The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-05-05
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1t has been suggested that if
Blanco has a white flag within
reach it may save him much trou-
ble.- Saltwater Gazette.
Chicago editors are involved in
serious quarrel over Andree's
first name. How would Dennis
do?-Minneapolis Times.
The florists are talking Of form
ing a combine and refusing to sell
plants to women who give ''slips"
to their neighbors. -Atchison
| Globe.
When man is sick the aver
age woman likes to Lave him sick
enough not to keep her running
downtown after cigars Chicago
Record.
Some Of our esteemed and ex-
cited contemporaries are so heav-
| lily loaded with head lines that
they have no room for the news
Washington Post.
AS Spain has been whipped by
every other power worth mention
ing, she may merely wish the
United States to make it unani--
mous.-St Paul Dispatch
If there is no objection, lett be
taken as the sense of the meeting
that Spain be permitted to use all
the Manila rope it wants in hang
ing itself. -St. Paul Globe.
Two airships are said to have .
passed over Duluth Monday 90
ing towards Canada. Is it an ex-
odus from the country Of the lingo
statesmen.-Brainerd Dispatch.
One of the good results of the
war is that the Spanish fandango
has ceased to be popular among
the beginners on the guitar in
this country.-Chicago Inter Ocean
The Yankees are not so slow.
Within eight days after the declar-
alton Of war they met a fleet of
the enemy on the other side of
the world and annihilated it
Minneapolis Tribune.
This week the Red Cross Soci-
ETY. will invade Cuba with its tons
of food for the starving thousands.
We shall teach Europe several
lessons in the art of war before
the year is out.-St. Louis Repub-
lie.
Lord Butes effort to encourage
marriage at Cardiff, Wales, by Of
fering a dowry once year to a
deserving girl has proved a failure.
There has not been Il single appli-
cation for the dowry for a year
past.-San Francisco Argonaut.
A Chicago orchestra was in
railroad wreck the other day The
members may now in manner
realize how an audience feels when
an organization such as theirs
suddenly breaks loose on a Wag-
merriam selection.-Denver Post.
Naval tradition holds that good
men with poor ships are more eff
fective than poor men with good
ships. But the present American
combination of good men with
good ships is the one that does
the business. -New York Mail and
Express.
The most trying experience in
the career Of of a maiden who has
passed the blush of romantic girl
hood is when she braces herself
to meet the shock Of a proposal Of
marriage from some man and the.
shock doesn't come.-St. Louis
Humorist.
The European idea that the
American forces, naval and mill
tary. are ''undrilled and undisci-
plined'' may undergo revision af-
ter reading of the work done by
the sailors and gunners aboard
our ships at Matanzas and Ma
nilla And said idea is likely to
undergo a second revision when
our land forces get into action
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The sins of the Spanish in Cuba
are as scarlet. There are few worse
crimes than the taking Of human
life. There are none worse than
those the Spanish have committed
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