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Show "The good old summertime" is entering en-tering on its laet lap. Even Indian maharajahs get to be nuisances, according to London reports. re-ports. Some persons dive into shallow water wa-ter at summer resorts and others get engaged. Earthquakes that hate to be snubbed are careful to keep away from San Francisco since the fire. The crown prince of Siam refuses to be a polygamist and he does not say it in Japanese, either. If the cows will not give milk when there is no rain we will be driven to milking a can of condensed cow. The cold storage figures indicate that omelets will be more reliable next winter that poached eggs on toast An Indiana mule kicked a motorcycle motor-cycle and cyclist across the road the other day. Some mules seem almost human. That little earthquake out in San Francisco the other day did no damage, dam-age, but the restored city did not like the hint of its calling again. Our friends of the Weather Bureau are respectfully notified that one large verification of those rain predictions 1b still overdue. The man who ate 61 ears of corn for a prize probably followed nature's example by holding the ears down as he ate them, with his fore-feet The aeroplane as a possible factor In warfare is somewhat handicapped by the tempting target it would make for even an ordinary marksman. An "author of many arithmetics" has peacefully died in Pennsylvania, but the arithmetics, dear children, are till alive and waiting for the fall term. A scientist who has been investigating investiga-ting decides that grasshoppers are entirely en-tirely useless. Evidently he never had a flock of young turkeys to be fattened. While he was saving two lives a Connecticut man lost $18. The people whose lives he saved might at least have the good taste to get up a purse for him. The wireless Is turning out to be the best criminal catcher in the business. busi-ness. There is no escape for the boldest bold-est and shrewdest from its lightninglike, lightning-like, tell-tale agility. Scientists announce that they have Isolated the germ of leprosy and hope soon to have a cure. But there is no hope in sight for those afflicted with an itching for public office. A Princeton professor contends that the common Idea of heaven is wrong. Now if eomeono will determine Just what is the common idea of heaven, the whole matter will be settled. The hobble sk'rt shows signs of Joining the autotrobile and the airship for place in the accident-record contest. con-test. Its use is a comment for the cynical on the men of this liberty-seeking liberty-seeking day. Though the bulletin of the Chicago special park commission concedes that the larvae of the tussock moth "is one of the most beautiful of our caterpillars," caterpil-lars," It does not recommend that the larvae be treated as pets. Canada is also a big country, although al-though not yet in the same class with the United States as regards population popula-tion and general development. There have been reports of crop failures in the Dominion. Now comes the explanation ex-planation that in some quarters grain and other products have suffered frum drought. But in other sections there has been an ample supply of moisture and the yield will be good. The outcries out-cries of the calamity shouter and the speculator must be taken with due allowance al-lowance on both sides of the border. The official figures showing that during du-ring the calendar year 1909 the expenditures ex-penditures in the United States for building operations aggregated about a billion dollars, surpassing the record of 190G by ten 10 cent., not only prove how completely the country had recovered re-covered from the "panic" of 1907 but Indicate that the people have made a fresh start In prosperity. There may be checks and reverses from time to time, but no nation like ours can be kept permanently crippled or Indus-trlally Indus-trlally Inactive. |