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Show A gentleman back east has prepared a h?t of 4 , "The Hundred Worst Books." Certainly such J . a list will be a convenience for those seeking light f summer reading. I What so'rare as a day in June! , Notwithstanding the well recognized fact that j we want a safe and sane Fourth of July, prepara- , tions are making for the usual big noise. j However, the smile of the soda water man is increasing as the days grow wanner. A great many of us are feeling the call of the wild, and are looking forward to the discomforts of camp life with great pleasure. Governor Hughes has signed the bill providing punishment for "joy rides" that is. the unauthorized unauthor-ized use of an automobile. The punishment ought to be made to reach the bicycle thief, too. A great deal of time is wasted in the attempt to develop talents which are not possessed, and hence cant bo developed. A gent named Fine has been arrested in Kansas City for murder. He's certainly up against something some-thing besides a fine this time. '- Zephyr, Texas, was visited by a Texas zephyr last week. The discussion as to whose pictures shall appear on the paper money of the country fails to satisfy , , those whose only effort is to get their hands on it. j It is also quite as difficult to beat a carpet as i yV it is to beat rag-time music. f'1 And the idiot who rocks the boat has appeared j I in the land. President Taft won a keg of sauerkraut in some D sort of raffle in Sandusky, O., last week. Hope the postal laws were not violated by the president taking tak-ing a "chance." The one sure evidence of greatness in a man is to have him travel around the country and tell the people what a great future their city and state have before them. And everybody swallows the words of wisdom of the great men who utter them. In most instances, when a nation advocates international in-ternational disarmament, they mean the other fellow. fel-low. A dress reformer has discovered that the greatest great-est handicap on women is their dre?3. It is also somewhat of a handicap to the men who- have to pay for them. Science ha3 produced a whisky that won't intoxicate, in-toxicate, which would be a very desirable form of whisky if anybody would drink it. After a deadlock of five months in the Illinois legislature, a senator has been elected, but it took an earthquake to jar the former senator loose. Charity begins at home, and a great many time3 it doesn't venture very far away. Short women can put on high heel shoes, but A men who are short have to get out and dig. .r A Airship3 are another thing that come high, but ; there i3 always a chance for a drop. jj The sweet girl graduate and the young men, too, are just now confiding the great secret that their education is just beginning. They will (discover (dis-cover the fact soon enough, though. A statistician ha3 figured out that a family consists of four and a fraction. In most case3 the 1 fraction is the husband. Sf f i |