Smyrna times., 1904-07-27

Tt is now said that radium will cure
corns. Take about 900 worth, and
give the toe three exposures OF ten
minutes each, and the corn will come
away quite painlessly. A longer ex-
posure might bring the toe away with
the corn.
Speaker Cannon says it will be his
duty to spring the surprise of his NOM
ination on President Roosevelt in
five minute speech at Sycamore Hill,
on the 9th inst. Mr.. Roosevelt will
reply with a speech of $4,000 words,
more or less.
A grandson of Edward Everett Hale,
the Chaplain of the Senate, is to build
the great United Engineering build
ing in New York, for which Andrew
Carnegie gave 81, 100000. The plans
drawn by Mr.. Hale have been ac-
cepted.
People who have been taking auto
mobile trips up the White Mountains
have concluded that the enjoyment is
| dangerous. 1t is bad enough to be
spilled out of the machine on a level
road, but tumbling over a cliff one
thousand or five hundred feet high is
| Fov
Have the British any right to COM
plain of Russians for Overhauling
their ships in the Red Sea, in view of
the frequency with which British men
of-war captured American transports
| during the South African war and con-
fiscated their cargoes? The difference
seems to be that it is the Durham OK
that is gored.
France celebrated its Fourth of
July on the 14th inst. The President
reviewed the troops; public balls were
given in the evening and free per-
fOrmsnces were given at all the opera
houses and theatres. This is an i'm
provement on the American method of
fire crackers, tetanus, and vast loss of
life.
Women who belong to the Christian
Science church are sending in their
resignation as club members, in ac-
cordance with the recommendation of
the founder of the church. The motto
of these women is: "Church and
Home" and it is contended that
through these agencies they can find
opportunity to do all the work re-
quired of them.
San Francisco is to have an aquari
um to cost FROM three to four millions
of dollars. 1t will be the largest and
most wonderful in the world. 1t is tC
be erected in Golden Gate Park as
monument to Lloyd Tevis, who &C
cumulated large fortune in that city
The largest two are now at Naples
Italy, and Brighton, England.
The statement is made that methoC
has been discovered by which pea
can be made into small bricks fo
burning at $1.2l per ton. And the.
all heat except a pinch of ashes. An
what is better there are vast deposit
in this aud other countries. Their
| are deposits, it is said. within fit
, miles of Chicago enough to suppl
. that city with fuel for many years
o Now look out for a peat trust and
merger with the coal trust.
Y In the year 1903 no less than 7,0C
j. persons died from consumption j
a Illinois. Most of these were betwee
n the ages of twenty and fifty years, an
it is estimated that the loss to IL
state each year by reason of this d
: sease amounts to $36, 100000. 1t ha
Il been determined that climate does n,
q cure consumption, and that one wa
x to improve the conditions is for
p higher physical standard. A sta
81 hospital for the treatment of consuml
Il tion is proposed.
A Sunday School picnic train havi1
" been run into in Illinois, and mar
killed, it is now proposed to call upC
> the legislature of that State to reg
. late the running of excursion train
" 1t is quite wonderful how little for
20 thought resides in the American min
" Not until after the Iroquois theat
horror was it thought necessary
make theatres; not until the burnil
% of the Slocum was it deemed nece
ft sary to have steamships properly
h spected, and now not until after ira