Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1919 — TOPICS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

TOPICS IN BRIEF.

Think of all the Daughters of the Revolution Europe is going to have. —Detroit News. . x Jesse James had an efficient little Spartacus group while at lasted. — Greenville Piedmont. Even the Prohibitionists would like to see food-prices take a drop or two. —Boston Transcript. When Europe plans to start something hereafter it will “see America first.”—Columbus Citizen. * Advices from Portugal say Coimbra is quiet. This puts Coimbra m a class by itself. —Detroit News. The boys over there who had an ambition to cross the Atlantic stall have the same ambition. —Greenville Piedmont. . . Portugal is another instance ox trying to be a republic without the little red school house. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. „ „ In the monarehial algebra ex equals nothing.— Arkansas Gazette. -We are about to enter the golden age of buttermilk. —Baltimore Sun. How can the Huns trust one another to count the ballots? —Greenville Piedmont. _ ... Germany thought of everything m advance except the fiddler’s fee.— Columbus Citizen. Tom and Jerry have secured positions in Mexico for the next winter. —Minneapolis Journal. Discharged American soldiers, seeking employment, tan give Germany as reference. —Toledo Blade. Don’t delay the cash to the boys in khaki. The dough-boy « worthy of his dough.—St. Louis Globe-Demo-The Peace Conference wiH abolish war and then make new and more humane rules of warfare. —Greenville Piedmont.