Smyrna times., 1886-04-14


On April 25th, the law shuts down
on the Oystermen.
Rhode Island has adopted a prOhibi-
tory amendment TO the State cOnstitu-
ton by more than a three-ffths vote.
Mary Anderson has engaged passage
on the steamship AiIer, Of the Bremen
Line, and will sail for England on
June 5th.
The House of Representatives last
week voted down proposition to sus-
pend the coinage of the fraudulent sill
yer dollar.
The Austrian forests chiefly furnish
the wood for musical instruments, par
ticularly violins, guitars, mandOlins
and ZitheTs.
Apparently nothing but riOting on q
very large scale can prevent the re-
sumption in full of traffic of the South
western roads.
The value Of the hardware produced
in the United States each year is now
about $6O,OOO,OOO, and half of il is made
in Connecticut.
a. company with 100000 capital has
been organized at Pittsburg to try to
break the patent controlled BY the fruit
jar mOnOpolists.
One of the results of prohibition in
Atlanta, Georgia, is that property has
been assessed s., 500, 900 above the as
sessment of last year.
There are still public lands open to
settlement in nineteen States and eight
Territories, at prices ranging from
S1.25 to $3.50 per acre.
The Oregon has been sunk three
weeks, and Father Neptune is the only
wrecker who has been down TO tbs YES
sci up to the present time.
The tariff reform Democrats o. the
WAYS aud Means Committee of the
House of Representatives are about
ready to give up in despair.
A San Francisco paper asserts that
there are on the Pacific slope to-day
more divorced and unmarried couples
than in all the rest of the country.
The average age of those entering
college in this country is IL :; but when
they are graduated each thinks he
knows more than the oldest inhabitant.
Mr. Gladstone occupied three hours
and twenty-five minutes in the deliv-
cry of his great speech on Home Rule
in the British House of Commons last
week.
| The Thousand Islands in the St.
Lawrence ought to afford good hidiag-
places for the illused Gotham Magis-
trates. The river is rapid around there
and the water plentiful.
There is no rest for the wicked, and
New York ex-Aldermen need not fiat
ter themselves that they are being
overlooked. The District Attorney is
merely taking in ballast.
"Mush and Milk parties" are very
popular in religious circlesin st. Louis.
All present fasten bibs around their
necks and then proceed to eat as much
mush and milk as they can.
1t appears that while England sup
plies the rails for foreign railways the
/ United States furnishes the locomotives.
We are sending abroad about 50 900, 900
worth of locomotives yearly.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, is to have a
twelve-story hotel, with the dining
room in the tenth story, the kitchen in
the eleventh, and the laundry and the
servants quarters in twelfth.
False teeth are said to be cheaper
than ever before known. If the price
gets any lower, fashionable women
who use the article can afford set 10
match each costume they wear.
Gen. Butler has been urged TO sab
NIT to an operation that viii straighten
his crooked eye, but refuses TO do so.
Butler is queer man. He also refuses
to have his politics Strengthened.
The mistress of Her Majesty Of Eng
lands robes gets 5000 per annum
and it is doubtful whether she ever
sewed ON a button in her life. Her
business is to keep of the moths.
A fair trial is the birthright Of every
Alderman. Mr.. Jaehn's counsel has
asked for bill of particulars. Let the
| minutest particulars be givens&bs
even to the color of the bee
] height of the fences. aud Diplomas
a States Centennial