Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1908 — Humor and philosophy [ARTICLE]

Humor and philosophy

By DUNCAN M. SMITH

Ashamed of Themselves. "Can he paint?” “Well, you would think some of his figures were about to step out from the canvas J’ “Because they are so lifelike?” “No; to attack the artist.” Seven Killed by Dynamite. Winnipeg. Man., Nov. B.—Seven men were killed uear Dryden by an explosion of dynamite. They were working in a deep cut on the Grand Trunk Pacific railroad. Charges of dynamite had been prepared and the men were ■till working when the electric.battery set off the powder. Three were rescued badly Injured. The dead men were Italians. Mother and Daughter Fatally Hurt. Clarksburg, W. Va., Nov. 6.—While sliding a heavy stove along the rails of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad tracks to get it home, Mrs. Joseph Fetta, aged forty, wife Of a Rosemont coal miner, ■nd her daughter Mary, aged fourteen, were struck by a fast passenger train and fatally injured. Terrible Marine Disaster. Amoy. Nov. A small steamer carrying tJOO passengers from Amoy to Tungan, a few miles distant, sank last evening. Two hundred bf the passengers were drowned. Chinese junks rescued the others.