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Show 4 i A Line o Type or Two j "Fay ce que vouiiiras-' -f By B. L. T. Almost Aboriginal. Krom the lies Mo;r,ts Renter. " v' : r. i e r M o r v.: r. . " r a : ; 1 d by E v e r e t ; L. Warner, an 1ji ar:.si, orit;;r.aiiy born at Vinton. The EU Family. Fir: Allow me to contribute to the biographical bio-graphical data of tho Etl f.mi: In a volume entitled 'Tammis Families and Tiir Traditions." I read: "I. WriKht Punkerned, author of 'Folk Lore of Hell's Half A '."re. New Mexico,' (U'herenell & Co., N. Y., recently married his third cousin. Jennie Lukes, a U-ri urer. la t ne advertisements which now announce her talks hr name appears as Jennie Lukes PunkerneLl." P. S. C. H. The Rev. Mr. Metcalf of Winchendon, Mass., who rounds up comets for the Harvard observatory, tiiscoered two in one week while on a vacation in South Hero, Vt. If we were a comet chaser we'd take our vacation in the rainy season. sea-son. Bang Goes Another Dollar! Sir: Daughter anci Neighbor's Child, both aged 7, were reading a new book and came upon the word "dignity." N. C.: "What does that mean?" V.: "I know. It's being quiet and wearing stockings in swimming." Line-ite. Line-ite. Such a One Might Have prawn Priam's Curtain in the Dead of Night, and Told Him Half His Troy Was Burned. (FYom the Eagle Grove, la., Eagle.) 1 The Rev. Winter was pastor of the M. ' E. church many years ago, at the time it was destroyed by a cyclone. Engineer Sam Wood broke the news to Mr. Winter gently by shouting: "Your church has all blown to hell, Elder!" It is a pleasure to find oneself, now and again, In agreement with the Hon. W. J. 1 Bryan. We are quite with him in his war against near-beer. It is terrible stuff. Tony Seems to Have Got On. (From the Duluth News-Tribune.) Notice. Tony Tinpano, resident of Stevenson for seventeen years, will leave with family for Italy on a vacation soon. All bills should be sent me before that date, and after that date inquire at the First National bank, Hibbing, which will look after my interests. Tony Tinpano. The Professor on Tour. Sir: Obiter rlcta en route to Mine Own People in Pawtucket: Painesville, O.: "Butcher, Otto B. tfchott." Erie, Pa.: "S. Calpo, Barber." Dalton, Mass.: "The ; Kallay Greenhouses." The proprietors are Katharine and L-oulsc Ka-Lou Kal- lay, as t were. Lonsdale. R. I., red barns, ! white houses .with green blinds, water in ' river bed that doesn't need dry cleaning, i Sign on corner: "Carriage Repository"; 1 sign opposite, "Abrasive Instruments Ground." Mine own, my native land! P. D. S. The new leader of Boston's symphony orchestra says that German music will have its place on Ills programmes. About I fourth place, we conjecture. 1 She Appears to Be Connecting Herself "With the Edgar Dunlap Family. (From the Insurance Field.) Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss Catherine Hook to Edgar Ed-gar Dunlap, Jr., son of Edgar Dunlap of the Edgar Dunlap Insurance Agency, Atlanta. At-lanta. While the resemblance between Mr. Wilson and the first Lincoln is almost uncanny, there is one point of dissimilarity. dissimilari-ty. Woodrow lacks the patience of Abraham. Abra-ham. WaL He Oughter. i Sir: I am pro-English, and yet I often feel that Lowell knew. As, for example: "Ole Uncle S,, scz he. 'I guess, John preaches wal,' sez he. But sarmon thru, and come to du. Why thar's the old J. B. A'crowdin' you an' me.' " D. T. W. "Will the party who borrowed my vice 1 for two days kindly return same, as they , have now had it two months. F. A. ; Parks." Craig, Sask.. News. i In these mollycoddllsh days even the i smallest vice is precious. Some Are "Worse Than Others. Sir: In argument pro and con (mostly pro) with a temperance friend, she maintained main-tained that now the worklngman will return re-turn home with his dinner pail full. With belated southern chivalry absorbed from 20 years' life with Mrs. B., I did not dispute dis-pute the friend's statement, but are all workingmen's wives bad cooks? J. F. B. The dining car card of the Baltimore and Ohio is decorated with a picture of four roosters and only three eggs. But three eggs Is pretty good for four roosters. roost-ers. Hoots! Toots! Mon! Let us at Least Read About the Stuff. (From the British-American.) J. A. Campbell, a Dundonlan of Cleveland, Cleve-land, O., writes: "I like your paper very much but would like it better if my native na-tive toon in Scotia did not show up in it so often with cases of drunks under arrest. ar-rest. Give us some good, clean news about Bonnie Dundee." Vorwaerts' suggestion, that labor should do a day's work in return for a day's pay, is the wildest, most iridescent dream that Socialism has thus far dreamed. Quelq Horse, This. Sir: It Is time a distinction were drawn between contributions which merely disclose dis-close facts and those which display the handiwork of the artist; which reveal. If you will, the finished craftsmanship of the weary toiler in the sparsely tenanted domain of creative endeavor. It is one thing to advise you that So-and-So runs a livery stable somewhere down in Arkansas, Ar-kansas, a fact which, even though indisputable, in-disputable, is unimportant, and yields no balm for sorrow-laden humanity. But to soar into the realm of Fancy, and pluck a glittering gem to dangle before the fascinated gaze of an admiring world, is a horse of another color. I'll say it is. E. C. AV. It occurred to us, observing a string of them in a railway yard, that if the plural of caboose is not cabeese, it ought to be. The Candid Advertiser. (From the classified ads. ) For Sale Dining room set, bed, .box springs, mattress; buggy. |
