Smyrna times., 1884-11-26
WHOLE NO. 1888.
Here and Elsewhere.
A marriage by telegraph is void.


The mosquito will safely inOcculate
against yellow fever.
The immense pine forests of Louisi-
ana do not readily take fire.
A government official scans the
schedules of Mexican railroads.
Spanish papers call Governor Cleve-
land the new GOvernor-General.
An Arab when offered drink saws:
Thanks, no, I drank yesterday.
Hydrocholric acid burns through
lead on the instant of contact.
Rosewood takes its name from the
roseate smell it has when first cut.
Mr.. Forepaugh declares he will
never buy another white elephant.
When sponges are first taken from
the water they look like raw liver.
English and Italian double turretted
iron-clads are rusting and rottening.
Quiet and sombre tints are the pre-
yailing shade in faces now as well as
dresses.
The one grain of sulpho-cyanogen in
toy serpents eggs" will take life if
swallowed
China will submit to but will not ask
United States mediation in the war
with France.
Melted Parafine applied to the outer
surface of brick walls will prevent salts
from exuding.
FOrepaugh's white elephant, the
Light of Asia" died a $52,O death
the other day.
A Georgia rooster so overioyed at
the turn events have taken has gone
to laying eggs.
The " slip Of the wheel" is the one
great drawback in the economy of
ocean steamers.
The Cattle Mems Convention, now
assembled at st. Louis, Mo-, represents
enormous wealth.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad
bridge across the Susquehanna river
will be 6,346 feet long.
Patrick Joseph Percy lyman. Mum
Der One" the founder of the Irish In
vincibles is in Philadelphia.
A full accredited United States min
lister to the courts of any of the great
powers gets $4,000 year.
A change in the administration will
at least have the effect of rendering
the Marine Bands airs new.
Philadelphia hesitates about permit
ting the old Liberty Bell to be taken to
the New Orleans exposition.
A brick will absorb one-tenth of its
weight with water and some times a
man will absorb whole brick.
The American line steamships are
being Overhauled for service in the In
ternational Navigation Company.
NOrdensjOld, the Arctic explorer 3
making preparations to try to penetrate
the ice barriers of the South Pole.
The magnetic needle dips perpen-
dicular at 70o north latitude and north
of this the compass veers to the south.
The clearest watered diamonds COM
ing to this country now are from the
newly discovered Cannaiveres mine in
Brazil.
The Congo river discharges volume
of water next to the Amazon, and
drains territory of 100000 square
: miles.
f Sugar reineries paying ST cents a
: pound for raw material and bearing a
, selling market at 81 cents close for a
, rise in the demand.
This is the coming problem for cleo
; tricians: If the earth forms negative
circuit why not the air become positive
l at parallel distances.
; The Washington Monument has
gone six feet past the height of the
towers of the Cologne Cathedral, the
highest in the world.
: The demand for Gen. Beauregard's
t article on the first Bull Run battle in
2 the November Century has exceeded
t any previous issue of the magazine.
E One of the largest foreign ships seek
, ing u charter is the German ship, j. W.
= Wendt, at Philadelphia, with a capaci-
r ty of 1880 barrels of petroleum.
/ The large diamond belonging to Mr..
s Simon Dessau, valued at $4,000 and
t called the Cleveland gem goes to
. dazzle the New Orleans exposition.
The uncertainty attending the future
= of the League Island navy ward as an
= eligible site makes it difficult to grade
. appropriations for its improvement.
e King Humbert of Italy humanely
o gathers up what money that is intend
il ed to celebrate his presence in the cit
l les and sends it to the cholera hospitals.
y 1t transpired at a watch improve
ment suit in Philadelphia that while a
factory could turn out 1000 watches a
/ day the profit was only 81 cents per
l. watch.
= The largest grain elevator in the
> world is at Newport News, Va, with a
u receiving capacity of 10000 bushels
{ and shipping capacity of 10000 bushels
Q per hour.
d Gen. Sheridan mindful of his many
V calvary raids during the war predicts
u that arm to be the coming leader in
Y future wars, to quickly destroy land
e commerce.
l. John Bright believes that the COM
IS ing blessing of free trade in this coun-
e try will with the aid of England break
q down the fabric of monopoly in the
% whole world.
Of 1t is assumed that the Gulf stream
g, debouching north of the eighty-fifth
d parallel of latitude is the cause of the
d climate being warmer than Immediate
ID " south of it.
4. John King, the new president of the
New York, Lake Erie and Western
Railroad refused higher salary than
~ $4,000 while the retiring president re-
q ceived 10000.
of To move the Cunard steamship
n. Oregon, across the Atlantic in six days
K it takes 337 tons of coal per day, the
if speed attained is II 1O-1OO miles pei
Of hour, and the cost per voyage is SIS,
le $40.
er
G. Among the amusing features of the
III Cattle Mems Convention at st. Louis
n Mo, is u COW boy band from Kansas
IS dressed in full frontier custom, th'
O. leader welding instead of baton {
We silver mounted Derringer foot long
sSu Benjamin Vests great painting o
% "Christ healing the sick" originally
> donated to the University of Pennsyl
II vania, but for the past quarter of 1
ia canturv an inmate of the RlOckle,