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Show TT Things to Talk About) Theodore Roosevelt is golivflo-Panama, golivflo-Panama, and if the canal dill doesn't fly some of the bosses will. The grcatir part of the Kansas wheat crop will be stilted bythe fanners, this year in anticipation of a better price. f . Get many is starting in for nn (International (In-ternational exposition in iyipth.it shall sin pass the Chicago and St. Louis fairs. Well, the Germans need about six ycats for that job. r , A Chicago preacher tells his flock: "Better be a has been than a never wasser." He would no doubt be pleased if every woi shipper in his congi egation was a right nijw'cr. Rockefeller, 'according to a fcKr.e-ment fcKr.e-ment recently handed down by his physician, 'hasn't had anything to do with the Standard Oil Company for years." What lucky mar is getting the 35 pet cent dividends? Since the gicat eaithquake only 3 persons have committed suicide in San Francisco, while picvioul to that the average was twelve a wck. An earthquake apparently i'iTcs San Fianciscnnscoiiiidci lifewjrth liing. Four Connecticut girls sm rounded a big black si-ake the othci tlayHtl stabbed it to death with hatuns. Oh, that Mother Eve had been so courageous ami had possesseVIJi 'hatpin! The Kansas board of health hajf determined to wage a war on tuberculosis tuber-culosis and the first step wilhbifo secure as nearly a complete ccuiis as poHsihlc. Each of the Il,ooo leg. ul.tr physicians in the state will be cnl blanks and asked to report an accurate list of the cases in his pracj. ice. 1 Mr Rockefeller says his foituaV is less tbanone-thiid of a billidptM. lars. However much his foitmi-may foitmi-may be, he docs not pay nn.A for the support of the United iM government than any nrdimlryH In fact, the tan iff and iutcrnalH cnuc taxation'rather favors thtjH er of the highest qunljty ofvM Daniel B. Wesson, the revoWf manufactmcr, has left a fortilndH. timatcd at $30,000,000. This Bt may be regarded as the iiieasuBf the value which America altaiWs. to the revolver, for it is in this coj!i-try coj!i-try that the pat ticulat brand of pistol it most widely used. The paramount object in the oil-tine oil-tine of the grape inmost partsof the woi Id has been the obtaining of wine. The extent of this will be surprising and hardly believed h) those not acquainted with the sta tistics. Thus for instance, theie aie annually produced onthe globe ovei 4,010,000,000 gallons of wine. jOf this amount the I'niletl States pio. duces only about 50,000,000 gallons i5o,cioo models of patents that have been giauted in the past seen ly live je.irs ate to be disposed! uf by the patent office. A good uiiu-bet uiiu-bet of these will he given to the vaiious colleges in the .couull . S01111, hisloiic assocntions ten lei them valuable as relics, will be 1 Mil to the Smithoniau institution.! A great many of these iii'mMs ail of patents taken out h) women. The postnfficc depaitinenl in Washington lias issued 1111 ot' er that ma) he of uitciest to meiclia )l and mail camels. All mallei I 1.0 is mailable under the new po tal law, up to fom pounds ill wen if, must tie passed in at the postoffice window to be weighed, ami the stamps placed thcieon at the laie of me cent foi each ounce of mcichau disc. Thecaniei is (oihiddciif'to take 10 cent fiom the shipper jfm lelivTiitig the package not stamped. I'liecaiiiei who disobey Ihis luliug is liable to piosi'Mili'in and puss h dismissal. See postoffice Guide foi July lyod. |
