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Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

Mr.. Mewins was courting young lady
OF some attractions, and something of a
fortune into the bargain. After liberal
arrangement had been made for the younp
lady by her father, Mr.. Mewins having
taken a particular fancy to a little brown
mare, demanded that it should be thrown
into the bargain, and upon a positive re-
fusal, the match was broken off. After a
couple of years, the parties accidently met
at country ball; Mr.. Mewins was quite
willing to renew the engagement; the lady
appeared not to have the slightest recoec
ton Of him. "Surely you have not for
gotten me-" said he. What name, sir ?'i
she inquired. "Mewins," he replied. 81
had the honor Of paying my address tc
you, about two years ago." 81 remember
a person of that name," she rejoined,
/" who paid his addresses to my fatheri
brown mare"
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

A SAD MIsTAKE-One of the young men
at Milford sat down the other day and
wrote on the back of couple of postal
cards. Then he turned them over and
directed them, but by some mischancc
placed the address on the wrong cards.
The result was the shirt manu!actury in
New York got very polite invitation to go
carriage riding somewhere on the Milford
pike, while the young mans girl was made
frantic by receiving the following: "Please
send me sample of the stuff your shirts
are made of."-Bracken (Ry.) Rcciejc.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

Colonel Robert Ingersoll, in alluding to
the story concering his fathers severity.
writes: :" My father was a man of great
natural tenderness, and loved his children
almost to insanity. The little severity he
had was produced by his religion. Like
most men of his tine. he thought Solomon
knew something about raising children.
For my part, think he should have known
better than to place the least confidence in
the advice of man so utterly idiotic as to
imagine he could he happy with 700 wives"
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

People talk about Christian fortitude, but
mohammedan fortitute seems to be quite
its equal. Nothing can exceed the endur-
ance displayed by the Turkish soldiery
There is what seems preposterous rule,
according to which Turkish soldiers's
limb cannot be removed by n surgeon with
out the sanction of the authorities at Con.
stantinople, whose decisions are oftentimes
delayed for weeks, and the poor fellows will
lie day after day in agony, awaiting their
fate without a murmur.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

In years gone hy it was not uncommon
on the Pacific coast for a desperate, made
bold hy rum, to take a town that is,
drive everybody out of the streets, shoot
whoever opposed him, and tcrrorize the
people until his drunken fit was over. Two
men recently tried such an exploit in Pres
colt, Arizona, and found that times had
changed. They began by riding down the
main thoroughiarc on horses and firing re,
volvers in the air. Then they scared
several women into Mysteries, and killed a
dog. Thcrcupon sheriff and two consta.
hlcs followed them out Of the place, and in
fight for their capture killed them both.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

DRoprED EGGs on MILK ToAsr.-Toast as
many slices of bread as you need for the
family, and put in the oven to keep hot.
Have pint of milk boiling hot, and drop
into it one 10y one as many eggs as you have
slices OF bread. As each one becomes set,
skim it out and place upon slice of bread
until all are cooked. Then add little
butter to the milk, boil it up again, and
turn it over the eggs and bread. Serve
them on hot platter.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

BARBER SUCCESSFULLY BLUFFEp OFF.-
The following colloquy took place in a
barber-shop not more than thousand miles
from the corner of Clark and Washington
streets few days ago:
Bulldozing Barber" Have your hair cut
to-day, sir ?"
Customer" No, sir"
Barber while fumbling among the locks
-" Very long, very struggling, sir /; comes
clear down TO your coat collar"
Customer-"All right; I'll have the
collar moved down.
End Of the colIoquy.-C Chicago Times.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

Jerusalem has furnished battalion Of
Jewish volunteers to the Sultan's army
They have field preacher OF their own
faith, and cook their rations strictly in
conformity with their dietary laws. Jewish
soldiers are also in the Russian and Rou-
manian armies, but those in the Turkish
host doubtless serve with as much more
zeal and cheerfulness as their treatment
under the Sultan's army has been more
humane.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

