Smyrna times., 1885-03-11
HERE AND ELsEWHERE.

HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
To the happy Democrat all the geese
are swans nowadays.
Florida shad are 81 each and straw
berries are 81 a dozen.
There are a number of soap trees
growing in Tallahassee.
There are said to be anly three liter
ary men in Philadelphia.
A blind piano tuner keeps $50 Opianos
in order at jamestown, Penn.
Nearly all the English newspapers
say good words of President Cleveland's |
inaugural.
Fisherman's luck to you, Mr.. Arthur,
Don't fail to spit on your bait if you |
want to catch any fish.
The hungry and thirsty are in dam
ger of becoming hungrier and thirstier
before the battle is over.
Mr. Bayard's eldest son happens to
be two young to take the Senatorial
peach.-PhitGdetphiG Times.
The English Government will ask
the assent of Parliament to an increase
of 2O0,00 in the English army.
The Arkansas Senate has passed
bill changing the name of Dorsey
county, in that State, to Cleveland.
To President Cleveland, Washington,
D. c.: Please drop us a postal saying
how you like it as far as you've got.
Boston has an apple mission, which
distributes from 1000 to 5000 bushels
of apples among the poor every year.
The incoming ocean steamers this
week are expected to bring any num-
Der Of new French models for Spring
suits.
More than two editions of 5000
copies each of the New Testament in
Fijian have been exhausted by the
islanders.
In the opinion of the Kansas colored
preacher the earth was created at mid
night, so that no one should see what
it is made of.
Leap-frog is becoming popular among
the young ladies at Conference Acade-
my, Dover, Del. Humph !-DeIGVare
College Review.
England has 100000 troops to be in
readiness for service against Russia,
trusting to the reserves to maintain
order at home.
In the Supreme Court at San Fran
cisco, on Tuesday it was decided that
Chinese children must be admitted to
the public schools.
A new machine for making cigar
cites does the work of thirty men.
This relieves them from all response
bility for numbering boys.
Now then, let us all stand back and
give the new administration a chance.
1t means well, it looks well--it is only
fair to judge it by its acts.
VIM. Henry Hurlbert, formerly edi-
tor of the World, who is spending most
of his time in Washington, is reported
as an aspirant for the French Mission.
1t is reported that the enormous sum
of $500, 600 was recently lost in Lon
don gambling establishment by a gen
tleman who had dined not wisely but
too well.
The contagious pleuro-pneumonia
continues its ravages among the cattle
in the vicinity of Kennett Square, Pa,
and has appeared in the large dairy of
Edward Darlington.
The river and harbor grabbers were
like the boy who tried to get the wal
nuts out of the glass jar. They got
their hands so full they couldn't get
away with anything.
The last symptoms of the "lady ;"
craze is in recent advertisement in a
New York paper, which says: A
young lady would like a position as
dish-washer in a restaurant"
Paddy Ryan has deposited a forfeit
of 500 in support of an open challenge
to any man in the world to spar to a
finish with medium-weight or small
gloves for stakes of $4,000 or $4,000 a
side.
Petition for divorce has been filed by
a New York husband for the only
reason that his wife is too religious.n y
neglecting her home duties and devOt-
ing nearly all of her time to church af-
fairs.
The suicide of children is a singular
ly painful phenomenon of modern high
pressure. Statistics show that in 1884
ninety-five children under II years of
age committed suicide in the United
States.
Mary Williams, aged Il years, of
Chester, Pa, while on her way to
school, one day last week, was struck
by train on the Philadelphia, Will
mingtOn and Baltimore Railroad, and
killed.
Miss Carrie Lloyd, of Indiana, tool,
the gold medal prize at the commence
ment of the Ohio College OF Dental
Surgery, last week. She was the only
woman in the class Of twenty-six grad
yates.
sir Henry Gordon, brother OF the
General Of Khartoum, has requested
Zebehr Pacha to open negotiations
with FL Mahdi f,r the restoration OF
the private papers and other personal
property of Gen. Gordon.
The Governor General of Canada has
. received q cablegram from England
accepting military aid, and asking tC
have five Canadian regiments drafted
and Differed at once, to proceed to
Afghanistan and not Egypt, as at first
, proposed.
4 Henry w. Blair's regular term as
! United States Senator from New Hamp
shire came to an end on Wednesday
but Mr.. Blair has been appointed by
the Governor of that State to be Sena
: tor until a successor shall be chosen
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