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forward so far that the other one
never catches up.-Pine Island
Record.
Giving a man the "benefit of the
doubt is polite way of regretting
inability to convict him of some
thing or another. st. Louis HUI
mOrist.
The man who is one thing today
and another tomorrow, who drives
an idea pell nell this week while
it drives him the next is always in
trouble.-Cokato Enterprise.
1t is not quite clear whether the
Atlantic squadron has gone south
to be near Cuba or to teach the
battleship Texas how to SWIM
Milwaukee Sentinel.
When the winter SHOWS fall, we
wonder how men could ever live
in wigwams; but when our wives
start housekeeping in the spring,
we cuss the fool who invented
houses.-Up-To-Date.
A Pennsylvania rope factory is
to be removed to Kentucky. We
have all along been confident that
the lynching business in that state
would sooner or later attract out
side enterprise and capital. Chat
field News.
An eminent chemist declares
that man is simply condensed air.
This is excellent news, but it is
altogether too bad that some men.
notably James j. Corbett, persist
in uncondensing themselves.-C
cago Record.
The greatest man in the world
is the plain, plug man who pays
his debts, supports his family fairly
we'll and never does anything re-
markable. These remarkable men,
who are thoroughbreds for time
and then rob all their friends, are
to be avoided.-Grant Go. Herald.
When Thorn, one of the latest
of New York murderers, had re-
ceived his death sentence, he re-
marked. among other things: Il
had no ill-will to the man, but I
had been taking plenty of beer and
was looking for a fight" A vote
for the saloon is a vote for murder
Backbone.
Old Virginia proposes "to tax
bachelors thirty years of age" An
exchange says: New England
beats that ten to one in profit by
taxing the bank accounts of unmar-
ried women" It might be a good
thing for some Of the polite old
bachelors to emigrate to New
England.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
A law that takes a young man
who is the support Of his mother,
a wife and two children and locks
him up for thirty days leaving the
family without food or fuel be-
cause he committed the awful
crime of catching a few fish is
dandy. That's the kind of a game
law we have, and yet the people
are supposed to make the laws.
The affairs Of this state need a
a vigorous emetic.-Morristown
Press.
Speaking of the GOODNESS of
Durrant on the scaffold reminds.
the Atlanta Constitution of the
GOODNESS of another murderer which
surpasses it. When he was as
cending the scaffold he was offered
cigar by man in the crowd. He
accepted it, when another man
shouted: Don't you want match,
pardner?'' mo, thanks" was the
reply, as the sheriff was adjusting
the black cap. "I'lllight it when [
get there. Minneapolis Tribune.
The French Court of Appeals a
few days ago gave judgment in the
case of Pierre Vaux, a school
master, who was convicted of arson
in June, 1852, and sentenced to
hard labor for life. He died at
Cayenne. Another man ultimately
confessed that he had committed
the crime. but he died in prison
before his trial came on. M. Vaux.
Deputy for Dion, son of the
wrongfully convicted man, took
proceedings for the rehabilitation
OF his father-a law Of 1895 en-