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Show Behold the Ice man In all his glory How many flies have you killed? That Louisiana calf with two heads and two tails came near being twins. It may be bromldic to talk about the weather, but how can you help it? Along with other cooling drinks, take this bromide: "Is it hot enough for you?" Never mind, there will soon be flies enough to give every man a chance to do his duty. What makes the kaiser's 60 castles 6 expensive is that none of them is a castle in the air. Now that an Ion of electricity has been found, the mystery of the force Is simply increased. The fibbing as to age, girls, can go on. for the census man and his records rec-ords have disappeared. If there is one thing upon which thrifty men agree It Is that they prefer pre-fer a street car to a taxi. The middleman is not needed, but the world will continue to need the farmer and the consumer. One can hardly biame the aviators for wanting to use their wings in the general direction of the wind. In London a safe has been majje to bold $5,000,000,000 worth of radium. The problem now is to get the radium. A Seattle man cured a stomach trouble by fasting 39 days. They buried him on the fortieth day. Considering that it is an amusement of the rich we ought to hear that smuggling is a matter of temperament tempera-ment Dancing masters wish their art to be highly diffedentiated from wrestling wrest-ling contests and one cannot blame them. These long-distance weather predictions predic-tions give one a chance to worry for B week about weather that never comes. A Judge advised a speed maniac to lee a doctor. A good, reliable prisoD doctor would be particularly likely to afford him relief. To atone partially for the poor display dis-play made by the comet there will be another total eclipse of the "moon od November 16. Wait for it. Russia has not figured extensively as a cotton-producing country. But it seems to have ambitions in that direction. direc-tion. Reports from Tiflis are to the effect ef-fect that the area sown to cotton this year is double that of 1909. in one district dis-trict 400 acres are devoted to the Btape. That is a tiny fraction of the total in the United States, but high prices have stimulated cotton growing wherever practicable, and the aggregate aggre-gate result may be a substantial gain In the foreign output. The latest government report is ad: flltionally favorable to a big wheat crop. The returns, as Interpreted by the skilled statistician of the New York produce exchange, indicate a total to-tal harvest of 702,404,000 bushels, against an indication for the same time last year of 652,351,000 bushels. The estimate for 1909 fell below the actual result, for the total yield last year was 737,159,000 bushels. Should there be similar excess this year there will be a good chance for a record-breaking record-breaking output. It is "stated that the recent missile test against the ram Katahdin has demonstrated that the theory as to the piercing power of big projectiles fired B modern battleships' range is wrong-that wrong-that the missile really drops from the trajectory at so sharp an angle that II delivers a glancing blow and therefore does not penetrate armor plate of only moderate thickness. If this is true the fighting will have to be at closer range, and the guns of smaller caliber than the big 13-inch rifles will come Into greater favor. The peril of the four young men who put out upon Lake Michigan in a gasoline launch with a supply of fuel close to exhaustion should remind motor mo-tor yachtsmen that a small boat without with-out power is helpless in comparison with a sailing yacht. The latter can be handled so that she will be safe in the roughest of weather, while the powerless motor boat must wallow and take what comes, unless those in charge of her have seamanship enough to rig a sea anchor and ride behind It while awaiting succor. |