Show england hae pessimists are scarce articles these days seashore or mountains the question rains vex the city and mahe the country man glad cuba must behave or uncle sam will have to spank it again pretty near time for venezuelan and central american war scares to break out again cuba should be gratt tui declares the philadelphia press but Is cuba not a republic A southern paper suggests why not have a fathers day we have it comes once a week would there be the possibility of so diluting that sleeping sickness as to make it a curo tor insomnia A brooklyn clergyman declares that the rum power Is to be banished from new york good by gay old broad way A scientist tells us that magara will run dry in 3 years possibly the tendency Is certainly making great headway A town in new jersey has a head less ghost and the townspeople are trying to find bome one who will put a head on it when we have remodeled the ac battleships that went around the world shall we send them around to show the Improvements 9 A man is going to attempt an air trip from boston to europe he had better have his Q D signals in good working order says a washington doctor it you would not become a drunkard stop eating meat dead men do not get dipsomania you know count boni de castellane Is coming to this country to hunt tor big game there Is reported to be quite a flutter among our heiresses another american princess has ob talked a divorce but having married a prince of the usual variety what else was left for her to do the price of potatoes Is increasing but this wont bother the amateur gardeners who are confident of raising their own vegetables this year in russia a new rebellion 0 an argumentative kind has broken out against the drafters grafters gr and reactionaries who succeeded the grand dukes any giraffe which would eat the ar uncial cherries oft a young woman s bat Is in need of instruction in the rules of hygiene and good manners the great wall of china has been traced 1800 miles from the coast there are traces of ten other walls but the great wall overtopped over topped them all the weather we have had recently ought to make it rather difficult for anybody to bull the duck market on the theory that there Is to be a short crop t european scientist will put an end to war by means of waves now all we need to do Is to invent an armor plate impervious to waves terrible was the loss of life on both land and water by the spring storm every season of the year makes an awful contribution to the worlds tragedies china has promulgated a decree to the effect that domiciled in other countries shall remain were they ever known to do otherwise 9 the proposal to increase the revenues of new jersey by enlarging the assessment on corporations Is frankly defended on the ground that the state Is poor and needs the money surely a straightforward admission doubt less the trusts organized under the new jersey law will not vehemently oppose the plan for they derive from the state privileges worth eves the heavier price senator proposes to exact to pay up would be cheaper than to shut up or moye an appropriate feature of flag day celebration was that at washington where a facsimile of the flag that floated over fort mchenry and in the writing of the national an them wae raised over the house in which francis scott key the author lived for many years while this ceremony was proceeding school ahll dren sang the star spangled ban ner and it Is sate to say each received deep impressions in patriotism and new conceptions of the honor due the flag the pressure of a gold button in the white house at washington started the machinery of the great fair at seattle opening the big that ie typical of modern life A touch upon a button and modern invention and science coee the rest U you must swing the hammer use dt to daiv nalle and help build up nol to leetroy and tear down I 1 cincinnati ie trying to alx the cloche eo as to get to work an hour earlier to the abat cold gray daws ie a fierce thing over the rhine f |