WHAT SHE ASKED ToMMY..-IIe was
named Thomas and she was named Jane.
They sat on hotel balcony, yesterday,
for three long hours, and giving themselves
dead away i'll a crowd as being out-of-town-
ers. As they sat down Thomas took one of
James hands. She allowed that sort of
thing to 90 on without saying a word of
protest, and the flaxen-haired youth finally
seized the other one. They talked and
talked, and looked down upon the street,
and sighed and the hours slipped away.
AT the end Of the third hour she said:
" Tommy, dearest, want to ask You
something
" Ask me Il hundred-a thousand-a
million things!' he exclaimed in reply.
Well, Tommy, I've got an awful cold
in my head" she continued, "and if drew
one of my hands away and wiped my nose,
would you think | was mad? I've either
got to do that, Tommy, or let my nose wipe
itself. just one wipe, Tommy, and then
you may have it back"
Tommy released her hand, though he
hated to, and her nose was softly and duly
wiped.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

"Are we so soon forgot when we are
gone" The students of Washington and
Lee University have had the custom ol
keeping a daily watch over General r. E.
Lees grave as a mark of reverence for his
memory. But they have given it up at
last. 1t was, perhaps a not very wise mani
festation of regard; but there is kind OF
sadness in its cessation.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

According to the Utica H,raM, youpr
lady Of that city, writing to friend over
the arrival Of her eighteenth birthday, tells
1t IN this JOYOUS style: Darling j.
must write to you to-day to tell that at last
am splendid eighteen! Think Of it
splendid cighteen--nOt timed fifteen. win.
nlng sixteen, blushing seventeen. or even
bold nineteen, but-splcndid eighteen |
shall commence to live from this day forth,
! shall love everybody and everybody will
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14
Classical Education for Girls.

| AT meeting on Thursday of the COM
mlttee In Boston having under discussion
the question of affording classical instruc
ton to girls in the higher public schools of
the city, letter was read from President
Porter, OF Yale College, in which he says :
must suppose that those who favor such
measure for the Public Latin school
would also desire to bring boys and girls
together in educational institutions of
every description from the primary
school to the college and university.
There can be no serious objections
to the presence of children of both
sexes IN elementary schools, for the
most obvious reasons. But the reasons are
as obvious, in my jugdment why boys and
girls from the ages of IA to Is should not
reclte In the same class room nor meet in
the same study hall, nor encounter one
another Ill the same passages of large
public school. First Of all, the natural
feelings of rightly trained boys and girls
are offended by social intercourse of this
sort, so frequent, so free, and so uncere-
moniOus. Civilization pre-eminently, is
grounded in, is sustained by, certain re-
straints of modeSty and reserve in the rela-
tions of the two sexes. These restraints
are recognized as of special Importance
while boys and girls are becoming young
men and young women. That which is &C.
cepted and enforced as restraint in the
beginning Of civilization recognized as a
grace where civilization is advanced, when
manners are established by the intelligent
consent of the community, and modestv
becomes second nature and an established
law. We ought not to forget that, though
our civilization is greatly advanced, yet in
education we are renewing and re-en.
forcing upon new and raw material the
processes through which communities have
slowly emerged from barbarism to Chris
tian manners and sentiments If in any
OF the stages of education we expose our
growing boys and girls to that familiarity
which offends or weakens modesty, we
tend to barbarism and immortality. =
Holding as do that the perfection of man
depends upon the contrasted and supple
mentary endowments and capacities Of in
tellect and heart in the two sexes, which
make man one, believe that each sex
should be trained by different method,
even if the studies are the same. have
no objection to learned women, but would
have them remain women and if they are
to be perfect women they must be trained
as women; and womanhood, even in girish
years, requires isolation and reserve, if
nothing more"
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

ORGANIZED HOTEL ROBBERs.- Travellers
and sojourners at hotels have great occa.
sion to be on their guard against robbery.
y despatch from Chicago says: {: "The cap
ture OF James Barry, who, with chamber.
maid accomplicc, robbed a large number of
the guests at the Palmer House, in this
city, OF jcwelry and diamonds, is much
more important than at first supposed.
Some time ago George Rgnold, an English
actor, was robbed at hotel in New York
OF several thousand dollars worth of Jewels.
The New York Police have been trying
ever since to catch the thief and recover
the property, but the Chicago officers have
evidently done both, as about 81 900 worth
OF the jewelry stolen from Rignold was
found in Barry's trunks. Other articles
have also been identified by citizens Of
Chicago who have suffered from thieves,
and 1t is thought that the end is not yet.
After Barry was taken lie confessed that he
was one OF a regular gang of hotel thieves,
extending from New York to San Fran.
cisco. This gang works in divers ways, but
the most approved plan so far seems to be
the same one adopted and successfully car
rlcd out at the Palmer House. The band
has brought into requisition several shrewd
women, who have obtained positions in the
leading hotels as servants, but whose real
object was that of getting the locality of
the rooms OF those guests liable to be the
best liked and learning to 4 hairs breadth
the exact hour when they would be out the
longest. Then, when skeleton KEYS and
other tools required had been prepared, at
an arranged time one of the gang would
slip in and execute the work planned by
the woman
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

