Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-19

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The way Outlaw Tracy handles fire.
arms has led some TO think of him IS be-
ing real of-a-gun.-Boston Herald.
The experience of Gen. Bragg suggests
that when a man leaves home he should
take his wife with him.-Milwaukee
News.
The Chicago safety deposit vaults seem
to be merely convenient mediums for put
ting money into circulation.-Sioux City
Journal.
good. round dollars that Mr.. Jeffries and
Mr. Fitzsimmcns lugged away with them.
Detroit Free Press.
Missouri is patting itself on the back
over its bumper peach crop, and an
nounces to Michigan you have got TO
show us.T-Burlington Hawkeye.
Seven thousand eigarmakers have gone
on strike in Manila, and yet there are
folk that pretend the Filipino cannot be
Americanized.- Detroit Free Press.
Oshkosh has always been considered as
apretty smooth town, but just wait until
we get that new eastor-oil factory to run
ningLOshkosh Daily Northwestern.
Texas, although not an original State
is full of original people. A Texas con-
gresSiopal convention took $500 ballots
without making NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Post
1t is announced that the police have
beer holding a pretty Denver young wom-
an. which las presumably been a pleas
ant occupation for the force.-Salt Lake
Tribune.
A Gunnison man seized a pitchfork and
Ben Tillmanized a large skunk that had
been killing his chickens. The funeral of
his clothes was SHINY attended.-Den-
yer Post.
Perhaps we should be philosophical
enough to be thankful that Admiral
Crun'shell was not in charge of a ship at
Santiago, and let it go at that.-Wash-
ington Post.
A Chicago school teacher is suing
real estate dealer for $4,000 damages
because he tried to kiss her. Had he sue
ceeded she would probably want the town
site.-Atlanta Journal
New Jersey is trying to discover what
bird is natural enemy Of the mosquito.
The bird which could do up New Jer-
sey mosquito would certainly be bird.
Houston TEX Post.
Miss Stone is said TO have received
$4,000 for her Mcclure story. When
Mr.. Tracy gets out of funds he has but
to communicate with the magazine syn
dicate.-St. Paul Dispatch.
There was nothing unusual about the
career of Putnam Bradlee Strong, except
that he consumed more than the ordi-
nary amount of time in arriving at his
fnish.-Detroit Free Press.
Booth Harrington wants Indiana to
vote $500 a year for distribution among
Hoosier authors. Harrington is just mar
ried Does he want pension already, or
only pin money ? Buffalo News.
1t was almost pitiful to notice that
the miners who were spared from the
great disaster focked back into the
Johnstown mines again as if gaseous ter
rors were unknown.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
If the United States geologic survey
finds the hen that will lay an egg every
day perhaps it may also discover the
famous hen and half that lays an egg
and a half in a day ard half.-St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
And now the Christian Scientists of
Boston have discovered that smallpox is
another disease that will not Yield to
their treatment" SO the doctors may
not be driven out of business right away
after all.-Syracuse Herald.
1t is now rumored that the army Off
GERS are in possession of an instrument,
known as the magnetic balance" which
will detect and mark the approach of a
warship at the distance of fifty miles,
Truly, nothing seems to be impossible in
these days.-Buffalo Times.
Now that the whistling woman has ap-
peared in a New York church choir, it
is in order for some rival pastor to in
troduce the female high-wire bicycle art
iste doing a stunt between the front gal
lery and the pulpit desk. The gospel
must be made Observation-Disclosures Con-
stitution.
This is the season when the mother of
several children will pack up and remove
to the seaside, where she will stow her
self and her brood in rooms and other
accommodations far smaller and more I'M
comfortable than any at home for the
benefit of the health Of all concerned
Albany Argus.
Newark has decided that the name and
address of the owner and the registered
number of the machine must be painted
on every automobile This is not an I'M
fair proposition. One of the most impor-
tant things to do. as ISr as the public
is concerned is to make Identification
easy.-New York Evening Sun.
Jesse James body lies remembering in
the grave, but his soul appears to be
marching on in the person of Harry
Tracy, the Oregon convict, who IS max
ing & fine stagger toward shooting his
way to freedom. If his ammunition holds
out, il is probable that funerals win con-
time to be very popular out in his Vi
cinity Boston Herald.
One Of the best known methods Of pre-
venting strikes is 10 prevent them, and
the only effective means of ending strikes
that cannot be prevented is to end them.
Employers and employees would save
time, worry and money, too, if they would
consider things as calmly before strikes
as they are forced to consider them af-
Post.
That Chicago woman who wants S50,-
600 damages for being kissed must think
a lot Of her face. There are male per-
sons who would demand 80 cents each
kiss for kissing a Chicago woman. and
then LOOK upon the wage as too small for
the immensely OF the task. We await a
portrait Of this lady with $4,000 mouth
on TO her. with much longing.-Los An
geles Times
Commercial Notes.
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