Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The Daily Republican EverylDay Except Sunday HEALEY & CLARK, Publishers. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Why is a housefly, anyhow? The merciful man is now very merciful to his beast. We know of some cats that never fail to come back. The Moros seem to be less dangerous than ice cream cones. There are 130,000 "foreign waiters ‘ la London, all with palms extended. How aeronauts have cities at their mercy in mimic warfare is becoming amazing. With a new record every day it seems there is no limit to the powers of an aeroplane. The Chicago woman whose ear was hitten off by her busband, probably didn’t feed him enough. There is a very bad $2 bill in circulation. Insist on getting your change In twenties and fifties. A Kansas judge rules that it is the duty of pedestrians to dodge automobiles. Also the necessity. Few horses are wearing bonnets this season, probably because bonnets are absolutely out of style. If you can’t swim stay near the •bore. If you can swim be satisfied to tell your friends about it Two Philadelphians have lost their - Ilves running for trains. Such unusual haste was sure to be fatal in Philadelphia. «

Just bottle up your weather grouch and strike a temperature average for the year on the 31st day of next December. It may soon be possible to telephone to England from the United States. Very well, but how about getting money that way ? Still there is an abiding of optimistic faith that it will prove easier to dodge an aeroplane than an automotdle or motorcycle. __ ■ It would seem that more people are giving their lives to the perfection of the aeroplane than to any former scientific achievement. In twenty-seven years the Kimberley diamond mines have yielded $420,000,000 worth of diamonds. Still our western cornfields do a lot better than that The man who is earning his own living in these days, however mildly he may be going about it, is truly enough earning his bread by the sweat of his brow. Timorous males who are frightened at the way women are invading men’s occupations should take heart at the success some achieve in trimming hats. Going down to the sea in ships was the ancient idea of peril. But it was common place safety beside going up tn the air in the most modern style of ships. Ten or fifteen deaths among the comparatively few aeronauts and aviators in the last few months are not only depleting their ranks but showing up air flights as mighty dangerous pas timing. In printing the new passenger tickets to be used on airship lines care should be taken to have it specified that stop-over privileges may be had when necessary without the signature of the conductor.

Counterfeit buttermilk is being sold tn some of the drug stores in the east, and the health authorities say it is very dangerous. Will it never be possible to get a good thing that the counterfeiters can’t counterfeit? Farmers after experiment report that the cows yield their piilk better when the phonograph is kept going in the barn at milking time. This seems to offer a grand scheme of relief in the form of moving all the phonographs to all the cow barns. The oil-burning torpedo boat destroyer Roe reached a speed of 31 knots an hour in a test off the Delaware breakwater, although the contract requirement was only 28 knots and is now acknowledged to be the fastest exclusively oil-burning torpedo boat destroyer in the United States navy. The American shipbuilder has the refutation of cultivating a margin of safety, and. turning out boats which exceed the maximum requirements of •contracts.

When the automobile collides with the locomotive it is seldom that the latter has to go !to the repair shop. The work of a contributing editor ■xs sometimes made difficult by the ■friends who Insist on coming around dturing office hours to talk politics and tefl hunting stories. Having all the news about the hot spell that was fit to print, and some that was not news, it seems that we might have a litle cool weather for /variety in the news columns.