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Show Fine weather, It seems, Is not always al-ways too good to last. Massacres In the Balkans do not have even the excuse of novelty. Haiti acts as If It were about to take up its gun once more to elect a president. "Strawberries in another decline," says a headline. That's the sort of news to give us. Speaking of reformed spelling, the spell of clear weather Is about as fine a reform as any. That New York man who sold his wife and sons for $25 knew a cheaper way than going to Reno. The chanticleer craze may cause fashion to substitute a string of hen's eggs for the pearl necklace. That Massachusetts professor who says woman Is still a savage may have been Impaled upon a long hatpin. Wonder how far In arrears that TJtica, N. Y., boarder was who hugged his landlady so hard as to break her neck. The department of agriculture sounds another warning about the house fly and the house cat both dangerous pets. A young lady in California has been released from a county jail because of the way she sings. There are two ways to look at this. Explorer Shackleton complains that American hotels are kept too warm. He ought to explore some Chicago apartment buildings. A Jerseyman has produced a blue rose. Seems as If Princeton's Influence Influ-ence might have been sufficient to make it turn out orange and black. California has raised 52,000,000 lady-bugs lady-bugs to give away. It is stated that If ladybugs are distributed on melon patches there will be more melons to cut. Further Investigation indicates that not all the fruit was killed and that the pink mosquito netting for green peaches triumphantly survived the freeze. Automobile riding is recommended by a physician for persons with weak hearts. It might also be a heroic cure for pedestrians who get in front of the auto. The per capita circulation for April was 42 cents less than that of March. It may be in the pocket of your winter vest which you hung up during the warm spell. Every season has its peculiar fatalities. fatali-ties. With the advent of the warm weather the drownings will begin, but the automobile accidents will not stop. They are independent of seasons. Sending a poet to jail Is not exactly regular, simply as so stated. But If the other facts justify, the poet is at least better off than if consigned to the alternative refuge of the poor-house. poor-house. i A Missouri Judge has decided that it is criminal negligence to get close to a mule's heels. It is also the rankest kind of foolishness, unless the one who does it wishes to commit suicide and hates to Jump Into cold water. A New York banker living in Westchester West-chester has been appointed justice of the peace. Will the growing occupation occupa-tion of country estates by the rich eventually produce a class after the order of English country squires? A lover of birds suggests that a bell be fastened to the neck of the house cat to give warning to robins, thrushes and so on. There is classical authority for the view that the rats and mice would heartily indorse the proposition. In Cleveland, where the members of the police force are directed to speak gently to the erring and never in any circumstances to be rough with drunken men or to use force in dealing deal-ing with lawbreakers, a policeman was almost beaten to death the other day by rowdies. The Cleveland system sys-tem may be an admirable one, but perhaps per-haps something ought to be done to educate the public up to it. New York's commissioner of street cleaning says that carelessness in throwing papers and other litter in the streets costs the city $40,000 annually, an-nually, and that he Is trying to establish es-tablish a system by which the streets can be flushed with water, thus dislodging dis-lodging and washing away the dirt and so reducing the dust nuisance to a minimum. Obviously co-operation of the people and the public authorities, In keeping the streets clean as well as in cleaning them, is necessary to produce the best results. Sometimes the man who Is prevented prevent-ed by rain from working in his garden on Saturday afternoon feels so bad about It that he winks the other eye. A New Jersey man has a dog that has been in the habit of howling at night. Recently the man discovered that by playing the "Lohengrin" wedding wed-ding march on his phonograph he could cause the dog to lie down and go peacefully to sleep. Try the "Lohengrin" "Lo-hengrin" wedding march the next time the cats get to yowling on the back fence. |