Smyrna times., 1884-09-10
Here and Elsewhere.

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Egypt declares she is bankrupt.
The next is portable telephones.
The life of an oil well is six years.
Lady drummers are taking the road.
Vegetarianism is doomed in France.
A Jew, as is Jew, will not sell liquor.
England ships no more iron rails this
way.
Connecticut loses her huckleberry
crop.
Tobacco affects the nerves of the
heart.
Krupp is making more guns for Ger
many.
Fashion affects the nerves of the
purse,
The poor dread the advent of the
I-cycle.
You never catch negro committing
suicide.
Sunday shaving is a Sabbath desc
Grafton.
The cotton bolls " of the South are
opening.
Jersey City is the home of Chinese
laundries.
The helmets of city policemen invite
sunstrOke.
High old time" is nearly over at
the resorts.
General Sheridan has hobby for
big horses.
Brick kilns are being improvised into
crematories.
Hartford, Conn.,, shelters 500 silent
, bicycle riders.
| Boston sees to it that salesladies have
, seats in stores.
Pomegranates bring in 500 for each
Southern acre.
All sorts of old furniture to have is
the desire now.
: Berks county, Pa, is safe for apples
and chestnuts.
n Philadelphia is warning against sub
p urban pig pens.
!, Cholera and smallpox arise from the
same microbes"
5 Let Georgia alone for a booming
II sweet potato crop.
E, Billions of feet of good pine are in
r LOuisiana's forests.
,o California would be nothing without
v large crops of honey.
:. Australia averages only seven bush
- - els of wheat per acre.
} Germany takes the bulk of our pc
"a trOleum; England next.
v Some Western towns are trying the
$, uncertain light of water gas.
II Some of the papers put Delaware's
ii peaches at 100000 baskets.
IS. The Maryland Penitentiary is the
Is Is best managed in the country.
lit Four pound bass come to the hook
~ now in Pennsylvania streams.
Indian students, instead of going
back West, work East for pay.
Colorado, with all her cattle, imports
no $500 900 worth of butter year.
Jerseymen can make money by send
ing pigeon squads to New York.
les COrsets, made from bark, are out,
and are superior to steel or bone.
lty For want of proof tradition places
the game of chess at 5000 years old.
Pittsburg, Pa, people think an ex-
CT plOsiOn from using natural gas, likely.
re- In the South the store credit system
ty. is ruinous alike to merchant and farm
es er.
,or At Mount Vernon, Va, relic hunters
are directed to the ice house and there
cool.
The boys are making history in as
Ol trOnOmy by attaching lights to their
kites.
w The Emperor William, of Germany,
has laid aside the "spurs he wore at
Jena"
me Russia, in accordance with her sleep,
will not allow women to become ply
sicians.
There is scheme for nearly every
wn tie on the Reading Railroad, to reOr-
ganize it.
len We drink millions more bottles OF
champagne than what France makes
any year.
England has given Chicago firm
an order for 100000 pounds of COM
49,. pressed beef.
'rth More insane persons are behind the
the bars in Pennsylvania prisons thar
sets ought to be.
va Excursion rates from the North tC
.rds the New Orleans Exposition are al
ctic most nothing.
ecu ecu As in the olden time, lepers can still
Ia he met with outside of the gates of Je
self S rusalem, Syria.
cad The failure of the Warner & Merit
zen fruit firm breaks up the fleet of Wes
the India fruiterers.
ned
eem At any rate Miss Lulu Hurstis earn
De my S1SOOO ulSuG dinOHS tuO TITS
men cans" California.
ONE Girls are a bad investment. So baC
In that we put up with them for the SAX
n to of the Investment.
eme The Queen of Madagascar will in
bay. ers ooa;nst France
rnal
sum- There is no fertilizing value in tOma
toes, but Florida plOws them under
they are so abundant.
( 0OO Everything attains large size in Orr
cent gOn, even oysters are found two te'
fsrts iu diameter in Puget Sound.
neral A battalion of Canadian vOyageu
npiy will manage the boats for the relief {
% 70 General Gordon, up the Nile.
stin- A little girl sent a note to the Pos
and's master General to be careful as 81
have used cancelled postage stamp.
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urer. Forty years ago Morse met wi
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