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1t begins to look rs though the hole In
the Globe Savings Banks assets might be
about four sizes larger than the bank
Chicago News.
The next senatorial roll of honor will be
composed of the names of those Senators
who do not make tariff speeches.-Cin-
cinnati Tribune.
The Mississippi has evidently mistaken
itself for u campaign orator. Its mouth
Is said TO be twenty-five miles wide
Chicago Dispatch.
If Colorado women are allowed to en-
list In the State militia an entirely new
meaning will be given to dress parade"
Chicago Tribune.
When the Greeks and Turks get TO
fighting in those ballet dancer costumes
the kaleidoscope men can get some inter-
esting pictures. American.
A motorman has to be experienced be
fore he can manage always to stop MS
car with the rear platform directly oppo-
site mud puddle.-Somerville Journal.
Will the Kentucky legislator who wants
to brand burglars on the face please ex-
plain what good it would do man SO
branded to reform ?--Cincinnati Tribune.
Fourteen men committed suicide in Chi
cago last week They hadn't any money
with which to pay their fare to some other
| place-Cincinnati Commercial Advertis-
| er.
The Kaiser has ordered lot of new uni
| forms, but he will never be thing OF real
glory until ne comes over here and gets on
la Governors staff.-San Francisco Chron-
| icle
When last heard from that book agent
who recently invaded Mississippi with
work on Irrigation" was only few rods
ahead of the mob.-Chicago Times-Her-
aid.
| After all, civilization hasn't progressed
SO very much during the past 800 years.
A set of loaded dice has been found in the
ruins of Herculaneum.-Cinc Trib-
| une.
| Talking about "good money" that $780,
900 Government appropriation for flood
relief looks nightly like some of the best
that Uncle Sam ever made.-St. Louis Re
public.
| For once Congress has shown how rap
| idly il can work il il wishes, and the flood
i
luck in receiving such prompt attention.
Chicago Journal.
/ Whatever system may be adopted it
should be understood that hereafter con-
tractors will be paid only for removing
| the garbage and not for political pur-
poses.-ChicagO Post.
As the Carnegie firm controls the sup
ply of armor plate and the Government
practically controls the demand for it an
interesting clash of monopolies appears to
be Washington Star.
The explanation that Bank President
Spalding is in retirement collecting his
shattered nerves" is not satisfactory. His
nerve doesn't seem to be of a kind that
can be hattered.-Chicago Tribune.
There may be some doubt as to the abil-
lty of our new battleships to put up fight,
but there can be no valid objection to the
new Assistant Secretary of the Navy on
that particular score.-New York Journal
Forcing railroads to carry bicycles as
baggage is attended by considerable dan
ger. The various things an ill-natured
baggage-smasher can do to bicycle are
too alarming to contemplate.-New York
Journal.
The most satisfactory display the Unit.
ed States could make at the Paris EXPOSE.
ton wonld be to display receipt in full
for the claims of those French exhibitors
at the Worlds Fair in 1S93.-Chicago
Tribune.
"Give me $15O,0O0." observes Explorer
Peary, land 1 will find the north pole"
We decline with thanks. We can't afford
to fritter away that much money on cold
deal ike this.-New York Commercial
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