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Show There may yet be room on the supreme bench for Secretary Taft. It Is rumored that two of the justices may resign. H A Cleveland court has ruled that when a school- marm is in love she is incompetent to teach. She H cannot put her heart in the work, you know, when H it has been stolen from her. H Physicians assert that tho night air is free H from disease bugs and beneficial to those who H breathe it. Another tenable excuse for staying out late at night, fellow clubmen. H An alderman in a Pennsylvania . city has re- H signed because "a man can't be an alderman and a Christian at the same time." If he had been of an observing nature he would have been aware of that fact before seeking the office. H It now appears that the "Smoking Car for La- H Idises" on an' English railway consisted of an apart- H ment on a special train from London to Liverpool H for three homeward-bound American women. ,Re- H quests from American editors to withdraw pre- M vious remarks will now be entertained by the H chair. H Up to date applications for rooms from 9,287 I Indiana authors have been received at Poet Rl- H ley's 27-room tavern at Bear Wallow, with a num- H ber of back counties yet to hear from. H A .Chicago banker says: "A millionaire Is a slave!" From the tone of some of the uewspa- pers that are sore on the millionaire we have been laboring under the impression that he was a mus- jH tard plaster. B "Do you think tho time will ever come when all H men will live honest, decent lives?" asks a Kansas editor, who evidently regards the talked-of mlllen- S ium as a myth. 9 9 Ii ' 5 Socrotary Taft wants a larger army and Sec- l retary Bonaparte wants a larger navy. We. may i next ;hear the honorable secretary of agriculture howling for a larger pumpkin patch, A member of the British parliament checkmated check-mated the usual "May I ask the gentleman a question," and "I rise to a point or order," by having hav-ing a phonograph deliver a speech for him. How. Rockefeller's Sunday school must miss him, and what an acheing void his absence from Wednesday evening prayer meeting must create! Senator Tillman says: "The purest whisky made is moonshine, but nobody will drink it." Then why is it made, senator? Justf for the fun enjoyed by its makers in dodging the revenue fellows fel-lows ?N " Germany and France are said to both be fully prepared for war, but up to this writing neither has disturbed the equilibrium of the chip on the other's shoulder; Dr. Nicholas Senn is to leave Chicago and go to live among1 the savages of wildest Africa. He may be too hasty. Chicago may try to do better after while. I A Harvard professor declares that "permanent fatigue sets in at twenty-five years of age." Earlier Ear-lier than that In many cases, professor. Some men are born tired and never get rested up. An eastern clergyman complains that modern literature is keeping people away from church. Has it never occurred to the reverend gentleman I that modern preaching may have a great deal to do with the non-attendance? Little Delaware wants the coming biggest, bat.-,.-.-tleshlp named after her. When the fires of her enthusiastic aspiration begin to smoulder she may be content to see the name borne by- the cap- tain'g launch. 1 ' ' "Didjyou ever know a- brilliant man?" asks the Atchison Globe. Not personally, but we were shown a photograph the other day of Blazing Star, an Apache Indian. Cinclnnatus Jeffries hints that if there were good money in it he might leave the plow standing in tlie furrow long enough to knock the championship champion-ship hallucinations out of a few aspiring heads. In a New York police court the other day a man was fined ?5 for kicking a policeman and another an-other $50 for kicking a dog. There is no Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Policemen in that city, you know, and that may account for it. Edward Everett Hale says: "Speak every day to someone who you know is your superior." There are many men who think- that would be impossible impossi-ble , save when they are on their knees in prayer. . . ,ShiP- Andrews was . kicked, by- a-, mule ? in .. the-., . v . east end of the county," says a Tennessee paper. It is. not so stated, .";vt it is presumed that' the Ship landed In the, west end of the county. $ - . 3&f |