Smyrna times., 1884-05-14
WHOLE NO. 1906.
Here and Elsewhere.
We all like praise.

people.
The seeds of the sunfiOwer absorb
malaria.
These mornings are the prettiest in
the year.
The eight hour rule is again agitated
in the cities.
The Suez Canal cost one hundred
millions of dollars.
The Russians drink tea scalding hot
from glass tumblers.
The Mormons of Utah receive daily
additions to their strength.
There are no skies in the world so
beautiful as those Of Arabia.
English engineer critics are making
iun OF our new steel cruisers.
Ex-Governor John w. Hall, is the
principal owner in AZ vessels.
Our assisted emigrants,n the spar
rows harass our native robins.
South Jerseymen send pine cones TO
Philadelphia for their fragrance.
DNu iauuS OF tue west may
yet be the good land in minerals.
We do not need Cuba near 50 much
as Mexico and perhaps not either.
Clayton is like the mushroom towns
oil the West it smells Of newness.
The names Of the streets in BaIti-
mere, Nd, indicate nothing to a stran-
ger.
From perfectly straight line the
earth bends away eight inches in every
mile.
The great drawback in the economy
OF continuous street railway cables IS
friction.
WOrkmen can only become great By
attending to small things with great
attention.
A thousand mile journey is eOnsia-
cred no great feat to perform in Siber-
ian Russia.
House of Correction labor has re-
claimed the tide-swept marshes Of
Philadelphia.
If it were not for malaria North Car
DINA along the coast would be a para
disc to live in.
The points Of cut nails mot the
heads dipped in lard oil drive easily
in hard boards.
Rum and tobacco are poison stimu-
lants that the system abhOSs at first
and then Graves.
Victor Hugo the famous French
writer insists on kissing all the ladies
that are presented to him.
/ To break theforee Ofthe waves oil i
now thrown on the waters By sea cap
tains with great satisfaction.
I The Mississippi River jetties are 50
TAR doing their own dredging, utilizing
the current for this purpose.
The wild SOudanese Of Africa disDlav
all the trickery Of ambush lighting
that our far West Indians do.
Ex-President Willard, Of the Pacific
Railroad, has lost AZ pounds in weight
frOm insomnia-want Of sleep.
India, Abyssinia, Egypt and Russia
menace the grain export trade Of the
United States with cheap labor.
The bell bird Of Brazil. giving out a
note as clear and sweet as a convent
bell, can be heard, but rartly seen
A stand-pipe Of sufficient hsight near
the bridge at Green River would he
Smyrna's protection is case OF ere.
The Canadian habitant after his long
Winter, thinks he Is late IL he Is not In
the fields at work BY 4 o'clock A. n.
Frank Hurd's speech she other dav
on Free Trade electrified the Hossse
OF Representatives at Washington. d.
c.
We are a people within ourselves.
but for some reason the edge Of the
ocean limits the output Of eur indus-
tries.
At eight cents a ten, on coal with pos
sible transit Of l, Coz, 600, the Delaware&
Chesapeake Canal viii collect this wear
$4,000.
England may not have = White
/ Elephant but she has an elephant all
the same on her hands just nov In
Egypt.
Country roads can never Be kept in
good conditions while the rear Wheels
/ of heavily loaded wagons track In line
with the front ones.
Sometimes, unexpectedly, We get the
cOnceit Of smartness taken out Of rs by
very humble means-a hornet, Tor
instance, or a woman
Lieutenant DannenhOwer, Of the
JeanRette expedition, states that the
only way the North pole will be
reached is by an air ship.
The passenger lists Of the Guion
I ocean steamers Alaska and Oreqoz are
always filed in advance ef >sa.eir arr
val at New York or Liverpool.
Twenty years ago we knew nothing
of the Northwest blizzard wirds.
( Twenty years hence the warm South
west chinook wind will be just as fAm-
iliar.
Surface water flowing into snblerra-
mean fires generates sufficient steam -
cause earthquakes wherever it occurs
The safety valves Of these fires are vol-
canoes.
AAks A1tAAAC II ttAE aAk1s 44A A41
book never delayed the printers for
copy. He intesiined 4 great deal and
7 thereby lost the votes Of the printers,
if not their souls.
The advantages Of the Darien Canal
become more apparent when East or
West bound ships are frequently lissy
days in weathering the pr0moRt0ry of
Cape Horn, South America
We may for a time be denied a rnil-
road curve, but If q straight line i
drawn from Smyrna 10 the mouth Of
! the creek enough curves would be
strung ON it to last rs a century.
1t is impossible for sharp axe 10 20
crashing into your foot If the hand
nearest to you pushes the axe away on
the descending stroke. It Is that hand
! drawing that does the damage.
They are, on account Of thzsr ex-
treme light draught, thinking Of BALD
ing leather boats on the Western rivers
since a aCleveland, Ohio, girl saved seven
persons with her shoes during the lmte
floods.
To prevent cryslalization cf fhe
fibres, boilers are liable to becoma over
heated from the deposit of mua sedi-
ment on the crown sheets, biow cut
under pressure an inch or two every