Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1906-11-14
SHORT, SHARP AND SNAPPY,

there.
Secretary Shaw says the day of the
spellbinder is past Maybe it has one
to keep the campaign contribution
company.
A Buffalo barber has been sent to Jail
for slapplng his wife but the chances
are that Count Boni will get fat ali
mony for the same thing.
Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia prob
ably stayed with the reformers just
long enough to find that reform doesn't
always pay.
William R. Hearst was probably the
first man who ever charged for cam
paign literature or at least the first
who succeeded in selling it.
Wisconsin, according to the census
leads the states in the production of
salable waters but Wall Street failed
to enter into the competition publicly.
Three hundred chauffeurs are on
strike in New York. Automobiles
are taking it hard but pedestrians are
bearing it very well.
Whatever Countess Anna Gould Cas-
telalne has to complain of in her little
Count she must admit he has made a
striking husband.
The Portland, Maine Gazette an
nounces that "only six guides have
been killed so far this year" The
hunting season has evidently been a
poor one down East.
Senator Depew is said to have re-
gained complete control of his nerves.
All he has to do now before making his
debut into society again is to regain
full control of his nerve.
Hon. W. H. Wharton, OF Chicago,
the boy wonder and pet of Uncle Joe
Cannon is, according to first reports
defeated for Congress, Same old story
about precocious children.
No one at home seems to know ex-
actly how things are going on at Pana-
ma but it is safe to suppose that plenty
of white wash is being applied in an
ticipation of the Presidents visit.
Anew York girl has broken the add.
ing record but married women all over
the country are striving for the sub
tracing record of their husbands in
come.
According to the report of the Treas.
urer there are two and three quarters
billions of dollars IN circulation in the
United States but most of it is circula
ting around very few pocketbooks.
Eight members of the new Frencl
Cabinet are newspaper men. If the.
just had few rough riders to appoint Il
Office now they might be able to have
nearly as good a Government as tn
one President provides.
Senator Dubois of Ohio is very an
xious that mormonism shall not get
foothold in his state but he is still
more anxious that he shall not lose tn
foothold he has in the United State
Senate.
The head waiter of the Cafe de Pari
in Paris is coming to this country
learn how to cook lobster. Who know
but that some day French women wi
come to New York to get the late'
styles.
Two young women have opened
typewriting bureau in Harrisburg an
advertised to write speeches for th
statesmen at moderate rates. MayI
this will be just the purifying qualit
that Pennsylvania legislation so sad
needs.
The Rev. Mr.. Doolittle Delaware ,
has just passed away When 1t
known that during his life time !
wrote over six thousand sermons
will be seen how little there is in
name.
The trial of Harry Thaw will prob
bly, begin this week. This will iu
about fill the vacant columns that W
come after the New York election.
we'll are such things arranged in Ne
York
1t is said that the BARRIERS Union