Smyrna times., 1884-07-16
WHOLE NO. l,5l4.
Here and Elsewhere.
Pure butter is an oil

Norfolk, Va, is the water gate city
of the South.
Georgia will extort 81 100000 from
her melon crop.
Darwin found enough in his garden
to interest the world.
Mr.. Sankey, the Evangelist, is losing
the grip on his voice.
Sometimes a sun bath is as good for
the health as a water.
Pulp mills can grind forest trees into
paper in twenty hours.
No flies or mosquitoes are the noun
tain resorts chief card.
Mr. Vanderbilt will not permit
Maud ;. to trOt for a stake.
Catfish suppers wind up drive now
along the Wissahickon, Pa.
As the dog star rises sea shore firta-
tons are coming to crisis.
Worth, the Partisan milliner, says
there is no such thing as fashion.
Sunday travel to Atlantic City is
often now sixty car loads of people.
An Indianian is making money
growing burdOck for patent medicine
use.
All swift running machinery should
be examined at the close of day for hot
boxes.
/ There is more nutriment in mack
erel than in any other fish that swims
in salt.
School teachers have realized now
that it is a long ro(a)d that has no
turning.
Mr.. Blaine has three stenographers
employed who answer every letter
sent to him.
Surgeon General Hamilton places
cholera as the hardest of all diseases to
quarantine.
Brown bread and baked beans make
the BOstOnians hot weather breakfast
on Sundays.
Swiss watchmakers are now placing
their watches to high heat test in
public trials.
For parades florists in the cities get
up window gardens in full bloom at
short notice.
The beet root sugar crop of Cont
mental Europe will reach this year
2,315,OOO tons.
Like pendulum if a man swings
strong one way he is apt to swing
weak the other.
Floor walkers" in the large city
stores are taken now by customers as
an implied insult.
The Spanish Government levies a
? tax of $3.50 upon every hogshead of
: sugar leaving Cuba.
Ignorance of the law excuses no
One," as the red pepper remarked
when bit for a radish.
American cOsmOpite steel is being
f used everywhere on account of its
: great ductile strength.
, For the fiscal year ending June Both
the public debt of the United States
was reduced $1O1 100000.
In Pennsylvania coal mine breaker
rooms little boys pick slate twelve
hours day for 81 a week.
Seventy-tive thousand people attend
ed the second Sunday concert at Fair
2 mount Park, Philadelphia.
Hereafter the poor of New York can
listen to "Old Hundred" in the Cen
tral Park, on Sundays, by brass bands.
? The enormous consumption of
: electricity by the present carbon burn
} ers make it too costly for general use
l yet.
Antiquated extracting machinery
causes so per cent of Louisiana sugar
, to be lost in the bagassa or tailings
;, heap.
The cOlors of the Pullman palace
cars are dark olive shade, red velvet
1 uphOlstering and bright metallic trim
r mings.
e The cOurtliness of city papers are
e improving, they allude to each other
h now as "Our esteemed cotempOrary is
: mistaken"
:, a new bridge now building over the
Firth of Forth, Scotland, will have two
spans, each one as long rs the Brooklyn
Bridge, N. Y.
DIR. Koch, of Germany, thinks he has
. discovered the germ of cholera in the
$ Ganges and HOOgly rivers, India, ex-
It isting as a parasite.
y When used, muriate of zinc promises
+ to be as fatal as an amalgam, in the
f canning business, as sulphur is in the
Y evapOrating for bleacher.
r Philadelphia interdicted fire works
r ON the 4th, but all the same 10000
:: glasses of lager beer were swilled at
. Ridgway Park alone ON that day.
: $2,0O0,OOO of Reading Railroad re-
Oeivers certificates could not be placed
on the market lately at a less rate than
s 6per cent, costing $4,000 more than
3 was expected,
During thunder storm in the Cats
: kill mountains the guests at the
$ Kaaterskill Hotel listen to Hendrick
Q Hudson aud his crew bowling as they
y did in Rip VanWinkle's time.
The newly cOmpleted vault for the