Smyrna times., 1884-12-10
WHOLE NO. 1886.
Here and Elsewhere,

The South doesn't want a bite of the
apple just yet. ''''
The quarantine of the French from.
tier is abolished.
The rain fall for November amount
ed to 2.3l inches deep.
Hand street sweeping with brooms
Is doomed in the cities.
In fifty seven days the PHILADELPHIA
Record sold 1884 tons of coal
A miss is as good as a mile" but
not SO good as a mile of misses.
Victor Hugo has called the Bartbol-
dl statue beautiful work of art.
The United States coast hydroqrapb 10
work is attracting attention from
abroad.
The Italian government will invest
$2,OOO,OOO to rehabilitate the slums of
Naples. 80 -
Mexico permitted Senor Diaz to he
lnaugurated President recently without
a revolution.
Whitelaw Reid says that he has a
whole Congress all to himself in the
New York Tribune.
$S,l77, 400 is the estimate made for
river and harbOr improvements in the
torty-eighth congress.
As compared with October the de-
crease in the Pennsylvania oil produc-
ton was 1889 barrels.
The Bedaweens of Arabia have re-
heved the Sultan of Zanzibar, ON his
way to Mecca, of G2,OOO
The Congo Conference committee
has decided in favor of free trade with
in the limit of the basin.
The Beers of South Africa have
made up with England's government
at the Cape of Good Hope.
Professor Huxley states that if Dar-
win 5 theory of evolution is correct,
man Is bankrupt monkey.
Russian wheat is now driving Ameri
can wheat out of the markets of Swift
erland and South Germany.
Key West cigar makers are excited
over the proposed reduction of the
duty on cigars from Havana.
Mrs. Belva Lockwood takes comfort
in the fact that no other " first lady in
the land has superseded her.
At the very outset Mr.. Cleveland
has been forced to decline the present
of pair of shOats with thanks.
Railroad contractors prefer Italian
iiaborers because they can hold out
longer in Summer under fierce sun.
Iowa women sent two car loads of
needle work to the New Orleans fair
but the train cOlliding ruined the whole
exhibits.
About 24,0O0 bushels of No. 9 red
wheat was posted on the bulletin of
the New York Produce Exchange as
out of condition.
General Gordon has sent word to the
Mahdi that if he be a real prophet to
dry up the Nile and come across to
take his surrender.
1t rests with President-elect Cleve-
land to say if the entire national guard
OF Pennsylvania shall be present at the
inaugural ceremonies.
Ofthe three tangents by as many rail
way lines in this country that of the
new New York, Philadelphia and Nor
folk is the longest and best.
The La VOz de Cuba states that since
the new law went into effect 6O.55O
slaves have been freed leaving vet in
bondage $4,000 patrOcianalos.
Nelson's order at Trafalgar that
" England expects every man to do his
duty has been re-echoed by Gen.
Wolseley in the reliefof Khartoum.
The large American ship Snow a;
Burgess has been chartered to load
6O, 600 cases of refined petroleum from
Philadelphia to Japan at 80 cents per
case.
The Marquis of Ripon, retiring gov
ernor general of India, has been pre-
sented by the natives with an address
and $4,000 to found a memorial insti-
tuition.
The English redistribution measure
re-apportiOns towns of $4,000 popula-
ton to an additional new member. and
merges those with less than $4,000 in
to counties.
Hardly any of the papers in Phila-
delphia have very correct idea what
a Kirmiss " means. One paner ven.
turing to remark if it was a bet it
should be paid.
The blind steam yacht builder of
Bristol, r. l., Mr.. Hereshoff, has taken
contract to furnish Jay Gould's
AtGtdntd with the fastest launch ever
constructed in this country.
In the German Reichstag Herr Bebel
the Socialist, created sensation bv
a reduction in the term of
service and the suppression
for a year of the volOntariat.
The Women's Christian Associa-
tlOn, Philadelphia, have opened their
new restaurant for working women.
None of the dishes served exceed 5
cents, while cup of tea can be had for
3 cents.
Since the decision of the United
States circuit court, New York, in favor
Of the American Bell Telephone Com
pany restraining other companies from
using their apparatus the stock has
Jumped from 22O to 275.
Professor MacAllister, Superinteud-
ent of Public Schools, Philadelphia. in
an address on Industrial Education !"
said that the one thing needed to win
popular favor is to show that the work
OF the hands is but another form to ex-
press the ideas of the mind.
Soak few grains of wheat in water
and set in the sun for couple of davs
-hen split them open with a knife, and
place under a watch glass (the wheat
not the knife), drop on few drops of
water and sun for couple of hours,
md the wheat will be lively eels-serve
hot.
While looking through the Polytech-
lic art gallery, New York, Herman
Linde discovered Rembrandt's "Slaugh-
er of the innOcents," a painting that
have been searching years
or, it is only necessary to add that
hey should have waited little longer
say the ides of March next.
Now that birthday, Christmas, and
Dther complimtary cards are coming to
be estimated by the dollars worth, FASH
enable people, those who claim to direct
he mode, are turning up their noses at
hem. They say land with more show