Smyrna times., 1884-07-02
WHOLE NO. l,5l2.
Here and Elsewhere.

Violations of train orders is what
causes the frequent railroad collisions.
FL Mahdi entertains frequently 1000
persons to dinner.
The Japanese build houses without
nails.
Fortress Monroe, Va, covers seventy
acres.
Jay-Eye-See trots her full mile now
in 2.12
Western States want half pennies
coined.
Asparagus is the cyclone of the
stomach.
The University of London is richly
endowed.
Trout and catfish cannot exist in the
same stream.
Philadelphia has found an under
ground river.
OF actors comedians are generally
the best paid.
The Everglades of Florida are now
clear of water.
Bicycles are geared up too close to
make fast time.
Shot of all sizes can be made now
without lofty towers.
Toasted cheese is said to be good
after gOrging banquet.
The circulation of a paper is like that
of the blOOd-nOt visible.
Capt. Eads has ordered a new steel
tug for New Orleans use.
Contestation " is a new word coin
ed by Benjamin F. Butler.
1t is now the season of ventilation,
politically and popularity.
Florida is sending watermelons north
by way of Savannah, Ga.
The Baltimore Oriole time does not
suit Maryland fruit growers.
Dynamite has closed the English
Parliament gates after night.
The caves of central Georgia contain
large quantities of bat guano.
There is by reason of the sand little
or no malaria in New Jersey.
The sale of hashy weekly papers has
been stopped in Philadelphia
A slate roof lasts sixty years and is
five times cheaper than shingles.
No man ever got rich through the
aid OF friend poorer than himself.
Herr Krupp, the gun maker of Ger
many, employs an army of people.
Austrian blacksmiths have struck
against working half days on Sundays.
Tuscon, Arizona. is the oldest town
in the United States antedating Santa
Fe.
An English writer says that Ameri-
can inventions do not stand the test of
time.
The fumes of sulphuric acid bleaches
to white all colOrs and sweetens to the
taste.
The old mistake of milkmen in pour
ing milk into ear trumpets is on hand
again.
/ Cervantes' "Don Quixote" is about
E the only good book Spain ever pro-
duced
Robins are afraid of sparrows, but
one thrush can whip any three of them
( at once.
! Of all machines invented for going
t through space none equals the ice-bOat
o for speed.
; The bark Lizzie E. SimmOn, at New
d London, Conn, realized $1,000 from
y one whale.
d Treasure cars are now coming into
n use, built the same as a safe and with
! out platforms.
e Gen. Booth, of the Salvation Army,
a has purchased Adelina PATHS home in
it Wales, England.
3 The bar at the mouth of the Column
+ bia river, Oregon, is the most danger
% Gus III the world.
/ The various cOlors of flowers are due
II to small insects of each color invisible
e under a microscope.
~ Art critics speak of the statues in
# Central Park, New York city, as hard
O ly above mediocrity.
Ie 1t has never been explained how the
n. man got rich in New Jersey by attend
ing 20 his own business.
st NJ. Pasteur, the French scientist
., talks now of the rod like organisms in
g the saliva of rabid dogs.
,e Red Holsters are coming up New
If York bay with B on their backs
X Blaine or Bayard which.
u Whenever the magazine doors on q
n United States war ship are opened ;
$ red flag goes up at the fore.
% The focused rays of the sun ON fir,
m crackers through bulk window caus
IN ed $4,000 fire in Bradford, Pa.
IN Whenever a vessel shifts her cargo i
is is because the central, fore and af
Sc bulkheads are not put up properly.
- - An equestrian statue of Gen. Bolivar
~ the "liberatOr of five Republics is SCI
to up in Central Park, New York city.
he The large price for blue blood il
sc Jersey cattle is ON the decrease. !
ly COW that cost $4,000 to import brOugh
nd 5000 on sale.
hn ,,' One of the didn't-know-it-wa s-loade,
:, people got three months in prison fO
pointing pistol at another person il
Pennsylvania.
he Francis Scott Key composed tn
an "Star Spangled Banner" while pris
III oner on an English war ship befor
m Fort McHenry, Nd, in 1912.
ye. The new steamship america of tn
in. National Line has lowered the recor
no hours and 50 minutes between Ne,
nd York and Queenstown, Ireland.
|fh
.iv Five hundred unpaid employees {
%ye the Reading Railroad at Wilkesbarr,
of Pa, are going to get an order from tn
w court to go to the almshouse until the
,ot wages are paid.
Ie- The two riflemen Wells an
ler McCOmas who shot and killed Gel
ne Ross the evening before the battle
4pss North Point, Md, in 1912, were age
Vi IA and Is years respectively.
inc Chief Brooks, of the United Stat
lay secret service, states there are 500 an
our $50 counterfeit notes executed with
pen and SO accurate that they have b
come old and worn from service befol
Ed being detected.
rks The schooner Harriet S. Brook
me- built at Smyrna Landing in 1S6
Use, made few years afterwards fro
@1hU @ Boston to New Castle, DEL, the run