Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1860-07-05
minor Topics.

Or For the benefit OF the census takers, it
is proposed that each head of family make
out list Of the value OF the property he may
own, and give it to bis wife. that she may be
able to answer the census mans questions in
his absence. This plan 10 open to one serious
objection. IL every woman knew precisely
what her husband was worth there would be a
greatdepreciation in coDiugal affection through
the land.
or The latest hygienic question under dis
cussion is, +" How to preserve woman J" Va.
rious thories of diet, exercise and dress are ad-
vancsd by ingenious Psychologists. Ifallowed
to contribute our mite to tbs general fund Of
information we would suggest that they may
very easily be kept in family jars.
OF The Spanish journals record most re-
maskabie case Of wasted labor in the chirogrsph-
icsl achievement off certain Senior Marta, who
has contrived to write 0at the whole novel of
Don Quixote upon single sheet of paper,
such as the Spaniards use for making their
cigarettes. This task occupied two years OF
hard work with the microscope. and has cost
the writer the sight Of enc Of his eyes, II
would not be easy TO imagine worse misuse
of time and patience than this.
or Col. Maboney. extensively engaged in
the Importation Of jackasses, has recently land
ed seventeen at Chsrleston. i 10 great pity
that they had not arrived ID time to lifi up their
voices with their ilustrious fellows, but g bet
/ ter late than ncyer.r II ID the intention Of the
owner TO distribute them throughout Eas, Ten
nessee. They will Immediately prove valua.
BILE additions TO the settlers already there. and
we congratulate Parson BrownIow on this &C.
csssion to his flock.
i OF A paper published st the extreme south
bids Douglas remember Nlos end, and, fol
fear that the Senator'S memory may be at ia ult
the editor adds an explanatory postscript tell
ing him that Mlo's end VAS
'Wedged ia thattim which he strove iorend.
|. This looks as if the South expected to ca,cl
/ Douglas in trap made Of spIii rails.
! or The editor of the Louisville journal
} when be finds himself out ofthe - pale' of oil
parties, intends to sit, like Diogenes. ina tuh
W '~@A h"1> st~p IioBNnc@s 10 Wis udsu Y
leave his tub to place his finger 90 "a homes
man.
or All Greece Is in arms over quarrel Z
rhetoric. and The golden days of the Sophisi
i. are 10 be introduced into the City Of Periciel
i and the delicate Attic mind is seriously exel
d cised over the naturalization ofthe Latin wor
i 'somnibus." The question is whether me-
i Hellenic phrase shall be applied to these popl
;lllsr conveyancess or whether " omnhus" sha
!. be simply translated into its Greek equivalen
! While the thunders Of lhe Turkish Questio
! are oncs more beginning to mutter menaciol
,fI " along the Helespont II il refreshing to ff
!. that the Greeks are - much at leisure and
u prosperous ~ to be able to devote shemrslye
D. Win al the order Of their ancestors, 70 ii
! hattie ofterminoloRy.
al o. Late information from Nova Scstia
q presents the inhabitants ef that part Of the
n uess whieh the Y Hungarian was wrecked
hs shoonding in dry goods of al kinds. procur