Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-08-20

Historian Maclay should look up the
generally accepted definition of the word
boomerang. Denver Post.
Senator Hanna's son has found some
thing easy. He has been made president
of soft coal company.-St Paul Dis
patch.
Admiral Cervera says he never met
Admiral Sampson. This comes from the
fact that he called when the latter was
out.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
1t seems after all that the Boer women
and children are treated fully as well
as the British soldiers. except in the
matter of medals.-Detroit News.
The principal occupation just now of a
lot of people with checkered matrimonial
careers is that of kidnapping their own
children.-New York Evening Sun.
With the unions fixing the price of la
Dor and the trusts fixing the price of
manufactured products where does the
consumer come in?-Topeka Journal.
A Chicago preacher has been compar-
ing heaven to the average summer resort
most all women, with Il very slim sprin-
King of men.-Cleyeland Plain Dealer.
There are so many big strikes in exist
eRce among the workingmen of the coun-
try at present that il is becoming difficult
to keep track of them.-TOpeka Journal
If our national prosperity can stand
mistaken against the onSlaughts of
strike and drought there ought to be no
question of its permanently, - Toledo
News.
One good thing about the drought in
the corn belt is that it brought into line
thousands of people who had been neg
Letting their prayers - Detroit Free
Press.
The price Of coal in Ottawa, Canada.
has. been reduced from 81 to $5.25. The
ways of PierpOnt Morgan as well as
Providence are inscrutable. - Detroit
News.
Can it be considered another invasion
of American IDEAS when the stockholders
of London financial institution talk
about lynching the rs?-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Epworth League girls of Illinois have
offered to give part OF their skin to re-
store the beauty Of two sisters injured in
a railway accident. Christianity grows.
Buffalo News.
Maclay, alleged historian and distorter
of facts, says he is not afraid of suit
against him by Admiral Schley. This is
the way in which irresponsible people al
ways talk-Batimore News.
The American public will require bet
ter authority than English publications
before it believes that Beers are half
savages,' and delight in numbering
wounded meu.-Buffalo Times
The newspapers of this city are pub
fishing earnest appeals to the honest
voter" The far more effective dishonest
voter will be approached in another way.
San Francisco Evening Post
In dry regions there is a great deal of
talk about meeting the drought problem
by irrigation. There is only one drawback
to irrigation, ami that is the absence of
water.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Capt. Strong and May Yohe Hope sail
ed for Japan under the name of Smith.
For those who saw May when she was
here a few weeks ago it is difficult to
understand why Smith left home.-Chi
cago Journal.
1t appears that the Sultan of Turkey
has determined to buy no more warshipS
in Germany unless that country will
cease its outrageous practice OF asking
to be paid for them.-Philadelphi Bulle-
tin.
An upright judge, learned in the law
is respected. whether he is in gown or
shirt sleeves, whether he grows whiskers
or a mustache, or has n smootIr-shaven
face; whether he wears. a wig or goes
bald-headed.-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
DR.. Parker, of Detroit, states that men
grow bald because they do not breathe
deeply enough. This accounts for the
short-windcd gentlemen who are seen in
the front row at the thpater when the
ballet comes to. town.-Baltimore Ameri-
can.
The nature Of the Texas mules is so
poorly understood in England that native
negroes will chaperone, the mules here
after There is a strain of independence
in the American mule thnt cannot be CON
quered by English drivers, - Buffalo
News
A resident Of Texas devised a shotgun
trap for thieves. The trap worked all
right. but the inventor was a trife abb
sent-mihded, and now the coroner is
searching the dictionary for suitable
words in which to frame the verdict
Omaha News.
The increase in the price Of coal ~
cents per ton on account Of drought and
excessively hot weather is certainly
something new under the sun. 1t has
not been generally known that the coal
crop. too, has been injured by the
drought.-St. Louis Chronicle.
\ New York magistrate allowed
woman to fix the penalty for her hus-
band, who had been arrested for beating
Der, and she made Il three months on
the rock pile. In a few days she will no
doubt be holding an umbrella over him
while he is ut work.-Denver Post
Admiral Schley seems to have dozen
or 80 bureau enemies, while the mil
lions Of the cOuntrys population firmly
believe him a hero-and yet the little
clique seems able to blight his career If
not his fame The tail certainly does
wag the dog at times-and a pretty stub
by. scrubby tail at that.-San Francisco
Bulletin.
The Sampson-Schley controversy is in
terestine as showing how small some
great men really are.--Toledo News.
Sparks from the Wires.
An electric car. Chicago. hit q large
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