Smyrna times., 1882-01-25
WHOLE NO. 1886.
Current Comment,
PHILADELPHIA EVENING Nrvs

social success depends much on self.
P1SIeSsIoh, but more on the possession of a
Inc Boston Post appears to think that
telepn0nes will bankrupt the manufactur.
ers OF lung-testers.
~, The New York Nal aud ErDress saws
ne servant girls of tho Vanderbilt naI3cn
are quite too utterly too too d'ye
The best defense of modern cstboticisr,
we have yet seen is a head line in tbn
Helena, Montanaj HpraII "C;iIdinr tho
Iron Age" '"'''s 'Ne
chicago woman drives Il street-c,r
ana the astonishing discovery has been
made that car horses can be driven with.
out swearing.
= Breakfast caps for young ladies are now
!ashlonable. They save the trouble of fix
ing the hair aud getting down stairs after
everything is cold. ''''N'
mere are at last some hope that Ken.
lucky murders may be punished q it'll.
anyway That State proposes to revive
the whipping post.
Oscar Wilde is going to visit Miss Alcott
at Concord. His = Vegetable love" won'r
STAND that test. There is never anv meal
on the AlcOtt table
At last we have good news from Arizona
Report says that the fayorito amnsenan,
of the cowboys now is shooting ntl, aoc},
Others hats for the whiskey.
Marriage improves the memory. When
man ana wife have little tiff they can
each recall IN an instant every one of the
mean things the other has ever done.
reporter who has attended twenty
hFe hanglngs says he has not much desire
70 go TO Heaven as all the murderers he
mas seen were sure they were going there
ana ne never wants to meet them again
The pretty and sensible fashion Of wear
ing the hair flowing over the shoulders
mas been set by the Empress of Autria and
Is Deng generally followed in Europe. A
little airing won't 60 the. glory Of woman
any harm.
The Mississippi Legislature is hu1rvine
through bill making prize-fghting a pen
ltentlary otfense. But those very legisla-
tors can call a foe out, shoot him in cold
blood on the field of honah." and il will
be all right.
1t is thought that knee-breeches will
come INTO fashion again. Should that
happen, nlne-tenths of the the tailor-made
young men would have to 90 into perma-
nent retirement, or present the appear
ance of dwarfS on stilts.
Guiteau had dream the other night
He thought an old fellow with hoofs.
horns and tail came after him with u
pltchtork. Hold on here, yelled Giteau.
l was inspired "Eery true" was the
| along"
Thomas Wilkinson of London is coming
to this country. AS Thomas has more
brains than hair, doesn't worship big SUN
howers nor wear knee-breeches, and is re
garded as very sensible person at home,
1t is not likely that New York society :
Will loniZe him and invite him to their
homes and stand him under Japanese UNI
brellas.-NOristOwn Herald.
A system of hiving bees by electricity
has been invented. Now if they can get
up some way of coaxing mad bulls to lie
down and be quiet; inducing tramps to
avoid civilization, and keeping country
roads from getting more than foot or two
deep in mud, there may be enough pleas
ure in rural life to pay for the expense of
suburban residence.
In recent conversation " OH personal
beauty Mr.. a. Bronson Alcott expressed
himself strongly in favor of the blonde
type as being nearer to the divine likeness.
but is trifle severe upon the brunette,
though he claims to speak with no disre-
pect. He kindly admits that some dark
people have inherited or have cultivated
admirable qualities, which contradict their
outward appearance: but he affirms that
darkness is the outcome of sin, near or re-
mote, and dark eyes are synonymous with
vicious disposition. He recommends a
fruit diet to such persons as wish to attain
some measure of the blonde purity in both
mind and complexion. Now, if any other
man talked like that he'd be accused of
being mashee on Victoria LOTUS troupe.
Boston Post.