Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1910 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Let us have only denatured automo bile races. Are the auto races trying to make bull fights appear humane? Still, at Its new price, radium will hardly be a substitute for coal. The new $5 bills will be Smaller. That's act smaller. Connecticut woman earned SIO,OOO last year selling eggs—the real thing. So far none of our aviators has beer successful enough to break into vaude ville. All the pessimist cam see in an aeroplan flight is a big crowd and a stifl neck. A Buffalo man was given five years for stealing a cent. Something of a centence, that. New York bank thief when he was arrested. He was a close second to the bank. . Someone has estimated that the earth weighs seven trillion tons. But cheer up! You're not carrying it. That war in Nicaragua cost 4,000 lives. Men have not yet discarded the blood-letting system in politics. The doctor who thinks that the Adam’s apple is responsible for insanity may be on the eve of a great discovery.

“Venezuela consumes 1,000,000 ggtllone of kerosene a year.” Why doesn’t somebody start an electric light plant down there?

Joy riding In the air has this advantage—there are no chickens to be run over. The birds have so far succeeded in dodging.

In South Norwalk, Conn., lives a heroic young woman who played tennis in a bobble skirt Naturally she broke her leg.

When the aeroplanes dash around the course at the rate of a mile a minute they never kick up any clouds of microbe-laden dust.

If shark meat ever crowds beef in the world’s markets a shortage of rain on the great plains will make no difference in the quality.

As a general' thing when a girl wears such an extreme hat that a man has to dislocate his neck to look under it her face ia..not worth the effort.

The greatest authority on love In the world is dead. Calm yourself, ladies —it’s an Italian professor. The authoress of “Poems of Passion” still lives.

A woman of sixty years swam five miles in the Mississippi river at St. Louis the other day. It is needless to say that she did not wear a hobble skirt.

Bob Evans tells us that an airship is a plaything and would be of no use in war. But what will Bob do when those bombs begin dropping down the chimney?

Chicago man marries for the first time at the age of ninety-two. He’ll have to do some tall hustling to catch up with tile average Chicago record from now on.

That Poughkeepsie society woman whose pearl necklace was confiscated by the customs officials might have had it yet if she could only have kept it under her hat.

The waiters now ask to be divided into classes. Excellent idea! Walters who wait, waiters who make custoiners wait, waiters who are polite and waiters who are otherwise?

A little while ago the cheering word was passed that lobsters would become more plentiful. Now it is threatened that there will be a shortage of salmon and sardines.

It may be none of our business, but we trust that the sororities will deal gently with the eighty-one-year-old woman who has entered the Ohio state university as a student.

A Kansas City woman, suing for di- .* Vorce. charged that her husband quarreled with her for going to a funeral. Some men are so mean they hate their wives to have any pleasure at all. Eighty-two pounds of sugar for every man. woman and child last year! The men may offer thanks th at* the 'women and children got —theirs. _____ A Connecticut man fired ten bullets In his head without fatal results. • It Is hard to tell whiqh was greater—the persisting force of his determination or the resisting quality of his brains. . . ~ ■ • ■ I ■ !■! . I I. That incident in Naples where two strangers trying to give candy to children were suspected by the panicstricken people of spreading the cholera and mobbed with cries of “Death to the poisoners” shows how little progress has been made since the days of the plague. In some places.