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Smyrna times., 1886-12-22
NOTICE.

Came to my residence, nearFs-T7R
Brenford, Monday, tho 10Th of ~
December, Red Cow, with some-=zg=zzA&
white on her back. The owner can have
her by paying charges and for this advers
tisement.
dec 22-3w WIN. F. DEAN.
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Election Notice.

The FRufr Growers NATIONAL BANK,
SMYRNA, DEL, Dec "a, 1886. J
The Annual Election for Directors Of this Bank
will be held az the Banking House on Iuesdey;
Ianuarv nth, 1887, between the hours Of and
o'clock, p. NJ 49,, - ,,,-,
dec i5-2W N, +. NlLbo' Chahlet'
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TERMS Postage Prepaid, 800 Pr Year,
VOL VIII commences Noqens6er 2, 1886.
s,xo,p NuunERs. Five Gents each.

Remittances should be made by PostOnice
Money Order or Draft, to avoid chance Ofloss.
Newspapers are not to copy this advertisement toih
out The express order Of HARPER BROTHERs.
Address HARPER & BROTHERS. New York
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1887.
Harper's Bazaar.
ILLUSTRATED.

HARPER's BAZAR combines the choicest ltcra-
ture and the finest art illustrations with the latest
stories, poems. and essays are by the best writer's
and its humorous sketches are unsurpassed. Its
papers on social etiquette decorative art, house
indispensable in every household. It's beautiful
fashiOn-plateS and pattern-sheet supplements
enable ladies to save many times the cost of sub
scription by being their own dressmGkers Not a
line is admitted to its columns that could shock
the most fastidiOus taste.
Smyrna times., 1886-12-22

Hogology is an interesting study with
the farmer just now. How much did
yours weigh
Smyrna times., 1886-12-22

Very large variety of very
fine Silk Handkerchiefs and Muf-
tierS at very low prices at j. r
Cooper's Dry Goods Store.
If you want a Fancy Work
Basket or Work Stand, or Writ
ing Desk or a Hand Bag or Basket,
you can get it at J. B. Cooper's.
a few very fine Work Boxes,
Toilet Sets, Shaving Sets, &c, at
prices far below previous seasons,
at J. B. COOper's.
j. B. Cooper's Holiday Goods
are some of them in the Windows,
but mostly in the Store.
Get your Raisins, Citron. Cur
rants, Cranberries, Hominy, Buck
wheat, Mincemeat, Confectioners
Sugar, Apples, Lemons, Oranges,
Prunes, Spices, Pickles, Sweet
Potatoes, &c, at the Store of ].
B. Cooper.
J. B. Cooper's Store is the au-
thOrized depository of School
Books for Smyrna and vicinity.
Staple Goods of all kinds as
usual. Cash or Produce received
in exchange.
Smyrna times., 1886-12-22

An epitOme of everything that Is attractive an
desirable in juvenile literature e-BOsiOR Courier.
weekly feast Of good things TO the boys and
girls IN every family which 1t visits.-BrOOkiyH
UniOn
1t Is wonderful in It's wealth Of pictures, infOr-
nation, and interest," Christian Advocate, N. Y.
Smyrna times., 1886-12-22
FOR RENT.

A Six Room House, in Duck Creek. A
good location for Shoe Shop. Possession
the lst of December.
nov loft R0BT. DENNEY.
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HARPER'S PERIODICALS.
Per Xear.

Postage Free 10 all subscribers in the United States
or CIRddG.
The Volumes of the BAZAAR begin with the first
Number for January of each year. When no
time is mentioned, subscriptions will begin with
the Number current at time of receipt of order.
Bound Volumes of HARPERs BAZAR, for three
years back, in neat cloth binding, will be sent by
mail postage paid, or by express, free of expense
provided the freight does not exceed one dollar
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Cloth Cases for each volume, suitable for bind
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Sl00 each.
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Money Order or Draft, to avoid chance of loss.
Newspapers are not 10 copy this advertisement 1Uit-
out the cypress order Of HARPER BROTHERS.
Address HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.
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Closing Of Mails.
Opoming OF Mails,

SONG North, 6.45, 1870 A. NJ, and AIS, 72OP.M.
tong SOUTH 9.S5 A. NJ, and 72G P N.
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TO ADVERTISERS!

For a check for $40 we will print ten-line ad-
vertisement in One Million issues of leading
American Newspapers Thi is at the rate Of only
One-fifth of a cent a line for 1000 Circulation
The advertisement will be placed before One
Million different newspaper purchaser or FIVE
MILLION READERS. Ten lines Will accommodate
check or send 80 cents for Book of 100 pages. GEO.
P. RoWELL & Co.. 10 Spruce St., New York.
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HOUSEKEEPING GOODS.

