection of ever using the "Up
# Guards and at them" sentence at
$ Waterloo.
: Show windows sweat because the
heat inside condenses what comes from
!. the outside cold" To stop it and
. prevent its coming in through the glass
coat the outside with very thin sizing
y of glycerine.
J. A recent change in the Inspectors
IS Department of the Commercial ex-
+ change, Philadelphia, a grade called
3, No. yellow corn has been provided to
e cover fancy lots coming from Delaware
n and Maryland.
& Ten tons of powder at the Secaucus,
N. j., mills went off by spontaneous
u combustion few nights since fortu-
d nately doing no other damage than
II leaving a large excavation to mark
n where the mills once stood.
Of ~
Al Mr.. Delmonico the New York cater
i, er requires his walters to have clean
e. faces to distinguish them from the
b. guests, but now so many English guests
n- are coming over with clean faces he is
!. unable to tell who is distinguished.
Neafe & Levy, of Philadelphia, have
1t turned out a new iron tug for sea tow
IN age entirely different from the present
m system. All the top hamper of houses
l. is done away with, for quarters below
s, deck, leaving nothing for boarding
II sea to strike.
President Richardson kept President
>, - Arthur his cabinet and large cOmpa-
p :, ny waiting over an hour before he sent
" word to press tho button, that closed
. the circuit, that opened the throttle
- that started the machinery of the
- Worlds fair at New Orleans the other
!; day.