Smyrna times., 1884-12-31
WHOLE NO. 1888.
Here and Elsewhere.
1885 has a bill.


Last week the stock market was
8 Ofjsh."
About now diaries are commenced
and ended.
Bare floors are the most healthy for
bed rooms.
Ohio boasts of four score and five
years antiquity.
Express companies report a full
crop of parcels.
TwO-thirds Of life's annoyances come
from over-eating.
The high license liquor law pleases
the people of Illinois.
In Europe the cholera progressed at
the rate a man walks.
Christian K. Ross has given up all
hope of finding hfs lost boy.
The Hooking Valley miners are out
$780, 900 in wages by striking.
In the tin plate fight, manufacturers
are disagreeing on vital points.
Making a supper on a cracker and
red herring will reduce ones obesity.
A play costing $4,000 to mount was
burned at a New York theatre fire last
week
Russia will flank Frances conquest
of TOnquin China by the seizure Of
COrea.
The South American commission
sent out by Congress is lettering at the
Exposition.
The New York papers speak of the
increased advertising done there as
phenomenal.
Lieut.. Greedy wrote for the Chicago
Current how he spent Christmas in the
Arctic regions.
The London Daily Ne,Co admires the
splendid energy Mr. Blaine displayed
in his campaign.
Extensive improvements are being
made on the navigation of the Dismal
Swamp Canal, Va.
A Brazilian doctor has succeeded in
producing a mild form of yellow fever
with the attenuated germs.
The quicksand shoals Of the Brandy
wine, in Delaware Bay, are considered
the most dangerous along the coast.
Oscar Wilde says the Americans
show more sense in wearing soft felt
hats than do the English in high tiles.
In the oil country of Pennsylvania
"gusher" has opened a half mile dis
tant from all previous developments.
Lives Of great men oft remind US,
We may make our lives sublime,
And, in dying, leave behind us,
Creditors for ev'ry dime.
Funds are being raised at Berlin,
Germany, for Prince Bismarck as an
expression of the confidence of the
nation.
The new Treasury Department cir
cular mOdifes the old one so far as to
admit rags from all ports after disin-
fection.
A United States Senator engrafted
the whole of the constitution into q
speech for the edifcation of his con-
stituents.
A bark with a cargo consigned to
Wilmington, North Carolina, lately
made the mistake of coming to Will
mingtOn, Del, instead.
Emperor Dom Pedro. of Brazil, un-
expectedly presents himself for an in
spectiOn at the large manufacturing
places OF Rio de JanierO.
The Pittsburg Dispatch says banks
are refusing to take gold coins, that
have been robbed of 80 per cent of their
weight by corrosive acids.
The proposal of America to suspend
the coinage of silver was not discussed
at the close of the International Mon.
etary Conference at Rome.
The Pennsylvania coal carrying
companies will enter the coming yeal
on the allotment plan, the basis being
an output of 80, 100000 tons.
New England whalers find it very
convenient to make a depot of the
Galapagos Islands in the South Allan
tic. instead of making long voyages
home.
The rate on the new Bennett anC
and Mackey ocean cables just opened
will be 40 cents per word which is q
per cent. reduction on the presen
tariff.
A New York publishing firm ha!
signed a contract with General B. F
Butler for $4,000 and small royalty
to furnish two volumes of his pOlitica
"reminiscences.
2 Senior Celso Cesar Moreno, VIII,
, started the agitation which resulted il
Congress passing law to destroy tn,
PadrOne system" among Italians
has returned from Italy to vigOrOusl!
= enforce it.
The hope of NJ. de Lesseps that tn
Panama canal would be in its waite
! levels similar to the Suez canal ant
therefore not requiring locks will NO
. be fulfilled, as the Pacific is consider
!, ably higher than the Atlantic at tn
. Isthmus.
5 The Alcoholic Liquor Commission
Bill has now passed for the fourth tim
in the United States Senate. 1t pro
> poses to inquire into its revenue an
: taxation, also its aspect on the crimi
nal, and moral status in connection wit