Smyrna times., 1902-04-09
SHORT, SHARP AND SNAPPY.
Pithy Sayings From Our Popular Wash.
ingtOn Correspondent.

Plt1y sayings FROM Our Popular WaSrs
ingtOn Correspondent.
The repeal of the war revenue tariff
takes the 10 cent tax off pound of tea
This should reduce the retail price
that much.
The American Humane Association
last year interviewed in $4,000 cases of
cruelty to children and in 5000 cases
of cruelty to animals.
The prompt and effective justice
meted ont to Neely ct al. has gone a
great way toward removing the only
blot on the American occupation, of
Cuba.
A letter addressed to C. A. Snow & .
Co, opposite the Patent Office, Wash
ington, d. c., will bring a booklet |
telling how to secure patents, trade
marks and copyrights.
The youngest governor in the union
is William McCroskey of the state of
Washington, who recently succeeded
Ex-Governor Rogers. He is only 2S
years old.
Edward Howard Griggs, the lee
turer. on ethics, SAID last week, "It is
often commented that Emerson can be
read as well backward as forward All
[ have to say is that he is wonderfully
good reading either way.
A Chicago lawyer in a Pennsylvania
court recently made an address 35
hours long, and containing upwards of
300, 600 words. The Bible contains
713, 900. Experts say this argument
was the longest ever made.
Ihe marine hospital service reports
that there are 27S cases of leprosy in
this country; Louisiana has 1876, Cali
fornia, Florida, Minnesota and North
Dakota about 20 each, and the rest
scattering.
The "RebeUiOn Record" published
by the United States, numbers 1928
volumes; 1873, SIS pages of reading mat
ter and /, ,242 pages of index. 1t would
take longer to read it through than it
took to fight the war. -
All large guns for tha'United States
will be made 10 per cent longer in the
future to give greater velocity and
closer shooting. The slow burning
powt!er which has come into use in re-
cent years requires the change.
Attorney General Knox has decided
that the public lands in Porto Rico
belong to the United States and not to
the island government. This is in
line with the government policy max.
ing Porto Rico purely federal territory
In the debate on imitation butter il
the national Senate, Senator Money oi
Mississippi said that every pound of il
that goes to the West Indies is coloret
a brilliant red, as ''the natives there
like red butter just as they adore rec
shirts and red cravats."
A new set of designs for nationa
bank notes has been adopted by tn
Treasury Department, to be issued t,
banks organized since the first of tn
year. To aid sorting and identifyin,
them, all issues hereafter will bear in
itials telling where the issuing bank /
located. n means New England; E
, Eastern states; NJ, Middle; S, South
s ern W, Western, and P, Pacific.
The Federal Courts of Chicago hav
rendered a decision against specia
rate cutting, and Judge Grosscup, i
u his comment, said; 81 believe tina
freight rates should be as steady a
I postage rates and that no discrimina
u ton should be made. The person VIII
turns over freight to a common carrie
for transportation should be made t
feel that he will enjoy the same rate
as any other shipper
The Japanese government has bee
, making experiments in malaria pre-
: vention on the island of Formosa, an
:, found that in battalion of soldier
= entirely protected from mosquitoe
n there was not single case of the dis
y ease, while in another battalion, 9
: the same time and place, but unprC
tected, there were 259 cases. This
the most positive proof of the fact thi
mosquitoes carry malaria. so far r.
= corded.