Smyrna times., 1889-07-10
GENUINE ice cream weather.

~ A4LO AA4E nl4CNAc5s
BORROWING gripsacks is as fashion
able nowadays as is the loaning Of
umbrellas.
We have from Prof. ". L. Gooding
a neat catalogue of the Wilmington
Academy.
II the farmers were ever buster than
they are under the clear, sunny days
of this week, they don't remember it.
This is the season of the year
When nights at comfort scott:
'Tis too hot with the covers on,
And too cold with them of.
ALOT of good household goods will |
be offered at Mrs. c. NJ. Collins post |
poned sale on Saturday afternoon at !
3 O'Clock.
THE cars at Bombay Hook are to be |
run on what is called a pontoOn. 1t is
S5x5O feet, 6 feet deep, the bridge be-
ing 80 feet.
The highest ambition of any lady
visitor ought to be reached, when the
young men of two towns are bowing
at her feet.
TIE proper thing now is to have a
big sheet of cork placed just outside of
your bath tub. It is more pleasant to
step on than carpet or oil cloth.
BENZ. BEDwELL, living near De-
laney's, lost two of his toes by q glance
of the axe in cutting wood. Drs.
Ashcraft and Clifton amputated them.
THE "bithesome and cumberless"
cucumber is ripe enough for the most
timid stomach. But if you would en-
courage an internal cyclone-try drink
ing a little milk with him"
TOBACCO notably impairs the mem
Ory. Among students great smokers
come out at the bottom Of the list,
nOn-smOkers at the top. Students who
are smokers never rank high in ex-
aminatiOns.
ONE Of our pGter faaiLids says of his
hopeful son, that the latter is so i'm
bued with base ball that if he asks him
to hand him anything at the table, it
is landed at his plate with the skill of
/ a professional.
WALLACE BRUCE, of New York, who
was on Monday morning last appoint
ed consul at Leith, Scotland, is we'll
known in this county and State, hay-
| ing lectured here under the auspices
of the Teachers Institutes.
TIE two-cent green postage stamp
! is to be replaced by a red one and its
| size is to be cut down one-third.
These are improvements, but stamp
/ which does not need to be licked
/ ought to be the next object of the in
ventive genius Of the POstOfice De-
/ partment.
THE effects of the numerous grad
uating essays are not yet noticeable in
! the moral Improvement of the world ;
/ neither has the efforts of the weekly
/ I.1Ons of the multitudinOus preachers
but the future will no doubt show that
the efforts of both classes will not
return void.
some of the ladies of the town are
endeavoring to revive the interest in
lawn tennis. Good grounds have been
! selected on South street. Among
those interested in forwarding the
interests and forming the club are
Mrs. Clifton, Miss Clara Bewley, Miss
Lola Blackston aud Miss Ella Smithers
HARRY G. BLENDT, who has a large
steam thresher, commenced with bis
own crop on Saturday afternoon, pre-
paratory to the general demands on
him that are to follow. With only g
day and a-half of summing after the
heavy rainfalls, it was somewhat damp
but the weather continues splendid
and the demand on the thresher vii
be general throughout the country
this week.
THERE are said to be hundreds o
acres Of land in corn that is past re
demptiOn no matter how good tn,
weather may be from this time on
This is particularly the case in Kenton
= Blackbird and Appoquinimink Hun
dreds-the backbone of the Peninsul,
where the springs are never IA
below the surface. Much of it ha
) never had a cultivatOr in it since
was planted.
THE company for reclaiming marshe
, at Collins Beach, has succeeded il
/ bringing in cultivation meadow land
which will yield a crop of 400 tons o
5 clear timothy hay, of which about 10,
, tons are cut. The work on the larg
hay house has been seriously inter
rupted by the weather. The compan,
has been making offers for the puI
chase Of meadow lands in upper Ken
county but the prices offered, 81 L
= Sl.5O per acre, are not sufficient
. tempting to owners.
Mrs JOHN ANTHONY has a fors
curiosity in the way of a water Ill
y that is called the Egyptian Lotus. ]
:, was the gift of her nephew, J. Spence
Lapbam, and got by him from a eel,
brated lily grower in upper Ne,
= Jersey. 1t opened on Saturday, tn
q petals white, tipped with pink, an
d when fully opened, measures frol
seven to nine inches. It remains
r bloom three days. 1t is in a tank
It water, and will be blooming from tin
II to time during the summer.
SUPERINTENDENT HANDY's SUNNI,
It school for teachers and those preparir
n to be teachers, will commence here G
Il Monday next, 18th inst. It is sal
.e that nearly 100 young ladies and gel
tlemen, mostly the former, have sij
nifed their intention to avail ther
le selves Of the advantages Of this scho
u which will continue during this ar
le next month. Mr.. Handy will ha-
d three assistants, the sessions beiI
I held in the public school buildin
The students expressed themselv
ar pleased with Smyrna last year, al
le we hope their sojOurn will be none t
~ less pleasant this.
y The interest in Smyrna in the gre
E mill between the bruisers, Sulliyi
and Kilrain, we presume, was like
vs. was everywhere else-an exciti
a topic, with an earnest desire to knC
D. the result. There were all kinds
Ut rumOrs during the day on Monda
lg the most credited one being that Sui
van had broken the jaw of Kilrain a
knocked him out on the ninth rOur
aI The true result Of the battle was q
y known until the papers came yesterd
= morning, when il was found that
IL rounds we're fought, consuming t
- hours and eighteen minutes, Kilrl
r- giving out, leaving John L. in poss
le sion Of the belt.
be THOUGH this year promised to be
profitable one for the farmers, it is I
panning out that way. To begin W
~ the wet weather has sadly hamper
60 their efforts to get in all their hs
ls then the high winds Of this spring
I5y said to have injured the wheat, 3
lsi the grain will be light weight and q