Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1912 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The Daily Republican Every Dsj Except Sunday " HEALEY & CLARK, Publishers. RENSSELAER. ” INDIANA. r .' /y*TTB?B??T , *TT7' ’ Kqep out of Mexico. Keep out of trouble. » » * , . Big feet may be a joy. but mostly to the shoemaker. A Missouri girl demands $20,000 foe ■even kisses. Prices are going up ev« ery day. ~ —~~ tv ’ China's republic seems to have quite as much trouble as the defunct monarchy. At this rime of the year almost any baseball scribe can bat .300 In the Hope league. Accidents will happen. A New York judge has refused to grant a wealthy woman a divorce. One of our best sellers at this sear eon of the year is the seed catalogue, which is given away. .‘ Many a Chicago man awakes from dreams of baseball to be told to get out and shovel snow. Nobody need be discouraged, except perhaps the man who planted his to* mato seeds in tin cans. A woman in Virginia bought a $5,000 painting for SB, but usually art collectors buy $8 paintings for $5,000. Germany, according to a dispatch, is watching Mexico. That country, according to rumor, will bear watching. The hookworm may have nothing to do with the fishing fever, but the effects of both maladies are much alike.

Whenever we hear of a man advertising for a wife in, leap year we are led to wonder what is wrong with him. Sir Thomas Lipton says be will make another attempt to win the cup. You can't keep a squirrel on the ground. ■T New York legislators advocate a fine for waiters who accept tips. Verily, these are hard days for malefactors of great wealth. Noble trees were sacrificed last year to make 300,000,000 lead pencils, and other forests went to make the paper the pencil* called for. ‘ “American women lead the world,” remarks a visiting German editor. At any rate, we are well aware that they lead "American husbands. A New York theatrical manager Is going to produce a Chinese play. Now we shall probably have a controversy over the Chinese players. ' * —.. — In spite of the lengthy, hard winter that we have had, the restaurants have been able to keep spring lamb on the bills of fare right along. . The son of the gaekwar of Baroda says it is t lmpossible to live on |250 a week. Possibly he subsists on a diet of humming birds' eyebrows. f “It Is three times more dangerous to cross Broadway in New York than the Atlantic ocean.” And four times more dangerous to keep on up the street A cold bath every morning will prevent colds, according to Doctor Jacobi. Evidently he labors under the ■ Impression that all men are heroes. Three cherry pits were found In the vermiform appendix of an Indiana man when the doctors opened him. To be on the safe side make two bites at a cherry. An English astronomer arises to remark that Mars is not inhabited. That momentous affair having been settled, let us turn once more to the contemplation of baseball. A Hungarian physician claims that he is able to graft hair on bald heads. It is hoped that he may now turn his attention to the business of grafting life into wasted tissues.

A court in New York granted one man $12,000 for the loss of a leg and another SI,OOO for the loss of a wife. If it had been a California Jury ft tmight have been different Gotham is rejoicing because only fifteen persons were killed in one month by the trolley cars. Of course, fifteen out of that immense population of millions is a very gratifying •howinng eicept to the fifteen. By means of glass cages French scientists have found it possible to raise chickens without allowing them even to come in contact with a microbe. but the fowls must have found the sterilized life awfully dull. A school for chauffeurs has been established in a Western college. It is -to be hoped that it will teach proper deportment for the occasions on which the carburetor refuses to work it is twenty miles to the nearest X ’ A 23-story hotel, containing 1,000 guest chambers, is to be erected over the Mew Grand Central station, in New York Even at that it will not be big enough to accommodate all those who IHtalre to take the next train back (home as soon as they arrive