Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1911 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

to this auto-flying age. - . _ . .. Progressive farmers are now plow.by gasoline, thus having more bay to sell. f Will the International school of peace organise a football team and go out' after the championship? A Winsteo (Conn.) farmer has trained a rooster to ride a bicycle. This is something to crow about A Swiss doctor saj s that drunkards live longer than total abstainers. Still, even this is uo excuse for being one. It is planned to unionize the hoboes. Excellent. And then stop them from working other people after union boars ; . yfr.T.. . . . Montenegro Is a kingdom now Instead of a mere principality. Oyer In Montenegro there are people probably who think we care. The man who Introduced moving pictures into this country Is dead, but ] whether be died remorseful or unrepentant tbe dispatches do not say. That New York professor who declares college women have not “made good’* cannot successfully maintain that they have not made good fudge. A hobble skirt In which a disguised burglar tried to escape assisted greatly In his capture. Thus we see that even the bobble skirt hath Its uses. ~ - Meat prices have come down, according to market reports, but some of the local dealers evidently don’t read tbe papers. Somebody ought to tell 'em. While It Is true that one makes acquaintances with queer people on one's vacation. It Is not always necessary to go on a vacation to achievo that end. i . r*~ m ■ -•»" ■-;» —j — - The latest thing at Newport UTa rag-time hear dinner. A bull and bear dance would look pretty lively, only tt would be unpleasantly suggestive of “shop.”

A motorcycle ran against the rear end of an Indiana mule the other day, ud it is reported that two or three pieces of the machine were afterward found almost intact

One of the Harvard professors pathetically declares that Yankee blood la dying out. We suspect that the trouble with him i£ that he hasn't been mway from a big town lately.

A man in New York bet six months In Jail on the election and lost. Now, despite his efforts, he can’t break into Jail to pay the debt A worse hard lock tale could scarcely be told.

A banknote that had been washed and ironed by a fastidious woman was pronounced a counterfeit. The public, evidently, is familiar only with filthy lucre.

That Lons Island judge who ruled that SB,OOO a year Is enough for the education of a sixteen-year-old girl doubtless had in his crude masculine mind onlfc the useful things. Other kinds cost more. *

A Chicago woman, in suing for divorce, declares that her husband’s stenographer looked at him "longingly, lovingly, sweetly and invitingly." That stenographer certainly must have been a good looker.

A Mississippi man who put a stick of'dynamite in his pocket and then fell down with it will recover from his injuries. A man so favored by pure “dumb luck” as this ought to be in steady demand as a mascot.

The story from New York that loans to the aggregate of $50,000,000 have been negotiated abroad indicates that American credit is excellent, and also that the money is likely to be put where it will do the most good in promoting American enterprises. Incidentally it is proof that the money market is by no means as “hard’’ as had been supposed.

California is one of tbe western states which shows rapid growth. The census figures Just announced give California a population of 2.377,549, a gain of 60.1 per cent OTer 1900. This Is the largest increase made by any state from which the final census returns have yet been received, and •hows that *‘tbe glorious climate of California" and other allurements are attracting settlers quite as numerously as did the gold fever of *49 and If shoveling in coal and carrying out tbe ashes were all there is to running a furnace it would be excellent exercise Put many a man becomes jhiangerously fatigued when it comes to writing out checks for the coal merAn Indiana man djed recently after having lived for ninety years without ever having had his face shaved or his hair cut. so he claimed, but ths story seems incredible. Surely his mother must bjgye cut his hair when was too young to put up a fight