Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1904 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PULSE of the PRESS

The mercury is bobbing np and down* these days like a poor horseback rider. —Columbus Evening Dispatch. The women have this great advantage over men: When the women talk back it is called “repartee.”—New Haven Union. The country continues to get eloquent reminders of the necessity of repealing or modifying the statute of limitations.— Boston Herald. The gambling hall at Monte Carlo will clear $7,000,000 this year. It is almost as profitable as a trust. —Philadelphia Public Ledger. This being leap year, would it not be well for the politicians to let each party do its own presidential proposing?—Columbus Dispatch. An apparatus has now been perfected to photograph your organs. Next thing will be a negative of your soul.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It appears that the only way that Colombia can attack Panama is to go up in airships and drop down cobble stones.— Philadelphia Evening Item. Somebody will invent a new color one of these days, and then the yellow journals will be printed in it with great eclat. —Washington Times. A Paris scientist has discovertd that radium paralyzes mice. Women’s clubs will lose no time in taking up the study of radium.—Detroit Free Press. Colombia’s threat to thrash Uncle Sam seems to have died out with the old year. Nervous folks can now quit shaking.—Philadelphia Evening Item. Colombia may not be able to fight, but it is certain that she can lean over the alley fence and use language to beat anything.—Grand Rapids Evening Press. The little boodler who steals a pair of shoes or a side of bacon finds that the technicalities are all of too large a pattern to fit his ease. —Kansas City Journal. If the recent New York church census shows anything, it makes it clear that the men permit the women to have the religion for the family.—Philadelphia Ledger. New Hampshire's Governor is charged with holding four positions and drawing four salaries. Just think what he is saving the State in desk room. —Boston Herald. In most respects Japan is an enlightened and progressive nation; but its desire for a war with Russia is almost South African in its temerity.—Kansas City Times. President W'ilson of Princeton has been warning the nation against the evils of selfish ease and of amassing money. No newspaper men arc in danger.—Philadelphia Ledger. However, if the two- wings of the Colombian army can get together long enough it may be possihle to have a grouif photograph taken. —Grand Rapids Evening Press. Spain hns declined to make an exhibit at the St. Louis world’s fair because she docs not like this country, and for the further reason that she has not the price. —Washington Post. As a result of his recent operation, the Kaiser has a new voice. If the Czar would submit to a similar ordeal it might materially improve the concert of the powers.—Omaha Daily Bee. We continue to get reminders from Washington that the capital of the nation is one of the worst places in the world to hear about the real trend of national politics.—Boston Herald. About this time we may take it for granted that the ice companies are busy preparing explanations about the scarcity of ice used during the summer months.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Prof. John Dill Robertson of Chicago proudly announces that he hasn’t taken a bath in two fears, and likes the result. His folks have not been heard from.—Des Moines Daily News.

The proposed curtailment of cotton goods manufacturing imperils that sacred institution, the bandana handkerchief, just when winter colds have given it its greatest popularity. —Omaha Bee. Gen. Oritz says that “every Colombian, man or woman, is capable of rising to heights of heroism.” But, general, isn’t it somewhat like the power of calling spirits from the vasty deep?—lndianapolis News. An ingenious Frenchman has Invented an engine and train of cars that will rua on an ordinary road. This will be calculated to detain the hired farm hand on the fence a good deal longer.-—Cleveland riain Dealer. Out of Chicago's calamity there has already sprung a universal demand for absolute safety in theater construction and management, and nothing short of that will be tolerated hereafter. This is the only bright side to the picture.— Chicago Tribune. The empress dowager promises much to her gods If they will Quiet troublesome provinces. I'nfertrmateiy the god»n appear as reluctant to accept this particular woman’s pledges as is mankind. — Omaha Daily Bee. That Missouri man who has invented a process for making cigars out of straw wasn’t quite quick enough to catch the holiday trade. Those who have smelled burning straw will not regret this.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. There is a new telephone that quietly impresses its messages on a phonograph cylinder, without the talker at the other end being aware of the operation. Weigh well your words when you dally with the •phone- —Cleveland Plain Dealer. All the nine points of the reforms urged by Russia and Austria have been accepted by Turkey on the condition that she is not to be humiliated. The humiliation in these cases means the carrying out of the promised reforms. —Philadelphia Public Ledger. An Indiana doctor proposes to administer disease germs to criminals sentenced to death. Why not go further and subject them to vivisection? One good thing about the scheme is that it would make the victims useful. Thai might bn a consoling thought, and it might HOC— New York Evening Son. ■ -sm