Smyrna times., 1883-01-24
Current Comment.
PHILADELPHIA EVENING NEWS.

= W. Ourf6nL comment. i
PHILADELPHIA EVENING NEWS.
Rev. Mr.. Beecher says that "any-
thing that is needed, and succeeds, is
divine in this world"
The rule: Never believe half you
hear" is good one except when you
hear woman telling her age.
The coming rage in hair is soft and
tender red, suggestive of gentyly-pull-
ed molasses candy, little burnt.
A New York lady has become the
proud mother of triplets, all girls. The
father is as we'll as could be expected. |
O'Donovan Rosa, the dynatime
man, and Herr Most, the kill-any-Yay
man, ought to be put in dark room
and allowed to fight it out.
The -wisest neutrality-suspicious. is
she who serves the best soup. After
the guests fill up with that they can't
do much damage to any thing else.
Chesterfield says: "a gentleman is
insinuating without seeming art"
Nowadays that popularity is most
noticeable in successful book agents.
A Philadelphia man says the pernic-
ious effects of treating are not imme-
diately apparent. The trouble comes
afterward-when you have to treat
back.
The worst thing about using Schuyl-
kill water is that it must be filtered,
and then you have to send off into the
country for pure water to clean the
filter.
The shampoo" which BARRIERS use
costs about half cent head. The
remainder of the charge is for the
labor of talking customer into order
ing it. ~......
In New York state the family of q
man killed on railroad can recover
but $4,000, yet if he is only injured he
can recover $4,000, if the jury will
give it to him.
The sarcastic Boston Post pretend!
to have discovered that lone reason
why congressman hate to go home il
that they attract so little attention
when they get there"
! Bostonians are much alarmed to hea
that Butler has constitution enough t.
live for 25 years yet. They were il
hopes thet the governorship would b
vacant in ten years anyhow.
At Mount Washington the other da
the wind was found to be travelling a
the rate of IA miles an hour. 1t
supposed that somebody in Chicag
had whispered scandal into it.
Lebanon, Indiana, has had eightee
pairs of twins born within it's border
during the past year. Now the onl
p way Lebanon man can get a wife
to go to some other town and registt
from St. Louis.
After looking at the specimens
Greek art at the museum, the 9TH
y day, gentleman remarked. "Greet
must be very warm country, su
. pose. Nobody seems to wear clothir
: there. ."-BoSton Transcript.
Edwin Booth can charge Langtl
prices when he comes back. To ha'
been applauded three nights in su
\ cession by Crown Prince William
y certainly as great an honor as to ha
dined with the Prince of Wales.
The poet Whittier received near
5000 requests for his autograph
1882, that is about nine day. VIII
tier very fortunately does not work
newspaper and has time to gra
such requests. Few editors can.
A New York doctor says small ft
lg signify a quick temper and an e
tongue. Now everybody will be ST.
ing at his wife to see whether her ft
j. are large or small, and no matter viii
Mm way the verdict is she won't be please
St. Louis folks wed on fifteen m
utes acquaintance and the Boston P
N thinks it is because divorces are che;
ID Perhaps it is because they are afr;
they will change their minds if tE
wait until they get better acquaint
4 People who are constantly inveil
- ing against Mr.. Vanderbilt sim
because he is rich and spends
money as he likes should rememI
\ that some day they may be rich the
y, selves. Never strike man when
is down.
"Oh! dear i" exclaimed Miss Fig
81 should think those actors would
u..w tired to death, saying the same thi
night after night" And yet n
CH Flight apparently never tires of say
,g the same things day after day and y
Il after year.
ir A Harrisburg man boasts that he
ID split bullets on the edge of hate
III sixty feet away, but we can't see W
= good that would do him. He co
dull up hatchet ten times as quic
@ by giving it to u servant girl to
@SH kindling with. ..'
Florence Kelley, of Philadelpl
= daughter of Congressman Kelley,
gone abroad with her brother, and 7