Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1904 — NEWS BRIEFLY STATED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS BRIEFLY STATED.

Matters of General Interest Taken from the Wires.

of the Happenings of the Past Week Given in Condensed Para* graphs for Busy People. M »

Thursday, July I*.

Adolph Bernard Spreckels, of Ban Francisco, is dangerously ill at Carlsbad, Germany, with appendicitis. An operation will be performed. A New York business man has made • bet of 120,000 against 310,000 that Roosevelt will be elected.

Georgs Henderson, a Chicago actor, obtained a divorce from Bessie Seabright because she smoked cigarettes and used bad language to him. The department of commerce and labor has commenced the publication of a series of reports on the educational system of Germany. The crops in some of the southern provinces of Russia are a failure and a famine is a possibility. The “Mad Mullah” is reported to be fifty miles from Berbera, the capital of Somaliland.

VrMar, July IS. At the Metropolitan regatta at Putney, England, the Winnipeg four easily won the Thames senior cup. Indignant citizens of Memphis at a mass meeting called to discuss the general disregard of law In that city advocated demanding the resignation of mayor, police chief and sheriff. The king of Italy has conferred the knighthood of the Crown of Italy upon Heinrich Conried, for promoting the revival of Italian opera. More than 1,600 soldiers of the lowa National Guard have arrived at Dea Moines for the first annual encampment to be beld on the new state permanent military grounds.

Saturday, July IA

Richard Watson Gilder, editor of ®b* Century Magazine, is almost entirely recovered from his attack of appendicitis.

Osceola Kyle, of Alabama, has taken the oath of office as judge in the canal ■one in Panama.

The Cocheco company at Dover- N. H„ has shut down until Aug. 1. making idle 2,000 operatives. United States Minister Swenson, at Copenhagen, writing of the king of Denmark, says: “He well deserves to be called the ‘gentleman king.' ” Secretary of the Treasury Shaw visited the sub-treasury at New York, on route to Washington from a vacation trip.

Eight df the largest window glass factories in the country will be placed in operation on Sept. 10 by the American Window Glass company.

Monday, July !«.

Vks National Women’s Christian tamperance Union la holding an tnatltote at Chautauqua. N. Y., continuing during tha week. Rudolph Spreckels, who Is suffering from appendicitis at Carlsbad, Germany, is mush better. The American line steamer St Louis has reached New York in a disabled condition.

The attendance—paid and free—at the St Louis World’s fair last week was 600,859; since the opening day, 4,603,585. The federal commisalon appointed to Investigate the steamer General Slocum disaster will commence Its Inquiry In New York city next Tuesday.

Fire at Cleveland, 0., partially destroyed the plant of the Forest City Bedstead company, causing a loss of 3100,000.

Tuesday, July IS. A New York lawyer was kidnaped on Broadway by three men, who now hold him s ptisoner and demand 35.* 000 for his release.

Nearly a dozen people were Injured In the derailment of the north bound passenger train on the Parls-Cleburne line of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railroad, nine miles south of Dallas, Tax. Tbs Mutual Llfs lnsurancs company, of New York, has Just paid 3500,000 to the heirs of the late Cbas. Netcber, of Chicago.

Charles D. Rogers, of Chicago, who was injured in an auto accident at Farmington, Conn., last week, Is dead. Twenty thousand members of the A. O. H. are in convention at St Louis.

° During a riot of strikers at Cluses, France, several shots were fired,resulting in the killing of four persons and the wounding of twenty-five. Professor Isaac Roberts, the distinguished astrologer, is dead at the Beacon observatory at Crowborough, Sussex, G. B.

Wednesday, July 20.

W. J. O’Brien, Jr., of Baltimore, has been elected grand exalted ruler of the Elks as tbe Cincinnati national meeting. Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany will begin in the autumn a tour around tbe world on board tbe training ship Charlotte. The Lady Maccabees at their national convention at Detroit elected as supreme commander Mrs. Lillian M. Hollister, of Detroit, and as supreme record keeper Miss Bina M. West, of Port Huron, Mich. Thermometers at the street level at New York show 100 degrees. Representatives of all the great armor making firms of the world met In conference In London to rearrange royalties, etc. Dave Barry knocked out Harry Foley In the seventh round with a left hook on the point of tbe jaw In, a “go” at Los Angeles, CaL

Ths* For Mouruiuer. A lady In London was asked for aid by a poor woman whom she had befriended. “My husband Is dead and I haven’t a stitch of mourning,” said the woman. "Please do help me.” “But,” replied the lady, “why go Into mourning? You do not really mourn the loss of that man. He used to L?at you and the children. He stole their clothes and yours to buy drink. Hs tried to murder you. He had been absent from home for months. Now that he has turned up again and died, you want to buy black with money which should go to feed your Children.” The woman admitted the truth of It all. “God was good to take him,” she said unaffectedly, “but what will the neighbors say If I don’t put on black?" "Well, supposing I do manage to help you, for what day do you want the clothes? When Is the funeral?” the lady asked. “Oh, there ain’t no funeral, mum,” the suppliant answered. "My husband died nine months ago In the prison ’orspltal, but it's only this mornIn’ as I’ve ’card about It”

Conundrum*. What did Lot’s wife turn to? To rubber.

Why is a dog’s tail a great novelty? Because you never saw it before. Why was Eve made? For Adam’s express company.

Why does a ben lay an egg? Because if she dropped it she would break it

Why do chimneys smoke? Because they can’t chew. What becomes of the night when day breaks? Goes into mourning (morning).

How to Know the Kingbird. The upper parts of the kingbird are elate colored, with black head, wings and tall, a white band at the end of the tail and an orange spot on the crown, under parts pure white, a little grayish on the breast.

The Reason. Grandma Gruff said a curious thing, “Boys may whistle, but girls must sing.” That’s the very thing I heard her say To Kate, no longer than yesterday.

“Boys may whistle." Of course they may, If they pucker their lips the proper way. But for the life of me I can't see Why Kate can’t whistle as well as me.

"Boys may whistle, but girls must sing." Now I call that a curious thing. If boys can whistle, why can't girls ioo? It’S the easiest thing in the world to do.

So. if the boys can whistle and do it well, Why cannot girls—will somebody tell? Why can’t they do what a boy can do? That Is the thing I should like to know.

I went to father and asked him why Girls couldn’t whistle as well as I, And he said, "The reason that girls must sing Is because a girl’s a sing-ular thing."

And grandma laughed till I knew she'd

ache When I said I thought It all a mistake. “Never mind, little man." I heard her say, "They will make you whistle enough some day."