Smyrna times., 1902-06-04
SHORT. SHARP AND SNAPPY.


Pithy Sayings From Our Popular Wash
ingtOn Correspondent.
The one sure thing about the coal
strike in the midst of all the confused
evidence as to who is to blame, is that
the public is being numerically
mulcted.
At the close of her two latest wars
the United States government has set
an example of magnauimity and cOur-
tesy unprecedented in the annals of
modern history
The bribery and franchise grabbing
cases recently laid to the door of Phil
adelphia's municipal council have
caused the city's title to be paraphrased
into the "City of Boodlery Loot
The COWS in Belgium wear earrings.
Every COW, when it attains three
months must wear numbered metal
tag on its ear This is to make sys-
tematic government easy.
The strict rules against spiritualism
in Germany and other parts of the
European continent have resulted in
the imposition of fine Of $40 on any
one found guilty of attending a spirit
ualistic seance in Bohemia.
Lord Pauncefote, who died recently
in Washington, had earned the con
fidence and praise Of his own Govern
ment and the friendship of the people
among whom he represented it.
Now that the Cuban republic has
been started on its way the newspapers
are resurrecting the old illustrations
they used when the war with Spain
first broke out. MORO Castle then
bore the legend, "The Spanish Fort
ress that Defends Havana. Now it
is labeled "Historic Fortifcation
where the Cuban Flag now Flies.
The chief Of the fire department of
Chicago sees the end of the fire engine
in the adoption Of high pressure water
mains for fire use with a great pump
at central station. This opinion is
entitled to respect as Chicago's fire
department has been noted for its IN.
to-date efficiency since the great fire
started by Mrs OLeary's COW.
The scarcity of platinum is being
more and more felt, the annual out
put of the metal being less than five
tons year, most of which comes from
Russia. 1t is worth $500 an ounce.
Formerly it was mistaken for silver
and got into Russian coinage so that
many Of the old coins are being re-
melted to recover the platinum.
Mt. Nesuvius has been active during
the recen volcanic disturbances. and
cinders and lava have been thrown
out IN such quantities that the Italian
government has warned the people to
move away from its base and has
closed the roads leading to the sum
nit. Nesuvius is feebly active all the
time, but visitors can ordinarily ap-
proach within feet of the crater.
Professor Massaryk, of the univer-
sity of Prague and member of the Aus,
trian reichsrath, says that Amerlca's
greatest peril lies in the teeming
ehildren Of her immigrants, who out
number Americans in the cities and
who grow up III ignorance. He saws
the remedy is to provide for their edu-
cation and moral uplifting.
In the continental countries of Eu-
rope typewriting is generally known as
"dactylography" which means finger
This is a more sensible term
than the one used in America, es-
pecially as there is a chance to dis
between person and machine
in the use of "dactylographer" and
'dactylograph, impossible with our
single term typewriter.
The city of st. Pierre, Martinique,
was named in honor of St. Peter and
not after Be nardln de St. Pierre, the
author of Paul and Virginia" as some
suppose, although the writer lived
here for some years aud got the 90
'al color" for his story from that
sland. The plot of the little French
classic was laid in Maurtius, an island
n the Indian Ocean, which st. Pierre
never visited