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Show , The Balkan war clond has been itirowlng put a few lightning flashes tOf latd,' ; Bruin will want a good lC"g vaca. ion to rest up after these strenuous days are, over. v Sir Thomas Lipton is still thinking tbout the American cup: "Thou art so near and yacht so far." ; For ten women who are willing to deceive a man there are another ten who only deceive themselves. If New Jersey gets the divorce trade as well as the trust business she can pay dividends to her former taxpayers. A New York man has been laughing for forty-eight hours. He ought to tell us the Joke. It must be too good to keep. Working hard, spending little and saving ail you can will beat any of the get-rich-quick schemes so far invented. in-vented. The mad mullah has lost 400 camels cam-els in battle with British troops. At this rate his recent "hump" will soon fee gone. It looks as if Balfour might bo switched off into the house' of lords ehortly to make way for the Mirming-ham Mirming-ham flyer. In the American griddle cake Londoners Lon-doners have found a new joy in life. They have struck the best breakfast food at last. ' Boston physicians say that 30,000 j Boston women have the tea habit. Well, it might be worse. There's the highball habit. Some of the big New York hotels ;are to have a chaplain. It is to be Ihcped a part of his function will be i '. : j Admiral Beresford says that "battleships "battle-ships are cheaper than war." Yes; cheaper than hell as Gen. Sherman jwould have said. j The trouble on the Wabash appears ito have been adjusted to the satisfaction satisfac-tion of both parties, and this means, of course, to the satisfaction of the jpublic. - r m.us3eiP" Sage's advice to young iinen on how to succeed in life raises the question as to whether Uncle iRussell has been really and truly successful. suc-cessful. j A Kansas' man 93 years old wants 'to bet $50 that he can lift a barrel of jialt into the back end of a wagon. He Ctd it in 1824 and believes ne can do ilt again. J . . They are going to revive the Dreyfus Drey-fus case in France. By getting excitement excite-ment in this way the French people hope to worry along with fewer cabinet cab-inet crises. -j A day in the planet Eros is five ! and a half hours long. To people under the influence of Eros, regulation regula-tion Earth days don't seem any longer long-er than that. ' Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt says she has in her pocket evidence which men to Jail, But. no one ever finds a rJTO&an's pocket. An exchange descants on the "Candor "Can-dor of Samuel Pepys." Nonsense. Pepys wrote in cipher, and hadn't the least notion of diverting posterity with his antics. Syracuse university is to establish a course in journalism. It may do something toward starting journalists, journal-ists, but the output of newspaper men will not be large. One Chicago man's house was robbed Sunday while he was attending attend-ing church. But hundreds of Chicago Chica-go men attended church on the same day and were not robbed. There is talk of an alliance, between Italy, France' and England. Now let Switzerland, Portugal and Holland get together, and the peace of Europe will be secure for at least another week. A disappointed French playwright shot himself in the head, but the report re-port further declares tnat "he did not injure himself seriously." He should have selected a vital part if he meant business. "Can a horse talk?" asks a Chicago contemporary. Hardly; but if he could it is safe to say he would free his mind to the Anglomaniacs who think he looks better with hit flowing tail chopped down to a butt. |