Smyrna times., 1883-02-21
Current Comment.
PHILADELPHIA EVENING NEWS.

worse than ever now.
The new nickles, when nicely gold
plated, look lovely in a contribution
oox.
NJ. Damala, Sarah Bernhardt's hus-
band, is going to retire from the stage.
He gets enough tragedy at home
The queen of Servia cannot play the
piano, nor embroider, nor paint, but
she knows how to cook and sew on
buttons, and they do say the king just
worships her.
"Yes, indeed remarked a society
belle to her good pastor, g say my
prayers night and morning during
Lent; one might as well be out Of the
world as out of the fashion"
If all the handsome women ia the
country should follow Mrs. Langtry's
example and exhibit themselves, what
would be the result ?-lLrs. !SWissheIm.
A good many of US would have to cook
our own meals.
An exchange says that it makes a
woman sick to keep a secret. In this
connection we would remark that the
health of American women generally is
so good of late years as to be the cause
of considerable professional notice.
A physician says that shoes which
are too loose will cause more trouble
than those which are too tight As
Mr.. Vanderbilt is reported to have
bunions the probability is that the old
commodore's shoes are too big for him.
Herr Most made $54 on Sunday night
delivering one lecture composed of dis
jointed utterances which any schoOlbOy
could put together and any other
schoolboy could refute. At this
rate Herr Most will soon be a bloated
capitalist.
A Western youth, the guest of his
rich city aunt, was present at fash
ionable dinner, and when the elegant
little coffee cups, holding about thim-
blefull, were brought on he politely re-
piled, in answer to a walters question,
Thank you. believe l will take
SMELL
Eighteen students at Hillsdale Col
lege, Michigan, were suspended for
indulging in sleigh ride. The faculty
doubtless think that boys who are fools
enough to go sleigh riding without girls
} and thus have no fun to compensate
} for frozen ears and toes are not worth
teaching.
Herr Most says that the working
people are worse off in this country
than in Germany; but he does not tell
why it is then that they continue to
come to America by tens of thousands.
Agitators are always too busy taking
up collections) to explainS..yle things
like that.
:, c. NJ. Lamson, the London merchant
I who controls the seal fisheries and fur
| sales of the world, was born in Massa-
# chusetts seventy years ago of parents
l who were too poor to give him start
. . in life. But he was fursseing young
n ster, and, after emigrating to fureign
5, parts, furthered his plans with turtle
l brain.
l. Some noted dairyman has just given
Id out that the present system of hand
y ling milk should be reversed We do
/ not think, however, that it will make
ee any difference to consumers whether
e. the man goes to the pump first and
u u the COWS afterward, or follows the old
I'd plan of stopping at the well on the way
is back from the barn.
at For clear, bracing Winter weather,
there is no climate equal to that of
Montana. At hotel fire there the
i0 other night guest in the fifth story
put his head out the window and his
|
y ing one end of it to the bedpost, he
"' slid down ON the main stem to the
ground and escaped.
ne A question for lawyers-H flea
at bites dog, and SO enrages the animal
he that the dog bites a man, can the flea
*. be indicted as an accessory before the
ey fact?-BostOn Transcript. Should such
Tor question come up in Philadelphia,
some lawyer would get microscope
and prove that some invisible parasite
~ had previously bitten the flea.
ay 10000 working girls in. Boston earn
he a per week and pay $3.50 of it fol
MS board so says Colonel Wright, the
Tas statistician. He does not say what
rt. they work at, but the figures show
"a that it is not housework. House girl:
re- get almost as much a week, live OF
the fat of the land, waste all they
please and pay nothing for board.
,ys Miss Rowe of Boston has written 1
ire play for seven girls. The scene opens
ny ny with the girls talking separately. Ii
.ng the second act they are all talking al
in once. In the third act the talk is con
,ay tinued, and in the fourth act there j
me =: q grand climax. A servant comes il
= with, the information that there is &
man at the gate, and all rush up stair
,rk to fix up, while the curtain falls t.
ed slow music.
is ----s.s -s.s--
his There has been snowfall of 10 fee
less 8 inches at Watertown, N. ", thi
mi Winter, and very little of the snow ha
or melted away. $500 rr.a rcl ,lss