Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1911 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Medicine Hat will toon be on I IM ■! Comets ought to be required to keep Now the fur overcoat begins to stir uneasily amid its moth balls. ■■ ~ I IQi I 111 In one city tn Connecticut boys are taught cooking tn the public schools. Brooks’ comet Is moving towards the sun. induced no doubt by a chilly feeling. Chinn’s Emperor Is in no frame of mind to enjoy the sacrifices or anything else. »;■■■! ■ Most Occidentals can tell a Manchu from a Chinaman when they meet one in the street When the superdreadnought shall have been exceeded, how will the vessel be referred to? Arabs In Tripoli, who killed Italian wounded soldiers were not bidding for gentle treatment. The engineless aeroplane is even less inviting to the cautious citizen than one of the noisy kind. Just because the small boy likes to play with toy railroad trains is no sign that be will be president Most persons are willing to acknowledge that there Is such a thing as old age. but the bridegroom of 73. never. , Six hundred asteroids travel along with the arth,- and one of them is missing. Has any one seen a lost asteroid? - Professor Lowell reports sighting a frost on Mars, but could not tell by the telescope which party 'had been defeated. A ditch digger is sole heir to "a <75,000 estate. * When the whistle blows at noon he can eat his lunch light-heartedly. Goat’s milk is strongly recommended as a cure for Inebriety. Still, the victim may find difficulty in getting somebody’s goat. The Chinese emperor, aged 5, is doing all that can reasonably be expected of him to pacify his numerous subjects, and they should not In all fairness behead him. A Seattle clergyman preached In the streets from a coffin and was carried home by “pallbearers.* And one of his objects was to prdve that he was not a dead one. A prisoner begged a magistrate not to fine him. saying it would be the beginning of seven years of bad luck. It had been his good luck that had kept him out of trouble. Fifty Pittsburg men afe suing for divorce on the ground of extravagance. It surely is a shame for their wives to spend the money they need tor the Great White Way. The beauty lecturer who has been advising New York women to use more soap and water on their faces, but not to forget the rouge, reminds us that some beauty isn’t even skin deep. The cutting off of queues by the Chinese rebels is reported to have made puffs cheaper. If the revolution wins out first thing we know puffs will be so cheap they will be unfashionable. European nobleman tried to reduce his weight In order to win a wife and died of starvation Moral: It is better to have men say “Isn’t he fat?* than “Doesn’t he look natural!” Surely it ought not to be a repugnant task for every good citizen of the country to comply with the apple growers'< modest demand and eat five apples a day until further notice. Prof. Jenks of Minnesota would cure the divorce evil by letting wives control the family purse strings This, added to the countless other sure cures and panaceas, makes one wonder why divorce should stick around at ass. z A telephone conversation has been carried on successfully between London and Basel In Switzerland. 600 miles away, and it Is expected that before long most of the large cities in Europe will be in telephone communication with the British capital What good will It do. however, to connect a man in London with a man in Bar lin if neither understands the other’s language? ■ Now that the lawn mowing season is over, the muscular system may be kept in trim by judiciously heaving Th* names of statesmen and cities tn China are inexplicably mixed, and they cannot well be unscrambled until The wearers of high crowned der lltrffi that th A hmttmwgi mhmll nnt eefli^e*game <5 LHMI ÜBUv■ m “Uail UU’ for the sake at profit introduce the Su dte fcst arUCl * Tbe7 th<y