Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1910 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The noblest study of mankind is •weather. > Evidently the law of gravitation has Dot been repealed. For 50 cents now you can buy either • melon or a dozen lemons. There are tew joy-riders back of the lawn mower or mowing machine this year. Last year Great Britain cut its liquor bill 154,000,000, yet nobody died of thirst. — — ———— Keep cool and be cool. The mental attitude has much to do with physical condition. Bowling has been Introduced into England. It will now become popular at Newport. Since (he comet has departed people have to charge up to sun spots whatever they cannot understand. Regarded merely as a peril, it is much easier to dodge a coming aeroplane than it is to dodge a motorcycle.

It is said that a substitute for nsidlum has been found. Some druggists to the contrary, a substitute is not always something "just as good." Music an aid to dairy management!” That’s an old story. Was there •ver a comic opera without a variation of the merry, merry milkmaid chorus? An airship passenger service between London and Paris is being talked of. People who expect to take that route should go to the trouble of first learning to swim. And now they say that either a phonograph or a pretty singing milkmaid furnishing music in the stall makes a cow give more milk. The cow’s artistic discernment is apparently not highly developed.

It Is estimated that over 15,000,000 Words were spoken during the recent session of congress. All honor should be shown the stenographers who stayed at their posts and listened to •very one of them. An expert at the National Educational association convention in Boston says that children are naughty •when they are ill. Will the old saying have to be revised to read “Spare the castor oil and spoil the child?” The northern Michigan dairyman ■who claims to have discovered that music sweet and low from a phonograph wooes milk from his cows, might try for Ice cream by giving his devoted animals the “cold shoulder." i ' The dean of Norwich Indignantly denies that King George ever had a morganatic wife and adds: “King George Is a man who, with a wife of like disposition to himself, has been -wont during his leisure to sit in his garden with his young children round him, just the same as any of us might do in our own patch of garden.’’ Also the dean might have told us how the king’s tomatoes are coming on.

The poor should be remembered this hot weather, for their sufferings are considerable. Ice often means health to the sick and pure milk life for babies, but these are luxuries for which the prisoners of poverty must look to their more fortunate brethren to supply them. There should also be generous public support of the various fresh-air enterprises which do so much toward ameliorating the condition of the poor in a large city during the heated term. The discovery of defective armor plate on the battleships Utah and North Dakota after the ships had been commissioned has caused agitation In the navy department favorable to a plan for the inspection of the plating of every battleship in service. It is fair to assume that if two battleships could be provided with faulty plates without discovery until the ships were In active service there may be other ships with poor plates that may have escaped l detection. The predicament of two men with their wives who were held into the night off Chicago by the failure of the engine of their gasoline launch, and who were rescued only after tie women had sacrificed their skirts as torches, should recommend the 'TashIng of sweeps on the decks of such craft, so that men can help themselves tn emergencies. A pair of muscular arms applied to a sweep would soon re-establish confidence after accident by giving the disabled craft niotid'" enough to creep toward shore. And now a Torrington, Conn., man la planning to walk to California. Isn't it about time for some ambitious California citizen to set out to walk east to New England? That bitter taste in the mouth expo rienced on first arising in the mori> •-ng, says an authority, may be re.noted by taking a little mix vomica mixed with water. Should the experimenter, however, desire to remove all taste from his mouth permanently, this ean be accomplished by adding more nux vomica