Linen Table Cloths, Napkins,
Towels, Fruit DOylies, Art Work, Jno.
Brown & Son One--half Bleached
Linens. They make a useful present,
always in good taste. You can be sure
of every women appreciating a gift in
Linen no matter what it is. We have
them at all prices.
Smyrna times., 1886-12-22
County and State Items.

IRON the North, II 90 A. NJ, and $50 Pm.
from the South, Z 81 and II 80 AN
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AND
ABLES

A full line, generous size, full weight,
good material. A bargain in blankets
at 1915, a good blanket for the money
at $l.25, going up to $15 per pair
Comfortables at 81, $1.25, S1.5O, $1.75,
to 1915. The materials cost more be-
fore they are made up--somebody's
loss, not ours, but your advantage.
Smyrna times., 1886-12-22

smyrna Branch Trains.
55o!ng North, 7.19, s.2S, 1l.OOA 4A5PN.
dOlhg south, 9.4S A. NJ, 2lOl, 4.45 and 7.45P.M.
Smyrna times., 1886-12-22

AN EXHIBITION BY THE HORrlcuL-
TURAL SOCIETY TO BE HELD IN VIII
MINGToN. committee, consisting
Of John p. Il. Polk, of Wilmington,
Thomas Holcomb of New Castle, }. ;.
Barnhart, of New Castle hundred, }. q.
Brown. Of Wyoming and n. Barnard,
Of Still Pond, Md, appointed at the
meeting of the Peninsular Horticultur-
al Society last week to arrange for an
exhibition Of fruits and flowers, have
decided upon September 9th, as the
date. The exhibition will be held in
WILMINGTON. and the interest OF nearly
all the leading fruit growers ot the
Peninsula have been enlisted m the az
fair, ensuring its success. Premiums
of sufficient amount to induce line ex.
hibits and competition will be oiieEed
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1886-01-28

A correspondent of the Globe Democrat
writes from Japan as follows: Grape
weaving is carried on by scores Of men
and women working in long, open build
ings, and from the reeling Of the silk to
the finish the whole process can be seen.
When the Grape is on the loom it is only
thin silk tissue, iimsy- looking sort of
material, such as they use for painting
the panels for screens and kakemonos.
1t has perfectly smooth, glossy surface,
and the threads each way are drawn tight
and even. From the loom the piece Of
Grape, which is generally made in lengths
of fifty or sixty feet, is plunged into vat
Of boiling water and stirred about in the
steam for few minutes, and this process
shrinks the threads and gives the Grape
its wrinkled, crinkly look. When dried
the Grape is tossed in heaps, each length
of mussed, yellow stuff twisted and tied
like skein, and but for the silky lustre
it looks like SO many ragged and badly
handled pieces of unbleached muslin.
After this the Grape is bleached Or dyed
and stretched on bamboo frames to dry,
when it becomes the smooth, soft Grape
with "a wrinkled skin like scalded milk
that every woman raves over. The TWEEN
ty-yard lengths Of wide Grape are sold at
prices ranging from $18 to $25, depend
ing on the weight of the silk and the fine
ness of weaving.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1886-01-28
A conylct,s Career.

Silas McCloon, one Of the four Deer
Island convicts recently pardoned at
Boston for heroism in rescuing the rem
nant Of the crew Of the schooner Juliet,
wrecked off Winthrop's Point, is well
known in the West. His father was
wealthy ship-builder at Roclland, Maine,
and left $500, 900 to his son when he
died few years ago. Young McCloon
was induced to purchase an interest in a
valueless invention to utilize steam with
out allowing an exhaust, and on it lavished
thousands of dollars He went to France
and it is said spent 5000, 900 in trying to
sell the patent. His relatives at length
succeeded in inducing him to return to
the United States, when he entered on a
career Of dissipation and his remaining
property soon disappeared. Various
efforts to reclaim him were made but for a
time he seemed to be hopeless case. At
length, on promise that he would re-
form, his mother gave him $40, 900 with
which to purchase cattle ranch in the
West. He started and remained sober
till he reached Omaha, when he drank a
bottle Of ale. Then he started on de-
bauch, and in four days all Of his $40,
900 had disappeared except $9OO; His
next effort at reformation was made in
exile in the Medicine Bow mountain
range, where for four months he re-
manned searching for gold in region
where human beings are rarely seen, and
intoxicants could not be had at the
expiration of that period, having suffered
the adverse fate Of most gold hunters,
McCloon returned home to his wife and
two children in Maine, sure that circum-
stances had redeemed him and resolved
to recover by hard labor the fortune he
had so recklessly squandered. His re-
lease from convict's cell for bravery is
the first that has been heard from him in
the West since then.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1886-01-28

