Smyrna times., 1884-10-15
Here and Elsewhere.
A masher-A smasher.

A masher-A smasher.
Fanny Elssler is dying in want.
Ifnot set in your ways, try work.
Roumanian Jews are being exiled.
Normal schools teach sewing to girls.
The proof of the pudding is to get it.
Bessemer steel is as low as s19 per
ton.
The American Alliance party has
collapsed.
Incoming steamers report fogs of un-
usual density.
Distinguished arrivals of lace put up
at the custom house.
Plates have been ruled up to 1.OOO,-
600 lines to the inch.
The tallOw candle generates /. As per
cent. of carbOnic acid gas.
The prices on anthracite coal are
shaded to attract buyers.
Money is abundant on call at four
per cent, but trihe deaf.
Edison grieves that electricity de-
pends for life upon steam.
Messrs. Gould and Vanderbilt are
fighting after school hours.
Agricultural fairs are taking in the
last of the summer dollars.
tits race with death to become ac-
climated in Liberia, Africa.
Wheat is climbing up a cent at a time
under European demand.
The United States will not mediate
between France and China.
All the United States Supreme Court
judges take kindly to whist.
The laws of competition ride rough
shOd over the laws of honor.
Trees are not like cattle that can
roam over the fields for food.
Polarized light shows all the Won
ders Of the rainbow in chip.
Eighty per cent. of grape cuttings
generally come to something.
The gift of CAB, allied to grab, is the
winning card now, apparently.
The most terrible agents the Russian
Nihilists have are young girls.
The patient Silesians make the finest
table linen that is imported here.
Brick boxes for schools is as far as
city boards of education have got.
The tramp" steamers have all
hied away to the South to load cotton.
Sitting Bull with other Indians of
the Sioux are now on show in the East.
The milkmaids of Balmoral, Scot
land, first suggested the red petticOat.
The dense shade of buckwheat
makes it valuable as a weed destroyer.
All the unfavOrable conditions still
exist in the Pennsylvania iron markets.
Reversing a locomotive at full speed
is next to nothing for stopping it quick
ly.
Delaware watermen always look for
high water at Reedy Island at moon
rise.
The PAGER Johnston has made the
mile in the terrific time of 2.06i min
utes.
The Socialists have secured quite
representation in the German Parlia-
ment.
More than usual care is taken for
the comfort of employees in large city
stores.
Old war rifles by the thousand are
being remOdeled into the new breech-
loader.
Full tariff rates are now charged on
east-bOund trunk lines to seaboard
points.
The Spanish government has bor-
rOwed $25, 900 to relieve the Cuban
treasury.
Gen. Grant will get $1,000 for writ
ing four war articles for the Century
magazine.
The fashion papers say that the loose
sacks are incorrectly called Mother
Hubbards.
1t is larceny to take an umbrella
when the owners name is engraved on
the handle.
Grand Army posts are begging for
the BarthOldi statue on the streets of
New York.
Iron ships have no less than four
cOmpaSses, and none of them can be
relied upon.
President Garrett left large portion
of his estate to assist struggling persons
in Baltimore.
After nine months good hog may
be made to weigh as many pounds as
he is days old.
Forty years ago New York went
wild over Chanfrau, in "MOse, the
New York Fireman"
The inventor of the air-brake, West
inghOuse, owns the largest natural gas
well, in Pennsylvania.
1t has cost $4,000 for a new Phila-
delphia steamer, the Hero, in making
two attempts to get to sea.
The winding up of the base ball sea-
son is developing prOdigies in catching
and batting among players.
The Egyptian explorer, Petri, has
unearthed a colossal statue of Rameses
II, weighing about 700 tons.
The Norwegian bark Nga picked
up in mid-Ocean large hOgshead of
Holland gin, of superior quality.
Speedier engines, with ten inch cylin-
ders and 600 strokes per minute, are
now developing fifty-hOrse power.
Butter making throughout is me-
chanical, and like all good work in
mechanics must be done well to pay
well.
For $500 per year the Pennsylvania
Industrial School will instruct in draw
ing, painting and modelling to suit the
trades.
600 persons carefully stored their
furniture in fre-prOOf warehouse in