Smyrna times., 1886-01-20
WHOLE NO. 1896.
Here and Elsewhere.
The 5000 factories in New Jerse
emnlnv Ii 0On illiteratn childrnn


employ $4,000 illiterate children.
Blanche Marks of Slatington, Pa.
died Thursday from the effects of too
much rope-jumping.
Austria-Hungary has just been COW
cred with heavy snowfall; damage
from floods is expected at Pesth.
An old lady was heard to observe on
taking up the morning paper, 81 Won
der II anybody has been born that
know"
One-quarter of the sheep of the coun-
try are kept in the South, when ten
years ago the proportion was only one
seventh.
The four dOg-bitten boys of Newark,
n. j., arrived home from Paris Thurs
day morning; they are in excellent
health and spirits.
Gas soon," says the New York EUen-
1ng Post, =" as a poor man gets fancy
for fast horse his bank or his till is
very apt to suffer sooner or later"
Snowballing with their frozen oranges
IS a great game for Florida planters.
1t shows. how regardless planters are
OF expense when they go in for fun.
A fashionable lady of New York
paid S275 for a wing for her hat. Her
friends are wondering why she didn't
put little more to it and buy dog.
When a man dies lin Andaman.
Society Islands, they paint him red,
white and blue, so great is their res
pect for the colOrs of the American flag.
Will Carleton is said to receive 500
for every poem he writes. Under these
circumstances the fact that he dosn't
write more poems is greatly to his
credit.
A surgical journal tells of man who
lived five years with ball in his head.
We have known girls to live twice as
long with nothing but balls in their
heads.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says many
druggists sells baking powder for
quinine. That's the way the Ohio
man manages to rise superior to chills
and fever
A string of gold beads is one of the
fashionable wedding presents. 1t is
really little dover since each bead is
solid and is always convertible into the
coin of the realm.
1t is said that California girls have a
knack of marrying well. Perhaps this
is owing to the fact that they possess
the power of throwing gold dust in the
eyes of their suitors.
"Authur," said good-natured father
to his young hopeful, " 1 did not know
till to-day that you were whipped last
week" Didn't you, pa ?" replied
young hopeful. 81 knew it at the
time"
As the result of an inspection among
the Sioux Indians, it is said that of the
seventy-One Indian boys and girls
educated at the Hampton School, Vir-
ginia, only four have returned to the
blanket"
Sarah A. Kelley, an Ohio lady, has
petitiOned the present Congress to pass
a bill making her the national bard.
She has probably become tired of send
ing her poetic efusions to unapprecia-
tive editors.
The Kirmes, series Of national
dances gotten up by the leading ladies
of Philadel phia, recently given in the
Academy of Music, netted about $4,000.
This money will be applied to charita-
bic purposes.
In the course of an interview Mr.
Holman declares that the time has
come in his opinion for the admission
, of Dakota as a state. The question,
he thought should not be viewed from
party stand point.
A colored woman, living at Pond
F Hill, Conn, put her baby lin the oven
of stove to keep it warm the fire be-
ing nearly out. In her absence her
husband returned home, and built a
fire in the stove roasting the child alive
} Senator Blair introduced in the Sen
ate last week bill providing for the
erection in Washington of monuments
to President Lincoln and General
Grant similar to the Washington mOnu-
ment, to cost 81 ,0O0, 900 each-none but
, American citizens to be employed on
the work.
: The English cOttager can get goat
on the installment plan from the British
Goat Society. Waterbury american.
If, in addition, he can get can, the
: English cottager may undOubtly run
a first-class comic almanac with an oc-
casional butt from the goat to enable
, him TO see the stars.
, Ex-Commissioner of Indian affairs
, Smith says he never saw a bald-headed
: Indian, and accounts for it on the the
! ory that Indians eat unbolted flour. "
The guilelessness of this good man is
refreshing. If the Red Mans hair
; never falls out, and as for their eating
unbOlted" bread, it's notorious fact
that they bolt everything they swal-
low.
The Ledger says that Cleveland " is
l being swept by such a wave of temper
: ance agitation as has never before been
: known within her boundaries. Every
r quarter of the city has been visited,
2 and the selfsacrifcing ladies of the
? WOmen's Christian Temperance Union
are entitled to the highest praise for
) their labors in the interest of fallen
J humanity"