Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1913 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mexico's revolution seems to be a victim of the hookworm. Mme. Sembrich says that wiggle' dances are terrible for young folksAlso tat tofts. A Chicago girl almost wedded the wrong twin. These hasty marriages should be discouraged. A Chicago waiter died leaving IV 000,000. To paraphrase: ”He gets his too, who stands and waits.” New York a 41ve lobster have done it In a pinch, though. 1 P*!-' ■■■!■ 1 - '■!_■" LJ ™~- ' :—; Chicago chef found a SSOO pearl In an oyster, says reports. Press dope to advertise the house, quite likely. The English language is employed by 150,000,090 people. Of that number, a few speak it The rest mangle it , . . . .

A vast amount of oleomargarine was manufactured in this country last year, and some of it was eaten by mistake .. for butter. .... .. . New York moving pictures are being exhibited showing brain diseases. A brain storm must be equal to the real thing. British babies are now worth $7.50 a head, but you would scorn to trade your American baby tor the whole British empire. x, California woman divorced her husband because he annoyed her by frequent praying. Too much of a good thing, no doubt

England’s first dreadnaught which revolutionized the naylea of the world, is only six years old and yet it is already outclassed.

Those New York waiters who struck before the diners had dined did not seem to care about the slip between the cup and the tip.

St Louis physicians are employing a tuning fork to cure a disordered throat We know lots of singers we wish they’d practice on.

Man is at his best at 40, according to a symposium of Berlin scientists. There is hope for the woman, if she only boosts that 80 mark now.

There will soon be a million automobiles in this country. This will provide one for every 96 Inhabitants, which still crowds the joyriders.

A woman injured In getting off a train has lost the power of speech. However, her lawyer will probably do all the talking that is necessary.

It is said that the railroad ties of the future will be of cement, which will come nearer suggesting the sidewalks of Broadway than the wooden ones. ......____2

Some one might make a hit and a great deal of money by training lobsters for the New York market to crawl to the table under their own power. — •< Dr. Vaughn of the University of Michigan declaims against the “clinging vine" girl as a wife, but does not specifically suggest any twining substitute. A French physician says that walking on all fours will cure indigestion. Here’s another excuse for "the man who has to adopt this mode of locomotion when he reaches home at 8 a. m. An advertisement recently appeared in a German paper offering a reward for a watch lost from an aeroplane. Just suppose it had been a monkey wrench!

A steerage passenger with 150,000 in his pocket has been admitted in New York. If he is there yet it isn’t necessary to ask whether or not he still has lt_ The pigeon, says a Harvard professor, leads an intellectual life. Our observation is that the father pigeon’s chief Intellectual diversion is grumbling and swearing. After April 13 whistling and cane swinging will be barred on the streets of Berlin, and not more than three persons can walk abreast on the sidewalks of that thoroughly governed city. A Kansas editor says that when he was a young man about all the boys had to do to dress for a party was to pull their trousers out of their boots — but Kansas has greatly changed sinoe *then. x Arnold Bennett says ft is no sign of ability to accumulate a fortune. True, the ability Is displayed in keeping It .■ .1 .i A Virginia editor recently died owing 3832.,331. And yet there is a standing joke regarding the impecunlosity of the profession. ? - . j An index system of tunes that win help popular song writers with defective memories is announced as the latest. Judging from popular tunes, we always were of the opinion that writ crs had wonderful memorising ability.