Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1911 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

| > Beware the grip. Do not let It get | • hold on you. ' " •*' *»'• |y.v‘ Pridp has many a fall these slippery mornings. Baseball talk has moved on from postmortems to forecasts. An extraordinary duel was fought In France the other day. One of the duellists was hurt Chicago Is the gem center of the world, but there Is such a thing as wearing too many. , Baseball bids fair to girdle the globe. The Japs and the Cubans are taking kindly to It

One man’s attempt at suicide Is attributed to too much housework, is this a sign of the times?

We are told that an Illinois woman has put an end to herself by jumping into a cistern. Well, well!

What do you think of a hen that laid 4,000 eggs In 22 years and never brooded? Can you beat It?

TOe house cat carries germs . Indoors and indulges out of doors In an excess of vocal expression.

Florida has a bride seventy-eight years old. And yet there are women of forty who have given up hope.

A New York publisher tells us that poor music sells best. So we should judge from the music we hear these days.

That proposed half cent coin would be about right for moßt of the things you get by dropping a 1 cent coin in the slot _____

New York Is to have a fifty-eight story building. Tenants on the top floor will be reasonably safe from porch climbers. —-

A new play in New York la called "Bought and Paid For." However, many a writer of vaudeville sketches has no such luck.

A Chicago man was shot for stepping on another’s corn. Anybody who has ever nursed a pet corn will call It justifiable homicide.

A London man who was a contributor to Punch has just died, leaving a fortune of $6,000,000, and well bet his jokes weren’t worth it.

We are told that there win be no babies in these United States after the year 2020. Another reason for protecting our infant industries.

Daring the last 34 years, says an eastern paper, we have lost $5,000,000,000 by fire. Even at that old “inadequate water supply” is still doing business.

Irkutsk. the capital of Siberia, is described as the wickedest city in the world. It is now up to New York, Chicago and Pittsburg to renew their efforts.

Aviator Paulhan, who has made $200,000 out of his aeroplane, says he is going to retire from the gaAie. This looks to us like knowing exactly when to quit

Curing paralysis by artificially inducing fever reminds one of the ingenious practitioner who always threw his patients into fits and then cured the fits.

It is bad enough to be a deaf mute, but when one so afflicted Is sued for slander. It is carrying the thing too fkr. Some persons evidently "Just can’t make their hands behave.”

Pupils at Wellesley must learn how to spell before they are allowed to graduate. It may be a good Innovation, but we fear that it will detraot from the quality of Wellesley fudge.

An army officer has Invented a multiplex telephone, and It is claimed for It ten persons can speak over one line. As If we didn’t have troubles enough already with the four-party ■wire.

Mount Etna continues to smoke, but the Innocent bystanders have come to the conclusion that there is nothing doing in the way of lava. Many a time •nd oft have we heard of persons who “didn’t know it was loaded."

Paris has decreed war against rata This does not mean a battle against the rodents, but the downfall of the present style of dressing ladles’ hair. But while the hobble skirt remains Paris fashions will not lack for striking features.

Another instance of the hardship of military duty is the decree that members of the New Jersey National Guard must refrain from wearing patent leather pumps at drill. However, there Is no order against chewing gum or using powder puffs. A Cleveland man wants damages for having to answer telephone calls that Were not for him and for the time he has lost in waiting to get the numbers he wanted. He will receive a large amount of public sympathy. M Jbe never gets anything else. ...