colored man, named Stewart, was the
republican candidate for associate Judge
in Lawrence county, Pa, in the recent
election. The county went largely republi-
can, but Stewart was defeated, and hence
he thinks his party is ungrateful.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

PRoFANITY.-We are emphatically in the
age of profanity, and it seems to US that we
are on the topmost current. One cannot
60 on the street anywhere without having
his ears offended with the vilest words, and
his reverence shocked by the most profane
use of sacred names. Nor does it come
from the old or middle age alone. for it is
fact that the younger portion OF the com
munity are most proficient in degrading
language. Boys have an idea that it is
smart to swear; that it makes them manly,
but there never was a greater mistake in
the world. Men, those who swear them
selves, are disgusted with the profanity in
younger man, because they know how of
all bad habits this clings the most closely
and increases with years. 1t is the most in
sldius Of habits, growing on one so invisibly,
that almost before one is aware he becomes
an accomplished cursor.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

The Rev. s. F. Smith, the author Of the
so-called National hymn America, had
formal reception in Washington the other
evening. During the evening the agnoni,
eng request was made that he should give
me particulars of the composition Of
" America" This prayer-which suggests
Martin Chuzzlewit" in its most insI,ired
passages-Mr Smith decidedly declined.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

A GREAT PASSENGER TUNNEL.-After three
years litigation the company organized to
construct tunnel under the Hudson river
from Jersey City to New York have effected
compromise with the opposing companies,
and the work begun in 1874 is to be i'm.
mediately resumed. When the tunnel is
completed 1t is expected that passengers bv
raIl will be able to 20 through it from
Jersey City to New York in two minutes.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

TENEMENT House MIsERY-The death Of
Alhmlrtz Moritz, a child nine months old.
at NO. 9S Mott street, New York, led to the
discovery hy the police that the house in
which the death occurred contained ninety.
nlne families or nearly five hundred
people. The house is regarded as small
one, and the wretched families arelving in
many cases in but a single room.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

A dog bit over twenty persons in Cali.
fornia few weeks ago, and one Of them, a
little girl, has just died of hydrophobia.
The rest are, of course, terribly frightened.
and have put themselves under the care Of
physicians.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

Mrs. Morton is preparing to leave In
dlanapolis for New Haven. where she will
live until her youngest son has finished his
college course. After that the two will
return to indianapolis and make that city
their permanent home. Mrs. Morton will
retain her house there.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

\ GREAT SHERIFF. SALE.-Thc sheriff Of
Philadelphia on Monday week sold under
the hamber the largest number of proper.
ties OF unfortunate debtors ever put W at
one sale in that city. The sale comprised
439 pieces Of real estate, comprising over
1000 different properties. OF these about
80 were sales made on forclosed MORTGAGES
OF building associations Many valuable
dwellings were sold.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

In 1868 the post-olfice delivery at the
town of Pithole was the third largest in
Pennsylvania. Last November it cast six
votes, and the survivors of the great oil
metropolis have petioned for dissolution
of its charter.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

The financial struggle Of the Philadcl.
Phia Permanent Exhibition is amusing to
dlslntorcsted observers. A recent device
was a day set apart for colored people. but
the idea Of race distinction was not reIisLcd
hy the negroes, and all but about five hun.
dred stayed away. On Saturday the pav ofall
the employees was intermittcd, and dead.
heads were excluded, so that all the re-.
celpts might 60 toward paying the debt.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

Mrs. Hayes has genuine liking for the
White House. old.fashioned as it is. She
took an old friend through it the other day,
showing him the great rooms, and ex.
claimed: "No matter what they build,
they'll never build any more rooms like
these 7"
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

A facetious tramp called at a house the
other day and asked for something to eat.
lie was so thin, he said, that when he had
pain be couldn't tell whether it was a
stomach-ache or q back.ache.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14
Terrapin- Catching and Terrapin-
Cooking.

