Smyrna times., 1867-04-10
WHOLE NO. 653
A Fable.
WITH A SOUND MORAL.

WITH A SOUND MORAL.
4 butterfly sat on a llac-tree,
And he winked his eye at a bumble-bee;
But the bee could despse his sharp attacks,
Because, as you know, he was used to wax.
Oho," said the butterfly, - bother my wing,
What's the use of you busy things?
Look how splendidly I'm attired,
Made for naught but 10 be admired"
"a Well" said the bee, " for the matter of that
ou're pretty well suited for staring-at;
former existence l don't mean to snub-
Hang tine clothes, SO get my grub"
J Just at that moment one, should guess
SdUdnt, caught sight Of our foolish rGnessG.
Then in an instant began to pursue him,
Caught him, and killed him; aud ran a pin through
him.
The bee flew off and fell in the way
OF a schoo-boy out for holiday,
Who caught him at rest a hcdgeside sunny,
And killed him at once for the sake Of his honey.
MORAL.
] trust the moral you can descry
Of this tale Of bee and a butterfly,
And the giSt of that moral appears to me,
"What is certain TO happeH is likely to be-"
FINE HANDS-We do not know corporeal
distinction which the exquisite covets more
than 4 small white hand, member which will
fit easily into a lady, glove, and may be ex-
hibited upon snowy handkerchief without
its color suffering by the contrast. To many,
as well as to the late Lord Byron, such hand is
a distinctive mark of gentle, or as we should
rather say, "gcnteel' blood. We confess
that this is feeling with which we have nev-
er sympathized. The bronze hand, with its
power of more gratifying object, tells Of
excrtion, and society hold to civilization BY its
stalwart grasp tar more securely than the most
aristocratic fingers would enable us to do
We are all the more inclined to preserve this
feeling, after reading paper by Mr.. Wilson,
upon the lberian population of the British
Isles. That gentleman states, that from an
examination of the sword hits of those war
ror-hunters Of old, it is evident that they must
have had very small hands-much smaller
than the hands of the present day. The
Danes, too, and the Nikings-the sea-robbers
the maraudcrs and pirates Of ages ago were
distinguished by the same pop i !r,ty; tn .ir
massive swords arcely furnish room within
the guard for the delicate grasp of lady's ta-
per fingers, while the Salons, the workers of
the EARTH are marked by the large hand Of the
laborcr. The small hand is the representative
OF luxurious usefulness, the large hand of ear
nest toll and, Just as the small handed war
rOrs OF old vanished before the sturdy cnntinu-
Gus energy Of the large handed Teutons will
idle beauty pass away before the truth of in
dustry, and the labor Of the large handed will
at once support and rule the world
LOVE A complaint of the heart, growing
out of an inordlnate longing after sonnet hing
difficult to obtain.
4SgmDtOmS Absence of mind giving things
wrong names; calling tears nectar, and ~. hS
zephyrs gazing on the moon and star, tooth
ache bleeding at the nose loss Of arIn.t,t, /.
neglect of business; a lOathing for ali ILings
save one, and constant desire to sigh.
| EUtctS.-A strong headache pulse high :;
stupidity eloquent eyes ; slceplessness and all
that sort OF thing At times imagination
bright; bowers of roses; winged cupids, and
buttered pease and then, again. oceans of de-
SPAR, racks tortureS, and hair trggercd pistols
Cme.-Get married. If that don t cure you
1t will at least open your eyes.
t A Yankee genius out West conceiying that a
/ little powder thrown upon some green wood
r would facilitate its burning, directed small
5 stream upon the smoking pile and not posses.
: sing hand sufficiently quick to cut this off al
y a desirable moment, he was blown into pieces
:, The coroner thus reasoned out the verdict =
Al q" 1t cant be called suicide, because he didn't
i mean to kill himself; it wasn't visitation ol
/ God, because he wasn't struck by lightning
he didn't die for the want of breath, for h5
o hadn't anything left to breathe with. It..
d plain lie didn't know what he was about, so
. shall bring in, Died for the want Of common
e sense.
d ARTEMUS WARD.-A correspondent of the
!, Boston .jOurhdt says that the late Charles +
Browne was for a number of years local edito
Of the Cleveland ipuiH{eCtIcr, and that it was
W i'll that paper the first articles of his, signe,
l. A. Ward, appeared. Mr. Browne inform
le ed this correspondent that one night he foun,
At an empty space in the local lcolumn and moth
at ing at hand to fill it. lie wrote sufficient mat
lt ter for that space concerning an itinerant show
at man, and without the suggestion OF any one
Id at hap-hazard he dashed down the signature
k "A. Ward" This is the history Of the hrs
y Of his famous articles
We The common phrase of giving person
nj good hiding is as old as the foundation o
+ Carthage. Dido paid tor as much land a
k could be bound by the hide of an OK. She en-
A. the hide into thin strips, when It clrcumseFlb
Ie ed the dimensions of city. The natives, ia
~. ken in by this bait, acknowledged themSelvc:
r r. beaten-hcnce the phrase in question.
or A Bachelors Epitaph:-
.. .. All threescore winters end died,
~ A cherries being, sole and sad
~ ~ The nuptal knot never tied,
- And wish my father never had.
RS A little boy asked his mother what blood re
lu lations meant. She explained that it mean
near relatives, etc. After thinking u moment
cs he said, Then, mother, you must be tn
w boodiest relation I've got.
A laboring man in PrOvidencc, II. l., ha
70 been fined and sent to jail for ten days, 10
''' falling asleep in church. The Journal think
the minister ought to be fined for not preach
ID ID ing so as to keep him awake
Ia ---~%~~~---
Bridget, how came you to burn the brea
IN IN SOP"
i "Och an is it burned it is? Sure, thel
ma am, but it 5 no fault of mine, for WASH
you after telling me the last thing afpre 20
wint out, a large loaf must bake one hour p? al
IN, made three large lOaves, SO a|ed EN- thrt
ob- hours jist for what else should do!''
'he 1t is said that some M Tiers have grown &
aHfectionate that they give their children chlor
form previous to whipping them.