Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1910 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

! "The good old summertime" is e» {taring on Its last lap. | Even Indian maharajahs get to be according to London reports. \. : Some persons dire Into shallow water at summer resorts and others get engaged. Earthquakes that hate to be snubbed ere careful to keep away from San jFrancisco since the fire. The crown prince of Siam refuses to be a polygamist and he does not )eay It in Japanese, either. If the. cows will not give milk when there Is no rain we will be driven to milking a can of condensed (COW. The cold storage figures indicate that omelets will be more reliable next winter that poached eggs on toast • An Indiana mule kicked a motor♦cycle and cyclist across the road the other day. Some mules seem almost human. That little earthquake out in San {Francisco the other day did no damjage, but the restored city did not Lika jthe hint of its calling again. —■■ - - ■ ! Our friends of the Weather Bureau tore respectfully notified that one large (verification of those rain predictions (is still overdue. j - , The man who ate 61 ears of oorn fct a prize probably followed nature’s {example by bolding the ears down as (he ate them, with his fore-feet. The aeroplane as a possible factor •n warfare is somewhat handicapped py the tempting target it would make tor even an ordinary marksman. An “author of many arithmetics" to*® peacefully died In Pennsylvania, tout the arithmetics, dear children, are (Still alive and waiting for the tall term. A scientist who has been inveetlgaiMng decides that grasshoppers are entirely useless. Evidently he never had to flock of young turkeys to be fattened. While he was saving two lives a Connecticut man lost $lB- The people *whoee llfes he saved might at least to&ve the good taste to get up a purse for him.

; The wireless is turning out to be the best criminal catcher In the business. There Is no escape for the boldlest and shrewdest from Its lightninglike, tell-tale agility. Scientists announce that they have Isolated the germ of leprosy and hope Coon to have a cure. But there is no Ibope In sight for those afflicted with itching for public office. A Princeton professor contends that the common idea of heaven is wrong. tNow if someone will determine Just what Is the common idea of heaven, the whole matter will be settled. The hobble strt shows signs of joining the autorrobile and the airship tor place in the accident-record contest. Its use ii a comment for the , cynical on the 1 /omen of this libertyseeking day. Though tne bulletin of the Chicago special park commission concedes that the larvae of the tussock moth "is one ■of the most beautiful of our caterpillars,** It does not recommend that the larvae be treated as pets. Canada is also a big country, although not yet in the same class with the United States as regards population and general development There tliave been reports of crop failures in !the Dominion. Now comes the explanation that in some quarters grain and other products have suffered from “drought But In other sections there has been an ample supply of moisture «nd the yield will be good. The outcries of the calamity shouter and the speculator must be taken with due ah Howance on both sides of the border. The official figures showing that during the calendar year 1909 the expenditures in the United States for building operations aggregated about a billion dollars, surpassing the record of 1906 by ten 10 cent, not only prove how completely the country had recovered from the “panic" of 1907 but Indicate that the people have made a fresh start In prosperity. There may be checks and reverses from time to time, but no nation like ours cm be hept permanently crippled or Industrially inactive.

An English physician la of the optolon that chickens spread tuberculosis among cows. Nevertheless a good many people who. are unable to canse trouble in any other way will continue to keep chickens. The evening service at a church In New Jersey has been discontinued because of mosquitoes. And it cannot tie charged that the skeeters were Imported for the purpose., Whatever the effect of the sermon, the congregation refused to be bored by the ****&**•- _ _