Smyrna times., 1884-11-05
WHOLE NO. 1880.
Here and Elsewhere.
A repeater-HistOry.

Paper has advanced two cents a
pound.
The District of Columbia has no elec-
tOral vote.
The Canadian has strapped on his
snow shoes.
Rags are still on the ragged edge at
quarantines.
They are talking of dollar oil in
Pennsylvania.
South America trades with US by
way of England.
The Baldwin locomotive works are
having dull times.
A Pennsylvania woman knitted a
shawl with her toes.
American cheese pans out badly un-
der English analysis.
Indigestion is the bug bear disease
of the United States.
The ex-Empress Eugenie lives now
IN the past of France.
Cows hair is now used in the adul.
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The University of Pennsylvania has
regiment of 1,022 students.
Wrecking companies are taking in
the sheckels now for salvage.
Mr. Moody states that none Of his
eXhortatiOns are spontaneous.
1t is claimed now that work CAUSES
sands nf fr
1t is coming in vogue now to sell fur.
nlture to beginners by the kit.
Mr.: Butler was only following the
wording of his name Benjamin.
/ The market will not be crammed
tins year with Jersey cranberries.
The Chinese are trying to get even
with the French in poisoned teas
President Arthur has no notion Of
being freely -highsted this Winter.
The ownership of the American Line
steamers has gone over to Europe
The kindergarten system makes
straight the path Ofpublic schools
Insurance companies contend that
character is the best policy for them.
The mission of Los Angeles. Caligor-
MIA, can grow bananas as well as
grapes.
1t will soon be war to the knife
and the knife to the hilt, among
pOrkers.
The Emperor of Germany now at
tends the army maneOuveurs only at
intervals.
The lost continent of Atlantis is re-
ceiving notice again from the scientists
of Europe.
The Prince of Wales has PRESENT.
ment that he will never be King of
England.
Honesty is the hest policy. and poll
cy Is the best, politics can afford Odeal
in honesty.
Forty tons of Chinese hair that came
regularly to Marseilles, France, doesn't
| come now.
The Philadelphia Record will not
rest this side of cooperation among
working people.
"Dies Irp," the torch hymn of the
| French revolution is now to be had
here in English.
The mountains of Moab south west
OF Jerulalem, in Syria, are mica bear
ing like our own Black Hills.
One penny will be added 10 the
English income tax to defray the ex-
penses of the Nile expedition.
The brain Graves and will have a
narcotic all the way from the dregs of
coffee to the degradation of rum.
Notwithstanding the many law suits
for precedence Delaware pilots are al
ways selected by incoming ships at the
capes.
With one or two exception the fy-
ing trOtters of the turf will 20 into
Winter quarters with Indifferent
profits.
COnfectiOners will give 70 cents a
/ pound for peach stone kernels which
are known in commerce as bitter
almonds.
In a list of 10000 vessel tons up for
charter in Philadelphia there were
only three American vessels in the
crowd last week.
Cigars pay direct tariff tax of $3.50
per pound and twenty-five per centum
| ad-valOrem and even then Germany
can send them here at profit.
Any good lawyer can give trouble
with a will if it reads, " Ny black and
white horses" instead of MY black
horses and my white horses"
The measurement of the Sine in the
! last transit of Venus across the disk of
the sun places the earth no nearer
than the old mark of 100000 miles.
Thousands of Germans, some French
men, and not few Russians are now
wearing entire wOOlen clothing in COM
| pliance with the rules of the new dress
| reform.
Politicians may pour into a working
mans ear his sovereign right to rule,
but unless he unreservedly places his
earnings in his wife's hands he only
fools with ruling.
The leading papers are urging par
ents to exercise censorship over their
children who read the dime novels and
1 naShy serial nOVelettes now flooding
the land and stop it.
In the rOtunda of the capitol Al
Raleigh, North Carolina, is a stone on
which if a lady stands her words be-
come inarticulate TO those around.
That stone deserves a monument.
For May Philadelphia's death nate
was Is lilo per cent in 1000, and Lon
don, England, which is considered the
healthiest city in the world, for the
same period was 20 $40 per cent in
l, 900 people.
Scouts who had been watching the
Armstrong oil well in Huntington,
Pa, left and reported it a "duster"
but no sooner had they done so than il
became "gusher at the rate of :, 500
barrels per day.
NJ. Alfred de La Bastie's discovery
of tempering glass by high heat and
an oil and resinOus bath is almost use
less from the fact that after being tenn
pered it flies to pieces on being cut
with a diamond.
We complain a great deal for not
permitting the avenues of work to be
open for women, but it is not so In
Germany. there women work in the
fields and when occasion requires are
harnessed to a cart with a dog.
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