Smyrna times., 1902-07-09
SHORT, SHARP AND SNAPPY.

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Pithy Sayings From Our Popular Wash.
ingtOn Correspondent.
The passengers on the Cunard
Steamer, Lucania, celebrated the coro-
nation of King Edward at sea, and did
not learn until two days afterward OF
the Kings illness.
Everyone who has given the matter
any thought will regret the adjourn
ment of Congress without having con-
sldered the bills of Senator Lodge and
Representative Adams providing for
the reorganization of the consular SER
vice.
The announcement comes from Kan
sas City that the construction of "the
largest cotton mill in the world" has
been begun in that city. The mill will
have 100000 spindles. and 12, 900 looms
and will employ 1000 operatives.
The contractor who has undertaken
to complete the Iron Range extension
of the Wisconsin & Railroad threatens
to throw up the work because of the
terrible pest of mosquitoes which makes
it almost impossible to get labor in
that section.
Senator and Mrs. Pettus, of Alabama,
recently celebrated in Washington the
ffty-eighth anniversary of their we'd
ding. Senator Morgan, who cele-
brated his seventy eighth birthday the
same week, participated in the fest
ivities.
A London medical journal chronicles
the successful grating of a new set of
eyelids on a man who had been robbed
of the originals by fire. The skin was
taken from his thigh and the new lids
are said to work with all the perfection
of the natural lids.
According to late census bulletin.
the annual cut of lumber in this coun-
try has increased in the last ten years
from 24,O41, ,57S to 81, ,OS4, 166 board feet.
This is another argument in favor of
the establishment of national forest
reserves on liberal scale.
The erection of statues to the foreign
heroes who rendered assistance to the
United States in her military neces-
stiles is not without its commercial as
pect. AS these monuments serve to
promote good feeling between this
country and the lands from which the
heroes came, as they serve to facilitate
commercial relations and they also
make for universal peace.
Dr. John B. Murphy, Dean of Rush
Medical College, characterizes the 1852
deaths from appendicitis in Chicago
within the last three years as "colos-
sal crime, claiming that practically all
might have been saved had they been
diagnosed and rendered surgical treat
ment in time.
But five lives stand between the new
King of Saxony and Prince Maximil-
lian, Roman Catholic priest who has
for many years labored among the
slums of London, having refused to
accept his pstrimony as prince. The
Prince is now professor in Catholic
university.
The prospective series of "TaIks to
the Public" which Mayor Low of New
York expects to publish should be pro-
ductive of much good. They will FAM
lliarize the public with the difficulties
which stand in the way of municipal
reform and should serve to enlist pub
lie interest and cooperation.
The British Government has recent.
ly presented, through the Department
of State, handsome pair Of binocu-
lars to V. B. Nelson, master of the
American schooner, Fl. C. Wright, in
recognition of his bravery in rescuing
the crew of the British ship, Franklin
stan.
Prof. Lupton of Leeds, recently de
clared, before the Institution of Min
ing Engineers, that the gold held in
solution in the oceans of the world
amounted to $50, 600, 900 each, for every
man, woman and child on the face Of
the earth. A method of extraction
would certainly prove a profitable in
vention.
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