Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1912 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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A new core for canoer bas been die covered again. : Chicago women smile naturally Whether It helps their looks or not * France gets a new cabinet more fra*®uently than many a man gets a new b*t . ... t” The American farmer will be pleased to know that be Is worth nearly sine billion dollars. If the “tip trust” provokes the traveling men to effective resistance it will &ot have lived in vain. * It is said that Yale will have a record-breaking crew. Accent on the tecord or on the breaking? An English preacher has discovered a cure for snoring. An old-fashioned dig in the ribs works pretty well somedimes. _— Wasp soup is said to be a delicacy In China, but Tuan Sbi does not appear to relish the hornet’s nest he has stirred up. Lawn tennis on ice is the latest sport- Knowledge of the game might have helped the American players in Australia. Kansas City citizen wants a divorce because his wife keeps thirty-five dogs In the house. Another marriage gone to the dogs. New York gunmen broke Into a gambling house the other day and held up the proprietor. One good holdup deserves anbther. It is predicted that 25 years hence we will be eating reindeer meat After that we mpy be ready to eat the Christmas toys.

1 Since the automobile began to make * such great strides Into popular favor very few horse thieves have gained prominence in the country. Brander Matthews predicts that we * ■hall have war again by 19S0. We predict that in 1930 “war” win continue to be spelled the same old way. ' The Boston Transcript says: “An exchange of feline amenities Is entertaining Boston.” One notion of feline amenities is to see the fur fly. • “The mother-in-law is omnipotent in China,” says Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Evidently Ella has discovered the real cause of the Chinese revolution. The Cambridge clergyman who doesn’t mind if men sleep through his sermons probably will commend an alarm attachment to’ the contribution . box. A Connecticut preacher denounces rice throwing at weddings as a filthy habit The only excuse for it is that It gives English sparrows a change of diet . ' ' ; Aviators are abandoning the flying game because of its dangers, and yet there are plenty of men who persist fn venturing into the woods to hunt A style congress in Chicago has doomed the hobble skirt to extinction, which, paradoxically enough, will rejoice the narrow-minded critics of feminine attire. Wolves are said to menace the population in some districts of Michigan, but Michigan is not the only; state in which people have trouble in keeping the wolf from the door. Russia has imprisoned a man for writing a volume of poems. Are there, after all, virtues in autocracy? , A learned judge was asked to pass upon the complaint of a family which objected to rag time overhead. He oouldn’t do it, being a mortal.

New York policemen are learning wrestling that they may arrest offenders “with less brutality.” Why shouldn't they study etiquette? Chinese highwaymen, we are told, succeeded in getting away with a trifling sum like $850,000. Even at this - early date the Chinese republic has developed successful financiers. One of our historians arises to remark that Mother Eve was not a good looker, but what's the use of being beautiful when there is only one man fa the world and no other women? New Yorker dropped dead when he learned that he had been left a legacy of SIBO,OOO, but in spite of its dangers most of us are willing to take a chance on being left that much money. A young woman to Ai Chicago has gone to jail rather than talk. Such a ffrtng would seem Incredible if there were not court records to prove this •mazing charge against any daughter •f Eve. A rich man In Pennsylvania, and a member of the bar at that, has had to pay a S2O fine and SBO costs bemuse be tried to beat Uncle Sam out of by sending through the mail • check folded in a newspaper. Served him right, you say? We _ . »n t. ' •