Smyrna times., 1884-07-23
WHOLE NO. l,5l5.
Here and Elsewhere.


drought.
A tariff for revenue only; Chicago
hotel keepers.
Jay-Eye-See has passed under the
wire this time in 2.114.
A massive dog always goes with
Bismarck in his walks.
One ostrich egg is equal in weight to
twenty eight hen eggs
Limburger cheese is the purest of all
cheese except in fragrance.
The expenses of Mr.. MOody's last re-
vival in England were $4,000
Haawarden the residence of Premier
Gladstone is guarded like a fort.
Oscar Wilde thinks now the cabbage
is entitled to some notice as a flower.
According to the number of wheels
wheelbarrOw must be unicycle"
Pittsburg, Pa, after years of waste is
successfully using natural gas for fuel.
Thin crown sheet boiler plates are
less liable to burn cut than thick ones.
Several bOOms as big around as
barrel can be bought cheap at this
time.
The Pennsylvania Railroad will on
no account allow Sunday work in its
shops.
Ocean steamers will tote passenger
across the briny deep for as low as ten
dollars.
Coasting hills with double inclined
sides now robs Winter Of some cold
fingers.
The General of the Army" sheri-
dan is hustling officers about in all di-
rectiOns
A straw hat and blue blouse is the
French President Grevy's costume on
his farm.
The Pope of Rome gives away
through the year million of dollars to
, charities.
Barring accidents and repairs, six
: cents a mile will run a locomotive the
year round.
: For forty years the town Of FIRE.
dOnia, N. Y, has been lighted with
, natural gas.
| Mr.. P. T. Barnum believes that this
! white elephant business will ruin the
c circus trade.
1t is the easiest thing in the world
for man to outlive his reputation in
saving wood.
, Emily Faithful says it is refreshing
: to see how devoted American men are
: to their wives.
# The new "Edgerton system " of
making gas is said to be superior to
:. the present mode.
/ The AtGIGntd, Jay Gould's yacht, is
going to try her hand at an ocean race
on the 7th of August.
d Northern lumber men are looking
5. with envious eyes upon the rich pine
e forests of the South.
- WOOdcock are so fat and lazy now
- that spOrtsmen shoot them best with
!. pistol in the branches.
'e The New Orleans exposition build
ings will cover more ground than did
the Centennial at Philadelphia.
d Some girls in the Northwest are
t working in the harvest fields at $500
u day rather than wash dishes at 81 a
n week.
o Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's word
"a painting brings him in every year
is $4,000 more than the Presidents
salary.
The FarralOne Islands at the en-
trance to the Golden Gate, California,
is where the shOwmen of this country
d get sea lions.
In 1870 Texas held within her bor-
IS ders One-seventh of the horned cattle
lr in the United States, and in 1884 she
still holds One-eighth.
lg In political economy DIR. Nautilus ad-
he vances the idea that "all increase of
population presses heavily against the
bounds of subsistence"
II The first regular newspaper started
in the United States, the Boston Me1ps-
,e Letter in 17O4, was forty years in get
n ting a circulation of 800.
The old soldiers at the Soldiers
of Home, Washington, grOwl like fun
le when the President comes there to
= live; too much ceremony.
IS Cutting prices is the bane of Ameri-
OF can business methods because it
IN antagonizes the machinery of prOduc-
ton with that of distribution.
n, There are cannon being cast for the
lg Government that are 3S1 feet long and
is Al feet across the breech, weighing
without the carriage 12O tons.
III 1t is said operations are conducted
ne on the Panama canal in Oriental style,
K clerks go out in carriages attended by
footmen to take the time of the men.
Po "Praise God from whom all bless
% ings fOw," leaped spontaneously from
" the throats of 10000 working people at
80 the first Sunday concert held at Central
Park, New York.
M Although an immense amount of
bv of money passes through the hands of
n the ladies employed at the treasury