Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1912 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

B Cocked hats may become as nutaerous as the fussy ones. Where there’s a win there 1* generally a <ray io try to break It > 4 Few Manchus resign, but recent reports Indicate that a good many ot them die. * • I - - _ _1 ' s ‘The common towel Is to be abolished. Little by little mankind Is becoming sanitary. Let us hope the Wright brothers have really Invented a fool proof airship. It is greatly needed. . Music Is te be established In the barnyard, for It makes cows give more milk and hens lay more eggs. The Wllkesbarre man who was a millionaire for a day had to go away from home to act well his part. One does not know whether to condemn or praise the Paris opera strikers. It all depends on the opera. They find gold in chickens’ crops in Manitoba, thus offering another opportunity for somebody to boost the price of eggs. A Montana court has decided that one Chinaman constitutes a laundry. But what if he were In the chop suey business’ According to one professor the earth will cease Its revolutions in 5231. If you don’t believe it figure it out to suit yourself. Telephone connection between England and the continent is maintained by six cables, and the number will soon be doubled. Brides are wanted in western Washington state. Here Is where the supply of leap year can connect nicely with the demand.

Th© nursery and seed men convey a reassurance that spring is coming by sending out a bunch of finely illustrated catalogues. Everybody •will be as well satisfied If the weather man, for a little while at least, refrains from giving us any more mean temperature. A Kansas City court refuses to grant a man a divorce from his mailorder wife. Then why doesn’t he send to Reno for a mail-order divorce T One girl married a baseball player because he made so many home runs. Al! players who make home runs do not at once run home, however. The girls of a high school in Pennsylvania are widely praised because that hair device known as the "rat” has been prohibited among'them.' t—— If reports of robins seen during the aero weather were not mistakes on the part of the observers, they were mistakes on the part of the robins. A Minnesota professor says “race suicide is a peril to posterity." We could hardly expect it to. give .our cestors whooping cough and measles. English girls must promise to obey tn order to make the wedding ceremony binding, but the breaking of the promise does not invalidate anything. Few men would have been reckless enough, a hundred years ago, to make the prediction that an American hen would ever win the world's egg championship. One large railroad has ordered that its pencil sharpeners be discarded. We accept this as another indication that the world Is growing better. Princess Pat succeeded In slipping into New York unnoticed. Some of the ladies who employ press agents will wonder why she should have wished to do so.

The ex-autocrate get off with fat purses. Abdul Hamid got his 800 Wives, Maflual his $25,000 a year, and 'the infant Emperor Pu-Yi is to have $6,500,000 annually. •'Gee whiz! I’m glad I’m free!” exclaimed a woman when she had secured a divorce in New. York the other day. The man was probably too hap'm to be able to say anything. '> ” / c But why should the French or any other astronomers feel “worried" over what may be happening to Saturn’s rings? So far as this earth is concerned, Saturn never has been any* thingbut distant and unsociable. The millionaire for a day in Wilkesbarre. Pa., got a great deal es advertising tor his money, and he may decide to go on the vaudeville stage is having trouble with its rings; but as they are not wedding Hngy th* people who follow divorce scandals need not prick up their ears. ■ ( jiir-a- ■? The National Association of loe Manufacturers reports that we consumed $200,000,000 worth of that arc C Wit* prepared