Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1913 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The Daily Republican Ktwr D»y Kac+pt wuwUy HEALEY A CLARK, Publishers. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. Now H is the "individual drinking cup” for the horse! It is embarrassing to borrow money from a deaf friend in a crowd. New York is to have stepless cars The much-maligned hobble skirt did i What will the government do w’th all the microbes it washes off the currency? Still, “refined boxing” is not likely to become a popular parlor entertainment. » Despite the old adage, some people have married at leisure and repented in haste.

It is natural that general optimism should increase with the abundance of cherry pie. Let us quit railing at the motorcycle. It ranks among the utilities that have come to stay. Cautious owners of motor boats will take along a pair of oars and keep within sight of land. , - Europe would be still more disquieted if it had two baseball pennants to worry about. Will the government experts who are to investigate the oyster beds be classed as chambermaids? Press dispatches say there is a rev olution in Venezuela, but fail to state whether it is yet or again. Fourteen thousand books are turned out in this country a year, and only six of them become best sellers. At 51,600 for four pounds of Pomeranian dog, the prevailing high prices for cattle and hogs seem dirt cheap. • Wisconsin has a law prohibiting gossip. But 1b there a man in Wisconsin who can tell what gossip is? A Cincinnati woman wants all her sex to wear a badge reading: “I kiss not" The answer to that is: “I guess not” New York is to have not only the largest court house in the country, but the largest church. It needs both. The older generation is unaffected by the Immodest fads which modern society sanctions; but what of the young? The difference between your own child and your neighbor’s is that youF child Is a cherub and your neighbor's Is a brat.

Now It Ib discovered that the earth wabbles. This will furnish a new and effective excuse for those shaken by this wabbling from the straight and narrow path. * We have seen men sneer at futile feminine fashions and then go into a furnishing store and use good gray matter deciding upon the color of a new pair of garters. They say. photography iB useless in portraying feminine fashions for the reason, which men can readily believe, that such figures as women would like to haye do not exist Now that goat meat is being substituted for mutton, a bright remark such as “you generally get the butcher's goat when you ask for spring lamb” is quite permissible. A newly-married pan in New York has been held up and robbed of his money three times in three days. But by the time he has been married a few months he will be used to it. The girls in one senior class In a high school in Ohio were graduated in dresses that cost them only $1.90 apiece. And it is not recorded that they knew less in those dresses. “How many millions make a billion inquires a correspondent. Billion in America, is one thousand millions. Billion in England, is onl million millions. We should worry! ,i . A rich woman in California bought a whole township’site v to insure herself privacy and quiet This is one way of getting rid of the noises of civilization, but it is not apt to become popular. According to aßociation of commerce estimates, Chicago men pay annually $6,000,000 for 6.000,000 hats. But wbere can one find that kind of hat? Perhaps the asociation of commerce judged by appearances. The minister who says that great wealth keeps away religion seems to have bold of an idea that was being talked of about 1,816 years ago. An exchange wants all bonebead plays In baseball tabulated by themselves The request cannot be com-, plied with In all leagues in all cases. “Mon have more beautiful! figures than women, and they are-more graceful." You are given one guess as to whether th« speaker was masculine or