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Show Germany, it is reported, is threatened with a sausage fam ine. Dog-gone? No Niobe, we don't think "He did his best" a good inscription for a tombstone. Some irreverent irreve-rent scoundrel might add "Friends." A scientific shake announces that experiments indicate that fireflies emit a species of X-ray. Ya, really! Experience proves that Uncle Sam emits another species of X-ray. The latter is receivable for subscriptions to the Chronicle office, which the former isn't. At a convention of agricultural agricultur-al Clubs, to be held in a Texas town, one feature is to be a contest con-test in the art of calling hugs. We were about to suggest that same contest for political conventions, con-ventions, when we remembered that that kind of hogs come without calling. |