been stored for such emergencies SquiT-
rels not only provide large supply in one
place, but have other stores, or caches, at
irregular places, to which they can resort
in case Of the exhaustion or destruction
Of the chief granery. When the snow
has lain on the ground for long time,
holes may be seen where squirrels have
dug down with unerring accuracy to get
nuts buried months before. An old
hunter says he has known squirrels to
perish because the main supply had given
out and the frozen condition of the crust
Of the snow prevented them from getting
at the caches.
There is very vast difference between
an animal torpid from cold and one hiber-
mating, and the difference can be quickly
determined. A frozen animal is stiff and
rigid, while the one that is alternating
is mobile. When frozen they are without
sensation, but when alternating they are
usually easily awakened by touch.
The mountaineer's snake, if it was
alternating, should have been curled up,
or twisted together with others. 1t prob
ably had been in for the winter, but,
waking on account Of the warm day, ven
tured out, and the cold coming on, was
unable to return, and 50 froze, but not
enough to exterminate -Pitts5urs
Dispatch.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1886-01-28

The paper age proper may be said to
date from the discovery Of the manufac-
ture of paper-from, say, about 900 A.
D. Since that time the path of paper
has been smooth enough. People began
with books: newspapers followed: 4neri-
odicals, magazines, professional and trade
journals closed the triumphal march. AL
though scientists then began to look upon
the paper trade as having reached its
close, or, at any rate, as having seen its
best days, that time has not come yet. 1t
is true that paper bags and paper boxes
made them smile, but paper boats, paper
barrels and paper wheels gave them
chill, paper collars, paper handkerchief
and paper serviettes set them humming
and having, while paper bottles, paper
tea caddies and paper chimneys created
fiutter in scientific circles, and paper tim
Der and paper flooring rendered them
rather uneasy, until paper shirt fronts
and paper slippers broke them down en-
tirely. But the worst has to come yet,
for we are, in reality, only just entering
upon the border, so to speak, of the genu-
inc paper age. In few short years,
in our paper shirts and paper trousers, we
shall sit down to our paper tables, upon
our paper chairs, and eat our eggs with
paper sr,oore. Whom wo 60 out of a
morning we shall put on our paper shoes,
paper overcoat and paper gloves, seize
our paper umbrella, or paper cane and
hat, kiss the baby, happy in his paper
pinafore, trip lightly down the paper
staircase, over the paper pathway to ouI
paper carriage, and start for town, con-
tinuing our noiseless ride over the paper
pavement, but stopping once more, posi-
bly,, to order the latest novelty for om
better half. Who would be bold enough
to predict the end of the. paper age
Inland Printer.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1886-01-28
POPULAR SCIENCE.

The Indians Of Mexico ilIumine their
path by night with phosphorescent in
sect which is far more brilliant than onr
freely. They feed their lights on sugar
cane instead of from the kerosene oil can,
and increase their brilliancy by dipping
them in water. These insects are said to
afford light enough to read by.
DR.. G. Heitzmann, Of New York, an ex-
pert microscopic, claims that, by an ex-
animation of the blood of any person, he
can discover whether the blood be pure
or not, whether there be any latent i'm
purity or hereditary disease which should
render the person an unfit subject for
life-insurance or even for matrimony.
Somebody says in a London paper that
the highest velocity yet impaired to a can
non hall is ,626 feet per second, equal to
mile in 8. 2 seconds. The velocity of the
earth at the equator, due to rotation on its
axis, is 200 miles per hour, or mile in
3.6 seconds; thus, if cannon ball were
fred due west and could maintain its
initial velocity, it would beat the sun in
its apparent journey around the earth.
An area of about four and one-half
square miles forms the nucleus of the
whole oil-bearing region Of the Caucasus.
The naptha-bea beds consist of sand,
calcareous clays, marls, and in places
compact sandstone, often Of great thick
ness and penetrated by bands of pyrites.
AS in Pennsylvania, the naphtha is in some
places associated with salt water, which
gives much trouble in driving bore holes.
The plateau is on level Of about 40
feet above the surface of the Caspian and
aepIn OF fUU IeeJ DeIow InaJ great lake
has been reached by the borers.
The apparent phenomenon by which
the sun and moon in rising or setting seem
greatly enlarged, says Stroobart, is the re-
suit of causes, both purely physiological
one, the greater sensitiveness of the eye to
angular magnitudes near the horizon; the
other, direct effect Of the feeble light in
the enlargement Of the pupil, which, it
would seem, tends to magnify objects,
even when artificially produced. Thus it
is shown by experiments that the distance
between two luminous points within a
room suffers the same apparent change as
in the consultations, when, without alter
ing the distance from the eye, the altitude
is gradually increased.
1t is stated in foreign exchange that
a company is about to establish large
works at St. Petersburg for the purpose OF
making rails from paper. The paper is
Subjected to great pressure, and it is said
that the material is extremely durable, and
can be produced at one third the cost OF
steel rails. A further advantage would be
in their ightness, not only on account of
the saving Of the cost Of carrying and lay
ing, but also because they could be made
in longer lengths than is the case at the
present time, therefore the number Of
joints will be fewer, and consequently less
oscillation to the carriages, and the wear
and tear to both permanent way. and roll
ing stock reduced to a minimum. A
greater adhesion also would be offered BY
these rails to the driving wheels Of the
engine, and the working expenses reduced
accordingly.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1886-01-28
Artemus Wards Last Ioke.

