Smyrna times., 1886-07-14
Sharp, Short and Sunny,

estate in Santa Clara county, Cal, at u
value of about S8O0,OOO.
Two or three bananas sliced in a
bowl of bread and milk make a deli
ciOus and sufficient lunch.
Forty rods make one rood, but one
rod will often make one civil, especially
in the case of the small boy.
Fruit is abundant and sugar cheap,
SO look out for more preserves than
have been put up for the past ten years.
The Iowa, Wisconsin and Nebraska
wheat fields are not yielding nearly as
well as was expected; 1t has been too
dry.
In Mexico a miller is obliged to pay
thirty-twO seperate taxes on his wheat
in getting it from the field to the mar
ket.
Take things in the coolest fashion
possible, quietly, pleasantly, soberly,
and you will live longer and be hap
pier.
A coal syndicate, embracing all the
mines within fifty miles of St. Louis,
has been formed, with capital of
$5,OOO,OOO.
A newspaper wisely remarks that
people who go OH excursions are as
appyh to get home as they are that
they went.
The use of natural gas at Pittsburg
has thrown about 5000 miners out of
work; it saves almost so, 100000 bushels
of coal day. /.
Trying to save time by jumping on a
moving railroad train is simply a dash
at eternity and a good many make
connections too.
This, it is thought, will be known as
the summer for weddings. In what
preceding June have so many souls
been made happy?
The "sunset teas" are the latest.
They are held out of doors at Just the
time when the rosy orb of day sinks
behind the western hills.
In the matter of speed the bicycle
ranks seventh-the balloon, the loco
motive and troting, pacing and running
horses having faster records.
st. Johns Guild, New York, is active
ly carrying on its philanthropic
work in taking out sick and weary
mothers with their children on free
water excursions.
The activity of the ProLibitionists in
almost every State is one of the most
notable features of present politics,
and it may have an important effect
upon the elections in some States.
The workingmen of Lyons threaten
to return the monarchy to power if the |
Republic does not take greater interest
in Frances welfare. There is much
sympathy for the banished princes.
Ten Of the seventeen Bohemians on
trial in New York city for boycotting
Mrs. Langraf, the baker, have been
discharged for want of Identification
che rest will be tried for conspiracy.
The General Board of the Knights of
Labor has closed its business in respect
to the Southwestern strike; It paid
out 100000, and its followers lost
Sl,OOO,OOO in wages, while the railroad
lost S3,5OO,OOO.
The President has great fun in veto
ing the pension bills and Jokes gleefullv
as he runs his pen through measures
for some poor old soldiers relief It
was Shakespeare, we believe. who said
lie JesIs at scars that never feel, q
wOund.n
The swallow is now the C,Sbinuab,c
ornament of the day in Paris an EN-.
Dlem of the simmer fitting. Some
times the real stuffed bird ne.t,,. +,
The rant If the hat, but it is mostly re-
~ .uced in diamonds as tiny brooch
and earnings.
With a Gainsborolgh hat dirccrlv in
front Of yon, fellow who ate raw
onions for supper directly behind Won
a peanut Gend at your right and :,
spoony couple on the left, it must be
an exceptionally meritorious entertain
ment that will keep man good-
natured.
T" What a lovely woman ~ was tho
exclamation of Chief Justice Waite nm
on passing a frst-class beauty when
walking down Pennsylvania avenua
with a friend. "What an excellent
Judge!" said the lady, when her sensi-
tive ear caught the llattering decree of
the Chief Justice.
There is a striking similarity in the
summer temperatures of Norfolk
Charleston, Savannah, Mobile. New
Orleans and Galveston and as a rule
the summer range Of the thermometer
IN these cities is not SO high as If is
further north. This leads the South.
ern papers to advocate Southern sum-
mer resorts as more desirable for
theSOuth people than Northern resorts
Though Mr.. Keely has promised that
his new motor power shall be finished
Oy august or September, there is as
much skepticism in regard TO its success
as there was ten years aoo He bod
hoped to give an exhibition of his hio
engine on Monday Of last week, but
WnsA inc day arrived, as usual, the
paris were not all finished and a
patient public was doomed once more
1a uissapp
Inc virtues o. 81 Jacobs Oil, as pro-
s..a'ineu -. 9y nii mons OF restored suffer-
- apouin laanee everyone to supply
X eonqners pain. 9P0eiuc'