Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The Daily Republican I Xvery Day Except Sunday HEALEY A CLARK, Publishers. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. In Cuba Is Just one roughbouse gPter anoth*. Khlcsgo’s birth rate is decreasing, bat its population liars are not. - || Aviators who carry the mails will Ipjtanre no chance to read the postcards. "—All genuine Mocha and Java coffee • comes from Brazil, and the valorlzaI'tion mill £ A few drops of oil, properly administered, will soften your lawnmower’s | raucous voice. i~ New Jersey is discussing whether Kfead mosquitoes should be paid for by weight or by the pint. - - - Speaking of unsolved mysteries, what has become of the bearded lady j|and the dog-faced boy? gs : ' t Some men live for years in industry and righteousness and then spoil - It all by going into politics. ■HgSjY''-" ' ■■■■l 1 ~~ Today’s short story deals with a man who poured gasoline into his motor car while smoking a pipe. Every time we read of an aeroplane accident we are reminded of the fact that there is one born every minute. I "Massaging with warm cocoa batter,” says tr beauty expert, “develops the arms.” So does massaging dishes. "Bathing,” says a German scientist, "multiplies bacteria,” but few men have died from excessive cleanliness.

Chicago boasts of the year’s first heat prostration. Evidently trying to live up to its reputation as a hot old town. Once in a while the weather man causes us to forget the straw hat question and cast longing eyes at somebody’s umbrella. Chicago man was given a divorce because his wife persisted in going through his pockets. The Judge, we take it. Is a married man. In France eagles are being trained J 'to attack airships. The day may come when we shall have city ordinances requiring .the,muzzling of our eagles. I Now a scientist says that a big nose is a sign of nerve. True, and often its bigness is due to the fact that its owner insisted on putting it in other . people’s affairs. Nearly 4,200 American books were listed by publishers this Bpring, and few of them, indeed, will provide money to those who wrote them for summer vacations. Cincinnati women have voted to set an example in simplicity. Gut it is said sometimes that there is nothing else so expensive as simplicity, that is, fashionable simplicity.

Trinity Church. New York, has an cheap a man who can’t afford to put more than a nickel upon the contribution plate must feel there. —— — A Pennsylvania court rules that "a voter’B home is where his wife lives.” Which leaves the bachelors to find • their own homes, a feat sometimes difficult for some of them late at night. The New York Medical Journal makes the announcement that card playing is injurious to the mind. It does not explain how it found the material that was necessary for experimenting. The new French aeroplane line over the English channel has adopted a 15minute schedule. An Indian woman wants a divorce because her husband tried to compel her to wear his old false teeth. When the case comes to trial her lawyer ought to be able to work in a few bits of biting sarcasm. Ten bull fighterß killed and 166 Injured in 872 bull fights in Spain dur- - jng i9ii is a statistical testimonial that Spain’s bullfighting game is determined to keep ahead of our national pastime of football. r. . ... ~ ~ An English writer tells us that women would make successful explorers. When it comes to exploring the fastnesses of friend husband’s trousers in the dead of night they certainly are there, as the lowbrows say. > £— Baseball magnates threaten to short? , on the playing season, but they gen- , erously'refrain from taking any action ? which might prevent the fans from tatking about or thinking of the game the whole year round. ES;-. A Chicago woman advertised for a maid and promised an auto ride once | a week as ah inducement Her only applicant wanted to see a picture of the Chauffeur. Certainly; there could * be no joy in a Joy ride if the element of Joyousness were missing. In San Francisco, the defendant in f a divorce suit ignored his child, but I jßffcad that the custody of a pet span- , Mbe awarded to him. Thfe dog with the child was awarded by the court IpteCljli-more human-minded of the conism partners * the caw.