When Horace Greeley was running fol
President he attended picnic of New
York Typographical Union, No. 6, at
Jones' Wood. Robert McKechnie was
then President of the union. He fairly
worshiped Horace, and received him
with unbounded urbanity. During a
conversation, dispute arose as to Amer
ican humorists. Mark Twain had just
published his 'Innocents Abroad, y and
McKechnie asked Greeley whether he
didn't consider Mark to be the greatest
of American humorists. 'sNo, l don't, "
Horace responded, ''for | don't think
much Of any man who spoils 900 pages
in trying to be funny. If I was asked
who was the greatestof American humor
lists, should say it was Artemus Ward. I"
eyes," Robert responded, "and the
greatest joke he ever perpetrated was
when he died. He made will, leaving
$50, 600 for fund to found an asylum
for superannuated printers, and you are
one of his executors. 1t was his biggest
joke; for, after the printers, in gratitude,
had raised $6, 900 for monument to his
memory, it was discovered that Artemus
had died without a cent? Horace
whined, 'It's lie. But subsequent de-
velopments proved it to be true. The
printers raised the So, 600 on novel
plan. From one end Of the union to the
other compositors set up 1000 ems of
type, and forwarded the money to an Off
Ger Of the National Typographical Union.
Nobody has yet learned in print what be-
came Of the six thousand dollars. The
Journalist will enlighten them. During
a session of the International Typograph-
ical Union in Montreal, year or two
afterward, it was blown into faro bank
by the man who acted as treasurer. A fit
ending for Artemus Wards last joke
NeaO York Journalist
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1886-01-28
BuIuarians as Soldiers.

"It is altogether remarkable, = writes q
war correspondent, ''how patiently the
Bulgarians bear their hardships, and
with what business-like devotion they ex-
ecute orders which impose upon them the
utmost personal sacrifice. Foreigners
fresh to the country are amazed at the
quiet way in which the Bulgarians take
the news alike of reverses and victories.
They were not cast down by the disas-
trous news from the frontier in the early
days Of the campaign, nor unduly elated
when the tide of fortune turned in their
favor. They are frst-class soldiers, and
this was never shown better than since
the cessation of hostilities. .
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1886-01-28
NUMBER %.
How to Pop the Question.

