Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-06-04
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NON never knows what he can do
Eli be tries. and then he often regrets
thot he has found out.
Tho submarine boat Holland in an
emergency may be relied upon to get
r,oht down to business.
THE bicycle balloon appears to be
success in London. Here's hoping it will
rive the scorcher lift.
New England gardener says he has
"nroduced an odorless onion" Proba-
bIy little one for scent.
The European concert may be good
musical organization. but it doesn't
NAV successfully to American audi
ences.
While the battleships have been
nainted varying shades, it's pleasure
to note that none of them have been
painted yellow.
lust at a time when baseball mines
have got so they can take the field with
out fighting it seems pity for two ma
tons TO start in.
The New York Press observes that
"patrotic girls are now wearing red,
white and blue stockings" Is that
statement made on information or be-
lief?
Fitzhugh Lee Is regarded as Presi-
dental possibility. He's not talked of
in connection with the second place on
the ticket, because it's hard to make
him take a back seat.
A New York paper says that 1.-THE ex-
pectation that electricity would destroy
the demand for horses has not yet been
realized" Why, of course not; it is inn
possible to eat an electric battery.
The Thomasville (Ga.l Enterprise
says that 'in this campaign the one
Eyed Plowboy of Pigeon R0Ost has de-
cided to tote his own skillet" We neY-
er cease to wonder at the marvellous re-
sources Of the English language.
A Boston prisoner, arrested for drum
kennes, was summarily discharged
when he said that he was the father Of
twenty-fOur children. And he had been
gone an hour before the court remem-
bered that the prisoner had testified
that he was 30 years old.
The Buffalo News says: The aboli-
ton of capital punishment in Ohio has
been defeated by tie vote. 1t was
knOtty question" Not at ALL you
haven't been keeping up with current
events. Ohio's method of legal slaugh-
ter is simply shocking, like New YOrk's.
1t Is an evidence of the change which
has come over the public mind In the
South within the last thirty years to see
Julia Ward Howe's magnificent Battle
Hymn of the Republic" which stirred
so many hearts during the war Of the
rebellion finding publication in the col
umns of the Southern press in these
days.
Science triumphs as greatly in pre-
venting waste as in discovering new
supplies. An Iron mill in Alabama is
investing a million dollars in works for
the utilization of by products that for
merly were thrown away as worthless.
We are finding that there Is nothing so
mean and base as to be altogether
worthless.
"Ninety-eight per cent. Of genius is
hard work." says Thomas A Edison,
and he adds: LAS for genius being in
spired, inspiration is In most cases an
other word for perspiration." AS the
foremost example in the world of one
type Of genius, Mr.. Edison Is an author
lty on the subject, and his aphOrism
c0rroborates Johnson's Often-Quoted
dennltion Of genius, 1.-The infinite capa
city for taking pains"
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1t Is curious to note how interest has
died out in a topic which was until a
ieW months ago almost the only one
the gold discoveries in the Klondike.
now little news Is coming out OF the
great Northwest, and nobody seems to
care Even the destructive avalanche
III Ohilkoot pass barely caused COM
nent- The Klondike has fizzled out.
ferhaps 1t is as we'll that 1t should.
Inc golden specter has lured more
than one to his death.