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Show Throughout all the turmoil the north pole remains cool. By its conduct Halley's comet la causing a lot of gossip. Royal weddings continue, and the people of Europe continue to pay for them. The south pole is no doubt beginning begin-ning to feel as if it were already lassoed. las-soed. There is enough prosperity in the country now to give every section a full share. Lake Michigan continues to jest with those who try to cross. it In gasoline gaso-line launches. How does It feel to be sprinkled with star dust? Halley's comet uses that kind of celestial confetti. Mr. Wu Ting-Fang predicts a great future for the Panama canal. In this no one will question his assertion. A New Jersey woman wouldn't allow al-low her husband to kiss her and he choked hei for it. Some women must be taught to mind. "This country never lacks for leaders," lead-ers," according to the views of a Maryland Mary-land editor. No; the trouble is that there are no followers. Lord Beresford keeps on seeing war ahead for th British empire. The kaiser must appear to him as a nightmare night-mare in all his dreams. There is talk of getting milk direct from cow to consumer. Maybe cow specials can be run in from the dairy districts night and morning. In Chicago two women fought a deadly duel with knives and pistols, but they are always deadly when those kinds of weapons are used. A scientist declares that chickens attract rats. We have often wondered how it is that women who keep chick ens always dress their hair so styl : hly. With scions of the reigning houses of Italy, Portugal and Greece wooing Amerioan brides our pretty heiresses will literally be having a royal time in the matrimonial way. A man in St. Louis who gave a woman wo-man his seat In a street car fell out of the car window. Perhaps she thanked him politely for the seat, and the sudden sud-den shock made him lose his balance. A Washington judge declares that mothers-in-law are a much-abused class, and that many things said ol them are slanders. Would he attack the very corner-stone of established American humor? The representatives of 36 nations some of them from the ends of the earth, sat down to a dinner at the New York Hudson-Fulton celebration the other day. It simply shows how In this twentieth century of the Christian Chris-tian era the world Is getting acquainted acquaint-ed with itself. Spain's troubles In Morocco are not all due to the fighting ability of the Moors and the tribesmen. The proposition propo-sition to seize and hold Tetuan Is op posed by several of the European pov ers, and facing hostility from that quarter is a serious proposition. Daughters of the American Revolu tlon have appealed to the postmaster general to restore the head of Martha Washington to some one of the stamps of the present series. No doubt the request will be complied with. The recognition Is deserved and will in volve no violation of precedents The trips of exploration to find the pole have developed the fact that there Is unlimited coal in Greenland and Ellesmere Land. This ought to calm the pessimistic whose minds are weighted with the harrowing knowl edge that there Is coal enough left tc last only for a few thousand more years. , A Roman paper says that every- ' thing Italian is despised In the United States. This Is an extreme statement and an unjust one. but Italy has ltsell to blame If its Malla and "Black Hand" gangs have not Increased respect re-spect and admiration for the national lty which apparently Is either unable or unwilling to suppress them. Boston Is rejoicing over the fact t'. t one of the great transatlantic stean.ship lines has placed an ordct for a steamer of 20,000 tons to be placed on the Boston-Liverpool route Undoubtedly this will be an advantage to Boston, which will have one of the largest and most modern vessels at 113 service. But one cannot help feel lng that there would be still mere cause for rejoicing were the big ship to sail under the Stars and Stripes in stead of a foreign ling If the Belgian postal authorities base their recommendation for the use r u.iferent colored envelopes to siglii fy given destination for letters put Into Belgian mails, upon a known will ingness cm the part of the people tc co-operate with the government tr simplifying the transmission of postal mr er, then a splendid spirit of one ness of Interest must exist in the little country. For the United States to sug gest any such thing would be apt to bt looked upon by American citizens a a., unwarranted Interference witl ttbjlr rights' and liberties. |