Smyrna times., 1869-07-14

An amusing instance is told of how General
Grant was fapged by an applicant for position
a short time since. A gentleman called on him
asked tor an otfce-was desired by the Pres.
ident to produce his recommendation-and
drew from his pocket a letter sent some three
years ago to President johnson strongly urg-
ing him for place, with the significant sig
nature at the bottom, " u. 5. Grant" The
result We do not know, but can imagine.
Mr.. George Peabody has supplemented his
already unprecedented bounty to the meritori-
Gus cause of Southern education by further
prince!y gift Of one million OF dollars in solid,
Understanding securities. He has honored
his c. unry III bic sing the needy of either
hemisp phere. May We not hope that many will
be warmed and moved by his noble example?
What man is, is not what he is on Sunday,
when the organist plays to him, and the min
lister plays TO him, and all good influences play
to him; but it is what he is in the week day,
when his life is wearing and working and weav
| ing for him the garment in which he is to stand
and be judged.
GRADUATING.-An An Ohio paper says that
the Female College at College Hill in that
State, recently sent out graduating class of
fifteen young ladies', every one OF whom was
elegantly fitted to live on the fortune OF some
apprcciative man alive to the advantages OF
female education.
Never be ashamed to confess your ignorance,
for the wisest man upon earth is ignorant OF
many things, inasmuch that what he knows is
as mere nothing in comparison with what he
does not know. There cannot be a greater fol-
ly in the world than to suppose that We know
everything.
Half the misery of human life consists in our
: making a wrong estimate of it and in being
, disappointed when we find out our fault We
put a much higher figure in the sum than il
: will bear, and we cry like school boy when
the addition is wrong.
Amelia waved her fan with glee, and being
! in playful mood, she gave the airy toy to me,
and bade me hirt it if | could. The pleasing
toll quick began, but jealous pangs my bOs
e ON hurt Madam, cannot hlrt fan, but
with your leave III fan hirt."
E A man in Montgomery, VT, lost his wife by
death on the 18th of March, and on the lst Of
April married again. After the notice of th'
Y marriage in the local paper, he had the sug
/, gestive saying appended, Procrashnatlon
/. the thief Of time"
y A clergyman in Kansas says he has marie,
! but one couple in year. They paid him moth
- ing; staid to dinner, as it was rainy day; am
~ then borrowed his umbrella when they LETT
~ which he has never seen since.
J. A gentleman presented lace collar to th
g, object Of his alteration, and in jocular wa
N said, DO not let any one else rumple 1t.
to Z" No, my dear, will take it OFT, said she.
A rrave.stone in Maine has the following
'o "Our little Jacob has been taken away froI
Il this earthly garden to bloom in superlc
q. Aower-pot above.
H. Under the head of "Broken English
Sc Paris paper places such LondonerS as get masl
tie ed up by railroad collisions or who financial
70 come to grief.
an an 1t has been said by clergyman-who sa!
nu l't everything we'll" never shy an old sermon
H. u' the devoted heads of the few who have We
'ar tured out on rainy Sunday.
th One of the best preventives against sun stFol
is a thin piece Of sponge loosely scwed into Il
tOD of the hat and occasionally molstened WI
s. water in the course OF the day.
to Tn recent interview with reporter e
ed President johnson said that he often puts |
oil hand to his head and wonders IT he is sane
ii0 When walters take your orders at fashionat
bis hotels nova days they leave their photogral
that ycu may identify them when they retur
A girl in Wisconsin swallowed forty purcl
q. sion cans Her mother refralned from span
ing her for fear Of an explosion.
nav Imaginary troubles are to us like the diss
'"' wing views of u camera-sometimes magnif
the hundred fold.
ted Josh Billings says: When young man a
ade GOOD for ANYTHING else | like to see him ca
ead a gold headed cane.
es;. A secret has been defined as anything mi
re. known to everybody in a whisper.
sing Hope is draft on futurity, sometimes b
mr. ored, but more frequently extended.
What difference it makes whether you
rCh. DR.. before or after mans name.