Smyrna times., 1884-08-20
WHOLE NO. 1919.
Here and Elsewhere.
Bar Harbor, Maine, has no bar.


King John of Abyssinia buffers his
cad.
Fittingly Lieut.. Greedy dresses now
a white.
Idaho makes no whiskey worth
peaking of.
Snails only move about when it is
,oing to rain.
Prairie dogs are extending their line
If battle East
The Bartholdi statue lags from finan-
,ial difficulties.
As usual We are over-producing in
political scandal
Caterers use AppOlonaris water now
to make lemonade.
The crows are nOnplussed to see so
many tramps about.
Most any Prohibitionist will quickly
rise to pint of order.
The profits of the British post office
for 1888 were $36,OOO,OOO.
There are upwards of 60, 600 locomO-
tives in the United States.
From over the water come Lords to
scOur our plains for buffalo.
Fine laminated statuary marble has
been discovered in Alabama.
The Bank of England takes no
account of the fractions of penny.
Queen Victoria continually longs to
be among the old hills of Scotland.
Euterpe, eurOyclyden, sirOcco and
monsoon are the gale winds of Asia.
Gatling the inventor of the terrible
"Gatling gun got it up to save life.
Labrador, by reason of fogs, is the
"White Ghost of the North Atlantic"
For a good shine the "Fresnel "
light holds its own yet in light houses.
Won Moltke, of the Prussian Army,
does not unbend even to the Emperor.
Time and tide waits for no man;
but how can man be in time if he is
tied?
Buffers famous Dutch Gap Canal,
Virginia, is chOked with weeds and is
useless.
The French Academy will not recog-
nize the genius of George Sand with
memorial
King George of Greece complains of
being let severely alone by the Powers
of Europe.
There are more heart-aches on this
glittering globe of ours than will ever
be earthquakes.
A New York woman has agreed to
furnish a Paris, France, milliner with
900 bird skins.
There is not another river in the
world so filthy from sewerage as the
Thames, England.
: 1t is estimated that double the quan-
t tity of matches are used since hun
1 dred go for cent.
, MexicO's superb flowers will take
, 2,2OO square feet of space at the New
, Orleans Exposition.
Upwards of 2, 900 intruding settlers in
the Indian Territory are to be expelled
4 by United States troops.
J., The Greedy party while at Fort Con-
n ger had tanned musk oxen so that they
e would eat from the hand.
An inspired article in the English
. press gives to the Prince of Wales the
most advanced liberal ideas.
: In out of the way places of Silesia,
d Germany, whole families work through
II the year ON toys for Christmas.
1t costs for ton of bones SO freight
= on the trunk lines to transport them
from the plains to Eastern points.
r The AtalantG's fast time, 20 1900
b, miles per hour, will cram her builders,
r, Cramp & Sons, with future orders.
Is Hop growing makes and breaks the
y farmers of Northern New York as
effectually as stock gambling would.
There are more ocean resorts along
F.. the New England coast than there i:
i, for the same length of coast in the
IS world.
Commander Waddell in his new cut
:, ter pivot gun-bOat ON the Chesapeake
;, will bring to grief unlawful Oystel
: dredging.
st The average annual salary of lady
is teachers in the public schools of Lon
is don, England, is $523.SO, and ours il
d. less than that.
ne
ba New Haven, Conn, authorities hav,
fl pulled up oyster bearing trees or
No. account of scarlet fever and diptheri
TO- they prOpagated.
es' 1t is hard to realize, yet there ar
ell several counties in Texas that cOul,
lg' each take in Massachusetts as a CUES
'ar and not be crowded.
ew The ex-Empress Eugene has littl
hopes for the restoration of the Frenc
Empire through the efforts of Prime
tie Plon PlOn Napoleon.
=, Paul BOytOn, the swimmer, is em
- plOyed regularly every Summer q
~ some of the New Jersey resorts to saw
bathers from drowning.
Being exposed on the ranges of th
West and Southwest all Winter is SUI
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