Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1903 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PULSE of the PRESS

The flood poetry is yet to come.—Topeka State Journal. In the case of the presidential insect it should rend. "How doth the little buzzy bee.”.—Washington Post. The Russian government’s hatred of newspaper publicity is worthy of darkest Pennsylvania.—Portland Argus. If we once get started killing off the imbeciles, it would be almost impoesiblo to draw the. line.—Detroit News. The papers have room for an item about Kipling’s latest poem, but not for the poem itself.—Brooklyn Standard Union. The Philippines have been swept by a hurricane, but we susiwet that there is a lot of dirt in the odd corners yet. — Baltimore News.

The Servian parliament is called the Skuptchina. Pronounce it what you please; the Press pronounces it a Rumpski. —Dayton Press. Explorations in the Postofflee Department show the presence of rich deposits Of something closely resembling “alum.” —Kansas City Times.. The arbitration germ is doing well, considering the backward season, but is still a pygmy compared with the strike mi-crobe.-—Washington Post. It will undoubtedly be safer for the new King of Servia to remain in Geneva and do his reigning by long-distance telephone.—Detroit Free Press. That large projection discovered on Mars may lx- our press muzzier. It got away from these parts in most extraordinary haste.—Philadelphia Press. Isn’t it lucky that the trees have the longest and most pliable shoots just at the season when the children are at home for idle holidays?—Atlanta Journal. The burning of the Monte di Pieta at Naples is something calaniitousl Pawnbroking is one of the leading industries of southern Italy.—Boston Herald. It is not rain that is making Wal) street so sloppy underfoot. It is merely the water the market is squeezing out of trust securities. —New York World. The shipbuilding trust is being reorganized. It was found that two or three hundred per cent of water was too much for it to float in.—New Haven Union.

One of the Kentucky feudists has beeD captured and jailed, but it is suspected that the troubles won’t end until Old Bourbon is finally jugged.—Milwaukee News. Abdul Haniid is in an embarrassing position. He can fight Bulgaria all he wants to, but the powers will not permit him to whip her.—SL Louis Globe-Dem-ocrat. Some of the platform builders will doubtless view with alarm too much irrigation in the West without the consent of the irrigated.—Richmond Times-Dis-patch. Before the press of Pennsylvania gets through with Gov. Pennypacker he will be worse disfigured than he has ever been by the cartoonists. —Memphis Com-mercial-Appeal. The powerful influence of the President during his western trip is demonstrated by the floods which have followed his eloquent talks on irrigation.—lndianapolis News. With all meat products at present high prices, what consolation is it to the farmer to read that cotton is worth 10 eesnta a pound when he has none? —Montgomery Advertiser. An exchange says “No woman ever boasted of being born in a log cabin.” No man does either until he gets into a brownstone front. Newport News Times-Herald. A newspaper epigrammatist says: “Every wife is the architect of her own husband.” Then she shouldn’t be too severe on the edifice when she botches the job.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Now that arrangements are being made to prevent the Filipinos from buying opium, we shall probably not freceive vo many pipe stories from the islands.—lndianapolis News.' The first politician to test that new Pennsylvania libel law seems to be a little backward about coming forward and securing the incidental advertising. —Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Germany is complaining again about American tariff discriminations. As long as they refuse to eat our pork, we are justified in knowing what they put in their sausage.—Washington Poet. If Gov. Pennypacker does not get “drawn and quartered” by the Pennsylvania press he seeks to muzzle, he may thank his stars for being born lucky instead of pretty.—Atlanta Journal. Woriian suffrage is defeated in New Hampshire. It will win everywhere when the women of the country want it to succeed. The men are not unfavorable of their own accord.—Buffalo News. Observant and scholarly Frenchman who has been here looking us over ax a nation says the dollar has no majesty for Americans. That’s awfully nice, unless the observant and scholarly one is jollying us.—New York Telegram. Miss Alice Snyder, an expert on the subject, says that "thorough exercise makes the more perfect woman.” It la a pity thiit some of the portraits of the female all around athletes don’t seem to bear out this theory.—New York Evening Sun. A German physician has revived the bee sting cure for rheumatism, and describes the case of a patient who after being stung 6,962 times experienced a complete cure. And yet there are people who prefer to believe in mental healing.— Boston Globe. » . The agitation in the anthracite region has not yet sobsided. \\ ith so many vexations disputes to arrange the settlement of all cannot be made at once. Bat there is no prospect of any serious trouble. That long row has taught wisdom to both sidea.—Philadelphia Item. A New Jersey court hat decided that a married woman cannot under the laws of the State bring suit for the alienation of hsr husband’s affections. This is a bint to girls thinking of marriage to learn to cook well. That is the way to hold a husband’s affections. —Philadelphia