Smyrna times., 1859-11-24
MERE MENTION.
THE WIFE oFTENEsT DIscoNrENrED.

! inns appears from the fact, that of fifteen
applications for divorce, in the State of Maine,
since the greater facility given by the new law,
eleven are from wives, four from husbands
nearly three times as many applicants from tho
female side. "Sad but SO :"
sAxE's LITERALNEss.
A Money king, of course, to express his
ldea OF completed woman, would say to the
woman add ore!" SAKE, in his new book of
the Money-kng," gives an exquisite sonnet
which ends with covert admission of the fact
1t ls addressed to some unknown fair one (who
of course, is made loveler by having some mo.
ney,) and thus it runs:
thine is an ever change-rg beauty now
Wl'h that proud look so lofty yet serene
In lis high majesty. thou seem'st a queen,
With all her diamonds blazing on her browl
Anon see, as genter thoughts arise
And mould thy features in their sweet control
The pure, white ray that lights a maideA's soul.
Ana struggles outward through her;droopng, eyes;
Anon they flash; and now a golden light
Burss Ger thy beauty, like the Orient's glow.
Bathing thy shoulders and thy bosom's snow.
And all the woman beams upon my SIGHT!
kneel unto the queen. the knight of yore:
The maid love; the woman adore ;"
vows IN THE DARK AND THE DAYLIGHT.
The Boston Post says that the marriages of
the r1ch take place in the daytime, those of the
poor at night. "Poverty is more modest. but
wealth is mere anxious to see what they are
about" So says our friend Charley, but it isa
nice subject for discussion by a Debating So.
ciety.
FASHIONABLE AMPUTATIoN FOR LADIES'
Can a woman be whOIe soled with her little
toe cut off, THIS is TO become an interesting
point OF Fhth-Avenue.di,y, as the Peruvian
custom OF amputation of the fifth toe, to make
the foot pointed and small, is beginning TO pre-
vail IN Paris. At Lima, it is the rule to per-
form this operation on the female infant in the
cradle. But Peruvian surgeon, now adyer-
tlslng IN Paris, offers to perform it upon grown
up females, wsrrantng that they shall not be
confined to the house more than one week. If
this fashion should become universal, the male
sex will, we think, be the completest in toe.toe!
UE-REPUBLICAN PROVISION FOR THE MINORITY.
Those who spit on the floor being the maio-
rlty IN our country, there is of course no car
provided on the railroads for those ladies who
prefer not to cit with their dresses in tobacco.
sPlttle. We see, however that. in Germany.
they are beginning to provide for these minori-
ties. An American traveller in Europe, in de-
scribing the German railways, says that " Smo.
king is all but universal in railway carriages.
In some OF them. in fact, | have seen this
queerly illustrated BY a small compartment of
the car devoted to those who did not like tobac-
CO smoke-qute the reverse Of our system of
smoking cars"
Nkw KIND OF CALvE.INrsM
A superficial person. having heard popular
dscaimsr preach, said TO DR.. Bellamy, " o, sir.
have been fed this evening" The doctor
added $50 the calves think, after having suck
ed each others ears"
PROFITS AND PROPHETS.
The AthenGum. in speaking severely of a
certain too matter-offsct and philosophical
style of preaching. says, " On Sundays we want
prophets just as if (said our old neigbbor
Jones' to whom we were reading the article
aloud), just as if the profits we make on week
days oughth't to be enough for us!"
TIE "cusrox" OF EATING!
Among the "returns to first principles" is
the novelty mentioned by the Independent-
thst OF back-room or saloon" attached n
the large warehouses, and supplied iberallv
with lunch, drink and cigars-all free. throuob
the Ueek, through the customers of the "frnn"
This is certainly carrying all sail" though
whether confined to the pholeSqIe dealers we
do not knOw.-Home Journal
AT the Police Court in Hartford on Tburs-
day, James Cosgrove was sentenced 10 nrison
for forty days for getting drunk. "Sav tbirr.
~, yer honor, suggested Mr.. Cosgrove "thir-
rlty deays is long enough 10 get the drunk out
of amy man"
IHE New Orleans papers estimate the losses
by hre IN that city for this year to have been
one million seven hundred thousand dollars.
NO
ZEN. SCOTT AND A PACIFIC RAILRoAp-Tba
San Francisco Bulletin thinks that the visit of
Gen. Scott TO the Pacific coast will have the
effect OF convincing him of the necessity and
military Importance Of a Pacific railway. ana
that If he reports thus TO government on b;a
return, his opinion will turn the scale IN favor
of building the road at all ha rds, and AZ what.
ever cost, by the general government.
"MR. SPEAKER" said a new membor ,;.;
ave cannot prize too dearly the rights of frea'
dam hap h.,n, -'NN-