Show battleships go to the scrap almost as aa fast as pugilists llata do smoke costs chicago P year not to mention the agony the process of dying poor Is easily achieved by nine men out of ten A chicago woman takes taxicab rides to cure the blues not her bus hands bands however thieves in now new york stole a wagon load of cheese the police we presume are on the scent A man went mad in a barbers chair in new york probably the barbor barber was talking winter baseball gossip it Is now possible to go around the world in less than halt half the time it took jules vernes hero to make his trip possibly this world would be otter belter 1 off it if there were no pistols in it at least there would be more people hore here there Is more money in being nn ex king of portugal than in being an ex president of the united states but there Is less excitement dellol heres vienna exceeding the mark some soine ot of those old world towns are getting nearly as big ts its a young american city A new golf rule reads like this tile the bhatt may be fixed at tho the heel or at my any other point in the head Is this golf language or what is it A new york man who had lost his memory was found with in his pockets probably discovered on a witness stand at an investigation it to Is said that a st louis man kissed a girl times in one month must have used a kiss ometer to keep the count it Is said by a glove dealer that chi cago men have reason to be proud of 0 their small hands since when have small email hands been a source of masculine pride one of now new yorks millionaires Is going to marry a telephone girl because c a use she was always polite to him dpn the wre wire why spoil a nice polite telephone ele girl i A popular danseuse makes oath that her entire property Is worth only which ruay may account for tier her economical tio mical use of stage dress the sin singing glog sparks invention ot of the german professor will have no influence on the sentimental sparking tongs of the american parlor 1 I 1 Ift madison dison square garden new york Is on sale at anybody want a nice little garden centrally located gardening Is fine for or the nerves tho the doctors tell us t tho the general manager of the chicago telephone company says that the question the time lime la Is asked of his operators by chicago subs subscribers crt no fewer than times a day thero there ought to be a good market I 1 in n chicago tor for clocks and watches that will keep time A girl in vienna was recently ined fined sa cents tor for scratching a mans nose in the street with tier her hatpin this la Is the first poetic retribution which has bag overtaken the elongated feminine hatpin and it Is so because the enormity of the offense was equated equaled only by the hugeness of the fine now that it has been demonstrated that cattle can bo be herded with an aeroplane wo we may expect soon to see the police handling crowds at parades and other public celebrations in the same manner it will be an improvement over tho the pushing and hauling ol of tho the method in vogue at present the prevalence of the bubonic plague in tho the east has put american health officers on their mettle there thera Is no occasion for special alarm for medical skill Is equal to the emergency says tho the troy times the act fact that several cases have been dis covered on incoming steamers and that effective quarantine has prevented further spread of tho the ailment la Is assurance that vigilance Is maintained it has been judicially decided that when a man gives a girl a diamond ring as an engagement token the ring belongs to her and sho she annot be made to give it up it if tho the engagement to Is broken soon poor mere man will be beginning to count his bis few remaining rights and wonder when they are all taken from him it if he can accomplish anything with the dominant set by becoming in his urn tarn a militant suffragette england and especially london li Is making great plans for the coronation of king george next spring it is ex pecked that the gorgeous spectacle will surpass anything of the kind evet avei been in the british capital and the show chow will bring enormous crowds tc the city such affairs always mean a magnificent display of british rower power and also big money for london mer chants hotel keepers and others sc S tho the glad news Is received with glow ing anticipations |