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was merely rising 10 cali uutentioh 10 III
desire for an increased appropriation
Washington Post.
| If there Is a blowhole anywhere in that
Supreme Court decision the railway attor-
neys can be depended upon to find it,
Kansas City Journal.
If the arbtation treaty ever energies
| from the American Senate, 1t bids fair to
look more like product of war than OF
peace.-Montreal Star.
There are some Congressman who do
not seem so large when they reach Wash
ington rs they do before they leave home.
Baltimore American.
The Grown Prince of Corea has got
himself kidnapped. 1t is to be hoped this
Is no indication that he intends to go on
| the stage.--New York Press.
1t is said that the people of the United
States smoke $4,000 tons of tobacco ev-
cry year. Nobody has attempted to weigh
the igarettes.-Cleveland Leader.
Too many bills are introduced into legis-
lative bodies, but there is always the con-
selling reflection that most of the bills in
troduced will never be passed.-Chicago
Record.
Canton doesn't exhibit good business
| judgment in offering $4,000 bonus for q
boiler factory. 1t could get season of
Wagnerian opera for less.-Chicago Times
Herald.
| Now the bacillus which causes badness
has been located by French savant, DR..
Sabourand, and vaccination for loss of
hair may be next in order.-Springield
Republican.
If reciprocity is good for anything il
ought to be able TO score hit by giving
Jamaica bromo-seltzer and watermelons
in return for rum and ginger.-Chicago
Times Herald.
The story Of Senator Quay and the
Florida panther ought to warn all such
animals of the danger attending transac-
tons with Pennsylvania politicians.-New
York Journal.
J. There are three classes of people who
cannot keep from an anxious country
what they eat for Observation-Disclosures
pugilsts and Presidential candidates.-In-
dianapolis Journal.
A New Yorker has been offered the post
Of dentist to the Emperor of Germany
He ought to accept and compel William to
cease showing his teeth at every fresh wal
scare.-Chicago Tribune.
The Court of Appeals finds that rapid
| transit in New York is constitutional. But
| it will require full bench of the Supreme
Court of the United States to find any
rapid transit in New York.-New York
Advertiser.
The Dominion Government has deter
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cost of $3,00O,00O. Canada proposes to
| become part of this country whether her
politicians like it or not.-New York Com
northumberland
When President Kruger. of the South
African republic, doesn't like an editorial
| In his morning paper, he suppresses the
journals publication. There are officials
| In the United States who must envy
Kruger his power.-Scranton Tribune.
In the Glad Spring Time.
| How the wheelmen responded to the
suns NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Plain-Dealer
The first baseball game of the season
seems to have got in ahead Of the pio-
neer robin.-Boston Herald.
Windy March has finished its task OF
blowing up the earth's pneumatic tires
| for the bicycling season.-Chicago Record
Fishing is very good in Florida, plenty OF
J fish in the river, blackberries are getting
ripe and nobody need starve.-Florida
Times-Union.
Great weather this! But the skies are
not half as blue as the poets who can't
find a market for their spring songs.-At-
lanta Constitution.
Will somebody please organize society
for the prevention of spring poets! Or
else persuade the Humane Society to in
clude this branch within its scope?-Chi-
cago Journal.
No matter what the almanac says, the
small boy will not admit that spring has
arrived until he can carry home in tin
can live snake of the vintage of 1897
Cincinnati Tribune.
Spring is evidently on the way. The
temperature mounted to 80 degrees in
Kansas one day last week. and was at
80 degrees i'm several parts of Texas. The
warm wave is said to be strolling east
ward.-Boston Globe.
Office and ORce-seekers.
The ofiice-seeker's motto: The man who
stands back is lost.-St Louis Star.
The first Indianian to refuse an Office
has come to the front. 1t Is thought he
wanted a better one.-St. Louis Chron-
icle.
Maj. Mckinley il confronted by the old
problem of how to put a million pegs,
more or less. INTO few thousand holes.-
Chicago Dispatch.
There never were and there never will
be enough offices to go around until every
citizen has an option on a public place.
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