Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1910 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Wkat a mean thing the fly is, anykow. Well, the aeroplane season seems to tere a lively opening this year. There seems to be just one reliable C®t rich quick scheme; run an aeroplane. Pretty soon the astronomers will be nt liberty to get baeff to the problem signaling Mars. It must be convenient to have the Japs to blame when anything goes wrong with drydocks in the Orient.

Exclusiveness can be carried teo tbr. Here’s a Cincinnati dude who ■carries his private street car strap.

That young man who jumped into *he river because his girl didn’t love him merely carried into effect what thousands have at one time or another threatened to do.

In Mexico City, the Mexicans put flowers on the graves of the American ■•oldiers who “licked them to a standstill at Chapultepec. War develops some queer sentiments.

fa fa likely that the earthquakes in <so«ta Rica have an origin like the earthquake in San Francisco—a settling of the earth’s crust. No volcanic outburst sufficient to account for the shakes in Cost Rica has been reported. —-----

The Pennsylvania state department «rs health Is doing a good thing in seeing Inal dealers in food supplies do not expose eatables to flies. Now that we know the fly for what he is, ■we are bound to consider him more of «u enemy than ever.

French railroads are reported to have forbidden kissing in the stations with a view to accelerating train •ervice. O, that's all right. Let the trains pull out. Most of the osculators are not passengers. It’s a habit and the station the best place to indulge in it without attracting undue attention.

The women of a church in New 'York are to have a church-going hat. The ungallant men complained of the t>ig hats, which prevented them from weeing the preacher, and the women agreed to a reform. The men "had threatened to quit the church, but the -women countered by leaving them without a plausible excuse.

A Chicago paper says that it is uneertain whether St. Louis, Boston or Baltimore will prove to be the fourth dty in the country in population. As St. Louis was about 66,000 ahead of Baltimore and 15,000 ahead of Bost<m, ten years ago, and growing much faster than either, this is a cruel kick from an old-time rival.

"Nine thousand men will be employed 'ln taking the census in Canada next : year. The department of agriculture <toes the work over there, and members of the party not in power declare that the census means that a fat slice -will be divided among “the smaller type of partisans.” Methods of taking the census on this side of the line have much improved in recent years. Prob- . ably Canada will folow suit in time.

And now a Japanese spy has been •captured in Ecuador. It appears' that Japan is offering to help Peru in case ■of war with Ecuador. The vigilance of our anti-Japanese talkers has evidently foiled the Mikado, and since he despairs of getting a foothold in this country he is intriguing in South America. Since the trouble has shifted tn Ecuador, perhaps Mr. Hobson and bis fellows will be quiet for a while.

The United States and Mexico have taken the initial steps toward making international regulations for traffic in the air. Certain provisions of the agreement will permit governments to treat as smugglers or pirates those who fly across the border without due regard for the customs laws. Apparently if we are to have airships for business and pleasure we must also have aerial war vessels and revenue cutters.

The latest cotton report shows contiitions distinctly improved as compered with those of last year at the same date. The warmer weather prevailing in the south may be counted on to hasten maturity, and possibly ■will increase the output over even the present estimate. Fears of a shortage hare had a somewhat serious effect on the market, but the slump in prices shows that some speculators at least have overreached themselves. An Ohio cow has for the last three years worn a wooden leg. She probably does not kick over the pail with tier one time facility. Another peril is threatened by the new era of aviation. A cow choked to death while trying to swallow a small balloon that came down. The biggest nature fakers of all are <he “profs" who tell the seniors about ♦this tinie what an easy conquest of <fce world they are going to have-