Smyrna times., 1884-12-17
WHOLE NO. 1886.
Here and Elsewhere.
Files at Christmas-Monev.

i" OOllege boys are handling
tools.
Alabama in keeping with her iron
and coal has struck oil.
Too many miners are being killed in
Pennsylvania coal mines.
Young married folks may be said to
invest in betterment stock.
Labouchere, of the London Truth. is
the Madame De Stael of England.
Henry Irving, the tragedian, draws
In this country like smoke stack
Plenty of anachronisms mar the in.
'erest IN some of the new books lust
out. 'O''
Rapid motion has the effect of de-
stroying the organic impurities in
water.
Drainage has caused the ague to dis
appear from the North Wabash COhio)
Valley.
A conference Ofprison wardens favor
the mark system for the reformation of
convicts.
There will be $4,000 premiums
awarded to live stock at the New
Orleans fair.
Last weeks dealings in stocks was
characterized by the unexpected al
ways happens"
The height of the great natural
bridge in Virginia is, from the stream
below, 215l feet.
South Carolina has returned Wade
Hampton to the United States Senate
as matter of course.
Gum wood is the best of all woods 70
lay next to the ground keeping sound
by moisture for years.
In six years the first cost and paint.
ing OF tin roof will equal a copper
one at $l4 per 100 feet.
You can get rid of thousand dollars
If expended for costly china very soon
and get very little for it.
The Lactometer," for testing the
purity of milk has been declared in
England faulty in principle.
Although the cap stone is on the ton
OF the Washington Monument it will
not be completed for two years.
VIM. II. Vanderbilt has filed a iudg-
ment in the New York County Clerks
Office against Gen. Grant for s165 .4172O.
A traveller through Siberia found
that hay quilt was in that cold cIi-
mate one of the warmest of blankets
Seventy horses attached to two car,
dragged the heavy cable into position
for the Columbia Avenue line. Pbila.
delphia.
The population of Dakota does NOT
entitle it to admission into the Union
although it is crowded with ambitions
politicians.
An English electrical journal among
other things says this of lightning mo
one has ever been killed by the fluid
while asleep"
Refined petroleum in tin cases avert
the same influence on ships compass-
es that the same amount of iron or
steel would do.
Dr. Burchard is trying again the
effect of alliterative "P's, in sermon
lately he spoke of the " Poisoned ar
rows of the Public Press.
Miss Ida Lewis, the heroine of Lime
Rock lighthouse, has been received
INTO the full communion of the Metbo-
church at New Port, RI.
a source of danger to a Cuban light
house arose from myriads of red insects
surrounding its white light and causing
show a red light at sea.
The President of the oldest republic
n the world, that of Monaco -
Vedged in between Italy and Switzer.
and serves without pay.
A professional game of base ball costs
n expenses 1925, necessitating an at
of $500 people at % cents a
ead to balance the outlay.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says that
he way to make good coffee is to find
ut how it is made at railroad restaur-
nts and don't make it that wav.
Secretary Chandler favors the estab.
shhment of only two great navy
ards, one at Mares Island, California
ne other at League Island, Philadel-
hia.
Miss Mary G. Caldwell, of New
ork, offered at the late session of the
lenary Council 100000 to found a
atholic University in or near New
Ork city.
The metallic fingers of the South
arOlina cotton picking invention are
near perfect that another year will
'e one of them able to do the work of
rty hands.
An Indian at Mulese, lower Califor-
a, found pearl weighing 90 carats
I'd sold it for $50, after which it was
tipped to London, England, where it
Id for $17 900.
Dick Whistler, the American artist
hose eccentricties in London with
hite, black and yellow effects made
m famous, gets from $lOO to S4OO for
'enty minute pictures.
The Democrats in Congress greeted
r. Chalmers resolution to provide a
epubllcan form of government for
with shouts of derisive
lghter the other day.
:" What other minister has ever done
much for the world as Darwin?''
undered Mr.. Ingersoll to a Chica-