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Show The failure erf the peach crop Is Bverdue. Thla is the time of the year for turning on the electric fan. Mona Lisa bids fair to rival Charley Rosa in the frequency of discovery. The farmers welcome hot nights, as well as hot days, and also steamy showers. "Big hats." says a physician, "re-ult "re-ult in brain fag." If you don't believe be-lieve it, ask father. A man in New Jersey was arrested B.nd fined for raising mosquitoes. The war is on In earnest. It Is said that Kaiser Wllhelm rhooces hia wife's hats. That man Isn't afraid of anything. One way to cure insomnia Is to read the history of the alleged war between Italy and Turkey. An Italian organ grinder is going back home with a fortune of $50,000. Sometimes crime la highly profitable. It is reported that one of the war correspondents In Tripoli la dead. The ennui probably waa too much for him. The American girl who has Jilted an English nobleman evidently would rather be a wife than a financial asset. as-set. Perhaps the modern styles In worn-en's worn-en's dreas were designed to make bathing suits seem modest by comparison. com-parison. A Harvard professor says he has discovered dis-covered a way to restore life. This will arouse the enmity of the undertakers' association, j The manager of a losing baseball team has as hard a Job explaining as the husband returning from a late lodge meeting. ;x Verily, this Is a world of wonders. Occasionally we meet a man who owns a motor car, and has not mortgaged mort-gaged his house.- We are doing our best In the fiy-watting fiy-watting campaign, but we would be persuaded to waste one heajtby swat on the weather man. i The neighbor who runs his phonograph phono-graph late Into the night generally is (he fellow who arises at 6 a. m. to run the lawn mower. "A New York man has been arrested ar-rested for stealing 1920 collars." Look again and see whether he Isn't really a Pittsburg man. s French army aeroplanes are being used to carry ammunition, but It strikes us that they are dangerous enough, even when not loaded. A Californlan has written to his congressman asking for a copy of the Congressional Record. Evidently he Is looking for a cure for Insomnia A noncapslzable boat has been Invented In-vented by a genius in Norway, but the tool who rocks the boat will find some other method of bursting into print. A court has decided that it is not unlawful for a man to play poker In his own house. But If he Is wise he will not do It unless his wife Is away. i Policeman in Berlin shot three burglars bur-glars without notifying the moving picture men. A mistake of that kind in Paris would have cost him his lob. A French duelist Is about as harmless harm-less as a chess master, but a French taxlcab bandit Is not the sort of person per-son one would care to meet In a dark alley. A Chicago hotel has abolished the register, and the guests sign cards, which are filed out of sight. Thus Is passing away another cherished Institution. Insti-tution. Brunette In New York wants a divorce di-vorce because her husband raves In his sleep about "Blondle." Evidently she does not like the color of his affections. af-fections. One Chicago man has moved his home by sailing it on the lake. This is another proof that Chicago people have got past the stase where they use their lake exclusively for boiling purposes. A scientific experimenter has suc-;eeded suc-;eeded In producing artificial malaria. Such achievements may be fun for the scientists, but it makes the general gen-eral public feci very much like the famous protesting frogs. |