Terrapins are caught all the way from
Savannah and Charleston to the Patapsco
River at Baltimore, but the genuine dia
mOnd-back belongs only to the upper
Chesapeake and its tributaries. The ma
Ijority of the sliders are brought to Balti-
more from the James River. The terrapin-
catchers make from S. to $50 per week,
and they find the'reptle, or bird as the
bon vivant calls it, 10y probing the mud in
the shadows with sticks. The terrapin is
dormant, and when found is easily secured.
A four-pound terrapin taken about Septem.
Der 18th, will exist prosperously in a dark,
cool place, without food or drink, until
April 18th, and 1.-THE dealers say) will gain
two ounces in weight. After that time it
gets lively and active and will take hold of
finger with great effusion and effective
ness. The male terrapin is known as a
bull" and the female as "cow." The
latter Is much more highly priced and
generally contains about thirty eggs. No
dish of terrapin is thought complete with
out being garnished with these. 1t is sad
to be compelled to state that the sinful
restaurateur and hotel man betakes him to
the egg Of the pigeon, wherewith to set off his
counterfeit presentment of q noble reptile.
Thirty years ago the largest dealer in
Baltimore had hard work TO dispose of the
terrapins lie received at Sc dozen. The
product he tells me, is about the same,
year in and year out. He sells as many
now as he did then. But old people on
the eastern peninsula bring to mind the
times when of a warm day the terrapins
basking in shoals on the surface of the
water were caught in seines and fed to the
pigs. That day, however, is of the past,
and il is doubtful if this valuable article Of
food is not gradually becoming extinct
The negroes who make business of send
ing them to market complain of their in
creasing rarity, and nothing but the high
price has stimulated them to keep up the
supply.
The negroes are credited with having
been the first to bring the virtues of the
terrapin to notice. They cooked, and still
cook it by placing it alive among the hot
Goals or in an oven. When it is sufficiently
cooked the under she'll is easily removed
with knife, and the contents are then
eaten from the inverted upper shell, moth
ing being removed but the gall sac There
are many, particularly epicures of long ex-
perience with the terrapin, who maintain
that this is the true way to cook it. One
noted for his knowledge of Maryland
dishes, invariably cooks his terrapin as fol.
lows: He places count" alive, on its
back in an old,fashioned template stove,
roasts it until the under shell is easily
detached. removes the gall, adds a little
butter, salt and glass of good sherry or
madeira. and then eats it with sense Of
satisfaction equal to that of a Mussulman
discounting the delights of the seventh
heaven. He has never met Mr.. Bergh.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

al have lost my appetite" said gigantic
friend to Snodgrass the other day. at
hope" replied Snodgrass, "that no poor
man has found it,. for it would ruin him in
a week.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

"Jones, if burglars should get into your
house, what would you do?" 81 would do
whatever they required of me. I've never
had my own way in that house yet, and
it's too late to begin now"
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

When political opponent Of Tom Mar
shall's attempted to win the sympathies Of
the crowd by boasting that his father was a
cooper, Tom at once admitted the fact, and
pointing at his antagonist, said: But the
old man puta mighty poor head to one of his
whisky barrels" That ended the contest.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

General Sherman's official salary, it is
stated, amounts to about $4,000 year, in
elusive OF the usual communication for sup
plies. lie lives, at present, at the Ebbtt
House, IN Washington. lie is said to enjoy
Washington gayeties greatly, and to feel
aggrleved when there is MOTTO use his
own words-"some sort Of a fandango"
every evening
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

Charley Ross's father, in his vain search
for the stolen boy, has spent 100000, his
entire fortune, and is now a travelling sales.
man for an Eastern house. He has made
3OOjourneys in search of his lost child, and
says he shall persevere until it is found or
die himself.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

