Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1907 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE]

PULSE of the PRESS

Standard Oil’s affinity is Miss Dividend. —Chicago Tribune. There Is a prevalent notion that Rockefeller ought to divide. —Philadelphia Press. Let’s haul our navy up on the land, lest some other power should object,— New York Mail. It makes the average man feel rather cheerful to discover that last year’s overcoat is good foj- another winter. — Washington Post _ When a good Jockey can earn $50,000 a year, 4t 4s strange that so many light-weights try to get into Congress —Washington Post As the chorus girl season is coming on we may begin to look for the distribution of some swollen fortunes. — Philadelphia Press. While the President was enjoying deer meat in camp, the rest of us were growling about the dear meat at home. —Washington Post. Salesgirls in Pittsburg have been for> bidden to wear Was not life in Pittsburg hard enough before? , Inquirer. All kinds of food are getting so high in price that corned beef and cabbage will soon rise to aristocratic rank on tiie menu.—Philadelphia Inquirer. After Miss Gladys Vanderbilt becomes the Countess Szeclienyi she will always remind her friends of an incurable case of hay fever. —Washington Post.

While a Paris doctor may, as he asserts, cure cancer in thirty minutes, so Important a process ought to be worth at least an hour’s time. —Philadelphia Ledger. With the price of pie up, the cost of indigestion is again advanced. If this continues it will soon be so that no one can afford to have it.—New York Tribune. ’ . fn New England the price of pie has advanced 20 per cent. The manufacturers must have felt that they have been mincing matters too long.—Washington Post The Norwegian explorer who purposes to reach the North Pole with a team of polar bears would draw a bigger crowd if he drove up Broadway.— New York World.

It is reported that 20,000 pounds of prunes have been ordered for victualing the Pacific fleet. That ought to pnike the men feel -like fighting.— Washington Post. Pastor Aked, recently brought over from England to New York, says the story of Jonah is a fiction. Then the nature faker Is no modern creation. — Philadelphia Ledger. The Russian opinion that war between the United States and Japan is Inevitable arises, doubtless, from a not unnatural desire to see Japan Philadelphia Ledger. Women’s hats, the experts tell us, are now the same as they were a hundred years ago. That Is doubtless the reason why they seem to be looking backward.—New York Tribune.

Now somebody else is going to gladden the hearts of mankind by “making a dash for the North Pole.” Can’t the North Pole be abolished by international agreement'?—New York Sun. A new opponent of rural free delivery has arisen. The postmaster at Mount Carmel, Conn., has become tired of distributing mail on a daily wage of 15 cents. —New York Tribune. A large steel plant has been located in China, and that country is destined to discover that for ways tlrat are dark and tricks that are vain, a large steel plant is peculiar.—-Washington Tost. Doctors who plead guilty to Prof. Osier’s charges that they smoke too much may allege that they compound for their own indulgence by forbidding It in their patients.—New York World. Hunting the North Pole seems to have become a popular game. Under the rules of 190(5 and 1907 it seems to be much safer than football, autornobiling or aerial navigation.—New York Sun. The Baltimore Sun says some vaudeville “artists" are paid $lO a minute We have seen some that made us feel that we were earning that much by watching - their performance.—Washington Post. If the reduction In steamship rates goes much further the competing companies will offer not only to carry pnsaeHjfersjytthout charge, but even to give them handsome bonuses. —New York Tribune. Uncle gam Is gathering crops worth $7,000,000,000. That means about SBO worth of farm produce for every inhabitant. As a producer of real wealth the furmer Is still In a class by himself. —Philadelphia Press. Captain Amundsen announces that he Is having six polur bear teams trained for a dash to the North Pole In 1910. Matched against the Wellman airship, an Arctic race between the tortoise and the hare seems to be-prom-ised. —New York Sun. Some of those 'people who are doing so ifiru'h kicking about the Irish girl’s face on the new gold coins probably .wouldn’t get bold ol*one ofteh enough Ut recognize the lady, and wouldn’t have It long enough to commit her looks to memory.—Washington Port.