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Show Beware the grip. Do not let it get a. hold on you. Pride has many a fall these slippery slip-pery mornings. Baseball talk has moved on from postmortems to forecasts. An extraordinary duel was fought In France the other day. One of the duellists was hurt. Chicago is the gem center of the world, but there is such a thing as wearing too many. Baseball bids fair to girdle the globe. The Japs and the Cubans are taking kindly to it. One man's attempt at suicide is attributed at-tributed to too much housework. Is this a sign of the times? We are told that an Illinois woman has put an end to herself by jumping into a cistern. Well, well! What do you think of a hen that laid 4,000 eggs in 22 years and never brooded? Can you beat it? The house cat carries germs Indoors In-doors and indulges out of doors in on excess of vocal expression. Florida has a bride seventy-eight years old. And yet there are women of forty who have given up hope. A New York publisher tells us that poor music sells best. So we should Judge from the music we hear these days. That proposed half cent coin would be about right for most of the things you get by dropping a 1 cent coin in the slot. New York is to have a fifty-eight story building. Tenants on the top floor will be reasonably safe from porch climbers. A new play in New York is called "Bought and Paid For." ' However, many a writer of vaudeville sketches has no such luck. A Chicago man was shot for stepping step-ping on another's corn. Anybody who has ever nursed a pet corn will call It Justifiable homicide. A London man who was a contributor contrib-utor to Punch has just died, leaving fortune of $6,000,000, r.nd we'll bet his jokes weren't worth it. We are told that there will be no babies in these United States after the year 2020. Another reason for protecting our infant industries. During the last 34 years, says an eastern paper, we have lost $5,000,000,-000 $5,000,000,-000 by fire. Even at that old "inade-juate "inade-juate water supply" is still doing business. busi-ness. IrKutsk, the capital of Siberia, is described as the wickedest city in the world. It Is now up to New York, Chicago and Pittsburg to renew their sfforts. Aviator Paulhan, who has made 1200,000 out of his aeroplane, says he Is going to retire from the game. This looks to us like knowing exactly when to quit. Curing paralysis by artificially Inducing In-ducing fever reminds one of the ingenious in-genious practitioner who always threw his patients Into fits and then cured the fits. It Is ba3 enough to be a deaf mute, but when one so afflicted is sued for Blander, it is carrying the thing too far. Some persons evidently "just can't make their hands behave." Pupils at Wellesley must learn how to spell before they are allowed to graduate. It may be a good innovation, innova-tion, but we fear that it will detract from the quality of Wellesley fudge. An army officer has Invented a multiplex mul-tiplex telephone, and it is claimed for It that ten persons can speak over one line. As if we didn't have troubles enough already with the four-party wire. Mount Etna continues to smoke, but the innocent bystanders have come to the conclusion that there is nothing doing in the way of lava. Many a time and oft have we heard of persons who "didn't know it was loaded." Paris has decreed war against rats This does not mean a battle against the rodents, but the downfall of the present style of dnissing ladies' hair But while the hotble skirt remains Paris fashions will not lack for strik-'ue strik-'ue features. |