Smyrna times., 1881-09-28
WHOLE NO. 1869.
Current Comment,
PHILADELPHIA EVENING NEWS.

Columbia mourns and a world mingles
its tears with hers.
ho"eli has retired to private life, having
walked into fortune of $4,000
lhere is divinity which shapes our
ends, rough hew them as we NAV"
lAe corn crop of Iowa is 50 large that
Iowa farmers are in despair. They fear
fall in prices.
The death of Lincoln was a national
shock; the death of Garfield seems 70 oocb
a private sorrow.
Every cloud is said to have a silver
lining, but the lining to the national cloud
is nothing but hemp.
When impulsive persons try to act =.
peace-makers they generally pour roll an
the troubled waters.
Dieting is cure for half the diseases
that flesh Is heir to. The best time to diet
is when provisions are high
The Oscar Wilde of Cincinnati has writ
ten and published a poem entitled "Swill"
His Pigasus never fails him.
Professor Kings balloon can't cross the
Atlantic ocean just yet, but it can 90 over
ten acre farm like breeze.
defenders of assassination whether Of
emperors, kings or presidents, will find
this country unhealthy hereafter
In French law man three times intoxi-
Gated forfeits his right to vote. They
don't have much electioneering over there.
1t is estimated that the supply of coal
will be entirety exhausted in couple of
million Years. No wonder the price is
high.
Glass windows were first introduced
into England in the eighth century. Ball
playing came into vogue about the same
time
1t isn't every girl that knows how to
cut bread Nine times out of ten the slice
will be as ill-shaped as Jersey girls foot,
and nearly as large.
The heart Of nation goes out to a gray
haired woman in Hiram. Ohio, but aged
and infrm as she is, the mother of such a
son will bear bereavement bravely.
queen Victoria began life poor girl,
and is now worth $SO,OO0OOO. This shows
what can be done by getting other people
to support your children and practicing
strict economy yourself
One ofthe cannons at st. Peters at Rome
has gone off and Joined the Methodist
church,-LOweI Courier. The going off
might not have been unexpected Per-
haps that cannon was fired"
Managers of church festivals having
heard that the oyster crop was injured by
the drought are preparing to give each
oyster plenty of water as soon as opened.
The Water will be served hot at the usual
rates.
If the terrible affliction through which
the nation has passed teaches all men of
all parties the sanctity of private character
and checks the flood of abuse so often
poured on our greatest statesmen our
President will not have fallen in vain.
Americas greatest afflictiOn has lifted
the veil from the sanctity, the beautiful
purity and love of the true American
home, and all Europe now knows that
; Republic of such homes is founded on rock
which all the powers of united Kingdoms
cannot sway.
There is considerable human nature,
even in newspapers. They are always
willing to give each other advice.-MOdern
ArgO. And to pour broadsides into one
another in editorials commencing "Our
esteemed contemporary" just as duelist
addresses a deadly foe as g My dear sir"
r The Springfield Republican holds that
: the higher education of women makes
. them more independent and averse to
matrimony. If that is the case, give them
the higher education. Half the misery in
the world comes from women who marry
simply because they are dependent
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