Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1906-02-07

4 Colonel Mann has demonstrated that
even yet gold bricks can be sold on
Broadway.
Harry Lehr is said now to have been
reporter for Town Topics. The puz-
zling mystery of how Harry Lehr be-
came such town topic is now solved.
A Connecticut woman, the mother
Of twenty-seven children has eloped
from her home. The only wonder is
that she did not do it sooner.
G.. Bernard Shaw subscribing to a
press clipping bureau has had his
amour prope clipped by finding that
his books are less written about than
his whiskers.
The witnesses in the Fads aud Fan
cies trial and IN the hazing cases at
Annapolis proves, if nothing more, the
incredible shortness and unreiability
OF mans memory.
Congressman Littlefeld has intro
duced bill in Congress prohibiting
gambling in the territories. The states
would like to have a monopoly of that
industry.
A great deal of fun has been made of
Russell Sage for his many and varied
economies but they have the virtues at
least, of having kept him out of the
Fads and Fancies scandal.
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Congress has decided that there
shall be no eight hour limit to a days
work at Panama. The next thing in
order is that at least eight hours work
shall be done each working day.
A cablegram from Russia brings
news that the ''black hand" has assas-
sinated one General when it was their
object to assassinate another. The
mistake can, however, be rectified as
far as the living General is concerned.
Henrietta Leayitt, the distinguished
astronomer of the Harvard University,
has discovered twenty-five eccentric
stars That record however is ex-
ceeded by the claims of many theatre
cal managers.
sStuyvesant Fish who gave one ball
in New York which cost $4,000 says
the danger OF this country lies in it's
lack of economy. Nobody is better
qualified to speak on this subject than
Stuveysaut Fish and his wife.
If all of the Naval Academy students
who have participated in hazing are to
be dismissed it is reasonably sure that
haaing will be abolished, principally
from the cause that there will be no
one left to haze or be hazed.
A. band of Ohio women propose to
attack the Legislature with song and
prayer with the hope of winning the
franchise for their sex. If this is a
woman's idea of politics it is evident
that she is not yet ready for vote.
1t now transpires that Bigelow was
on the isthmus on Thanksgiving Day
and this may account for the reason
that he was unable to see any dirt fly
ing. The Governor of the Isthmus
now in Washington says that the day
was observed as National holiday and
that there was no work done,
Poultney Bigelow, whose article
concerning the Encouragement of af
fairs at Panama, was given chance to
prove the truth of the statements he
had made and failed. Now he offers
one thousand dollars to any man who
can prove them untrue.
The papers are making a mistak,
when they protest against sendins
United States war ships to the differ
ent ports of the world. They eyidentl,
have forgotten too soon how disas
trors they are to each other when il
one port, as shown in the recent col
lisions in New York harbor.
The stockmen and Railroads have
powerful lobby in Washington endeav
orirlg to pass bill extending the tim
that cattle may be held on cars with
out food and water from twenty eigh
hours as under the present law t
! thirty SIX hours. Protests are pourin
, in from all parts of the United State
: against the passage of the bill.
: Miss Roos evelt and MIR. Longwort
are much envied young couple, bl