Smyrna times., 1902-08-06
SHORT, SHARP AND SNAPPY.
Pithy Sayings From Our Popular Wash
ingtOn Correspondent.

Pithy Sayings From Our Popular Wash
ingtOn Correspondent
The Texas gentleman who hired a
special train rather than be late for |
dinner, when invited to Oyster Bay by |
the President, has done his share to-
ward fulfilling traditions of Southern
courtesy.
Prof. E. Walter Maunder is author
ity for the statement that the pyra-
mids were built for advertising pur-
poses, in other words, to perpetuate
the fame of the Pharaohs, and for no
other.
The report comes from Winsted,
Conn, that Clarence B. Gillett, a
young veteran of the Spanish war, has
invented torpedo boat which is super.
ior to the Holland type of submarine
vessel.
Whatever may be said or thought OF
Brig. General Smith, he has done hu-
manity service in that he has served
to emphasize the horrors of war and to
verefy Sherman's famous epigram,
"War is He'll"
Patent Office Officials say that they
are flooded with applications on ire
ligious playing cards" by which piOus
persons imagine they can wean young
people from the alleged meretriciOus
games now in use.
Vassill Verestchagin, the Russian
battle painter who is painting the bat
tie of San Juan hill, says that he dis
covered the solitary tree described by
Mr.. Roosevelt as located on the line
of the charge and thereby placed the
forces in his mind with accuracy.
The United States Geological Sur
vey has resumed work in the mapping
of the State of Michigan. When COM
pleted the map will show the princi-
pal roads, by-roads, elevations of
every hundred feet above the sea
level, etc.
letter from the Philippines says
that Commissioner Bernard Moses, OF
the department of public instruction,
has decided that further importation
of teachers from the United States is
impractical and that hereafter he will
devote all his attention to the education
of Filipino teachers.
Through the efforts of the State
Charities AID Association and the
Guild of the Infant Savior, the NOR
tality of the foundlings of that city
has been reduced more than So pei
cent. These societies find homes fol
the infants and, in the words of one o.
the members of the former, "do 1
rushing mail order business in babies.
The suggestion comes from Illinois
that Senator Mason intends to secur,
his reelection to the Senate by tn,
coalition with the Democrats. Their,
may be something in the rumOr. Mr.
Mason was opposed to the Philippin,
policy, he favored general reciprocity
and reduction of the tariff on trus
made articles and he opposed the Pres
ident in his Cuban reciprocity policy.
If people realized that when the,
entrusted their lives to an inexper
t fenced sailor in a sailboat they wer
+ running as great a risk as if the
D boarded a steamboat with an inexper
] fenced engineer, or an automobile wit
an inexperience chauffeur, there wouE
be a dimunition in the long list G
summer resort drownings.
g Prof. Karl Pearsons, F. R. S. ha
made some startling discoveries in tn
matter of heredity. He states ths
there is much truth in the statemen
= that it takes three generations t
> make a gentleman, for in three ger
erations he has found numerous il
stances of complete mental and phys
= cal change in families. by an admir-
ture of new blood.
!, The most curious post Office in th
: United States or Canada stands
: Beebe Plain, vt. One half of th
building is in Vermont and one ha