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Show The (lour mills of the United States represent, fixed Investments of about 1200,000,000. An alligator dinner may r,e well enough provided the alligator Is not doing the dining. What has become or the man who used to be a skeptic about the value ; of wlreleflg telegraphy? The value of horses in the United States is flgtimated at two billions The auto Is not king yet. Kansas City man undertakes to prove that whisky is not a cure for snake bite. Mean deposition, thai man has! , Oklahoma woman has 301 ways of cooking corn. And yet she may not know of one good way to cook par- In awarding praise for the recent ocean life-saving performance, don't forget the man who invented the water-tight compartment. In view of Marconi's service to the race, this would not he an opportune time to Indulge invidious reference to the people we get from Italy. Perhaps the wireless telegraph will eventually he uui long-hoped-for method meth-od of communicating with Mars and other interesting places in this neigh-Apparently neigh-Apparently we are to have a revival of the old press stories of the stage , which have done such yeoman service. Another actress has torn up a bunch of real money in mislake. y The newspapers of Rome publish enthusiastic praise of the heroism of the Russian sailors who landed at Messina to rescue such survivors as they could, and recommend that the city of Rome confer medals on them. Plaster portraits are the fashionable form of "counterfeit presentment" In London. They are done in the form of miniature busts or bas-reliefs at the low price of half a guinea $2.50) apiece. An elephant in New York seized a pitchfork from his keeper's hands and tried to beat him with it. It is to be feared an elephant like this will have to be sent to join the ranks of the nature fakers. The Illinois man who dropped dead when he was whipping a colt was not overcome by his physical exertions, but by his violent rage. The man who whips a horse is Invariably a man with a bad temper not under decent control. A man in Philadelphia Is suing his wife for divorce because she has a soul affinity on another planet. Although Al-though he does not explicitly say so In his complaint, every one will naturally nat-urally infer that his hated rival is the man from Mars. A remarkable case, unique in the history of all consular corps of the world, is that of the American consul at Gibraltar. Mr. Sprague is the third successive generation of his family to hold the post of consul, his grandfather grand-father and his father having held it before him. There is a difference of opinion as to whether or not Menelik, head czar-kaiser-speaker of Abyssinia, is dead. We should think the simplest way to find out would be to ask him. Of course, he isn't easily approached, but there should be some way of getting the question to him and letting him 6ettle it. Unlike the creations of the millinery establishments, it fortunately happens that the old hat on the masculine head is reckoned just as good ae new by the great majority of mankind. This will help mitigate the embarrassment embarrass-ment that would otherwise come from a general and prolonged strike in the hatters' establishments. Notwithstanding the financial strin- gency, the Young Men's Christian as socfation had one of its most- prosper-on prosper-on ! periods last year. Eighty-four new buildings, costing $10,000,000, were opened, and work on as many more is now in progress. As the spirit of cooperation co-operation is growing among Christian workers of all denominations, the association as-sociation is likely to expand more rapidly In the present century than In the last. Civilization will never achieve the accidentless sea voyage, but the wireless wire-less telegraphy comes as near to that 'end, apparently, as human ingenuity can devise. A half century ago. such results would have been looked on as little less than a miracle. A couple of centuries ago its inventor would have been in danger of the stake as possessed of demoniacal power. Yet some people still declare that the world is steadily getting worse in every respect. This is the season of skating accidents. acci-dents. People ought to recognize the well-known fact that no river is ever safe in all parts. A skater should always al-ways approach new ice carefully on the lookout for airholes and thin spots. Newsboys need not be greatly a. armed lest the newly devised slot machine ma-chine for selling newspapers shall interfere in-terfere with their business. The machine ma-chine will not chase possible patrons along the streets or climb after them Into street cars. |