Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1881-04-27
WHOLE NO. l,341.
Current Comment.
PHILADELPHIA EVENING NEWS

When women get to voting confsct;ons,.
will go to Congress
AS TINS Is not leap year, ii is no wonder thu,
gentle Spring is not so forward as in 1880
Lent is over. Now comes ten DAYS Of seye.
c"''ig"tlon, vulgarly termed housecleaning
The new Car so feels the danger to ubich
ne Is exposed that he always keeps an under.
taker within call.
The hens that did good work last weos v,;p
oS gwen another years trial before beinr eoI3
for Spring chickens '''''
Editors and newspaper proprietor are pub.
i'c educators consequently they should liva
exceptionally good lives.
The glory of Cincinnati as the Psri, Of
a America is departing A stop is to be pnt to
Sunday theatrical performances.
!, Give us clean streets or give US death, cry
the New Workers, and the probability i, tbs,
they will get either one or the Other.
The reason the government did no, bo,,,
zen Davis was because everybody knew that
II given rope enough he would write book.
Queen Victoria drawing room is as disma,Iv
ceremoElous as an initiation into the first de.
gree Of a secret society or fashionable we'd
ding.
Mrs' LsnStry is now compelled to work for
liVing She sits almost an hour every day in
photograph gallery for 10 per cent. Of the
gross receipts
Buffalo Bill drew bigger crowds than Bern
hardt in Philadelphia. But this is no cause
for slurring Philadelphia folks as not appre-
chatting fine art
a New York Policeman succeeded the other
day in arresting thief instead of the man who
was robbed. The thief was lame and his vic
tim good runner.
The Boston Journal says the May flowers
are the love letters of the woods to the city,
We have noticed that they are sweetly per.
fumed and often red
Bernhard cannot see how any PHILADELPHIA
man can remain single in a city so full Q:
pretty girls as Philadelphia She forgets that
there is safety in numbers
There was never such an exodus of Amer
cans TO Europe this early in the season before,
so the authorities say, But it should be ex-
planned that most Of the exodu: is from large
and unSleaned cities
The astrologers now say the dire events pre-
dlcted for 1881 are to take place, not in this
country, but in Europe But it's bad year
for dire events of any kind when Europe does
not have q startling number of them.
Indians never drink to drown sorrow
When they can get anything to drink they
have no sorrow to drown.-Bosto, Post.
White men on the contrary, bring on sorrow
by drinking and then drink to drown it.
The following from the Boston Post, written
at the close of Lent, is another proof of the
superiority Of fish diet: "A boy who won't
try is like truth, because the boy won't en-
| deavor and truth won't end ever, either"
The governor of Georgia boasts of the prog
ress which that State has made; yet at Allan
ia, the capital the other night performance
| of Uncle Toms Cabin was broken up by q
mob. The shoe must have pinched terribly.
The real character of woman cannot be
learned half so well by dancing with her, SIS by
conversins with her at home surrounded by all
| the circumstances of domestic life-Norris-
term Herald. Did you ever try converting
with her neighbOrs?
Country newspaper editors, who never han
died over 100000 year in their lives, are
still telling Secretary Window how he should
manage the finances of the country; and it is
even suspected that some of those most anx-
ious to give advice never earned even that
much.