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Show Make the flies flee. What's your score on Hies? A slap on the wrist is worth two on the face. All the signs point to a skyful of flying fly-ing machines before long. Paper money may be made smaller, In which case it will be just as hard to get Even the kaiser can't call students "boozefighters" and get away with the remark. A Frenchman has been killed in a duel. Accidents will happen, even in a French duel. If school children are opposed to the firecracker that leaves only the dealer as its friend. Thousands of Albanian Turks are up in arms shouting for old Abdul to come back. There's no pleasing gome people. A Brussels surgeon wants $20,000 for an operation on King Leopold. Considering the results, is it worth the money? Lord Kitchener, universally reputed to be a woman hater, surrendered to the American girl. His last words on sailing were in her praise. The West Point cadets condemned to walk out their punishment for hazing will be prepared fcr endurance tests in the regular service. Students of bird life who trudge through the parks before breakfast should note that the birds generally bring their lunches to class. However, lemonade colored with poisonous dyes and ice cream stiffened stiff-ened with gum arabic are not properly parts of a perfectly sane Fourth. If an aviator gets $50,000 for a trip of 186 miles, at the same rate he could earn some such a trifle as $51,360,000 by flying to the moon. Crop reports are so favorable that the man with the hoe is expected to tickle the soil this year for a total of eight billion or nine billion dollars. Darkest spots in darkest Africa are about to be united to the world by wireless. The colonel completed his restful and exclusive bunt just in time. Again the joy rider has left death and sorrow bhind him, and if he is ever caught he may be severely scolded, scold-ed, if not, indeed, fined at least $10 and costs. "London wants New York's gold." the financial report says. And London Lon-don is likely to get it, If the annual migration does not undergo an unusual un-usual shrinkage. Birmingham, England, with, a population popu-lation of 500,000, has only six fire engines, en-gines, and the fire loss there last year was $222,000. They do not build fire-traps fire-traps in Birmingham. A Boston man claims to have bred a blue rabbit. Other gentlemen have announced green, pink and purple ones, but have not made much demand de-mand for scientific recognition. - The tidings brought to Seattle, by a barkentine, that cannibalism has been revived in several of the groups of Islands in the South Seas, are to be received with doubt. There is nothing noth-ing to show why there should be a Eudden resumption of old-time religious re-ligious practises, and the pressure of civilization in the South Seas is growing grow-ing heavier, year by year. This barkentine barken-tine brings a story of the eating of two missionaries by pagan natives on Savage island. It should be easy to investigate this. Another cargo of 1,800 carcasses of mutton has arrived at Philadelphia from Australia by way of England. The meat will be sold to Philadelphia dealers, who promptly disposed of the first cargo. If the trade, can be made profitable by indirect shipment, It ought to be far more so when the opening of the Panama canal cuts down the distance to the antipodes and establishes direct trade. Then the Importation of Australian beef and mutton may keep meats within reasonable reason-able range. The practical jokers in Panama who thought it would be very funny to start reports of a coming earthquake in that place, and who are said to have scared at least one person to death by these reports, belong to a class with which, unfortunately, the law cannot deal according to their deserts.' Considering the trouble they have caused, there seems no good reason rea-son why these practical jokers should not be classed with criminals and a penalty provided for their distorted and dangerous sense of humor. |