Smyrna times., 1886-10-06
Sharp, Short and Sunny,


1t is a manly act to fOrsake an error.
He doth much that doth a thing
well.
An esteemed exchange:" A lost
dollar.
Arefrain that ought to be popular:
Refrain from drink.
The biggest gum boil on record has
been discovered in a mucilage factory.
When a girl talks about two strings
to her beau" does she mean his sus-
penders2
III. tell you how l got on. l kept my
ears and eyes open, and l made my
masters interest my own.-GeOrge Eliot.
Pleasant weather there may be in
the voyage of life, but never weather
SO pleasant that the hand may leave
the helm or the eye the compass.
Garments without buttons" are adj
vertised. That's nothing new. They
have been known to men, and especial
ly bachelors, since tailoring become an
art.
The 'possum crop in Georgia is good
this year. John Rushin went fox
hunting in Macon county the other
day, and the hounds got off after pos
sums and killed %.
We admire the patriotic spirit of the
Philadelphia Times, in speaking of the
Charleston disaster: Now let the
generous North fire Oh the Fort Sumter
sufferers with gold"
There is fve-year-old cOlOred girl
in Cincinnati who, it is said, reads any
thing that is printed in the English
language, and yet has never been
taught even her A B Cs.
The chestnut bell has been declared
to be q nuisance by many, and yet it
might be u source of exquisite pleasure.
Let it be generally recognized that
widows may be married under it, and it
will at once gain favor.
Wiggins is called fool because his
predicted earthquake did not appear
on time. But he was accounted q wise
man when he predicted storm and it
came to pass. Success amounts to a
great deal in this world.
The feet washing Christians, or
Heavenly Recruits, held a meeting in
Wilmington lately, when about one
hundred unwashed feet were made
clean. This may be an excellent way
to change sinners to repent, but our
eCcleastical ideas do not lie in this di-
rectiOn.
The New-York correspondent of the
Indianapolis Journal states that Roscoe
COnkling takes his mutton slightly
underdOne" and his baked potatoes
very well DONE" 1t is such thrilling
items Of intelligence as these that are
doing so much to undermine the ner-
vous system of the West.
Some women are too domestic. They
spend more time chasing fly than the
fly can understand. The fly himself is
a scavanger, and yet she miscOnceive.
the usefulness of this domestic angel
and leaves her sink spout and back
yard in distress to waste her force on
trilles.- Christian Union.
The Princess Wilhelmine, heir to the
thrown of fHolland has lately celebrated
her sixth birthday anniversary. On
that occasion the Queen invited to tht
royal palace all children born the same
day as the Princess and treated then
to banquet and presents of toys. A
surprising number responded to th,
call, and though the Queen Welcomed
them all, she was heard TO remark
that the thirty-frst of August 1880
must have been the greatest day fo
births on record
A Michigan woman broke into ;
gambling house, fired her revoIve
among the inmates, scared them of
grabbed the stakes and escorted he
husband home. A Manitoba cir
wanted to marry q Dakota youn,
man. The family objected. She stoot
on the Manitoba side, her lover stoo,
in Dakota, they joined hands, and
preacher, with one foot on British sol
and one foot in the United States, mar
ried them. A st. Louis girl found
strange man in the house. She com
PEELED him to sit down and wait unit
she called an officer to take him To th
police station. And yet men talk abou
the inferiOrty Of women l-Bnlfimor
american.
In the course of very sensible ser
mon, preached on Sunday, Rev. Hebe
Newton observed
The life spent by the birds of para
disc at Newport, who Ay thence L
Lenox and then light to plume thei
feathers in Fifth avenue before goin
on to the South or running over I
Europe for a few weeks. after whic
they come back to New York again I
Newport, making all their life one dul
routine Of pleasure-this is not rest
not recreation"
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