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Show This Is the open season for Turkish rugs and hot tamales What Is wanted Is a cold storage egg that bears the date of Its sepulture. sepul-ture. Some of those new songs would make a respectable family phonograph blush. Pythons have gone up. They now cost $5 a foot. Isn't that awful, Mabel? Paris may have Been the last of the hobble skirt, but they are still popular in America. The French aviator, who flew 2811 miles In 185 minutes, had little time to view the scenery. Tle San Francisco dog, with a gold hinge on his back leg, wouldn't be safe a minute In Chicago. Noah was more . fortunate than present day circus men. He had no press agents on his salary list The soda fountain industry is traced as far back as 1552. Surely the soda thirst has not existed that long. Fashion may decree mannish skirts for women, but why masculine when they talk of embroidery effect? Strange as it may seem, while beet and lamb and butter aviated, the price of chile con carne remained stationary. station-ary. Five million muskrat skins are marketed mar-keted each year, but when the consumers con-sumers get them they are variously named. It is fervently hoped that walking does not become a fad. Cold suppers are not the most enjoyable things in the world. Sometimes we refer flippantly to the antiseptio life, but there is no doubt about it the free lunch fork ought to go. An experienced English aviator thinks bomb dropping at best a game of chance, but it will never be taken up like poker. In tracing the typewriter back to 171. we fall to find any record showing show-ing when the stenographer took hold of the situation. Aerial deadlines are to be established. establish-ed. That leaves the cyclone cellar as the only place left for the poor inhabitants in-habitants of earth. Chicago, according to the latest estimate, esti-mate, has a population of 2,307,628, but the next wave of crime may reduce re-duce that considerably. Taking into consideration the adverse ad-verse talk against the tipping habit, we are forced to concede that after all tips are grudgingly given. It is a mistake to assume that courtesy cour-tesy costs nothing. A St. Louis man, while in the act of bowing to a lady on the street, was struck by an automobile. auto-mobile. Now is the time for energetic Inventors In-ventors and vendors of bulletproof cloth to be interesting high Mexican officials in their material for new spring styles. The New York baseball club has insured in-sured Manager McGraw's life for 100,000. Might not humanity prescribe pre-scribe a similar provision for the league umpires? Stockings are not to be worn on the Cleveland bathing beaches next summer, sum-mer, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. A barefooted bathing beach ought to be worth seeing. Selling old letters for $2,000 and $2,500 convinces us that the goose quill and the sand, used by our forefathers, fore-fathers, beats up to date writing methods, meth-ods, financially speaking. A little piece of twine, which dropped into the steering gear of the liner Lusitania, caused $1,000,000 damage. dam-age. It sounds "fishy," but the Cunard . company says it is a fact. One concern In Atlanta burned $30,-000 $30,-000 worth of one time fashionable carriages car-riages to make room for the modern auto. And yet the horse is holding his own in price and style excellently well. i A man In Pennsylvania who volunteered volun-teered for service in the Civil war and was rejected because he was too old has Just died. But he established his point, though it took him a long time to do it. |