Smyrna times., 1883-06-06
WHOLE NO. 1856.
Current Comment.
PmILADELrH'A EVENING NEW.

OuFIeuG COMMENT
PHILADELPHIA EVENING NEWS.
1t is suggested that BROOKLYN and
New York should now form one city.
but the difficulty is to find new and
name. How would New
Ireland do?
One hundred million tons of water
pass over Niagra Falls every hour, and
it is said that no dairyman can view
the sublime spectacle without signing
over the lamentable waste.
1t is said that black silk stocking,
Will be much worn with white dresses
this season. This will be severe
blow at the shoe trade Holes backed
with black silk don't show.
1t is The expected that always hap
pens nowadays. The white elephant
which Rarnum declared that he hal
bought in Siam is reported to have
died just before being shipped.
Whcn one gentleman at Il buardin.
house table ask another. What are
Strawberries. anyway" in 4 tone of
voice loud enough for the landlady To
hear, its ca y 10 guess what il mems.
Thursday the Overseers of Harvard
College refused to confer the degree of
Doctor of Laws ON Governor Butler.
and he will have to worry on through
life While longer withous an IL. ID.
/ to his back
] \ French doctor has been sent 10
Jail for selling n tonic warranted tu
make Il man live POO years We should
say that enabling some men to To live
that length Of time was crime worthy
OF severe punishment.
The two last descendants of AInerigo
Nespucci are living in poverty in Italy.
This would seem to indicate that
Amcrigo NeSpucci made the mistake OF
returning home instead of staying hero
and opening a saloon or something.
. so the author of Home. Sweet.
Home, never had a home" unused .
school-conccrt auditor as the sweet girl
graduate at the piano started in on the
Both variation. Well. don't care a
continental if he didn't. Served him
right
$2,O00,00o worth of pecan NUS are
, annually shipped from Indianola.
Texas. They are picked by negroes
and McXicaus. who cut down the trees
because it Is too much trouble TO climb
. them. There are lots of people of the
+ same kind in the werld.
The duty ON opium is six dollars =
pound but after July first it will be ten
dollars. On account of this advance of
, duty very heavy importatiOAs of opium
have recently been made. the steamer
| city of Toxic having brought TO san
;. Francisco consignment of 20,JOO
a pounds.
+ Lydia f. Pinkham is yours for
i health" no longer. She has gone To
: that undiscovered country whence no
> cry for place = at top of column next
{ to reading matter returns. She began
; by manufacturing medicine in tea
: kettle, and in time built up business
{ Of $500, 600 year.
it The last issue Of that clever journal
It The Hour, devotes some of its space "a
It discussing the subject of "Other peO-
It pies money" 1t is a matter that
4 should be thoroughly considered. Our
k experience is that for the limited
: amount of money floating about Other
d people have altogether too much of it
d Down in Talbottom, Ga, they sell
IS dom see icccream or anything colder
W than spring water, but during a recen'
I hailstorm enough ice was gathered L
,e make cream enough for three churcl
ID festivals and two picnics. At las
N accounts the young men of TalbOttOm
.. Ca, were preparing to move furthe
W south.
y \ New Haven clergyman, Rev. Mr.
- HOughtOn, says it is considered al
7, right to go sixty miles an hour behint
~ :. n locomotive, but a sin to ride behind
~ horse that can make a mile in 3 &C
:, ro That is just about it, Mr.. HOughton
~ and that is just the reason why w
~ don't keep a horse that can make
~. mile in go.
ld English capital owns 81 900 acres i
le. Texas, l, 300, 900 in Mississippi, 100000
| in Florida, miles and miles in the grea
ed West and q pretty large share of Ou
ly railroads, to say nothing of Unite
es. States bonds and other securitie;
ed When it comes to investing money tn
en- average Englishman seems to favor
country that protects its industries.
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