Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1910 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Precipitation is aviation’s worst enemy. Airships have not yet filed freight tariffs. Winter is looking over the fence at us. vtf 1 ' ' ' “ Nicaragua gives signs of refusing to stay put. "The hobble skirt is passing,” says a fashion note. But slowly, of course. One of the requisites of an aeroplane flight is a check for a good-sized amount. One of the shocking new plays brought out in New York is named “Electricity.” The thumping of the steam pipes in the early morning means more noise but not more heat. „• Chinese officials must give up their jobs or their queues. The latter will naturally have to go. A London scientist has Invented a sure cure for a cold. So has everybody else in the world. A Hoosier dentist has planned a tooth insurance policy. He may bite off more than he can chew. In future, when aviation meets are to be stopped by the police, they will have to have more “fly cops.” There are 80,000 rooms in New York without light. And yet they boast of the Great White Way. With aeroplane makers organized the pickets could have lots of fun making faces at non-union craft. King Chulalongkorn is dead. Compositors will be glad to learn that his successor's name'ls Chowfa Maha Vajiravauch. A lecturer declared lately that the perfect woman of the future will not be a mother. Then she will not be a perfect woman. The woman who has a pet boa constrictor 11 feet long shouldn’t kick if her husband brings home a load of snake bite cure. Man Is a useless creature, asserts a Chicago woman lecturer. What? Who’d stay home and tend the baby if it wasn’t for men? Still, there are some young men who are more interested in the price of American beauty, roses than in the cost of beefsteak. About the time a man begins to grow brush heaps in his ears he loses Interest in the changing vagaries of fashions in socks. The Massachusetts girl /who can throw a baseball like Ellam is a factory girl. No college or society girl can compete with her. Shakespeare may have had the manbirds in mind when he mentioned the condition of being “horsed on the sightless corners of the air.” It is alleged that dressed Peruvian monkeys are being sold as rabbits in the London market. What a was to there must be in monkey tails. A Toronto girl who thought she wa* marrying a young capitalist soon discovered that her husband was a burglar. Is not marriage a lottery? The SwiS% are going to construct another tunnel through the Alps. Evidently they do not take much stock in the aerial route taken by Chavez. Three of the last load of deer brought into Bangor, Me., says an exchange, were shot by women. , Who says a woman can’t hit anything she alms at?

They are going to put up another huge building In New York, this time one of 46 stories. Daylight will yet be at a premium on the Manhattan street level. * A preacher says that young women prefer marriage to missionary work. If they tackle the former, however, they’ll find that they're in for a bit of the latter. „ Only scientific institutions or learned chemists will be permitted to buy radium. As it is $36,000,000 a pound, one can readily see what hardship this arbitrary regulation is going to work among the general public, seeking radium bargains. In Detroit a man was arrested because he shot off firecrackers on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his wedding. A man who wants to celebrate because he has been married twentyfive years ought to have some privileges. An Oregon detective has been decorated by China for guarding the Chinese prince on the latter’s recent visit to this country. But a detective sporting a yellow jacket and a peacock feather would he rather hampered in .his business of secret identity.