Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1912 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Zero days are short, but who cares. New York Is trying to be bigger and foggier than London. The nearest thing to a durbar that We have is a circus parade. It is the chauffeur, not the auto, that Heeds horse sense nowadays. One of the most fragile things in the world is a New Year resolution. It is Just one blamed pest after another. At present it is the mongoose. Prunes are prunes when they are put in fancy pound boxes and sold at 60 cents. Winter, having thrown off its dlsguise, may as well do its worst and get it over. 2__. Now is a good time to lay in a supply of mosquito bite remedies. They ought to be cheap. He is a prudent man who is careful not to burn down the house in his efforts to keep warm. A peace conference is in session in Shanghai Thus far the hospital list has not been published. One notion of the easiest way to snake money is to accept $250,000 for quitting the aviation game. A hotel of 1,000 rooms is to be built In Regent street, London, and tipping is to be forbidden in it A trunk that is mote thafi4s inehw long is a trunk that leads to excess baggage charges. Shorten it up. Paper bag cookery and tireless cookers should be locked in a room together. They are both delusions. King George may have killed more tigers than Colonel Roosevelt, but he did not have any Kermit on the Job. A woman’s society In Connecticut Ims elected a man as president Thus the changes in life have their compensations. Tom Edison tells us that when he veads he doesn’t like to think. All he has to do Is to read one of the six best sellers. w The old-fashioned characteristics of woman seem to be changing. One of them has been sent to Jail for refusing to talk. A shipload of potatoes has arrived In New York from Scotland. Possibly the shortage in New York is due to the number of spuds thrown at the Irish players. Thirty hunters lost their Ilves In New England from various causes during the season. Judging by this report, amateur hunting is anything but a healthy sport The champion mean thieves have won the record in a Pennsylvania town, where they tried to steal the blankets from a fresh-air school for tuberculosis children. Mlle. PlaskoweltzkaJakahle. a Russian dancer, is preparing to tour America- We present that name to the printers and proof readers with the compliments of the season.

That Connecticut farmer who gives morphine to bls hens to make them •it will doubtless distribute suffragette literature among them when he wishes to reverse the procedure. Possibly we are mistaken, but it •trikes us that the weather man and the coal man are too friendly for the public good Mr. Edison needn’t turn bis attention to the making of concrete biscuit Some of the cooks beat him to that long ago. The most terrible catastrophe we can think of just now is a collision between a freight train and a wagon load of fresh eggs. Cold waves are like other experiences to which distance lends enchantment and absence from which makes the heart grow fonder. Opposition to the fact that some gran<-opera stars have gained a bit of advertising through their gifts to the poor does not include the beneficiaries. ■ . ■, i. The Colorado woman who found a diamond in a turkey was justified in making a kick She paid the butcher for real turkey meat, and not for common Jewels — Another millionaire has married a factory girl, but be is said to be a promising youth in spite of the fact that be halls from Newport Platinum has advanced tn price to 9730 a pound fFyoti have any. lying •round the bouse, now is a good time to exchange ft for fresh eggk. A boy of six. nearly cured of tubercu Josts by the open-air treatment, delights in Ihe cold weather There is not always • physical reason for a