Smyrna times., 1902-07-02
SHORT, SHARP AND SNAPPY.
Pithy Sayings From Our Popular Wash
ingtOn Correspondent.


It has been suggested that Lord
Kitchener's coat of arms should bear
an American mule, rampant.
An unexpected demand for auto
mobiles, according to the United
States consul at Baireuth, comes from
Syria where primitive modes of loco
motion make the ''autO" God-send.
The end of the Congressional ses-
sion is approaching and still the Speak
er refuses to appoint day for the con-
sideration of Representative Adams
bill for reform of the consular service.
The rapidity with which bills are
passed "By unanimous consent" in
both houses of Congress leave small
room for surprise at the meritricious
measures which "get through"
At the commencement exercises of
the University of Chicago, President
Harper announced that during the
year the University had been the re-
cipient of gifts amounting to $2,012,-
600.
The fearful morality of Asiatic Chol-
era is evidenced by the report that out
of 1880 cases in Manila there were
1896 deaths and ont of 1859 cases in
the outlying provinces there were
$40 deaths.
The first statue of a person of i'm
perial rank has just been erected in
Switzerland. 1t is a statue of the late
Empress of Austria and is located in
Territet where the Empress embarked
for Geneva on her fatal journey.
A well-authenticated story of the
intelligence of ants relates that
householder, having endeavored to
destroy them with sticky fy-paper,
found the next morning that they had
constructed a causeway across the
paper with grains, sand and grass.
Undoubtedly President Hartman
is correct when he says that a railroad
should not be governed by men who
know nothing of railroading, but there
are people who declare the same SEN
timent applied to the affairs of the
government, to be visionary and Chi
merical.
The sufferings of the families of the
coal strikers will be equalled only by
the sufferings of the consumers who
will have to pay price for coal next
winter which will reimburse the oper
ators for the loss of rrofits occasioned
by the strike.
There is an admirable modesty
about the Rev. John Thompson of
Rockford, ILL.,. who declines to use
the I'D. D.. recently conferred on him
because he believes that the title
should be reserved for men who have
displayed extraordinary attainments
or have accomplished great things in
their work"
The ministers of Cumberland, Md,
have secured the assistance of the
railroad officials in their effort to
break upa matrimonial trust, where
by prospective grooms are mulcted of
from $40 to $50 about one-half of
which goes to brakemen and trainboys
aud Onefourth to the cabmen.
The effectiveness of united femi-
nine effort was recently demonstrated
in Chicago where the school teachers
were having their salaries curtailed
because of lack of revenue and they
banded together and recovered taxes
to the amount of S597, 200 from street
corporations which has eluded the
assessor
When Pension Commissioner Ware
entered Office he found letter from a
pensioner stating that, as he had be-
come Independently wealthy, he no
longer needed Uncle Sans pension.
Mr.. Ware ordered an investigation
and found the writer an incurable in
mate of an insane asylum.
1t is stated that several of Mendel-
sohn's ''SoEgs Without Words" were
composed by his sister who attributed
their authorship to her brother be.
cause it was not considered proper for
a woman to compose music. Does the
former existence of such a sentiment
account for the small number of women
composers?