Smyrna times., 1905-10-25
SHORT, SHARP, PITHY NEWS
FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
GLEANINGS PICKED UP FROM OUR WASH
INGTON CORRESPONDENT OF INTEREST.
Mrs. Manning, President Of the Daughters of
the American Revolution Presents 7l5,0O0
Word Report TO the President.

WIS. mdnulnBs rtcslutnl VI Tue daughters VI
the American Revolution Presents 7z5,OOO
Word Report TO the President.
Some recent plays. it is said offer an
incentive to crime. The least critical
of theatre goers has felt it himself.
Coney Island is to have a magic
globe that will according to Sir Hiram
Maxim, upset the laws of gravity.
A popular scientist thinks that man
will die of thirst Milwaukee is doing
her best to prevent such a catastrophe.
The Chicago Herald says "the auto
mobile has come to stay" while any
body knows it has come to go.
President Roosevelt's denunciation
of rough foot ball appears to be right
in line with his race.snicide' doctrines.
John Mitchell says he can see no
reason for coal strike. This has never
been known to interfere or prevent
one.
The cimmittee of men who decided
that there we're no female angels were
all married as against the artist who is
a bachelor.
Rockefeller has been giving the
public a great deal of good advice
lately but it will be long time before
he gets 'corner" on it.
Hon. L. Y. Sherman, of Illinois,
says it is better to tell the truth than
to hold Office. Those who have not
held Office are yet to be heard from.
Some people object to giving women
responsible positions in financial in
stitutions because they have been
known to pad their figures.
Reports have been received from
Panama that gold has been discovered
on the Isthmus. Maybe it was some
of that lost by the French.
The Gear has ordered gambling
houses in st. Petersburg closed. How
glad Tammany would be to turn Je.
rome over TO him to help enforce the
law.
The man who paid five hundred dol
lars to buy an extension of life for the
bigamist Hoch, was not trying so hard
to be benevolent as to show how cheap
the courts are.
Fiction is on the wane, says public
librarian. Not as long as the Insur-
ance Companies are under investlga-
4. ton, and Thomas Fortune Ryan is ex-
: planning that he is not rich man.
A decrease of ten million gallons in
the sale of Scotch Whiskey is reported
from Great Britain. Can it be that the
people have heard the things that
Chemist Wiley has been saying about
it?
Mr.. Bailey Millard after painstak
ing search in the realms of literature
has discovered that all good writer's
have good legs. which would indicate
that there was yet another field oper
to the ballet.
Bryan's advice to Roosevelt, "StanC
by your guns" $50 forward" MAJ
be little difficult to comply with, bu
if any man can do it, President Roose
welt is the man, that can stand anC
proceed to instants.
The Governor of North Carolina wa
received at the White House last week
IL is not known what occurred but :
is suspected that the Governor said, i
is a long time between "What did yor
= do with that beer?
The average woman during an aver
age lifetime spends, it has been CON
puted, seven thousand hours befor
her mirror, and vet she never disco,
ers that she can't make people thin
she is from ten to twenty wear
younger than she is.
Mrs. Manning, President of th
Daughters of the American Revolt
tion has presented 725,0OO word I,
port to the President aud asked I
have it printed at Government expense
New York ought to send Mrs. Manu-
ing to Congress.
Representative Hull has discovere
that deficits are not possible if we q
not make our expenditures exceed OF
incomes" Now be and Secretar
Shaw might go little further and di
cover a way to make our incomes e,
ceed our expenditures. Such an "Ela
ITCHY of the currency" would be full
appreciated by the public.
A Buffalo Judge has invented
method of preventing wives from pic
ing their husbands pockets. He
vises a man TO keep rat trap in /
pocket Mt night and all women W
hope that the man who if mean enoul