Smyrna times., 1885-01-07
Items of Interest.

AT present there are something owe
1 5000 Indians in southern California
Two Boston houses send about 6l0. O0
gallons of rum to the Congo distrie
every year.
Out of Italy's twrntv-aine million in
habitants only a million subscribe +,
newspapers.
1t IS said that Columbia County Fla
has phOspate rocks similar to those O
South Carolina.
DR.. Wood has fourd that with
birds capacity for eating, man coull
consume whole round of beef for din
ner.
Russian engineers claim that Sebas
topol is stronger than ever, owing to it.
monster guns tOrpedoes and improved
earthworks.
A blind street beggar in Troy, N. Y, was
robbed, recently, of 1860 by three street
eamins. He had the money concealed
inside his vest.
The sensation in West Virginia is the
elopement of 3j-vearold woman with
her adopted son, aged %. to whom she
had acted as mother for ten wears
Covington, Ky, has a dog detective.
whose business it is to hunt up missing
pets. He knows all the dogs in town
and is on friendly terms with them all.
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Compelling calves and colts to lie in
fifth or on damp floors or bedding is the
poorest kind of economy IT not only
prevents the growth of the animals, but
Is sure to result in some form of disease
If persisted in.
Ihe Prince of NaDles, King Hum.
bert's heir lad of Is, is weak in mind
and body. His parents are first cousins
Ills greatest accomplishment is talking
Enelish, which lie learned from ENGLISH
nurses and govemeyses.
There is said TO be bell in an edifioe
before the great temple Of Buddbo Of
Y"ddo that is four times greater tbon
the great bell of Moscow aud tiftv.six
times larger than the great bell of West
minister, England It weighs 1 ZOO 600
pounds
An epidemic of consumption. in n
village near Weimar. Gormanv. has been
traced to the food supply. A flock of
chickens had access to the matter ex.
peetorated by consumptive patient and
became diseased, imparting the affection
to several persons eating their flesh.
Two peasants asleep in the garret Of n
rlckety house at Catania. being aroused
by heavy shock of earthquake, jumped
up and slid from the roof by means of n
rope into an adjoining backyard where
they were attacked by a ferocious doc
and so mangled that they died next
morning.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts,
has decided that the act giving married
women the right to make wills does not
have the effect to confirm wills made bv
women before marriage tt re-
mains rs under the common law that tho
of a woman revokes n will
made by her when single.
The Chinese never dream of sfewino
-her tea. They do not drown il with
milk or cream, or alter its taste with
sugar but lightly pour boiling water on
small portion of the leaves. It is then
instantly poured off again. by which the
Jhinaman obtains only the more volatile
md stimulating portion of its princinle
Believing that the stories told bv
ravelers about the wonders performed
y East Indian mpgicians were true nm i
american imported one of them. The '
esnlt was disappointment The lannon's 7
asket feat, so often described, proves to I
e SO clumsy that the performer instead ]
I becoming n valuable celebrity. ia p
arely tolerated in the dime museums
A book-worm of the paper-eating sort v
creature seldom seen, despite its ex- Il
'nslve and most destructive borinos =
nong book treasures. 1t is described b
white, wax-like grub exactly re- Il
'mbing the little white maggots of u
leese. Three specimens were latoIv y
und IN the act of tunnelling througb n
lndle OF papers in London establish O
ent W
Big houses and small families seems W
be the rule in Fifty avenue. WI IL
and wife occupy a 50, 900, 900 u u
lace Mrs. R L. Stuart and Mrs A n y,
eWart, both childless widows, also each
s a palace. Harriet Lenox. sister Of
mes LenOx, never married. but l5eenq
use IN the spacious dwelling which
mes erected forty years ago, and in
llch he passed his last days. Mrs. E. II
Morgan is another instance. of
The twO-tailed rats which are av- slf
'lted at museums are the result of n ola
at surgical trick, and not buses natiyo 70
q tail OF healthy rat is cut off and ov
inserted in a V shaped ont err
the nose of second. DRESSINGS ara IRE
Piled and the animals legs tied down an
small frame to prevent scratching nj Ne
new member. The second tail sets CO.
twenty-fOur hours, and in four dovs fra
vous connection is established. After tw
the rodent guards its front tail as an,
lously rs the other no
When both parents have eyes of the TAX
10 color, eighty-eight per cent. of the ful
Idren follow their parents in this an'
.ure, and of the twelve per cent. born to
eyes other than the parental color n col
must be attributed to intermittent 1t i
edity. More females than males far
black or brown eyes in the pro- ma
tion OF forty-nine to forty-five. With or
'rent-colored eyes in the two parents pal
'-three per cent. OF the children any
'w the fathers in being dark eyed. n $
sixty per cent. follow their mother non
emg dark eyed.
epOrts of deDlOrable distress oo,,t;,, In