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Show Edward Payson Weston, the pedestrian on the j 4 i long walk from coast to coast, is finding the water 'J I and food in Wyoming hard on his constitution. , With a great deal more than half of the distance ' covered, it seems likely that he will complete the trip. The City of Brotherly Love woke up last week. I and after a fight went back to sleep again. It's dol- j lars to doughnuts that Philadelphia will not ap- (L 'l pear in the telegraphic news of the papers again f t for a year. The enterprising reporter missed an opporiu- nity in not accounting for the floods by a sudden awakening of some long time dead volcano somewhere some-where in the mountains, whose internal heat melted melt-ed the snows and sent the water into the valley. Great opportunity gone by here, sure! June, the month of brides and sweet girl graduates, grad-uates, kind of puts the men out of the running. Pittsburg's steel manufacturers say that prosperity pros-perity has struck the country hard and that it will be in full swing by October 1. All this from the fact that they have received some big orders. v Notwithstanding the state law against it, the paper cap pistol has made its appearance among ' the small boys. v - - , , ' Ye are still of the opinion that the .fires that I swept over the foothills and far up the canyons last fall had something to do with the floods that menace the western part of the city. Speaking of a sane and safe Fourth, the holiday holi-day offers a good opportunity to do that little odd job around the house you have put off since last summer. Scientists are working on the problem of stor- ( 1 mg up the heat of the sun's rays for the inevitable rainy day. They might put the heat in a thermos bottle, where it will kp hot for twenty-four hours. v ' j |