The late General n. B. Forrest who died
last week is the subject OF a clever letter in
the Cincinnati Commercial. The writer says
that old citizens of Memphis describe For.
rest as "a terror" He was arbitrary, i'm.
perious, determined-a man of a most un.
governable and frightful temper. Not
many years ago he ordered suit of clothes
from a tailor in Memphis, and when they
were finished allowed them to remain 80
long in the shop that the moths nearly
ruined them. He was thoroughly enraged,
and the tailor had to endure a storm of
horrible oaths under pain of death or a
whipping. He ventured to demonstrate at
last. General" he said, 81 am very sorry
this thing happened; we did not know the
clothes were motlLeaten, and are willing to
make all reparatlon possible" This apology
seemed to exasperate Forrest still more,
and he thrust his pistol at the tailor's head.
why, General" exclaimed the trembling
man, "you would not shoot me for such 4
trifie as that ~ "Yes," roared Forrest.
I'd shoot you like a rat!" But he didn't
shoot. He went home and thought about
1t, and was sorry; and next day he apolo-
gized to the poor tailor. To fly into a rage
and apologize was thing he often did.
Sometimes he would get so ashamed of his
conduct that he would first send a friend
to the person he had abused as a herald OF
apologies. "Good gracious General ex.
claimed one of these heralds one day. "ean
you do nothing with that temper of yours ~
mo; I'll be d--d if | can,P' returned
Forrest, on the point Of getting mad again.
Nevertheless, he had his gentle traits. He
was fond of children, and they were fond
of him.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

al want FIVE cents worth of starch" said
little girl TO a grocer's clerk. The clerk
asked What do you want five cents
worth of starch for?" Why, for five
cents, Of course" she answered, and the
clerk concluded to attend to his own bust.
ness.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14
Manners.

Men succeed in their professions quite
as much by complasance and kindliness OF
manner as by talent. Dpmosthenes, in
giving his well-known advice to an orator
that eloQuence consisted in three things,
the first action the second "action,' and
the third "action'-is supposed to have
intended manner only. A telling preacher
in his Opening remarks gains the good
will of his hearers, and makes them feel
both that he has something to say and
that he can say it-hy his manner. The
successful medical man, on entering a sick
room inspires into his patients belief in
himself and that hope which is so favorable
to lOngevity-by his manner Considering
that jurymcn are scarcely personiications
of pure reason unmiXed with passion or
prejudice, Il barrester cannot afford to
neglect manner if he would bring twelve
men one after another to his way of think
ing. Again, has the business man any
stock in trade that pays him better than
Il good address? And as regards the
survival of the fittest' in tournaments for
lady's hand, is it not IL "natural selec-
tion" when the old motto Manners
maketh man" decides the contest? At
least Wilkes, the best hammered but
ugliest man of his day, thought so. 81
am he said, ''the ugle<t man in the three
kingdoms; but if you will give me quarter
of an hours start, | will gain the love of
any woman before the handsomest." If
kindliness Of disposition be the essence of
good manners, our subject is seen at once
to oshade off into the great one of Christianity
itself. 1t is the heart that makes both the
true gentleman and the great theologian.
The Apostle Paul (see speech delivered on
Mars Hill) always endeavored to concilate
his audience when he commenced address
sing them. And his letters, as we'll as
those of his fellow-apostles, are full of
sympathy and consideration for every ones
feelings, because he had learned from Him
whose sympathy extended to even the
greatest of sinners.-C Chambers Journal
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

In Iowa an Irishman was bitten by rat.
tlesnake, but the liberal use of a neighbor's
whiskey cured him. The next day he was
seen walking slowly on the prairie, and
looking earnestly for something. He was
asked what he was looking for.
" For the boite of snake" was the
reply.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

An exchange says: "Don't tell mar
ried man any joke on the boys, for he'll
tell his wife, his wife will tell her sister, and
the sister will tell all the rest of the girls"
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

1t is the oyster dealers who start these
little paragraphs about Mrs. So-and-So find
ing $500 pearl in an oyster. One can
hardly help buying four cans at once.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

To KILL LICE on HEXs-Put table
spoonful of sulphur in the nest as soon as
hens or turkeys are set. The heat Of the
fowls causes the fumes Of the sulphur to
penetrate every part of their bodies, every
louise is killed, and as all nits are hatched
within ten days, when the mother leaves
the nest with her brood, she is perfectly
free from nits or lice.
Smyrna times., 1877-11-14

The persons in India who, within the
last seventeen years, have perished from
famine, equals in number the population
of Scotland.