Smyrna times., 1881-09-21
WHOLE NO. 1868.
Current Comment,
PHILADELPHIA EVENING NEWS

PHILADELPHIA EVENING NEWS.
AN economical wife is one who sav4s
most Of what her husband can't snend
The new fall bonnets are small. lust ,s,
szo-goId piece is smaller than 81 bill
Il the world don't come to an end tbi.
year 1t will be because it is too touob to
burn. - -
st. Paul says in whatever state wo ara
we should be content. But then St PAM
was never in Texas.
1t Is not strange that Sergeant Mason's
pail missed Guiteau Few men can bit .
dog the first time trying.
Chicago is in doubt whetherto ceIabro,.
the 10th anniversary of the great fire with
week OF prayer Or 4 big drunk.
leard ON Chestnut street: Who i
that man." Don't know: but he cant
De anybody in particular. He dresses too
we'll"
! Cool mornings have come and people
VINO have been careful to shut the door
after them during July and August nov
leave it open
faul dId not mean that wine should b..
taken by we'll people, but by sick ones
Tor he wrote, Take little wine for the
stOmach's ache"
Inc difference: When party is in the
minority its most active men are called
leaders; when it is in the majority the
same men are called bosses
! A New York man ate $50 baked CLANS
the other day He died calmly and was
waited to that beautiful shore where tbev
bake evermore.-BOston Globe.
They have neither cows, rats nor snakes
IN Greenland, but then the stvle of bon
nets doesn't change once in sixty years. SO
it isn't paradise for women. after all.
The youngest daughter of VIM. H. Van
derbilt is to be married Just as soon as
William can scrape together enough money
TO serve the wedding guests with one plate
OF peaches and cream apiece.
train spectators have hard time of
1t. If they don't get up a scare they
can't bull prices. If they do the consum
ers all begin to economize, the demand
falls flat and the speculator falls hatter.
Many man who has growled shout the
hot weather in September will growl
worse when the first touch of frost re-
minds him that new suit of fall clothing
and perhaps an overcoat must be bought.
A New York man was married for
fun the other day while on spree. His
ewly-made wife reminded him of the
changed condition of things by patting
him with rolling pin for having got
drunk.
Cruelty in all its forms we deprecate.
but Guiteau is an exception to all rules,
and we should like to see the william forced
to go home and stay there during the
house-cleaning and putting-up-stOvepipe
season.
1t is wonderful with what avidity coun-
try editors reprint the item about Queen
VictOria's refusing to sleep in room
with u carpet on the floor. Perhaps,
| however, they are interested in the queen
because she is a good woman.
Mr.. John W. Foster, United States min
lister to Russia, says that St. Peterburg is
one of the gayest capitals in Europe We
suppose that can be accounted for on the
theory that the peoples motto is, Eat,
drink and be merry, for tomorrow we
may be sent to Siberia
! A Georgia visitor at the North writes
the Columbia Inquirer that Yankee girls
are not half so pretty as those of the
South. This may be, perhaps, but if that
Georgia man wants to get along comfort
ably on a small salary he will find Yam
kee girl very handy to have in the house.
If the small boy only knew that the
blood-curdling tales of adventure on the
Western border in the sensational week
lies are written by men who never saw an
Indian or bear outside of circus, the
small boy would lose interest in them, and
the flood of this kind of literature would
cease.
1t is said that tight laciAg checks cere-
bratiOn. 1t also checks circulation and
respiration, and although it may promote
Irritation and alteration, also produces
palpitatiOn, Ossifcation and murderatiOn.
Altogether, waist attenuation isnot worthy
the disqualification and selfmortifica-
ton; which it costs.
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