Smyrna times., 1889-08-21
SMYRNA and Vicinity

EIGHTY.sEvEN car loads of peaches
went up the Delaware road on Monday.
THE stay-at-homes were never lonely
this summer. They were in the ma
jOrity.
THIS is the hay fever season. Suf-
ferers should report no diminution of
its duties.
A PURCHASER thinks it's strange
that, with all the water we have had
this season, watermelOns are no larger.
The golden rod, which promises to
be adopted as the national flower, is
approaching the height of its season
now.
IT has been about four months since
the Legislature adjourned and the peo-
pie should long ago have had a sight
at the laws enacted.
Most ofus kick when times are close
And business in a lull.
But the scissors grinder makes the most
When everything is dull.
-OhamG World.
THE robbins, like most of the other
summer sOngsters, have folded up their
note books, and except a few furtive
snatches, ceased their songs until spring
returns again.
SUPT. STACEY, in our advertising
| columns calls for a removal of the
| fences encrOaching on the line of the
Baltimore and Delaware Bay railroad, -,
within the next thirty days.
THE difference of cents per bushel
in price of wheat grown by Norman
Brand Phosphate over that grown by
another brand is at least an item. Ask
Mr.. Bilderback, ask Mr.. Bennett, ask
| Mr.. Hill. #
J. w, DENNEY, who with his wife
has been spending several weeks at
Atlantic City, returned on Friday,
bringing with him very pretty model
Of the Eiffel tower Of Paris, which
graces his window.
THE Conference Academy at Dover,
Del, Boarding and Day School for
both sexes, prepares for college, busl-
ness and teaching. Terms, 5000 per
year. For catalogue, apply to w. l..
GOOding, Principal. T
AT HIS BENCH AGAIN.. V. Smith
whose health has been poor for some
time back, is now at his bench and
wants fifty good watches to repair in
the next month. Work done at lowest
prices and in the best workmanlike
manner. #
THE Wilmington Fair Catalogue has
been sent to this office. Besides the
usual contents of such publications it
contains the awards ofl last years fair.
1t is the largest fair catalogue we have
ever seen, containing 154 pages. If
the fair is large in proportion it can at
least boast Of size.
IN State Chemist VOLTS recent tab
ulated analyses of 80 different brands
| of Fertilizers, it will be observed that
in commercial values Norman Brand
| Phosphate heads 20 of the leading"
| brands, while but 10 are ahead of
| Norman, and of these one is Ground
Bone and two are truck fertilizers. T
For several years during August,
/ wagon loads of luscious watermelons
and cantaloups have been brought to
| town, but this year is a notable excep.
| ton. The wet weather has rOtted the
vines, and the melon crop is prac-
| tically played out for once. The
county of Caroline in Maryland, which
| lies west of US, is in the same fix, and
those in the market havn't the usual
good flavor.
EVERY person, no matter what his
future calling may be, should have a
practical, business education, and the
Wilmington Commercial College and
School of Shorthand and writing
most hOurishing institution located
at Wilmington, Del, affords unusual
facilities at low rate. Their elegant
new catalogue will be mailed free on
application. See advertisement in an
other column.
A. Il. HUDSON wishes a correction of
the statement made last week in le-
gard to the trOtting course on his farm.
he says 1t is not to be a trOtting or race
course IN the common acceptation of
the term, but trial course such as is
used on a stock farm for increasing the
speed of young horses. The track has
been surveyed, but nothing has been
done towards preparing it, and it is
problematical when it will be.
THE Delaware State Fair Catalogue
has been issued. 1t is a neatly printed
pamphlet and offers the usual liberal
premiums on all kinds of farm crODs ::
animals and household articles for
which this society has been noted.
The Fair will be held in Dover. be-
ginning the last Monday in September
and will continue one week. Entries
may be made to the Secretary, Col. d.
T. Barnard, at Dover, any time after
Sept. l.
MEssRs. T. P. HAUGHEY and Walter
Colt report everything fiourishing at
indianapolis and that part of the
West. They have had the weather
very seasOnable with the proper auan-
tity of rain to make large crops. but
not attended with the foods that has
characterized the Atlantic States.
The introduction of natural gas in
indianapolis in the last year or two
has been great boon to the city for
both mechanical purposes and heating
their dwellings.
MANY farmers have cut down the
weeds along their fences but manv
others have not. PestiferOus weeds
are maturing their seed very fast now.
and enough are growing on almost
every farm to seed half a dozen farms.
The roadside. the fence-corners. and
out of the way places are full of them.
Make raid upon them whenever DOS.
siblo. IfyOu cut down one obnoxious
weed before the seed natures. Won
prevent hundreds from growing next
year, to sap your crops and increase
your labor.
MANY newspaper subscribers 90 on
an assumption that works bad for the
publisher. Each one imagines that
because has years Indebtedness
amounts to so small a sum, the pub
Usher cannot be much in need of it
without thinking for moment that
the income of newspaper is made up
of just such small amounts and that
the aggregate of all subscriptions is bv
no means an incOnsiderable sum of
money. If each subscriber would re.
alize the fact that it is his subscription
that is wanted it would, greatly aid the
publisher
AMONG the experiments made this
season by the Delaware experiment
sttaion are those on grape vines to pre-
vent black rot. One of the vineyards
onI f-1 -.