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Show There is still a place for the horse In this auto flying age. Progressive farmers are now plowing plow-ing by gasoline, thus having more hay to sell. Will the international school of peace organize a football team and go out after the championship? A Winsted (Conn.) farmer has trained a rooster to ride a bicycle. This is something to crow about. A Swiss doctor says that drunkards live longer than total abstainers. Still, even this is no excuse for being one. It is planned to unionize the hoboes. Excellent. And then stop them from working other people after union hours. Montenegro is a kingdom now in-Btead in-Btead of a mere principality. Over in Montenegro there are people probably proba-bly who think we care. The man who introduced moving pictures into this country is dead, but whether he died remorseful or unrepentant unre-pentant the dispatches do not say. That New York professor who declares de-clares college women have not "made good" cannot successfully maintain that they have not made good fudge. A hobble skirt in which a disguised burglar tried to escape assisted greatly In his capture. Thus we see that even the hobble skirt hath its uses. Meat prices have come down, according ac-cording to market reports, but some of the local dealers evidently don't read the papers. Somebody ought to tell 'em. While It is true that one makes acquaintances ac-quaintances with queer people on one's vacation, it is not always necessary nec-essary to go on a vacation to achieve that end. The latest thing at Newport is a rag-time bear dinner. A bull and bear dance would look pretty lively, only It would be unpleasantly suggestive Of "shop." A motorcycle ran against the rear end of an Indiana mule the other day, and it is reported that two or three pieces of the machine were afterward found almost intact. One of the Harvard professors pathetically pa-thetically declares that Yankee blood Ib dying out. We suspect that the trouble with him is that he hasn't been away from a big town lately. A man in New York bet six months In jail on the election and lost. Now, despite his efforts, he can't break into Jail to pay the debt, A worse hard luck tale could scarcely be told. A banknote that had been washed and ironed by a fastidious woman was pronounced a counterfeit. The public, evidently, is familiar only with filthy lucre. That Long Island judge who ruled that $8,000 a year is enough for the education of a sixteen-year-old girl doubtless had in his crude masculine mind only the useful things. Other kinds cost more. A Chicago woman, in suing for divorce, di-vorce, declares that her husband's stenographer looked at him "longingly, "longing-ly, lovingly, sweetly and invitingly." That stenographer certainly must have been a good looker. A Mississippi man who put a stick of dynamite in his pocket and then fell down with it will recover from his injuries. in-juries. A man so favored by pure "dumb luck" as this ought to be in steady demand as a mascot. The story from New York that loans to the aggregate of $50,000,000 have been negotiated abroad indicates that American credit is excellent, and also that the money is likely to be put where it will do the most good in promoting American enterprises. Incidentally In-cidentally it is proof that the money market is by no means as "hard" as had been supposed. California is one of the western states which shows rapid growth. The census figures just announced give California a population of 2,377,549, a gain of 60.1 per cent over 1900. This Is the largest increase made by any state from which the final census returns have yet been received, and shows that "the glorious climate of California" and other allurements are attracting settlers quite as numerously numerous-ly as did the gold fever of '49 and later. |