Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1912 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Another American millionaire haa bought a Scotch castle. Hoot, mon! - - ~~ 11 Keep an eye on the weather or the 'doctor will have to keep an eye on tjWL .. New York’s first snowstorm cost the i city $265,000. Aud it was only five Inches deep. Think of the nerve of a swindler who tries to work a gold brick game on a crowd of stock brokers. As we understand the hotel waiters, they are willing that the tipping habit shall be abolished, provided— Another victory for Turkey. A Colorado farmer tried to use an ax on a gobbler and almost cut his h&nd oft. Duelling in Prance is becoming a dangerous pastime. Duellist the other day tripped and sprained his ankle. Forty per cent of the people living in New York are foreigners. Chicago continues to be the greatest American city. The woman who entered suit against a railroad for “loss of her complexion," was simply suing for her trunk. | It is proposed to send men to Jail for carrying firearms. If the proposition 1s carried out the jails are likely to be overcrowded. c The Kansas nlmrod who shot at a rabbit and hit six girls has achieved a record of which many a deer hunter would be proud. The fact that 191 persons were killed during deer season shows that England is not the only nation that takes Its pleasures sadly. When the poet Bummed up his reasons why the female of the species is more deadly than the male, he forgot to mention her hatpin. The discovery of $477 In a new York street beggar’s pocket shows that there are still people who do not use the postal savings' banks. A woman college professor is said to be abl% to speak fifty-four languages, but most women are able to make one language go a long distance. * ■ ' V A physican informs us that a woman’s’age can be told by her pulse Hereafter it will be considered a deadly insult to feel a woman’s pulse. An anonymous dollar was lately received by the conscience fund at Washington. Tbe supposition is that It came from a conscience-stricken trust. A Turk in a court case in New York Insisted on swearing by the beard of the Prophet Mohammed. The accuracy of such testimony naturally hung by a hair. There is food for a moment’s reflection in the case of that ice cream dealer whose wife charges him with oftiESi* tfianT once ~ayaar.r J " ;—— A Kansas Ctly Judge says that all criminals are small, scrawny men. Evidently he never met one of them in an alley on a dark night, ready for business. - “New York society has been shocked by the dancing of a Filippino girl.'’ And she won’t have to look elsewhere for engagements so long as she can keep it up. v Another comet is said to have been discovered seen in Germany, but it may be only one of the sparks the kaiser has let fly in the direction of the crown prince. The mayor of an Ohio city has refused an increase of pay on the ground that the present salary is enough. This is truly, as it has been called, the hour of wonders. .'A Boston pastor is trying to indue his'trustees to establish “courting parlors” in the basement of his church, and the flippant say be is scheming to increase his own fees. # ___________________ A Pennsylvania psychologist reports shat ho lias taught two chimpanzee not only to talkl but to think. He ought to be hired to experiment with the sons of some of Pennsylvania's rich men. \ There is in Delaware a young man Who complains that bis life is being ' made miserable because eveVy woman he meets wants to kiss him. He might try raising a beard or eating onions New York waiters protest they don’t want tips, but adequate wages. As a matter of fact, it would be necessary to give them ,06 salary of a bank president to compensate them for the loss In tips, so it is likely palms will be allowed to Itch aa before. A Chicago woman is about to give a coming-out party Tor her son. Probably he will wear a dress coat cut, princess style, trousers with diagonal gores, diamonds and pearls and carry a bouquet of lllles-of-the-veliey and maidenhair ferns. .• »