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Show "What Is to take the place of ping-pong ping-pong this winter? The great white czar is certainly up against the girl proposition. Say, that increase of salaries isn't going to stop with the railroads, is it? And now they are meanly hinting that King Leopold is used to being half shot. What could be more appropriate than to put the automobile scorcher into the cooler? How would it do to punish the Sultan Sul-tan of Bacolod by making him keep bachelor's hall awhile? Ohio is 100 years old. It will have to be admitted that she is quite "peart" for one of her age. : Perhaps tae cheapest way to heat the dining room this winter is to play a lively game of ping-pong. The czar has a new nephew, which seems to be about as near as he can get to the thing he really wants. It turns out that John L. Sullivan has been a good fellow at considerable consider-able expense to other .people besides. Spanish republicans do not appreciate appre-ciate being ruled by a boy and are seriously ser-iously thinking of starting something. Grip is raging in England. Let us quarantine against it, for grip has killed more people than plum pudding has. 9 Mr. Charles M. Schwab is still as busy as he can be in ' getting the "absolute rest" on which his physician insists. Bishop Potter speaks of the saloon as the poor man's club. Thanks, Bishop, that gives us ecclesiastical authority. Mr. Chamberlain has sailed for South Africa to see for himself just how much red he succeeded in splashing splash-ing on the map. Oh, no, ping-pong is not dead. But the dining room table doesn't have to be cleared as promptly or as often -sa-ft-grd-iast-yetu -7 Lucky indeed i3 the first grandson ! of Senator Clark of Montana, born iMonday with a $1,000,000 gift from grandpa in his mouth. Arbitrating is better than striking, but talking it over till both sides agree Is a far better way than either. Besides, Be-sides, it should be quicker. The lead keel of the new cup defender, defend-er, now nearly finished, is said to be a wonder; but it is only indirectly that it will help to urge the boat ahead. The first few times of practice of the Hugoton brass band has pushed the prairie dogs further back into the short grass country. Topeka State Journal. That sack of mail that was mysteriously mysteri-ously lost on a Cincinnati train contained con-tained drafts and checks worth $22,-000, $22,-000, besides love letters of immeasurable immeasur-able value. In the inadvert act of drinking a "jigger" of whisky in a glass of soda pop there was probably less intemperance intemper-ance than in anything that Carrie Nation Na-tion ever did. A Camden, N. J., preacher has decided de-cided to resign from the ministry and become an auctioneer. He must have had deacons who wanted to do some of the talking. , A great deal of money will be spent for charitable purposes this winter. As an entering wedge, J. Pierpont Morgan Mor-gan has donated 1 cent to a Michigan church relief fund. Some one says that the rich man drinks because he has nothing else to do, and the poor man because he has too much to do. And then there are a few or so who drink just because they like it. At a sale of bachelors which was held in connection with a Cleveland church fair recently one young man was auctioned off for 8 cents. He probably looked like 30, though, when the hammer fell. The superintendent of the Philadelphia Philadel-phia public schools says that good spellers are born and no made, but the fact remains that the child who is taught to observe accurately seldom spells words wrong. |