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Show Kentucky and Macedonia might get up an international feud syndicate. What is man, in the presence of a great national calamity like house-cleaning? house-cleaning? The bear merely went over the mountains into Manchuria to see what ha could see. .. A grand monument in a graveyard fails to hide the meanness of a dead man's relations. The idiot who thinks he understands women is understood by women all right New York Press. Canadians in New England have formed an annexation league. Want to anHex us to Canada, probably. If these survivors of Waterloo keep on dying soon there will not be many more left than werein the battle. M. M. Mangasarian says, an only child never rises to renown probably " because he never gets enough neglect. Manila rope has always held a high reputation, but it has remained for the Manila cable to put a girdle around the earth. Before Bulgaria starts in to fight Turkey single handed it should reaa a few chapters of the modern history of Greece. Kipling's poem "Gunga Din", has been barred out by a Massachusetts school board. There may be a Kipling Kip-ling revival. Women will tell you that they "aim" at truth. Perhaps that is why they do not hit the target. New Orleans Times-Democrat. The Adirondack sewing class of New York city is to hold a kiakat. A kiakat is different from a cat because it is a church fair. A man on the Denver Post says that horse dinner recently given in New York by C. K. G. Billings must have been a stable d'oat. The success of the Vanderbilt-Neil-son merger may suggest to the pluto-.- -"-atic element the sort of combination r pp.u. eafoly cultivate. A 72-year-old Bayonne man has killed himself. Suicide at such an advanced ad-vanced age comes almost under the head of "wasted crimes." Now that the baseball season is on expect to find the card reading: "Gone over to the court-house; back at 5:30," on the lawyer's office door. New York milliners have decided to use no more song birds for the purpose of decorating hats. There is no indication, indi-cation, however, that hats will be cheaper. J. Pierpont Morgan before leaving for Europe said: "Our prosperity is not fictitious." Some of our popular authors au-thors contend, however, that it is to a large extent. i Some European monarch would seem to have a chance to make a hit with his fellow rulers by appointing the younger princesses as the official kiss-receivers. Good joke on the Pennsylvania legislature. legis-lature. Now that it is safely adjourned, ad-journed, the announcement is made that there is a surplus of $2,000,000 in the state treasury. The fines of the beef packers, with costs added, will put $27,136.75 into the Missouri state treasury. The money has already been collected by the packers pack-ers from the people. i William G. Rockefeller has given permission to the small boys to play baseball on Sunday near his grounds. This should give John D., Jr., a text for at least one sermon to his Bible class. Some of the large powers are going to protest to Russia concerning the Manchuria case. It remains to be seen whether protests will have as much effect on Russia as they usually have on Turkey. Nearly every European power would be glad to pitch in and reform the sultan's sul-tan's government were it not restrained re-strained by the fear that the other powers would insist on helping along the good work. The openwork stocking is beautiful, of course, but a Chicago woman has found that it is not good to carry money in. Some of the threads gave way and now she mourns the loss of a $300 roll of bills. |