Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1913 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Much has been accomplished. Opera is not only grand but profitable. When the waiters strike one can get one's own thumb Into one's own •° n PWife desertton is on the wane in New York. Due to the increase in divorces, perhaps. Yet it is hard for one to feel grateful to the man who remarks that one's hair is getting thin. x Eastern man seeks divorce because his wife hit him with a tea cup. Evidently tiie cup that jars. A Russian woman killed her husband in a duel with rapiers.' marking the decline of the rolling-pin. A man of twenty in good health may expect to live forty years longer; a man of forty, twenty-seven years. A Johns Hopkins professor has discovered that orange blossoms can be used as an anaesthetic. Often they are. A New Jersey judge announces that $43 is enough to spend In clothing a woman. Wonder how much his wife uses. German scientists have decided that a man is in his prime at fifty years of age. Dr. Osler may yet take hope. A New Jersey minister ate 32 pancakes at one sitting. Evidently he had no fear of what the hereafter consists of. London women now feed their dogs at tables in restaurants. So they can bite the waiter if he gets too fresh, perhaps. Duke Pompeia Litta wants us to wear pale blue evening clothes, regardless of chance affection for cerise and mauve. In being engaged at a large salary by the Giants, Athlete Thorpe, the disqualified amateur, seems to have been kicked upstairs. The parcel post is reported to be very heavy everywhere, but wait until Santa Claus gets his first whack at it, Dec. 25. 1913. A Philadelphia woman is said to have cured sleeplessness by using a coffin as a couch. Slept the sleep of the dead, no doubt While we are moving for universal peace, it is to be noted that Krupp's gun works show a surplus of $12,500,000 for the year 1912. - A Chicago club woman says that in the last 50 years the manners of Amer, lean men have deteriorated. Does she speak from observation? A Harvard professor says that pigeons can fall In love. The individual who wrote of cooing doves and the like realised that long ago. A live dog was sent to the Chicago postoffice to be mailed by parcel post The owner, no doubt, must have been trying the system on the dog. Arthur Faller, the aviator who set a new record while carrying five passengers in his aeroplane, has a splendid name for business purposes Comes complaint from the large cities that walking is becoming a lost art But other facilities for getting there is improving, so why worry? According to the store windows the women’s spring hats are going to be smaller and even pleasant to look upon. Bring on your vernal equinox! Now comes a college president who says Eve was not all that would be demanded of her in society today. Of course not! She couldn't turkey trot Another good substitute for capital punishment has been found. It has been discovered that it is possible to live in Philadelphia on $7.50 a week. From a cursory reading of the crime news one would hardly think that there are only ten commandments to be broken. New York women have pledged themselves pot to wear aigrettes or the plumes Of the bird of paradise, thus practicing both humanity and economy. » All that is needed to make one of those “invisible” war aeroplanes truly a terror is an invisible gentleman to guide it and an inaudible motor to propel it Now some scientist has discovered that there were two Gardens of Eden. Adam and Eve must have been a quartet A New York dispatch states that the reporters’ union struck for a five hour day. Doesn't it mean a fifteen hour day? » I Somebody in Boston comes to the front with the suggestion that women be compelled to wear aluminum hat*. Probably he 1* the man who compelled them to give up long hatpins.