Smyrna times., 1884-10-01
WHOLE NO. 1925.
Here and Elsewhere.
General Gordon wants sl.5OO.OOO.

UeueIdl OoruOh wants Sl Sl,OUO,OOO.
Edison at the exhibition goes about
quietly.
In the sere and yellow leaf-Seer-
suckers.
Cleveland, Ohio, is troubled with
ire-bugs.
Gorgeous bangled garters are out
but hidden.
At Chicago corn is steadily improv-
ing in price.
Spain holds first rank as lead pro-
ducing country.
Cast-iron chilled tools will soon take
the place of steel.
Roscoe Conkling longs for his old
seat in the Senate.
American cattle and breadstuffs are
wanted in England.
Maryland politicians send their cleo
tors on the hustings.
The French are making leather to
initiate alligator hide.
Female horse thieves are surprising
Pennsylvania farmers.
Swamp fires are laying waste New
Jersey cranberry bOgs.
In trade circles, business is better in
anticipation than in fact.
The Norristown, Pa, Insane Asylum
has organized a brass band.
Prize fighting with bare knuckles is
getting back into favor again.
ZOdiacal light is now attributed to re-
fraction from the earth's heat.
Sugar promises to be a political fac
tor in the present campaign.
Professors say now that plants mi
crate the same as Cinnamon.
$30OOOOOO will find its way to the
South to house the cotton crop.
The oyster has mouth, heart, lungs,
liver, and slight nervous system.
: The German steamers touching at
Baltimore, are paying right along.
5 A Chinese nabOb has bObbed up
!, worth as much as the Rothschilds.
Napoleon chose his generals from
men with, not red, but large noses.
And the drummer politician taketh
now better grip onto his grip sack.
n The higher the elevation, the easier
u becomes instantaneous photography.
# The Pope will personally visit chol-
o era patients in the hospitals at Rome.
Jay Gould's Judgment on finance is
> considered to be well nigh infallible.
a Cows with butter test of fourteen
> pounds a week are almost everywhere.
t. The appraisement has been made for
e a grand National Park, at Niagara
= Falls.
Is Is T. F. Bayard's Brooklyn speech is
- ~ eulOgised by the press for its matchless
q OratOry.
ID Italian railroad laborers have intro
ID duced plague of fieas into northern
"a Delaware.
er 1t is claimed that 25,OOO persons are
le engaged in carp culture, throughout
ly the country.
&c Laundry people complain of the
growing habit clerks have of writing
on their cuffs.
n The brass bands from four counties
)s- met in convention at PembertOn, n. j.,
ds the other day.
zee The different posts of the Grand
a Army of the Republic are to be kept
out Ofpolitics.
90 Taglioni was the only woman who
"a ever made Queen Victoria jealous o.
h. Prince Albert.
*, Women, from their delicacy of touch
ge are finding employment in New York
su' as gold-beaters.
nd, Some 10000 men passed in review
of before Mr. Blaine, at Philadelphia, one
ta- night last week.
Av A flying column to General Gordon
nd will Immediately take the place of the
if relief expedition.
my The balance blocks in lOcOmotiv,
i0 wheels, which cause lumpy tracks will
soon be discarded.
raj The days of double and triple edito
Try rial columns, together with twO-hou
ed. sermons, are over.
ct Polluted water from a we'll to COWS
the is though to be the cause of typhOi
Irv fever, at Elkton, Md.
the Stamford Conn, is fineing shoema
kers for working in their gardens o
Sundays for exercise.
~" The so-called "singing sands of tn
IS" Lake beaches, are to be collected fC
the scientific investigation.
as Apparently the project to cut shi
go canal across the Delaware Peninsul
has died "a-borning."
The American delegates to the Re
the Cross Convention, at Geneva, Switze
per land, are being liOnized.
it is
$ in General Stone, the engineer of Il
}, of Bartholdi statue, apprehends troub
, g. during high gales of wind.
CUT Professor VIM. T. Wagner has give
to the Wagner Free Institute, Phil
took delphia, 100000 in endOwments.
peak
ever, The medical journals call attentiC
,i6II iali to the fact that inattention in schO
,kers children, is due really to deafness as
What hat rule.
AgR Re. The Harlan & HollingswOrth Coz
pany, of Wilmington, are building Il
huge transfer boats for the Cherrystol
Chi Railroad.
, for Dom Pedro II, Emperor of the BI
- zils, came near getting drowned Il
other day, by the upsetting of a bo
o,l- he was in.
that The span for the bridge over t
atri- Susquehanna, on the new BaltimO
and Ohio Railroad, will be 500 feet, t
longest in the world.
beds The Ascott Cup, won by Mr.. Keen
,orIv horse, FOxhall, has, after two yea
detention by the customs cOlleet'
been admitted free of duty.
# of While the three Emperors, in RI
Aus sian uniforms, were hugging ca
OOO,- other in Austria, their ministers WI
agreeing upon triple alliance.