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Show Things to Talk About. A Chicago employment agency is advertising for "homely girls." Just as well advertise for old girls, No young man of today can succeed to nny great extent who is not enthusiastic enthusi-astic in his business or occupation. The fair weather friends always come in bunches, but the friends thnt come during adversity tire miles and miles apart. Some day n paternalistic government may even undcrtnku to regulate the hotel charges for tho benefit of tho jtcoplo nt large. Since tho government has begun an investigation of divorces it Is noticed they aro fewer In number. Publicity's the thing. After this tho American girl who marries n title must understand right , nt the start that It will be useless for j her to expect any sympimhy. A sorehead in Knnsns says thero aro no women mummies because a woman never was known to dry up nnd stay drilled. A Chicngo judge sentenced n man to jail for allowing his wife to support him. What is the country going to do for jnils, if this thing spreads? Count Castohinl accuses IiIh wlfo of being very extravagant. Doubtless she is and was, but tho most reckless purchase she ever made was the little French Count. Tho doctors sny running Improved health and promotes long life. If this is so, Mr Bryan is destined to bo a modern rival of Mcthusnlah. Dr Edward Everett Halo says speak every day to some whom you rccognlzo as your intellectual superior, but this advice will fall of effect upon thenvct- nge male or female egotist. In n reading room in Boston, thero Is n sign "Only low conversation permitted permit-ted here". Wo are surprised nt this. We supposed that nllllostonecs conversation conver-sation was high-toned. Tho Pullman sleeping enr octopus Is shown to hnvo a surplus of f2H,000,000 in its treasury, squeezed out of the' traveling public., doMJnude -h'.old.n,orfrtVrPg; - Milwaukee- Is to havo an apartment house for tho exclusive use of unmarried unmarri-ed women nnd bachelors. It Is impossible impos-sible to decide at this time whether tho projector intends to promote or ills-courago ills-courago matrimony. Uncle Sam has n flag factory which costH the government $09,000 a year nnd at least M) women aro employed. Each ship In the navy has to havo 2S0 flogs and they receive n new Hot every three years. A set Is valued nt 2,500 Commissioner of Immigration Snr-gennt Snr-gennt thinks that all Chlneso arriving in the United States with n view of remaining re-maining here should be taxed $1,000 a head. He believes that the time has come when all the Chinese in the United Unit-ed States should lo registered. Tho empire of Russia is rich In horses. According to the statistics of tho Department De-partment of Agriculture at Washing-ton.there Washing-ton.there are on earth GO.-I.Vi.OOO horses, of which Russia alone has iCI.OOO.OOO, nveraging twenty-five horses per hundred hun-dred inhabitants. According to Miss Julin Richmond district superintendent of the schools in New York City, God created mothers and when he saw what a sorry job he made of it, he created teachers. And yet if it was not for tho mothers the teachers wouldn't have much to do. Tostimulate marines, to Improve in i if lu practice, Secretary of tho navy Bonaparte has issued an order 'that every manner who qualifies as an ox-pert ox-pert rifleman shall receive ftt per month extra pay, those qualifying ns shar shooters i- per month, ami those rat ed as marksmen $1 per mouth. it is said that tho way n woman takes a compliment stamps bur place In society. so-ciety. A blush denotes the debutante; a giggle, tho unsophisticated; n brusque protest, the sensible but unpolished; but the quiet unelatod smile, with a quieter "thank you," if reply lie necessary, neces-sary, unmistakably denotes the worn-an worn-an of social training, the one accustomed accus-tomed to compliments. On his recently completed tour around the world Mr. Bryun was accompanied by his wife, who put in typewriting all the newspaper urticles ho prepared. Mrs. Bryan not only studied law and was admitted to tho li.ir soon after she married her then undistinguished husband hus-band but she also loomed to manipulate the typewriter as a furthur mean of being of practical help to him in liU work. i |