Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1911 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Now, altogether: "Is it hot enough Even the mosquito is feeling the - impulse of the back-to-the-farm movetv iV ~ r '- ' Nearly everybody who says "I don*t care” is not telling the truth. When an aviator loses his way in a tog he cannot ask a policeman. At least not yet Almost time for some get-rich-qulck man to establish a correspondence school of aviation. Germany has adopted a new gun designed to bring down aeroplanes, just as if aviation Is not dangerous enough. The convicts who struck for the eight-hour day In the Michigan penitentiary finally decided not to walk out The earth has only 10,000 years to live, according to a Swedish astronomer. Let us then be up and doing, etc. Western farmers want the weather bureau investigated because Its predictions don’t agree with their rheumatism. According to fashion experts in London and Paris the harem skirt is dead. As a matter of fact it was born that way.

Barbers, alarmed by the advance of safety razors, are considering the abolition of tips. They might also abandon criticism of the previous hair cut Henry Allrenshoersterbaeumer is the name of a man who lives in Missouri. We suppose his friends call him Hank AMrenshoemterbaeumer for short A boy graduated from a Pennsylvania high school without ever having missed a half day, and shall such horrors of child slavery be unrebuked? - Irrigation is fast driving the Great American Desert out of existence. There are canals enough already to reach across the continent If placed end on end. One man gave a fortune teller $315 for the information that he could find a treasure by digging in his back lot He didn’t find the treasure, but he got a lot of exercise. It is surprising how a city man, fortunate in the possession of a garden about the size of a checker board, can spoil S3B worth of clothes planting 10 cents’ worth of peas. The appearance of five aces in a poker game in Pennsylvania and the resultant death of three men, simply goes to show that a good thing sometimes can be carried too far. A New York boy found a certified check for $55,000 and was paid $1 reward when he returned it to its owner. Notwithstanding this, however, honesty is still the best policy. Returning from Asian jungles, a scientist announces that a man “with a tactful wife in a wild country can get along twice as well as a single man.” Also in a tame country. “Wealth la-no longer an open sesame to independence,” wails a disappointed capitalist Too true. Why, jnowadays one cannot wear a silk hat Hind a short coat without being ridiculed! Just to make good the proud boast that every other city in the county is merely one of its suburbs. New York, a few days ago, sent a Pullman carload of its women to Reno to get divorces. It has now been demonstrated that a motorcycle comes off second best in a collision* with an automobile. The question has interested many persons who have had to step lively in crossing the asphalt | i ■ . ri A wife in Atlanta had her husband arrested because he refused to kiss her. Husbands are getting very fractious these days, and advanced femininity is finding it necessary to drive them back into harness. A government woman expert says that chickens kept in cold storage nine months or a year are more healthful than those fresh killed and kept 24 hours without refrigeration. It may be, but she will have a time convincing the ultimate consumer. New York supreme court ha* decreed that a bill collector must pursue bis prey in apartment houses only by means of the dumb waiter. Formerly the bill collector was called upon to cope otrty with deafness, but now be is confronted with both the .A Bm b- __ .. The heir to the East Indian throne of Baroda, who is a student at Har- - vard, had to work on hl* twenty-first birthday while his future sublets .veii celebrating It with holiday and festivity at hetfie. This is but another instance of the modern way in prince* have to stand a great