Smyrna times., 1878-02-13

hOI4E NO. 1,lSJ.
A Dill has been reported favorablv IN tbe
pennsylvania House Of REPRESENTATIVES ;,
encourage the planting Of trees aIonn III,
: roadsldes. This bill allows every nerso,
llSoI' for road tax 81 for every four tree.
transplanted along the roadside. tho die
.""ce .o oi such trees apart ranging from
~ TO ~ feet, according to variety.
" c doubt Ii any more curious products
viii be found in the Paris Exhibition than
those that are in preparation in Norwov
mat country will send to the Exbibition
"9hSAins tanned for gloves, eel,kips nro.
pared Tor harness, sharkskins over ton foot
lohg and three wide, and whaleskins, nearly
sixty feet long for driving bands.
lhey tell story of an Alabama CLERGY.
man, who remarked confdentjalIv 70
ParIshloner that when he married his wife
twenty years before, she was pretty enough
10 eat - i'd, said he, I've often 70.
gretted since that | didn't eat her, only 7
suppose from mere force of habit. she'd
have disagreed with me-"
NaSoy hates "payin. 1t robs a dollar Nv
al It's deIlte to know you hey got to repav
II again after you hev spent it. Wat 7
would like, says this remarkable official
wood be to hev dollars which renrod,oo
themselves. If two dollars Good only marry
and hev large families :"
lAe day is coming when it will be =
greater honV to have written the Twenty.
third Psalm, than to have been the author
OF Shakespeare; to have led one sinner 70
CArlst than to have commanded navy. 70
nave subdued one sinful habit. than to
have taken a city.
The Queen; it has been remarked. al.
ways gives Cashmere shawl as a wedding
present; butt may not be generally known
that the shawls come from the Maharaiab
OF Cashmere, and are part orthe tribnta
ne pays the Empress Of India every year.
-<sA
1t IS said the pigeon is never eaten bv
the Russians, who would hold it n sin 70
XII an animal in whose form the HOLY
Uhost IS said to have manifested himself
Plseons are bought, therefore, only as pets.
10 De led and schooled by their masters.
Judge Westbrook, in charging a grand
jury IN Utica, \. " last week, remarked
NO matter whether lotteries are at n
church fair or festival, whether at a chari.
table fair or festival, they are forbidden bv
the law, and are msdemeanors."
some one wrote to Horace Greeley. in.
curing If guano was good to put on pota.
toes lie answered it might for those
whose taste had become vitiated with to.
bacco and rum, but he preferred butter
and gravy.
Fond Father" Well, my son, how do
you like college? Your Alma Mater has
turned out some great men,
Young hopeful Gust expelled)-"Yes.
sir, she has just turned ME out
--sS>------
A definition of bankruptcy lately given
by an English judge is reported to have
been: When a man owes a lot of money
and lawyer and accountant divids-the
estate between them"
God forbid that my tongue should cease
20 tell of His goodness and beauty, or fail
o set them forth as the only foundation
md topstone of sinners salvation.-J
Neoton.
The following obituary notice of dis.
lnguished citizen is from Western paper:
=" Peter Ink, an old citizen of Knox CO.,
mo, was blotted out the other day, aged
s."
A gentleman named Moore proposed to
lady by letter, and she asked time for
onslderation, closing her letter with the
ords; " No Moore at present"
After the declaration-" This is, perhaps,
't the first mitten you have received, Mr..
rown p But perhaps the first you have
er given, Miss Smith"
When we get to be the Oldest inhabi.
nts likely as not we will go around tell.
g OF the GLORIOUS climate of this country
the winter of TITS"
Tramps may be in destitute circum.
Inces, but we never yet saw one that was
armed to the teeth with a fifty cent
Ig of tobacco
A family in New Orleans fried oysters.in
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