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Show I How many friendships are broken by one getting rich while: the gther stays poor. Spring Valley modestly calls the attention at-tention of the world to the kind of men it turns out. . - Mr. Kipling takes occasion on-ce more to show Mr. Austin who is really fitted to be poet-laureate. ruy me old man who puts on skates to show the youngsters how it was done when he was a boy. That change in the expression of the Sphinx may be caused by its as tonishment at the Assouan dam. It doesn't follow that the man wjjo boasts of his rural origin will enjoy being told that he looks like a farmer. Everybody should be taught to read and write, but something should be done to prevent all of them from, writing. writ-ing. The lovelorn youth can always figure fig-ure out that two can live as cheaply as one, but it's hard to prove it afterward. A Mississippi bootblack who has fallen heir to a million dollars expects to do nothing but shine in society hereafter. : Surely it is within the resources oi science and inventive genius to devise an asbestos uniform for the amateur Santa Claus. , The Humbert affair has stirred up all Paris, which means that some unsavory un-savory sediment has; come to the surface, sur-face, as usual. A great-grandson of Commodore Vanderbilt declares that he was stolen, uut as ne nas no money the story is hardly probable. - ' . . Russell feage was well enough again to lend a few .millions yesterday. And he will get it all back again, with thousands added to it. The government has ruled that automobiles au-tomobiles must not be run in the Yellowstone Yel-lowstone park. That's right; there are enough wild things there now. New York women want street cars from which men shall be excluded We should like to see a woman who would care , to ride in one of those cars. a. . - Sixteen 'girls fainted in. a TJtica' knitting mill the other day when one of them 'pricked her finger. The "eternal' feminine" hasn't been eliminated elimi-nated yet. Dancing is said to be going out of fashion. This must be due to the fact that so many society people after playing play-ing bridge whist have no money to pay the fiddler. Whatever else may be said of President Presi-dent Diaz, it must be admitted that he has been very successful in keeping keep-ing his republic out of trouble with its neighbors. Lord Milner-has approved the for-rnation for-rnation of a Transvaal fishing society Looks flfce'a. scheme to grab something some-thing or other while the owner is off somewhere angling. Perhaps the benevolent stranger who sold to the people Of Derby ; Conn as coal a lot of crushed stone coated with tar had bought wooden nutmegs once. - An Ann Arbor professor has discovered dis-covered seven new poisons. The old favorites, however, will still continue i in demand, and answer all legitimate j Oon Sltlmate PurPses of destruc- ' Because one kind act brought fortune for-tune to -a Milwaukee bookkeeper we Bee no reason . why the old rule "Let rJT' hand know what your ght hand doeth" should not remain ,n Minnesota the Supreme Court holds that a man may legally strike his wife but this does not mean that he will be able to do it twice if the wife has an adequate idea of the respect re-spect due her sex. Patti still has the pair of shoes she wore when she made her debut forty rears ago. Are we expected to be- Sll, , P,attl b6en before tbe public only forty years? VlnK chaIIenge has been issued y the chess clubs of Oxford and Cambridge Cam-bridge to the chess clubs of Harvard rale, Pnnceton and Columbia for a able match. It looks as if we were ;olng to have a very quiet winter |