Smyrna times., 1885-06-03
Here and Elsewhere.
Shipbuilder Roach is being peppere

what's the matter.
A Califorri ian will try tea growing
with Japanese labor.
At all events the Russian occupation
of Merv displays nerve.
The Panama Canal still gets away
with francs and Frenchmen.
Brass bands are stealing their way
into the choir loft of churches.
Rise early and you will see the dew
drop scudding after his bitters.
China is insisting upon Russia delim-
itating the ManchoOria frontier.
A cup of strong coffee is the best
disinfectant out for strong onions.
American oysters are sexed while
European are said to be only oysters.
The Newfoundland catch of cod fish
this year will exceed l 900, 900 quintals.
Talent is about the only thing that
can sleep under a wet blanket, or has
to.
The unprecedented success of long
voyage sailing ships is now remark
able.
Most women have a contempt for
science in common affairs-even of the
heart.
Albany beef" sturgeon, are being
caught by the thousands in the Della
aware.
How near the millennium, were life
to pass away from rolling rinks to roll
ing pillows.
Civility is a coin that cannot be
cOunterfeited because in most cases it
is returned.
Water being repellant to oil, mOis-
tened leather will take but one half the
oil to soften it.
We owe Jack Frost a grudge for lay
ing low night-blOoming Cereus and
blooming parlors.
A brick will absorb liquids like sugar
and having six sides, soon becomes
tight as Il brick"
For ejecting a passenger into a pile
of stones the Lake Shore Railroad has
been mulcted $4S,70O.
The experiment of exporting crude
coal oil in bulk in vessels hold has
yet to prove successful.
Like all things else in this world the
rejected lover has the consolation of
the " rapture of endeavOr."
AS a rule women of wealth are al
ways charitable, their benefactions
ranging from 81 to $lOO,OOO,OOO.
The English cutter yacht, although
developing high speed, still has that
clumsy rig about the masthead.
The photographic Coast Survey
will assist materially this season in the
proposed triangulatiOn nofPennsylvania. of
The congregations in the large city
churches want now their preachers to
have brains, Drawn, muscle and big
pay.
For very good reasons a son of Mana
Sahib, as an officer in the Russian
army, is treated with princely cOnsid-
Grafton.
Bismarck has declared that the
most uncomfortable nights attempt at
sleep he ever made was in n child's
cradle once.
There was enough aconite left in a
bottle of mineral water used by the late
MIR. Frelinghuysen before his sickness,
to kill four men.
1t is nearly impossible to drink more
than one glass of water without salts
flying thirst if it is slipped instead oi
swallowed at a gulp.
The range lights of the Delaware are
not so available to big steamships at
night, in consequence of bay craft
anchOring in the channel.
The effort of all education is best at.
tained when the mind is trained tC
rapid concentration to what is in hand
1t makes no difference what.
The Sultan of Zanzibar is about
spelling the little game of the free
State Of Congo, in Central Africa, sci
up by France and Germany.
BE now willing to ohlige and you
will see hoe, rake, spade, hammer
nails and the old saw take their Sum
mer's outing" with thanks.
Wreckers have offered bids Of ST, ,9jC
for removing the wreck of the bark
Daring, cut through by the zee last
Winter, in Bombay Hpok Roads
Rev. Henry Varley, the English
evangelist, does the most effective
bar.. ,,;th Dill,
rather with the conclusions drawn from
them.
A little comfort can be extracted
from the appearance of the seventeen.
year lOcusts because they will drown
the evening practice on many Il cornel
round the corner.
Victor Hugo is gone and vet in
Ninety Three and Les Mis-
CRADLES" France and the world drank
deeper from his cup of realism than
was good for either.
Meanwhile, paying Il handsome trib-
ute to mans present intelligence,
President Warren, nevertheless, traces
in his new book his anthrOpOdial ori-
gin at the North Pole.
No matter what the difficulties are .
man may have to contend with, he
| thinks the attention given to his wife's
new hat on the way to church sign
that he is prospering.
Cut up a lemon, rind and all, into thin
slices, place it into three glasses ofwater
boil down to one glass, allow it to cool
strain through linen, drink while fast.
ing and it will keep Off malaria fol
awhile.
Art does not go far wrong in follow
ing nature, that permits nothing to bC
absolutely wasted. The handsom,
embossed leather, now so much il
vogue, being made from old boot anC
shCe pulp.
The ladies in waiting once com
planned to Queen Victoria of the rude.
ness of John Brown, who summoned
them with Hist, there, wimmen
get thee in, Her Leddyship vans We. ;
WELL" said Her Majesty, "Pray
what else are yOu?"
AT the session of the u. S. Senat,
committee ON interstate commerce. il
New York, it was stated by Geo. r.
blanchard, late vice-president of tho
Erie Railroad, that discrimination
ought not and cannot be banished from
Interstate commerce without ruin tc
the railroads and infant industrias