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Show .. .. u BRIEF AND BREEZY. If there was room enough in the Pacific for Taft, there will be room enough for the fleet. The man who invented "hokey-pokey" "hokey-pokey" is dead, but the indigestion he caused will live on. ! The pure food law ought to make them state on the bottle, how many 1 headaches there are inside. That $1,200 preacher who is marry ing the $1,200,000 heiress will have a hard time living within his salary. Now .that it has a new count to play with, Newport has dropped the Teddy bear and the Harry Lehr monkey. mon-key. If the copper magnates keep on grabbing land in the Northwest they might as well change the name of Alaska to Guggenheim. The idea that in an age of Rich- I mond Pearson Hobson the journey to the pole had to be given up for lack of wind. Harry Thaw has engaged as his lawyer the man who nominated Judge Parker; and everybody knows what happened to Parker. Judge Parker can point to a number num-ber of men whose presidential prospects pros-pects blossomed and faded even more rapidly than his own. ft w A number of banqueting statesmen arc thinking of the narrow cs:apes they have had from the boom-destroying effects of the cocktail. The Mayor of Alton, 111., kissed a A thousand babies at a picnic. It is this sort of thing, that makes men think twice before they enter politics. The Uncle Joe Cannon's presidential president-ial boom seems to have reached as high a summit of obscurity as any boom could be expected to obtain. A' Cliicago man who poured kcro-Whcn kcro-Whcn Mr. Roosevelt gets tp he an editor, proofreaders will be put among the "prohibited risks" by the a ; life insurance companies. ; 'The Atlanta Journal accuses the Constitution of the same city, of sweating purple adjectives at -svery pore. The near approach of the dry season in Atlanta, must be affecting the Constitution editors very much. |