Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1884-12-03
Here and Elsewhere.
Oysters protest against being cut

COnkling's silence did as much mis-
chief as the three RS.
1t is stated that the present Mug
were born in 1860.
Pennsylvania gives the New Orleans
Exposition the cold shoulder.
The best of Baldwin apples do not
bring $500 barrel in New York.
Alabama pig iron in large lots is
coming into pig iron Pennsylvania.
Haber-dashers are rummaging Eu-
rope now for Christmas odds and ends.
Type writing is an accomplishment
that pays ladies better than the needle.
Avoiding eating or drinking at the
same time is what kmade Bismarck
thin.
All disasters along the coast are
wired to Washington as soon as they
occur.
Gen. Mcclellan has an ambition to
serve the country as Secretary of the
Navy.
The tin helmets of the late campaign
are being utilized for hanging flower
baskets.
Technical pleading" is the fine,
keen tool that lawyers do their best
work with.
Out of 400 vessels engaged in the
west coast of South America trade $50
are foreign.
Madame Jenny Lind Goldschmidt is
enjoying a serene old age in COpenha-
gen, Sweden.
Scientists have not determined yet if
salt is unhealthy in it's use to remove
snow and ice.
Liquor and tobacco internal taxes is
Mr.. st. Johns vindicatiOn as he goes
marching on"
Glove exhibitions are indicted by
New York grand juries as fighting
without weapons"
The days are short now at both ends
| but hire a plumber and he will soon
make them long enough.
Very few tourists now climb the
craggy passes of the Alps since tho
railroad has tunnelled it.
French reports of successes in China
are much exaggerated as the Chinese
are assuming the offensive.
Brass, bronze, spelter, gilt, glass, and
all the woods are to be had in toys
now in bewildering prOfusiOn.
The Italian colonies in the large sea-
board cities here are as dirty as any of
their prototypes in the Levant.
Canada will not Join in reciprocity
treaty with Jamaica for fear of the
rival trade of the United States.
Buyers of cotton faithfully deduct
; their tare to the last ounce, hence bet
ter cotton going to market now.
Business was SO dull in stocks last
week that it amounted to no more
than the swapping of jack knives.
The tenure of civil service by exami-
uatiOns has been salad to many an
Office holders thanksgiving dinner.
: 1t is rumored that Mr.. Cleveland has
said something about the gratitude he
, owes the Independent Republicans.
, A bare majority of six votes gave the
control of the New Jersey Legislature
, in the late contest to the Republican.
: Outside of the fauna and fora the
S South American republics will have
t but little to exhibit at the New Orleans
2 fair.
Z Benjamin Franklin declared that
: the turkey was a more appropriate
national bird to adopt than the useless
eagle.
Y At the Smith library sale in Phila-
D delphia Auduben's Birds of America, y
It in eight quarto volumes, brought only
. $40 a volume.
A crooked stick will knock down as
many persimmOns as a straight one and
may also prove boomerang to knock
the thrower down.
The youth John P. H. Hagan who
n saved the lives of nine children in tbs
n Schuylkill last Winter will get a media
" from the U. S. Life Saving Service.
. The London NelUs states that tn,
Il Adams-Coleridge case now on tria
a discloses unheard of cruelty and parsi
e mony in Lord Chief Justice Coleridge'
If household.
IL Statistics show that the population
rs of this country has been doubled II
1t thirty years while the increase of labol
n saving inventions for the same perioC
lg has been ten fold.
:, The scrawny timber of Swedish ant
- Norwegian forests are utilized to thei
:. utmost in turning out vessels that witt
Nc cheap crews carry large part of thu
- worlds commerce.
to The epidemic in the southwest coun
as ties of Virginia caused by the lat
ht drought is in want of an intelligen
a diagnose by competent physicians t
,h stay its horrible march.
>, The schooner Mary E. Rivers c
~ ThOmaston, Me-, abandoned last JanU
~ ary off Cape Hatteras in a sinking cor
~ ditiOn has been picked up and take
IN into the Bermudas having drifted 4, 90
~ miles.
g- Oscar Wilde went into restaurau
ar and called for a flower and havin
er smelled it remarked to the waiter
have dined, and out he went. A Gel
man present noticing the movemeI
called for some Limburger cheese, an
upon smelling it said, " Me hab gable
too " departed.
The captain of the steamship Quad
Iupe, of the Mallory Line outwar
bound from New York to New Orleal
left the deck in charge of an inexp'
rienced second officer, who held on
. the land too close, causing the steam
= to strike, and now the tide Gibbs ar
flows through bran new 1000 Il
ship.
= In the United States Supreme Cou
= an important decision has been rende
ed in the liability of common carrier
A race horse valued at 1000 was XII
ed in transit and the owner sued
= the value, but the court ruled that t
- value extended no farther than Il
valuation agreed on in the bill of la
ing, which was 81 200.
The reputed site of the Garden
Eden at the junction of the Tigris a
Euphrates is now q sterile tract, whe
the only vegetable life consists of
be- clump of date trees near very SIN
no and dirty village called Gurna,.
BOAT which the Turks maintain garris
or a and telegraph Office. The inha
)ing tants point out to strangers the tree
ring knowledge most sickly specimt