Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1911 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Fortune telling is prohibited In New York, but fortune hunting is not. A house in St. Louis was set on Ore hj r h fireloes cooker. Now what’U we dot ’ - ■■ After all, in charging a dollar for trimming hair the barbers are making a cut-price. Just when we were getting used to peanuts and spring water, the price of meat goes down. A Detroit woman was divorced while attending a card party. Again the law of compensation. A new SIOO counterfeit bill is in circulation. When buying bacon, examine your change carefully. There should be some great world market In which war scares could be purchased cheaper by the dozen. The man who boasts of calling a spade a spade may pass a snow shovel without being able to recognize it A sacred cow in Central park, New York, is suffering with a severe cold. Nothing is too sacred for the grip germ. One Denver woman insists that she never owned a hat Then she never kept anybody waiting while she pinned It on. The csar solemnly gives it out that he hopes God will be lenient with Tolstoi. Can you beat that, for Russian humor? That New York is the hottest place In summer and the coldest in winter does not necessarily spell climatic superiority. Chicago captured most of the ribbons at the New York horse show, but New York isn’t kicking much. She has the gate receipts. Sane and scientific development of aerial navigation is the end to be worked for; dare-devil stunts endanger the aviator without advancing the art The students at Wellesley have been declared to be "• vast lump of unaasimilated indigestible stodginess.” What this means no one seems to know. A Detroit lady who has been having matrimonial troubles says she married once on a bet and once for spite. She appears to have lost in each inStatistlcs now indicate that smokers make the best athletes. We have known for a long time that certain Uinta of cigarettes make one strong in a certain sense. r T"* .. —. Sir Ernest Caseel has bought a gramme of radium for $72,000. It was probably marked down from $75,000 and Sir Ernest may be said to have secured a bargain. r Into the realm of ethics comes the question of whether the person who tells such an excruciatingly funny story that another person dies laughing is really a friend. Sauer kraut, too. Is going up. Scarcity of cabbage, is the given cause, but a 25 per cent, annual increase in consumption may have suggested the idea that there was more money in it. Another reduction In the running time between New York and Philadelphia has been made, but It has not yet become possible for Philadelphians who do business In New York to go home to lunch. * After havlng*J>een six days without food a sailor swam several miles to the shore of Australia, pursued by sharks A man who can get away with a yarn like that wastes his talent before the mast. Now the French are experimenting with a weapon to be used against airships One warlike invention ia barely Introduced when, before it haa time to become practicable, a counteracting invention fairly shoves It aside The coachman has shared the fate of his horse In the subordination of both to the up-to-date automobile, it ia the good-looking chauffeur who now makes a runaway match with the romantic young heiress We are Informed that a man In Washington sprouted a lemon tree in his thumb after he had cut that useful member in whittling a lemon, if the report had said It was an orange tree or a rosebush we should never have believed It MUadi saya she Just can’t understand how women ever kept up with all the gossip of the town before the invention of the telephone Only 18 deer hunters were killed during the deer-hunting season just closed In New England. Apparently the banters are learning how to shoot i When a boa constrictor died in Lit tie Book the other day Its body l was found to contain human hair, teeth And human bones The boa was tri