Smyrna times., 1886-08-18
Sharp, Short and Sunny.

faVOrlte cOlOrS for midsummer dresses.
Boycotting has been declared crime
in three states-New York, Wisconsin
and Connecticut.
o God, give me heart that may be
sound for the truth of grace, and melt
ing at all terrors of Thy law.-Hau
From all accounts editor Cutting is
hardly worth disputing about, much
less does he amount to cause war.
The prayer for Ex-Governor Cochran
1.-THE Lord bless me and my wife my
son John and his wife, us four and no
more"
There are said to be 100000 Italian
settlers in the Argentine Republic,
$4,000 in Brazil, 1000 in Uruguay and
5000 in Mexico.
Congress has adjourned, but the Con-
cord School of Philosophy is still in
session. AS between the two, give US
Congress every time.
The Texans are said to be fairly bub-
bling over the war fever, but it is prob
able that whiskey exhilration may be
mistaken for the latter.
\ maiden lady says that if single life
is bad, it stands to reason that double
life is twice as bad but ladies rarely
understand mathematics
A Roman Catholic journal states
that at least half of the enlisted men of
the enlisted men of the United States
army and navy are Catholics.
1t is the men who wait to be selected
and not those who seek, from whom
we may expect the most efficient SER
Vice.-Gen Grant Personal memoirs, |
Vol II p. III
One local Justice decides that shay
is not work of necessity and another
local Justice decides that it is. Justice,
instead Of being blind seems to see
two ways at once.
The Pet hotel on Broadway is now
full to overlooking. Canaries are
charged 25 cents week, parrots 80
cents, monkeys 75 cents, cats $3.50, |
dogs from 50 to $3.50.
An exchange speaks of a corset
which stayed the force of bullet and |
thus saved young lady's life. This
settles the question of whalebone, for
hereafter the corset stays.
What yachting lacks is something
answering to the umpire system in
baseball. As it is now, when yacht
is fairly beaten there is nothing for. its
friends to do but to admit it.-Bostor
Record
Grandpa" said Teddy, as the old
gentleman woke up from loud-sound-
ing after-dinner nap, "if you would
give your nose a spoonful of paregoric,
don't you think you could put it to !
sleep too?"
A veteran hotel proprietor at Long
Island says it costs 90 cents head per
diem to feed his guests, counting all
wastage. The next time we pay "a
day and "extras" we'll make a mental
note of that SO cents.
All of the gold on earth to-day, in
whatever shape-that is mined gold, to |
put it palmer, the gold in use in all
nations and the product of all ages-if |
welded in one mass, would be contain
ed in cube of less than thirty feet.
There is nothing like good advertis-
ing. In England an undertaken has
struck out on an original line in an
nouncing his funerals in the following
terms " Why live and he miserable |
when you can be buried for IS los. ?1 |
President Cleveland is now taking a
much-needed vacation from pension
bill vetoes and is engaged in building
up a personal f1llowing in this State
precautionary to the next National
Democratic Convention. After Magone
who?
Glass floors are coming into very
general use in Paris. Although they
cost more at first they are found cheap
er in the end. The rooms below can
often dispense with artificial light and
there is far less fire risk. Glass. too. !
will Outwear wood many times.
The Administration has developed a
humorist Mr.. Graves, the Chief of
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
was asked the other day what design
would be selected for the new Govern
ment oleOmargarine stamps "a stuff
ed goat-a bogus butter, os it were
would be about the right thing" he
answered
The Canadian authorities are still
making it more uncomfortable for
American fishermen by firing across
the bows of their vessels and searching
them. but Mr.. Bayard is not looking in
that direction He has his eye set SO
intentIy On little Mexico that he seems
to have forgotten that there is such a
country as Canada.
Mount Tarawera, one Of the New
Zealand Volcanoes which recently dis
played such extraordinary activity is
three hundred feet higher than before
the eruption. The scene at this noun
tain was one Of unparalleled granduer.
Balls of FIRE shot high into the air.
and enormos tongues of flame five
hundred feet wide rose to a height Of
sone thousand feet. 1 rrn a
Mrs. F. w. Ingham, 472 w. Madison
street, Chicago, H., recommends Red
Star Cough Cure, a few doses of which
sr,sva her entire relief from a viOlent