Smyrna times., 1884-10-29
WHOLE NO. 1929.
Here and Elsewhere.

year.
Granulated sugar is down to six
cents.
The prairie coyote is in Europe a
jackal.
Children are great observers for pre-.
servers.
Weak cables havedepressed:the grain
in favor
Stump orators are returning home
worn out
Assafoetida is a Persian condiment
with food.
No anthracite coal is imported to
this country.
"Wady" in Egyptian parlance is a
dry river bed.
We imported $4O,OOO,OOO worth of
wool last year.
Yirginia's crop of peanuts will reach
100000 bushels
IL Is sick wind that does not blow
down some fence.
Even nothing from nothing leaves
naught to look at.
The 5000 liquor license law is doing
wonders for Texas.
Every Presidential election jeopar-
dies the pension list.
The towers of the Cologne cathedral
are 5l1 feet in height.
The East will hold the baseball
championship for 1885.
Lyons silk manufacturers are locat-
ing mills in this country.
Geo. VIM. Curtis favors the useful
ness OF Arctic explorations.
The Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania Railroads don't speak.
The fine dust of tea will stop the
flow of blood from tool cuts.
Captain Eads is enthusiastic over
his Tehuantepec ship railway.
In Egypt provisions are scarce from
the River Nile to the Red Sea.
The French vintage for 1884 nearly
exceeds the famous one of 1874.
Paris papers would like to see some
OF the China scalps killed in battle.
DIR. Newman Halls eloquence con-
sists in his tremendous earnestness.
The barometer of King Alfonso's
popularity is on the wane in Spain.
Ten days before an election no
parades are allowed in Philadelphia.
The English House of Lords will
soon give way to an elective Senate.
Maryland farmers are utilizing barb
ed wire fencing for telephone purposes.
Early to bed, and early to rise, possi-
bly, makes a man wealthy in malaria.
As source of power the electric dot
knows neither expansion nor contrac-
ton.
1t is too cold for ale, and too warm
for whiskey, then pledge them both
with pledge.
Spanish hotel keepers subject their
guests to an infinite number of exorbi-
tant charges.
Benjamin Franklin came as near as
a hair being killed that day with the
bottle and kite.
A Western editor expressed his con-
tempt for a contemporary editor with
single Waugh"
A Turkish merchant sets no price,
trusting to the honesty of the customer
for fair valuation.
Subsidized steamers are now thought
to be the only way to secure a share of
South American trade.
Specialized school children to be met
with on the streets of Philadelphia are
too numerous to mention.
An English bark ran plump into an
iceberg recently and the berg tore
away all of her head gear.
Never in the history of railroads
have there been so many fatal accidents
at grade crossings as now.
The peculiar table manners of the
Chinese are finding favor in England
as preventive of gluttOny.
He who steals my purse steals trash,
but he who steals my coal, steals that
which made my purse trash.
The retail coal dealers have placed
on Record that they are prosecuted
and prosecuted in Philadelphia.
Some of the Philadelphia papers are
in deplorable ignorance of how many
counties there are in Pennsylvania.
As the tongue is exceedingly sensi-
tive a great saving is effected by eating
bread with the buttered side down.
From the Bank of Canada to the
banks of the Panama canal we will
roll up majority to elect our coroner.
He kissed her hand and then her
mouth, and somewhere in the sunny
South they're living now from hand to
mouth.
Miss Caroline Astor's wedding
trouseau, lately arrived from Paris, is
one of the finest ever brought to this
country.
Dakota with its 14S,4 ,45O square miles
is a cheese from which three States
larger than Pennsylvania can be carved
with ease.
1t is believed now that the red sun
sets are caused by sea shore hotel
clerks taking last look at their bosom
diamonds.
Those who have been far enough to
see, say the shadow of the moon in its
terrific velocity produces an indiscriba-
BILE horror.
Professor Tylor the English anthro-
pologist is amused and instructed with
the number of queer communities to
be seen here.
Crowds of idle men all over the cOun-
try are an evidence of the fact that the
country is producing more than is be-
ing got rid of.
Lime Stacked with water and thin
ned with skinned milk and small
solution of salt makes an incombusti-
BILE white wash.
A knitting needle dipped in milk
will show by adhesion small globule
at the end, and if water has been add
ed it will not do so.
The international prime meridian
conference has resolved to urge the
adoption of mean midnight time by
moon eliminating stars.
The wav DOliticians figure down