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Show Congress refuses to adopt simplified spelling. It always has rejected any method of making the Congressional Record easier to read. A thief In Chicago attempted to rob a girl of her pocket book and she prevented pre-vented his getting nway by stepping on his hand. It would b? hurd to understand under-stand this crushing expedient If tho girl had not lived In Chicago. Tho Standard Oil Office in Buffalo wero entered by burgnlars the other day. Tho amount lost by tho Lurgiars has not been divulged. President Roosevelt believes that there should be a shooting gallery in every school. If they arocverestnbllsh cd tho number of "didn't know-it-wns-loaded" Uagedies will be vastly increased. increas-ed. Someone has suggested n plan to poy Connressmen according to tho amount of work they do. If this were put into effect there would be a gratifying surplus sur-plus from tho Congressional salaries that would go back to the Treasury i each yonr. ' Tho Noblo Peace prize of forty thousand thous-and dollnrs has been awarded the President Presi-dent in recognition of his service In bringing about peace botween Japan' and Russia. Ho has stated thnt he will donate the entire amount to the work of bringing about peace between ( tho interests of labor and capital In this conntry. It is to be hoped that tho ef- fort will not bring on war botween H those powerful and antagonistic forces. BBB A Kansns Cityphycician has discover- ed that high collars worn by women H J produco cancer of tho throat, nnd tho bvavJ Hopkins Journal adds that low-ncckod H dresses produce pneumouia, corsets pro- BBB ducc heart disense nnd shortness of BBB breath, long skirts guther up germs of BBBB nil Infectious disease, thin soles produce H consumption, nnd tight shoes cause tho BBBB toes to grow together, and looking at bright millinory causes sore eyes, H Women should be careful nlcut these BBBJ There nre twenty four farmers In BBBBj the present Congress, out of a totnl membership of 47G. The two formers BBBBj In the Senate aro both from South H Cnrolinn. Iheionro two fnrmers in the H House from South Cnrolinn. New York has two farmers In tho House H Mr Cocks of Sulfolk, and Mr Wads- H worth of Gene seo. The rest of the far- mcr numbers are scattered around t,ho BBBB countty, no two being from the itme BBBB state. Will itmchdy pirate explain BBBB why it is that the fcimers rf tho Unit- BBBB td States, with tho votes to elect mem- BBBB hers of CornrccB In proportion to their H numbers thnt is reurly cnr-l,nlf rer- BBBB mit lawyers, mnnufectuicrs aid lank- 1 ers to eo rule the roost, ss Is fr.cMcattd BBBB by the above figure. I BBBJ BVsBSfl |