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Show It's no longer "grippe" In London. Just "Flu." I Nobody has been heard to complain of lack of variety in the weather. Aviators are still making new world records, and yet the sport is In its Infancy. Everything comes to him who waits; another restaurant employe has fallen heir to a fortune. If the aeroplanes will abolish war the peace commission should at once subsidize all It can reach. Aviators as a class are going to be more careful this year. Natural selection se-lection will eliminate the reckless ones. It took a postal card 36 years to go from Connecticut to Indiana. Bet a dollar he had It in his pocket all the time. In Cleveland an engineer has been made a present of a locomotive. This Is better than a white elephant, as it consumes no hay. In New York they are trying to remedy rem-edy the evils of divorce by remedying remedy-ing the evils of marriage. That seems a thoughtful method. Medicine Hat wants its name changed. We would be better pleased If it changed the brand of weather It sends down this way. We are glad to learn that "red shirts make hens lay," but what garment gar-ment would influence them,' to cut their present prices on eggs? They say that bad roads cost this country three million dollars a year. We could have a pretty good little war for that sum. Let us fix the roads. Without questioning for one second the bravery of our own policemen, we would point out that the London bobby has to fae all comers without a revolver. re-volver. Puccini, when he started back to Italy, was kissed by 40 mon who sing In grand opera. After having gone through that, sea-sickness will have no terrors for him. It Is no crime to 6teal an umbrella um-brella on a rainy day in New Jersey. Will all persons who indulge in that pastime please go to New Jersey to oblige the rest of us? A Canton (0.) man says that 60-cent hats are good enough for any woman, but the Canton man will no doubt experience ex-perience considerable difficulty getting get-ting any woman to wear one. An Ohio doctor who dissected 100 cats reports that he found tuberculosis tubercu-losis germs In every one of them. He does not say what he did with the supply of germs thus secured. In trying to get rid of corrupt policemen po-licemen Gotham seems to have leaped out of the frying pan into the fire. They are more honest than they used to be, but they now write poetry. Following the hobble we are to have the bl-plane skirt. As It Is to be a bifurcated garment man had bet- ter look to his own. Plainly the trend of feminine fashions is towarft the mannish; but the more manlike woman wom-an becomes the less womanly she is. Now a medical expert has cut out a man's lungs to cure tuberculosis. The operation is claimed to be a new one, but if successful will be followed up by the theory of curing diseases generally gen-erally by the simple process of removing re-moving the organ affected so that a man with more than his average share of trouble in the shape of disease dis-ease will find life but a hollow sort of affair. The wife of a Pennsylvania farmer found a nugget of gold in the crop of a chicken she -was dressing, and now there Is great excitement, the community having resolved Itself into a prospecting party. But the chances are that there is more gold in chickens chick-ens killed and prepared for market at present prices than in mines or placers in the Keystone state. Official figures from annual reports show that the post office department kas nearly reached the point where it Is self-sustaining. And there are several sev-eral changes which might yet be effected effec-ted in the Interest of economy and the saving of public money. It is no function of the government to make a profit In carrying the people's malls, but everybody would share in the benefit should the cost be so reduced u to permit lower postage rates. j |