Smyrna times., 1884-05-21
Here and Elsewhere,


Compressed paper doors are said to
be fire-prOOf.
About this time our mill pond is
healthy-fOr the doctors.
John Roach, of Chester, Pa, is build
ing the steel cruiser Chicago.
The color line has again been drawn
IN the Philadelphia police force.
One-half the world does not know
how the other half lives-nor does it
care.
Joe Meek, the great scout of Oregon,
was one Of the meekest Of men, appar-
emily.
Powdered charcoal moistened and
we'll shook in bottles will cleanse and
purify them.
Our mill pond should be surrounded
with fringe Of sunhowers for the
storage of malaria.
In filing the old saw keep the point
OF the file towards the point Of the saw
and then-saw.
The princes of the Imperial House of
Germany are taught trades Of hand
craft while young.
New Haven grows oysters now on
trees thrown into the water for the
spawn to adhere to.
For the ladies the popular dress
goods this Summer will be Etamine:
for the men, Billmine.
Five cent fares will not pay for the
wear and tear of elevated steam rail
roads IN New York.
The statue of Chief Justice Marshall
has been placed i'll position at the capi-
tol, Washington d. c.
The Italian Government has offered
$4,000 for the best means in the trans
mission of electrical energy.
Prisoners are not infrequently con
fined five and six years in prison await
ing trial for theft, in Egypt
New York is about legislating
against fraud in dairy products and
oleo-margarine in particular
There is one tramp that has left the
cities in advance Of all others and his
name is Spontaneous Combustion.
The three ships for the rescue of
Lieutenant Greedy and party are now
on their way to the Arctic regions.
4 company offers to drain the Tiber
at Rome if they will be permitted to
retain the treasure found in its bed.
BloOdhounds patrol day and night
between the inner and outer walls of
the Eastern Penitentiary, Pennsylva-
MIA.
One great hope buOys Arctic explor-
ers up, and that is that the revolutions
OF the earth can be seen at the North
Pole
The Atlantic Ocean is yearly en-
crOaching upon the coast of New Jer-
sey to its benefit, making shallow
beaches.
Edgar Allen Poe died in the hospital
at North Broadway, East Baltimore.
shortly after he had composed the
Raven"
Wheat harvesters with binder com
bined are little too complicated for
the average farmer unless he studies
their points.
Tariff reform Whatever that isl
promises to be the "Cats of Kilkenny
to the Republican and Democratic par
ties this year.
To make the trip either way in six
days the GuiOn steamers Alaska and
Oregon must cover each day of "a
hours 480 miles.
The cSnnibals of the Maroueses Is
lands in the Pacific Ocean will not eat
persons whose flesh is vitiated with
rum or tobacco.
An old English burglar in dying,
stated that a nail over a window sash
gave him more trouble to make a liv-
ing than bolts or bars.
The results of the deliberations of
prominent scientists concerning the
red sunsets lately, was because of some
thing red in the sky.
In the painting of the ball on the
dome of the Capitol at Washington
only one man among the painters there
has the courage to do it.
People are beginning to think that
the reason cyclones are so frequent in
the West is from the absence of trees
and the presence of wickedness.
Water only adds fire to a burn from
sulphuric acid Toll of vitrol), but oil or
grease of any kind applied with
woolen rag arrests the pain at once.
On the mountain plateaus of MeucO
the turrOw of the American plough
share soon makes a mountain bTrent
bed, so they plough with a crooked
stick.
There is just this about i, if you do
not clean out from your boilers the
mud and sediment at lesst once in two
weeks, they will unexpectedly clean
you out.
According to the experience of pre-
viOus navigatOrs Lieutenant Greeley's
chance for ESCAPE depends on his not
attempting to Winter South of Cape
Alexander.
A childs hand can stop the source
of the Amazon in Cordilleras, but at it's
mouth It debOuches with force that
sends its current fifty miles into the
Atlantic ocean.
The German peasants like sour
dishes such as raw pork chopped fine,
TO which is added cabbage and vinegar.
Probably it is for this reason that the
tricin9 likes the Germans.
An American who struggled up the
ascent Of the Jungfrau in the Alps. was
rewarded upon reaching the summit to
see in large letters painted on the rock.
" Use HelmbOld's Buchu."
The fashionable modists, to please
their customers, now conceive, design
and execute in paper muslin their
orders for dresses, only requiring their
wOrk-peOpie to follow the model.
The pension list of the United States
is over $60IO00,000 and nearly EQUALS
that of Great Britain, Germany France.
Russia, Italy and Austria combined.
and is increasing instead of decreasing.
The bacteria Of different diseases. es-
pecially cancer, adheres strongly to the
cover of book, for this reason the form
Of the legal oathsshould be holding up
the right hand, the left touching the
Book, and not to kiss the cover.
The much doubted statement of
MungO Park the African explorer, that
the natives in the interior cut steaks
from the living COW and afterwards
healed the cut, has been confirmed as
true by other travellers in Africa.
No dog of Christian is permitted to
make the annual pilgrimage to Medina
and Mecca, vet Captain Burton the
English traveller did it, but only after
an examination that pronounced him
n Naas uarsA Ill.