have in my possession a postal card
on which is the inquiry: (Which is the
best way to pop the question: have
had talks with several hundred men in
my time on this very point. These talks
partOOk very largely of the character Of
experiences, and may say that 7 have
yet to hear Of single happy connubial
union that sprung out of a purely com
mercial proposal. Nor have I known
anything good to come Of mar
riage springing from a proposal that had
been carefully prearranged. The happi-
est have known were those which grew
out Of a moment that seemed created on
the spot for the very occasion. "A man
may have loved woman ten years with
out having sueh-a-moment as this burst
upon him-though / wouldn't give
much for a love that couldn't
come to a head sooner. But if
it is love, the moment will come.
It may be in the subdued light; or on
the steps Of the portico; or on the gate;
or in the solitude Of the forest, where
only bird is swinging and singing in
the tree-top, or somewhere by the sea.
The place is of no consequence neces-
sarily, but it ought to be secluded to
some extent; where the words are ia
unison; where, when you say something,
no matter what it is about, it will touch
the invisible wire and send a current Of
life into her soul. If she does not re-
spond by look or word you can depend
upon it, young man, that you are on a
cold trail. But if she does! Then put
on some more fuel; as it warns, fan it,
and as the flames brighten her cheek,
~ 7E,s'sIAEs q
breaking into fragments her words
wreath about your own, so that your
hand is as gentle in its stroke as the
step Of fairy-so that she has to look
up at you from under the silken lashes-
them If you are not moved by this
time to forget where you are and who
you are-and if you do not say it then
you deserve to be a toothless bachelor,
and you run the risk Of making one
woman miserable all the days of her life.
But there is no fixed rule for it. And
when it is over-Iong years after, may
be when you are sitting by your freside
and the winds Of a cruel winter are
sounding death taps on your window, if
you cannot go back to the place and the
time, over and over and over again, and
sit down by it, and feel something like
incense stealing its way into your soul,
God pity you, in your winter Of ioneli-
liness, for you didn't pop to the right
woman Chicago Herald.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1886-01-28
Advantages of Advertising.

In the development of trade during
the past generation or two, says an ex-
change, advertising has been resorted to
and employed as never before, and
through its mediumship the business
enterprises of the country have been
brought into prominence and before the
public.
The man who best understands this
important governing principle Of trade;
who realizes the necessities Of the times
and seeks to satisfy them; who syste-
matically and wisely advertises bis
business and gives people to under
stand that he really means business
and is thoroughly alive to all that is
going on, he, above all others-other
things being equals the man who
makes financial triumph in life and has
his efforts crowned with the laurel
wreath of success.
The ways of advertising are innumer-
able, and oftentimes display the greatest
ingenuity, and while some are nonsen-
steal, others sensational, and some more
effective than Others, still they are recog-
nized as the motive power whose force
moves the wheels of commercial enter
prise. AS temporary expedients and
cappers Of trade some of these methods,
no doubt, accomplished their object to a
certain extent, but the newspaper has
long since been acknowledged the only
legitimate advertising medium, and
through its periodical columns thousands
of advertisers speak to millions Of
readers
Newspapers 60 everywhere, are read
by all classes, at home and abroad, and
there is scarcely an individual in the
land whose patronage is worth influence
ing who does not take or read news
paper, or who may not be directly ap-
pealed to by a well-advised advertise
ment.
Our business men, having faith in their
own wares, realize that it is the most eff
fective means for securing a wide recog-
milton Of the merits Of their goods, and
the most energetic and successful sales
man they can engage. Ceaselessly at
work, it addresses thousands each day in
the interest of the advertiser, and is a
-
it is impossible to escape.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1886-01-28
The Ennlish Hannman.

Berry, the English hangman, is tall,
respectable-looking man, with the appear
ance Of a mechanic He is a shoemaker
by trade, but does not work now, as the
executioner is well paid, He gets $50 a
head, Or, when there are more than one,
$50 for the first, $25 for the second and
$50 for the third, with all his expenses
paid. The first essential is nerve, and
Berry has nerve Binns, who preceded
him, was braggart, and liked publicity.
He would smoke his pipe outside half an
hour before an execution, and drink, and
had an active tongue. Now the execu-
cutioner is obliged to sleep in jail the
night before hanging Calcraft, who
was hangman for 50 many years, was also
shoemaker, and, like Berry, quiet, re-
firing man.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1886-01-28
Wnrkinn Children IN Germany.

According to the Conservative Monthly
CGerman) there are in Germany no less
than 46O, ,474 children under fifteen years
of age supporting themselves. Of these
143, 962 are engaged in manufacture, 2s,
629 of them being girls. There is scarce
ly branch Of industry in which chill
drcn are not employed. In mines and
salt works alone, $500 children are en-
ployed. Brick, porcelain and glass
works employ 5,744 more children, a
large proportion of whom are emploJ Jed
at home in glass blowing, kind Of
work especially hurtful for breathing ap-
paratus which is still in process of de-
velopment. In spinning mills there are
6,942 children. The figures touching
the spinning industry are very complete,
and the conclusions which inevitably
follow from them are terrible Beside
the 6, 942 child spinners, there are "a, \
900 persons ronging in age from fifteen
to twenty years, 81, 900 IN the years be-
tween twenty and thirty, and but Is, ZOO
between thirty and forty. The majority
of these workers are women. The natu-
raj consequence is the fearful mortality
Of children in spinning and weaving dis
tricts such as Silesia, mortality which
has increased Of late years.