Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1910 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Build, do not knock. Is It really autumn at last? If a hen Is a bird, what is a bird? Dynamiters are criminals of the lowest type. There werehigh fliers even before the days of airships. In a dirigible balloon there is nowhere to go but away. Whoever named it the "dirigible” balloon should try again. Fly paper is not a good antidote for * typhoid, but it may be a preventive. An aviation meet is equal to an opera season for bringing a spell of bad weather. Those customs inspectors are becoming so expert that they can actually smell jewelry. Cholera has gone to Siberia—of its own notion. If it would only stay there |ln perpetual exile! Now approaches the season when the chauffeurs of balloons will have to take their vacations. That woman joy rider who stole cabbages seems to have had one concealed in her drum-major hat.

This country has raised 1,096,000,000 bushels of oats during the past season, not including the wild variety.

New York expects to succeed Paris as a center for women’s fashions. A terrible responsibility, as fashions now run! ’

The world need no longer remain out of joint. Surgeons, it seems, can make new joints that rival the original ones.

A common house fly can go 35 feet per second. Why doesn’t it maintain this rate of speed when fieaded the other way?

Doctors are telling how they repair broken bones with tenpenny nails. Woman doctors should do wonders with hairpins.

That chauffeur who is going to drive an automobile to the top of a volcano in Hawaii would better wait until he gets an airship.

In Oregon bear hunts are being made successfully with automobiles. But human victims saw their power of destruction first I In five of the' nine complete months of 1910 American imports have been In excess of exports. We are buying more-than we sell. A Connecticut man heard a joke and hiccoughed for eight days. Possibly, like those Connecticut clocks, it was an eight-day joke. In Los a pneumatic barber chair exploded and hurt a man. Thus we see that excessive luxury carries Its own punishment.

-- That a dealer in decayed eggs has been fined S2OO is a pleasing and instructive fact. The public gets the pleasure and the dealer the instruction.

It is_ wimored that Wall street may hereaft i be opened with prayer. Prayer may not be what Wall street needs most, but it will undoubtedly help some.

Postal authorities in Madagascar are arranging for the carrying of mails on the island by aeroplane. However, it probably will be some time before the airship will succeed rural free delivery in the United States.

A Pittsburg man is in trouble because he thought it was cheaper to get married than it was to live singly and learned differently too late. A lot of other men have had the same experience. .

To a cold and backward season in Europe, with serious results to crops, have been added a number of destructive floods, the latest of which is that in the vicinity of Barcelona, Spain. America has enough weather eccentricities, but the old world has been the worst sufferer this year. That four-toed horse found in the "bad lands” of Wyoming and reputed to be the ancestor of the present equine race, undoubtedly has great interest as a scientific find. But as a show to attract the multitude he probably will not be in the same class with the “woolly horse" of earlier days. One of the scientists declares that in 100 years all the people of New York will be living underground. He must think they are going to solve the problem of getting better air underground before the lapse of another century. The crown prince of Servla is desirous, according to a recent report, of marrying a rich American girl. After one has looked over the supply of Servian girls one wonders why the PEOWn prince insists that the Amer! must be rich.