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Show I Champ Clark says there is no room in this country for a pessimist. But it must be confessed that his jokes nro discouraging. Tho New York stock market is about as numb as a foot that's "asleep." But it should cither wake up or release its claim to beinp the financinl "hub" of tho United Stales. Alfred Austin, poet by laureate if in v no other way, has put the storv of his life inti) two volumes. But, thank goodness, good-ness, there is no need to import them into this country. Kural delivery and the parcels post naturally belong together, and the only way to make the rural delivery even a tolerable paying success is to add the parcels post delivery to it. lrs. llarriniau, in showing that, she has been asked for $110,000,000 in char-ity. char-ity. dining the year, demonstrates that charity soliciting is fully as insatiable us greed, and maybe closely related to it. . The Government employee who stole nuts from the squirrels on the capitol grounds is a living disproof of the theory that thievery isn't catching. He can easily plead that he sees everybody stealing. Xat Goodwin doesn't seem to be very sure whether the young man claiming to be his son is so or not, though decided on the point that he isn't his son by his first wife. It's a pathetic cane. It is aunounced as a record-breaking fact that a recent electrocution in New York brought death in ono minute. But unless the first instant of shock brings unconsciousness, a minute may be a horror of long-drawn-out agony. It is evidently important, on reading the news from loxico, to know its source, whether Maderisl or in opposition. opposi-tion. But it is impossible to have the brand displayed; so tho best thing to do is to read it, all and bclicvo as little of it as possible The forecast of the probable acceptance accept-ance of the silver dinner service for the battleship Utah is probably correct. There docs not sorm any good and sufficient suf-ficient reason for rr-.iecting it, and Utah people are not fighting against the acceptance ac-ceptance of the service. I .Jack Johnson is matched to fight a.u Englishman, described as "Bombardier Wells," before a London sportinc club, in Seplenibor, Jack is to get $30,000, win or lose. Thus the evil pugilistic game, outlawed in America, is revived in the home of its modern origin. . Of the long-winded, fruitless, droning speeches in the Senate, that aro both malignant and ungovernable, Senator Lodge reec-ntly said that they make the Senate tho laughiug stock of all legislative bodies. They do worse than that; they display tho barrenness of mind and of results that is fast making mak-ing the Senate the contempt of tho people peo-ple of. the United States. It is claimed for a Paris physician that he has detected the influence of vegetable foods on the character, the brains, and the senses. Ho starts off by saying that tho potato develops evenness even-ness of temper and cahnuess of thought; which will do for his system. For the race whose chief subsistence is tho potato is noted for qualities quite the icvcrsp, quickness of temper und impulsivcuess of thought. The church organ last night "refuted" "re-futed" .the verdict of tho coroner's jury on the case of Loy, the Chinaman who wiih shot by a detective while try-ing try-ing to escape. The organ says that it hopes the affair will bo taken up for a legal investigation, as much as to intimate that the coroner's inquest was not legal. But no matter whatsort of an investigation might bo had, -the church organ would be discontented with it unk'fs it blamed tho police, and it would gladly take up another "refutation." "refu-tation." v v .. .. There's more than ono way to get at the condition of a monopoly without with-out precisely declaring it. Thus, tho city of Bonham, Texas, has recently passed an ordinance providing that a man in 'order to get a license to -sell peanuts on tho streets must have lost both his legs. So a colored man -who meets the conditions ot the ordinance gets tho solo license. |