Smyrna times., 1881-06-22
WHOLE NO. 1856.
Current Comment.
PHILADELPHIA EVENING NEWS

a suburban Revision-Hoe-up deferred
maketh the weeds thick.
Flve-cent japanese parasol, are the
thing now. Pass it along.
There are 100000 Shakers in America
not counting the patrons of quinne facto-
ries.
Morey-letter Truth has come out for
Conklng. Poor Conkling did not deserve
this
On account OF the cool weather. lie Due
recommends that young potatoes he cook
ed with their jackets on.
Murat Halstead says he will never again
visit Europe. That's what Europe get.
for not behaving herself
BY using the new version it is possible,
to print one of Dennis Keamey's speeches
without resorting to dashes.
All the newspapers in North Carolina
can be bought for $3.50. .OOO-Hmtford Post.
Editors getting tired of bcing shot at?
Litter is Il tavorite word in modern
aesthetic slang, and it will remain the
tavOritc until some one can invent term
more idiotic.
| 1t has been observed that the girls who
have small mouths are crOss>tempered.-
SomerriUe Journal No wonder Sodcnc
is 50 popular.
! Now that Joe Johnson has attacked jeff
Davis book, JEFF says that if he could only
get Talmage to pitch into it his fortune
would be made.
HindOO women are fast emerging from
the seclusiOn that so long enveloped their
ancestors and people who have seen them
are sorry for it.
Five O'Clock cream jugs" are among
the latest agonies; but chalk and water
does not taste bit better from them than
from any other kind.
Winnie Ream's brother is the husband Of
an Indian girl and is the author of several
little pieces of sculpture wich appear to be
in bronze-when asleep.
]. NJ. Hill the theatrical manager OF
Boston, pays the newspapers 60000 year
for advertising, but then Boston men
always did know how to make money
Jefferson Davis will make at least SlOO,-
600 on the first years sale of his book
atlanta Constitution. In that case jeff
will admit that the war was not in vain.
Charles O'COnor is building a $4,000
cottage at Newport. He hopes to get it
done by the 1st of July so that he can rent
it and get his money back before the sea-
son is over.
A Newark lady returned to her grocer
$3 which the clerk had overpaid her.
This ought to heap Goals of fire on his
head and induce him to stop selling glu-
cose for sugar.
BY the explosion of the boiler of a loco
motive in Tennessee, man was killed
half mile away, but the engineer on the
engine was unhurt. Moral-don't go
within half mile of an engine.
The check for $14,949,O52 given by the
: Pennsylvania Railroad Company in pay
[ ment for the Philadelphia, Wilmington
+ & Baltimore road is said to be the largest
ever drawn in this country outside Of Il
newspaper office.
Tattoo marks may be removed by pick
! ing milk into the skin in the same manner
that the ink was applied. The cOlOring
matter in the ink is supposed to unite with
the chalk plaster and glucose of the milk.
making an invisible compound.
4 An advertisement reads: "Wanted-A
young man to be partly outdoor and
D partly behind the counter" What will
land Leader 1t will be the same old
storv-the masher will be mashed.
7 According to Mr. Smalley, Mr.. Lorillard,
: owner of Iroquois, cannot obtain admission
to the Jockey Club because he is engaged
in trade, But this rule doesn't prevent
Mr., Lorillarl's horses from being the best
nags the snobs of that association can trot
out,-BostOn Post. That ought to solace
the New York tOhaccOnist.
Emotional insanity, temporary fury and
/ nervous excitement don't go down with
u jurors in Wisconsin in case of murder.
They hold that man who keeps gun
y loaded for three days to kill person must
know what he is abOut.-BOStOh Globe
0 Nothing strange about that. Smart law
vers are scarce in Wisconsin.
~ Miss Josephine Borg of Memphis, Tenn-,
: recently sued Joseph Croce, an Italian
e organ grinder, for $4,000 damages for
l. alleged seduction and breach of promise
l. Of marriage, and the case was put on trial
r ON Saturday, and CrOce not appearing,
Ie judgement was entered against him by
= default in the full amount claimed-N. }.
TYaaes, That's right. Down with these
bloated Italian aristOcrats.
!, Isaac w. England, the publisher of the
= New York Sun, four years ago was ap-
= pointed assignee of Frank Leslie 1t in
ventoried $4,000, and was encountered by
5oh4, orooun+ino tn $4OA0OO Mr.. Eng