Smyrna times., 1884-09-17
WHOLE NO. 1923.
Here and Elsewhere.
The equi-knocks-Pugilists.

Russian bellies whiten their hair.
Butler will see his barrel a million.
For " Ouida," pronounce it Weeda.
Oysters are more nutritious than beef
Petrified wood is displacing Califor-
mia onyx.
Chestnuts are giving no signs for
winter yet.
A hog shrinks eighty pounds after
being killed.
New York will grow 1000 900 bar
rels of apples.
The Germans have struck in to max
ing paper bottles.
Whiskey is being shipped to Europe
to avoid taxation.
India is growing tobacco to equal in
quality the Cuban.
Flour is now made from wood pulp.
Not to eat, however.
1t takes half million daily to
oyster Philadelphia.
Michigan will clip this year 13,OOO,-
600 pounds of wool.
Herbert Spencer is at work on "Po-
litical Superstition"
Slim persons are now wearing Jackets
of Turkish tOwelng.
Men of fashion, in New York, are
covered with jewelry.
Last year from 100000 heads 100 tons
of hair was harvested.
Lancaster, Pa, tobacco will come
into market very fine.
Sorghum is fed to cattle in the South
with excellent results.
While the shadows murmur. the
deeps keep on drinking.
Immigrant paupers sent back to Eu-
! rope are returning again.
The Mahdi has captured S15O,OOO of
General GordOn's money.
The Germans are drinking more
beer and using less tobacco.
The ague is creeping among the
mountains of Pennsylvania.
Three rings on the third finger may
look so, but it is not too many.
Queen Victoria thinks enough of her
cook to pay him $500 year.
Miss Banks, the daughter of General
n, L. Banks OOpS on the SfoUa
The experiment of seine porpoise
fishing at Cape May is a success.
Slow old Holland is going to try her
hand at climbing the North Pole.
1t is not true that tobacco and bran
dy have blinded Lizt, the composer.
East side New York tenement dwell
ers now live on cheap fruit and fish.
T The once famous Cpur Alene mining
: region, in Montana, is now abandoned.
The French Academy offers 100000
francs for an infallible cholera remedy.
: Patti has her castle of Craig-y-Nos,
: in Wales, England, lighted by electri-
city.
: To its other troubles, Marseilles.
France, is threatened with a meat fa-
: mine.
5 Ere long the Brooklyn Bridge will
e be a free highway between the two
= cities.
The hOatsam and jetsam of the At
lantic makes real estate for Atlantic
!, City, N. J.
t 1t cost $1,000 to bring a carload of
fruit from the coast of California to
n New York.
1 Not one of the scientists at the Ex-
= hibitiOn, attempts to give an analysis
i of electricity.
, Mr.. Tilden was able to shake hands
3 with one of several visiting statesmen,
y the other day.
+ A rough diamond, found on the coast
e of Africa, will weigh 300 carats. The
= largest extant.
Perry, n. Y, is in blaze of excite
: ment over the discovery of salt one
# hundred feet thick
h Many a hitherto unnoticed farmers
) yOungster gets chucked under the
It chin by politicians now.
! 1t is said 10000 children are unable
- to enter Philadelphia's schools for
want of accommodations.
e The black smoke pouring from the
$ stack of a locomotive, indicates that
$ combustion is not perfect.
At Six pistol factoriesin in Norwich, Conn. ,
il have suspended. Still that is what
le their product generally did.
d The laws of heredity is what governs
r the development of child's character.
le Training merely mOdifes it.
le A compost heap must be moist with
. 100 degrees of heat to destroy the vi
- - tality in the seeds of weeds.
ID A new improvement in canned fruit
o. dispenses with sugar when canning,
ne adding it when placed on the table.
j. Spring motors for sewing machines
n are coming out. The effect will be for
er some women to be alive next spring.
oF of The other day one hundred and fifty
! lCGI vi bAAO AnttAA NldCh Vi bLO
ID Valley r. R., suddenly sank three feet.
Is "My mother died before my oldest
en- brother was born,n is the way some
ne dime novel writers instruct their read
us ers.
he
re A shaft in the Mammoth Vein coal
is; mine, Shenandoah, Pa, was success
at fully lighted by electricity the other
of night.
oD 10 Now is the preserving time with wO-
On i men. The men consent, for it is either
10 "put up" now, or "shut up" next
40. winter.
ed Experts at the Smithsonian Institute
pt- say there are only three species OF
ng snakes in North America, with sixty
CO. varieties.
In In On taking command of the Nile re
ne -: lief expedition, General Sir Garnet
w. = Wolsely insisted on a carte blanche
- commission.
vim In the late corner in pork, P. d. Ar
eir mour, the Pork King. made milliOI
the dollars by buying at $17 and selling a
md $22.50 per barrel.
!, 70 The Pennsylvania State Agricultu
1leS ,o5 raj Society will give $500, in five pre-
lou l!'1 miums, to the best lady's hOme-mad'
.l .lte dress, exhibited at their fair.