Smyrna times., 1902-02-26
SHORT. SHARP AND SNAPPY.
o,by Sayings From Our Popular Wash.
ingtOn Correspondent.


ingtOn Correspondent.
NJ one can say that Sautos-Dumont |
,,oks the element of nerve.
Rv an actual count according to the
,rsss reports) Miss Stone has been re-
ioosed lust 21 times already.
Prince Henry will lav a wreath on
The tonb of Lincoln. The descendent
If kings honors a man of the people.
The world is still moving.
Mr. Carnegie advises libraries not
TO buy novels less than year old.
Amaiority of the greatest novels of
the age" are dead by that time.
Manufacturers have made up lot of
Prince Henry souvenirs and badges,
and few DAYS will see them turned
loose on long suffering public.
So far Spain has abstained from
claiming that she was not trying to
stop the war. Yet she wanted it stop
ped far more than any one else did.
The light of the Liberty Statue in
New York harbor is to be dark on ac-
count Of the expense of maintaing the
torch. Another case of sacrificing
sentiment to cents.
Most of the Russian caviar, sup
posed to be made of surgeons eggs.
which is sold in this country as the
imported article, comes from Miss
issippi River catfish.
Police Captain Thomas of New York
Eas in command of the "Tenderloin's
district short time ago. Now he has
just bought a$160, 900 apartment house
Is this case of cause and effect?
The Houses of Congress are full of.
germs and microbes. We might be-
lieVe this if it were not stated that
among them is the tetanus germ.
Tetanus is lock-jaw, you know:
Andrew Carnegie is proving quite
apt at turning out epigrams and terse
sayings of good advice HIS collected
aphorisms would be quite an addition
to the Poor Richard" literature.
There are more miles of horse-car
lines In New York than in all other
places in the country combined, -119
lO7 In many respects the metropolis
is still an Eighteenth Century town.
Coxeyite Carl Brown is again in the
public gaze. Press dispatches say
that he claims to be the reincarnation
dthe great artist, Guido Reni, and
that he took bath. 1t is as easy to
believe one as the other.
Havana, having successfully battled
with the scourges of yellow-fever and
smallpox, has turned its attention to
tuberculosis, and is making marked
sanitary improvements, particularly in
the tobacco factories.
The auth critics of Hackettstown, n.
D., have issued the following sanguinary
order: "All persons having cats OF
dogs running at large are hereby
notified that they will be killed unless
they are put under restraint"
Here are few of the news items
gathered at large from the press of the
country about the new Secretary OF
the Treasury: He does not drink,
smoke, swear, chew, dance or gamble.
de eats pie three times day and has
SIX toes on one foot. These are given
on the authority of a number of the
most prominent journals.
A woman in the gallery of the
French Chamber of Deputies dropped
a bag of eggs on the head of one of the
members below. But then, million
aires are always allowed to indulge il
their little vagaries. How do We
Know that she was a millionaire.
Does the report not say a whole bag
OF eggs? At the present prices fol-
eggs what other conclusion is left us
The smallest painting in the world
Is said to be on the smooth side of ,
grain of corn and represents a miller
and his mill with quite landscape in
cluded. 1t is the work of Flemish
artist and under a magnifying glass il
seen to be drawn with perfect accuracy
Ihls is not as wonderful as Who'll,
mosaics made of the scales from but
'efily's wings, the whole thing 81