Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-12-03


After { GIRL gets married and has q
baby her friends couldn't awaken her
interest IN them BY growing trunks
like the elephants.
"Autos have come 10 stay" says a
New York paper. They are all right
when they stay. II Is when they 60
they make trouble.
How tenderly you think Of the lit
tie mannerisms OF those you like, and
how you dislike those OF the people
you have no use forl
After q long silence, Miss Stone rises
TO remark that the United States
ought to demand that money back.
Forget It, Miss Stone.
Girls are apt to rave about an ideal
friend, but In a few years the ideal Is
found in any kind old soul who Offers
to take care of the baby.
Some philosopher once told the
world that there was plenty of room
at the top, and the world has taken
bis word for il ever since.
What a man can't learn about
swearing trying to make the furnace
work isn't worth the recording an
gels paying any attention to.
This shining in society may be all
right, but the downtown side of it is
that those who shine brightest are
most disagreeable at their work NEXT
day.
We have noticed that when the
wires get crossed we can always hear
one woman complaining to another
how much it costs to get up a church
social.
Secretary Root must have been,
greatly impressed with the artistic.
beauties of the new army uniforms.
He wants congress to buy 100000 Of
them.
When a widoWer with a lot of little.
children whispers the same old story
into a woman's ear, we'd think she
would suspect that she was being.
"worked."
Emperor William might take kindly
to Carnegie's suggestion to form a
United States Of Europe IL he were TO
be the grand chief and overload Of
the same.
The club women Of New York have
begun a crusade for half fare on the
street railroads when they cannot get
seats. Now let the street railroad
companies beware.
Not one Of the sisters of charity
who nurse and take care of the Louis
lana lepers has contracted the disease.
One hundred sisters, in one body, vol
unteered to do this duty.
Judging from the comments of the
foreign press, some of the European
countries might like to apply for Mr..
R~oosevelt's services when his engage
ment with this country expires.
The people of the tidy little island
of Guam will soon give official greet
ms to a new governor. Comic opera
librettists in search of material will
please note and act accordingly.
After the arbitration commission
has reported on the miners wages,
couldn't some arrangement be made
In the interests of the consumer by
which the coal price could be arbitra-
ted?
A Washington. man who stole a
pigs foot was sentenced to two
months in the work house. It might
not have gone harder with him if he
had worked under the old motto and
taken the whole hog or none.
A prOber into startling facts makes
the astonishing statement that it costs
as much yearly to keep a dog as it
does to keep sixty hens, aud thirty
hens will lay 5000 eggs while a dog
will not lay any. Go to the head.
Two deputy United States marshals
in North Dakota who travelled on
passes and then charged their railroad
fare to the government have been
sent to the ~penitentiary to reflect.
Suppose a member OF congress should
travel on a pass and then accept mil
cage?
The output of lead in the United
States since 1895 has increased to such
an extent that it has wrested from
Spain the position of primacy in the
worlds production. In 1900 the
United States produced 1915 per cent. i,
while Spain's share bad receded to
1877 per cent. In 1901 the United
States increased it's production of
lead to 900, 900 tons.