Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1907 — Pulse of the Press [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Pulse of the Press

It isn’t the reckless chauffeur that the country wants, but the wreckleas.— Washington Herald. Isn’t it nearly time to organize the Society of Daughters of Presidential Possibilities?—New York Mail. A bachelor can become very fond of spending ills nights at. the club by getting married. —New .York Press. Emperor William believes, in a simple diet for his fighting forces. Most of them already get it- —Boston, Transcript. ‘ Mr. Rockefeller says true success lies In doing good. Standard Oil victims have always been done that way.—New York World. Pittsburg now claims a population of GOO,OOO. And less than fifty of them have been found to be good citizens. — Philadelphia Inquirer. To administer exact Justice is difficult. A Chicago man who poisoned six people is to be hanged, but only once. —Philadelphia Ledger. President Roosevelt warmly approves the idea of teaching boys to shoot — but, it is hoped, not with toy rifles. — Philadelphia Inquirer. A Florida farmer cleared $1,200 on one acre of cabbage in the spring. There is money in some cabbage heads, it seems—Washington Herald. If the House of Commons is ‘‘the best club in England,” the United States Senate Is the leading matrimonial bureau in America. —New York Mall. An increase of 31,000 first-cabin passengers to Europe for' the first six months of 1907 means many, many souvenir postal cards.—New York Mail.

“Don’t kids babies; it is dangerous,” says a physician. It is also moderately dangerous, under certain circumstances, to kiss a grown-up.—Washington Herald. President Roosevelt puts in several hours a day chopping wood. Not being a candidate for anything, he does not have to bother about sawing it. —Chicago News. When Fighting Bob Evans says there isn’t going to be any war with Japan that settles it. If he can do without a fight the rest of us must.—Philadelphia Press. It is noticed with regret that New York’s all-night police court is crowded with business. Prosperity of this sort can’t be commended. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. In Germany a jury in an important murder case was selected in ten minutes. Over there stupidity and ignorance are not requirements.—Philadelphia Ledger. Bombs are still flying through the air in Russia, though it is such an everyday occurrence that the cable doesn’t pretend to report all the Incidents. — Philadelphia Press. Now that a Chicago professor has discovered that sea gulls can talk, some of the things the wild waves have been saying may be traced to their sotirces. —New York World.

A scientist estimates that the sun’s heat will last for 30,000,000 years longer. What a long time It will take to prove that he doesn’t know anything about It!—Philadelphia Inquirer. The final decree of divorce having been entered in the Castellane case, another is added to the loug list of matrimonial warnings which will have no effect whatever. —New York Sun. A man who sold strawberries in Washington In boxes that had raised bottoms has been fined $l5O. The judge ought to start earlier in the strawberry season next year.—New York World. Swell society In Newport seems surprised to learn that an ape dresses as well and behaves as well at the table as its own members, but the rest of the world is not surprised.— Philadelphia Record.

Tbe Council Bluffs clergyman who promised to bang himself if the maximum fine was Imposed on the Standard Oil Company Is strangely inactive Why does he not get busy?—Milwaukee Journal. Mr. Schwab thinks the United States fan build five battleships to Japan’* one, and as he happens to be in That line of business he would no doubt like to see the fact demonstrated.— Washington Post. “In this great, whirling, pushing, competing, busy world,” says Arthur Brisbane, “there la no substitute for brains.” What a pity, when so many people are sadly In need of a substitute! —Washington Post The fact that some German officer* were Jn a balloon over Berlin three hours ought not to be regarded as rec-ord-breaking. The Cxar of Russia ha* been up In the air for several years.— Louisville Courier-Journal.

Another promoter of libraries Bays that you can tell a man by bis books. Yet only the other day a river pirate was shot 3fcad and they found a volume entitled "The Life of St John the Divine” in his pocket—New York Sun. Before the offer of some Western fanners of |9 a week with board and the company of their daughters is accopied py prospective harvest handi they WIU probably have to forward photographs of the girls.—lndlaoapo Us News*