Smyrna times., 1884-06-11
WHOLE NO. 1909.
Here and Elsewhere.
In full blOom-nOdding plumes.
Vermont excels in cheese making.

1t is treat now to look at the wavy
wheat.
Ships that need no piIOts-schOOners
of beer.
Paper peach baskets are in the near
future.
The hop crop of New York will yield
largely.
S0otis one of the very best fertilizers
for flowers.
a fair sized black walnut tree is now
worth $3.50.
Easton, Md, enjoys the trade from
three counties.
The Chesapeake bay steam boats set
a superb table.
Rice plants require to be set out in
mud knee deep.
Alabama is developing deposits Of
phosphate Of lime.
The wild vanilla bean of Mexico sells
for SIG per pound.
At feed time fish will appear ut the
sound of a whistle.
Our little church around the cor
ner the pOstoffice.
The grain elevator system is being
introduced in Russia.
/ The Bennet-Mackey ocean cable is
now being reeled out.
The watershed of the Peninsula is
64 feet above sea level.
Paper carriage wheel spokes equal
to wood are now made
A brilliant wedding-the marriage
Of red headed couple.
The jOcund bobolinks are now max
ing the meadows lively.
Mrs. Langtry has invested $4,000
in New York real estate.
American painters are getting foot
hold in the French salons.
\ judge has decided in Philadelphia
that ideas are not property.
Tom Hughes colony at Rugby. Ten
nessce, is hardly holding its own.
High license in the liquor traffic
plays high jinks with free drinks.
The best butter in the New York
market comes from Elgin, Illinois.
Traction engines carrying a gang of
l6 plOws are in use on the prairies.
We will know what early truck is
when Norfolk, Va, ships this way.
The most appropriate ideal name for
this Peninsula would be Delmarvia.
\ Mexican will save his money for
months to buy an embroidered jacket.
From a plaster impression fraudu-
lent alligator hide is now being made.
The octagon or eight square $50 gold
, pieces are limited to the Pacific coast.
The supply of wheat in this country
5 Oh March lst was 155,OOO,OOO bushels.
The gangs of Welsh Mountain rob-
: bers in Pennsylvania have all disap-
; peared.
l In a room flowers are disinfectant
D by inhaling carbonic gas and giving off
? oxygen.
|, Perforated chamios leather under
7. clothing exempts the wearer from TAX
ing cold.
1 Prior to May Dist Alabama sent
t peaches north measuring % inches in
; diameter.
! ScrOntia, mineral, is of the utmos t
value in extracting the sugar from
beet root.
t The steamship Great Eastern will be
: used for hotel at the New Orleans
a Exposition.
The foundation for the Bartholdi
; statue is completed on Bedloe Island
; New York bay.
r 4 gypsy queen 100 years old was
4 buried the other day in Pennsylvania
e with regal hOnOrs.
a 1t is required to breed 10000
horses annually in the United States to
o keep up the supply.
4 Instead of scissors BARRIERS now place
d flexible gas jet to your head and call
If it Cremate-shampOO.
The daily average use of water per
capita is in Washington l76 gallons ia
New York 76 gallons.
1t costs from the interior to tide
water 1871 cents to transport in PenG-
Il sylvania ton of coal.
Y In VanBuren's time it was thought
Il too expensive to keep the books of the
if treasury by dOubly entry.
e Red river, Louisiana, steam boats
, lift themselves out of the water with
;, Tenders to get over the shoals
:. In New Jersey peach brandy is SO
] ~
d lightning that they call it cider.
Is By the recent stranding of the steam
Al fruiter GtdSsait the keepers of Cape
:. Hatteras light had one good feast on
o bananas.
p Women exercising the right of suf
" frage may be all right as an ideal fancy
% but it will play hob" with many a
sr chaps dinner.
a Outside of the public lands only II
/ per cent of the area of the United
i States is woodland, in Europe it is q
II per cent.
is Henry Irving, the actor and Mis-
t. Ellen Terry are well pleased with their
I. reception financially and otherwise il
3 the United States.
N prominent undertaken saws tha
y between man and wife whichever ON,
Al was boss in life takes precedence OF
% the right in burial.
~ South drifting ice-bergs in the Allan
i. tic are reported in large numbers from
l. Cape MOntauk, Long Island, to north
IA of Cape Cod, Mass.
es Twice year the roofs in the vicinit,
t of the United States Mint, Philadei
le Phia, are swept for the gold and silve
I, deposited on them.
n 1t is now proposed to connect the
,g railways of the United States will
,d those of Asia and Europe by a ferr,
across Behring's strait.
Locomotive engineers looking stead
N lily at the track for hours have the rail
e. photographed ON the retina of the eye
n producing color blindness.
:" - The Allen Royal Mail STEAMSHIP
81 Company has placed three powerful
~ ships in service between Glasgow
90 Scotland, and Philadelphia.
h. El-Madhi the second prophet of tn
4 SOudan has it is said the faculty of be
er coming invisible at WILL Some of Oul
a mad people would like to have thl