Smyrna times., 1885-12-02
Here and Elsewhere.

ploy 10000 men.
A Lowell Mass. man, who died the
other day, was named Death.
About 1000 varieties of cultivated
chrysanthemums are in bloom.
East Jefferson IN. H. parties are
collecting for Boston firm 100000
ferns.
Petitions for uniform bankrupt law
are already pouring in on President
Cleveland.
A subscription fund for Louis Rieps
wife and family has been opened at
Montreal.
A new variety of celery has been put
on the market. 1t is known as the
White Plume.
The mosquito now begins to sympa-
thize with the Office-seeker who is left
out in the cold.
Krupp's latest gun is nearly as
destructive as modern whiskey. 1t
kills at nine miles.
Opponents of prohibition hope to
change the result in Fulton county, Ca,
IhrOugh a legal technlcallty.
DR.. McCosh declares that within five
years he is going to turn Princeton
into a full-hedged university.
Walker Blaine says his father has
definitely made up his mind to remain
IN Augusta during the winter.
The Prohibitionists have swept Geor-
gia, and now they propose to make the
whole South " go dry" as they term it
The first general Thanksgiving Day
on record in this country was observed
in Massachusetts, October 10Th, 1888.
Kafir corn, the seeds of which are
brought from Africa, yielded 200 bush
els to the acre on an experimental farm
in Georgia this year.
The Court at Cincinnati directed that
certificates of election be issued to the
four Republican candidates for senator
in Hamilton county.
The liquor capitalists of Atlanta are
afraid now that their business will be
ruined by the dry" rot. Better
the dry'' rot than drowned in a food
of tears.
By the fall of building in Jersey
City four persons are known to have
been killed, five were injured, and five
others missing are believed to be dead
in the ruins.
Every one says better times are COM
ing on. That is one way to hasten
them. A good receipt for the making
of hard times is for all hands to howl
and moan about the hard times.
The big bag that is being passed
around in New York for coin with
which to build a great Grant monu-
ment now contains 100000, and stray
shekels are still clinking therein.
President Hendricks leaves an
estate estimated to be worth S15O,0OO.
He owned several properties in In
dianapOlis, and farm in the West.
He was absolutely free from debt.
Mr. Hendricks is the fifth Vice Pres
ident who has died in office, and like
| all the others, Clinton, Gerry, King and
Wilson, he came to the Vice Presidency
only as the crown of long career.
The colored people of a Kansas town
began a "protracted meeting" in Au-
gust, 1884, which has continued ever
! since without losing a night. Nor is
there any immediate prospect of cessa-
ton.
, The New York Sun wants to have
all paper money below 500 bills with
drawn. Then, it says, gold as we'll as
a silver will leave the vaults of the banks
, and be in the hands and pockets of the
people.
Mark Twain" has written for the
forthcoming December Century. 1.-THE
y Private History of a Campaign that
5 Failed"-an account of his own person
: al experiences as a youthful rebel" in
: the early days of the war.
! The wounded soldiers of Servia are
! thankful to his majesty of Austria for
q a donation of ten thousand dollars and
: ten million cigaretts. If they smoke
: themselves to death there'll be enough
money to bury them decently.
1t is said that there are a hundred
: million subjects of the Gar who have
J. the word '".nitschwo" habitually at
d their tongues end. As nitschwo means
e "no matter" this may explain why
Il they are so careless to their royal mas
II ter's life.
{ Having once waxed enthusiastic over
Il their own little deity, the cobblers Oi
. Northampton, England, are evidently
~ inclined to stick to the last. They have
u reelected Charles Bradlaugh, the
thrice rejected, to the House of Com
mons.
The riot at Nottingham, in which
ipityrad Chnxuc
that our English cousins are wrought
up to an unusual pitch of excitement
in their electoral contests. The opera
tives in American manufacturing cities
are much better behaved on like Ocea-
siOns.
There is no Speaker of the House a
this time, and no President (prO tenn
- of the Senate. The Senate has got in
lf to an unfortunate habit of neglecting
ys its duty to elect President (pro tenn.
M and thus leaving the country at tn
Use mercy of an unknown chapter of acci
ppst dents.
IDS Edward Everett Hale insists that {
Fs brain worker can proftably eat fiv
square meals a day. Brother Hal
would seem to have an eXaggerate
% notion of the brain workers salary
Nv but there is no doubt that his estimat
ne of the brain workers storage capacit
ch is all right.
.e- Anybody who has lost sleep by VOL
We rying over the possible exhaustion {
coal within a hundred years or so ma
have his apprehensions calmed o
d.. learning of the discovery of enormou
d. deposits in China, including a distriC
'h- larger than the fields of Pennsylvania
vs. yielding the best anthracite.
of Ex-Judge Kelley, who is about t
iii enter on his thirtieth Congress, is owe
20 years of age. He ascribes his pre-
ent good health to his having stoppe
oe the use of tobacco in any shape. II
VI chewed and smoked for 55 years, whe
.u M his health was shattered. He gave u
." tobacco and now feels like new mai
The civil war in Peru, which only
to day or two ago was reported as final
nat at an end, seems to have started U
,rt. again with renewed vigor. Cacere
as has met with such success recently thi
wo there is some probability of his captu
to ing Lima. 1t is an unhappy state
affairs. But if the Peruvians did NJ
have revolution on hand they woul
hardly know where to look for an e.