Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1912 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A German says electricity will cure insomnia. But with fatal results. Turkey does not seem to have done much for Europe except exist there. It Is not difficult to make the janitor believe In that rumor of a coal famine. l On the other hand Flt frequently happens that motorcycle riders are not hurt “Everybody’s going to get a red Bose,” declares a St Louis physician. Bappy days! Radium Is advanced as a cure for (out Gout always was a bloated .plutocrat’s disease. A Pittsburg tramp waß arrested with 1,000 pennies In his pocket He was coppered, all right A woman has been appointed controller of Atlantic City. Control fashions, bathing suits, or what? Electric lights have now been used about thirty years, but some people are still blowing out the gas. A German scientist says that telephones make the modern man crazy. Be must be on a four-party line. A Newport woman was fined* for stealing a dress which Bhe hid In her hat Bet It was a bathing suit An Ontario doctor advocates hot !baths as a cure for delirium tremens. QLack of whisky would Berve the same tend. The lord mayor of London may be Isome person; but there Isn’t one In » thousand on this side can tell his pame. Brussels has had a marriage on {bicycles. In the course of a century or two they may advance to aeroplanes. - A prize hen in Missouri has laid 260 teggs in eleven months. What was the hen doing on the other seventy odd days? “Love cannot thrive on less than If2o a week,” says a New York clergyrtnan, thus giving us a line on the •cost of living. . A German professor says that cooking Is a lost art, but look at the lovely fruit salads our girls are making nowadays. Queen Mary refuses to employ a typewriter for her private correspondence. Perhaps she wants her epistles correctly spelled. When Informed that $350,000 had been stolen from him a Moscow merchant aropped dead. Poverty suffers from no such shocks. A torpedo boat destroyer hit a barge In the Delaware river and was badly damaged. One can’t be too careful cf these frail war craft “Paris -is adopting American dances,” says a dispatch. We’re surely going some when we can teach Paris anything In that line. A Cornell professor announces that St new ice age Is about to strike the earth. Thank goodness, one commodity will go down In price then. Government scientists who are to raise vegetables by electricity may have noted the success with which many people raise Cain under the glow of the arc lights. A German scientist has Invented a machine that you feed vegetables into and get real milk from. It’s a safe bet there is a pump around it somewhere. So far as the reports go, none of the prehistoric cave paintings in Europe thus far discovered is an Interpretation of moonlight or a still life portrait of a pan of fried eggs. German duelists are in a dilemma. It is a disgrace to refuse a challenge, and they’ll be sent to prison if they fight. The only solution appears for them to be killed. * In the old days the happy Eskimo was able to go out and for three fish hooks buy the prettiest girl in the igloo for his wife. That was before he was discovered. Now, the girls pay for the husbands. After July 1 of next year Louisiana ■hoe dealers will have to sell pure goodß or be liable to punishment. Polar explorers will now know where to procure the footgear containing 4he greatest nourishment Prof. Flynn advocates hair pulling M a fine cure for baldness, but there’s many a man minus his hirsute adornment who won’t agree with him. In the Isle of Man, the wedding ting was formerly employed as an Instrument of torture. It is In this country today, in many Instances. Dictators of fashion state that the . waist tine may be placed this season wherever the Wearer chooses. However, It. probably will continue In the .name old place.