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Show With jimswinger coats vests are cut low to show shirt studs. How long will the aviators stick to their agreement not to indulge In reckless flying? America has 26 licensed aviators, and the 26 have formed a trust in order to prolong their own lives. More ink than blood was shed over the now famous battle of London, In which two men stood off 200. In the matter of safety we do not see that the submarines have much advantage ad-vantage over the flying machines. The Cleveland man who sued for "time lost in answering mistaken telephone tele-phone calls" must have further time to lose. New York has a musical comedy which is said to be not comic. There are others, some of which are not musical, mu-sical, either. It Is no crime to steal umbrellas on rainy days in New Jersey. And now will not those who are addicted to th , habit please go there? Vienna's birth rate has fallen enormously. enor-mously. Evidently the stork does not love the apartment houses In which so many Vienna families live. A navy officer has Invented a pistol for shooting flies. It ought to make popular a new summer sport, for the game will never be lacking. Africa led all the rest of the world In gold production last year. The African Af-rican output was $175,000,000, or nearly near-ly double that of the United States. Russia proposes to build a $75,000,-000 $75,000,-000 fleet of battleships for the Black Sea. They will be perfectly safe there If the Russian sailors can keep them afloat. The thugs who beat a policeman, took his revolver away from him and left him lying unconscious in the street should be chidden for violating the golden rule. "Medical records show," says a nerve specialist, "that persons who are not loquacious have always been remarked for their good health." Let him explain ex-plain that to his wife. We are Inclined to be skeptical about that Alaska fire which destroyed half a town with the mercury 50 degrees de-grees below. Wouldn't the flames freeze In weather like that? . Talk about your western corn harvests. har-vests. Capt. Drake of Marlborough county, South Carolina, holds the world's record of 254 and a fraction bushels of the grain to the acre. More than half the members of the senior class at Wellesley college are reported to be engaged to be married. The comments of the girl3 at Smith and Vassar ought to be interesting. If auto owners were more careful as to the kind of men they employ as chauffeurs possibly there would be fewer joy rides. Sometimes, however, the owner sets the chauffeur a bad example. ex-ample. If things keep on going as they have been it may be necessary to substitute the letter "r" for "h" In the last word of the usual notice on the theater programs: pro-grams: "Ladies will please remove their hats." In New York they are going to demonstrate how a child can be clothed adequately for $7 a year. Even the owner of a fashionable fiat building build-ing should admit that a good child Is worth as much as that. Twelve women jurors In San Francisco Fran-cisco agreed so promptly that they pronounced for a divorce without awaiting the judge's charge, but the lady jurors will learn in time to wrangle over verdicts just like men. It is saddening, however, to note that the dear "Old Philadelphia Lady" who has been trying for more than eleven years to find out, through the columns of the New York Herald's Paris edition, "how to figure the temperature tem-perature from Centigrade to Fahrenheit, Fahren-heit, and vice versa," has not yet succeeded. suc-ceeded. Maine has been one of the great sources of the eastern Beaboard's Ice supply, but even Maine, where the Ice crop seldom fails, is ceasing to depend de-pend upon the weather. Artificial Ice has been made for some time at the plant of the Maine Insane hospital in Augusta and now a large ice manufacturing manufac-turing plant is to be established in Lewlston. |