The Meeker herald., 1902-04-19
COLORADO.

Now that Prince Henry'is at home
he may safely uncork that botts Of
Kentucky peach brandy.
House hunting. bonnet hunting and
octopus hunting are q few of the &C.
equations of the present season.
Another tunnel is to be built In
New York. The island Is destined to
become a veritable gopher camp.
Carnegie is making money so fast
that he has now taken to giving away
libraries in flocks instead of singly.
Insurance rates are climbing 30
high that any sudden descent will
have to be made by way Of the fire
escape.
Aguinaldo. Lukban and all Of the
captured Filipino chieftains agree that
the fat OF the land il far preferable to
tho lean.
Every time Italy looks over at Tri-
poll it thinks 1t ought to do lit
tie expanding just to keep 1t up with
the procession.
]. Pierpont Morgan does not burden
his mind with such a trifle as 10000
900. In this respect there Is number
Of us just like him.
Nineteen Italian newspapers have
been suppressed In Austria for foment-
ing disorder ON the occasion Of the re-
cent riots at Triest
From the way they are lighting the
Chinese rebels must have stood around
and watched the armies Of the allies
do things two years ago.
London is a poor location for the
coronation. There are not enough
mansions in the city to accommodate
the American millionaires.
A Russian has invented a monorail
electric road that he believes will
transport passengers at the rate of
200 miles an hour. Don't!
Now that revolvers are being used
In the noble art OF self-defense against
hazing. the college pastime will lose
some OF its zest for exuberant class
men.
The automobile appears to have the
peculiar faculty of running rich men
into the police courts. The poor mans
chance won't come till the machines
are cheaper.
Some Of the New York restaurants
now have smoking rooma for ladies."
They should be more explicit and
label them smoking rooms for per-
feet ladies.''
When Max O'Rell tells people to ire
main childish AZ long as you can" he
probably means childlike = which
doesn't sound very different to .
Frenchman.
The social climber who has wasted
his substance in golfing outfits is now
suffering from ping pongitis, a disease
chat Is said to be prevalent among
american plutocrats.
A long term IN prison seems to
destroy 4 mans appreciation of lib
erty. Hardly had Jim Younger got
out of the penitentiary when he be-
gan to yearn for matrimony.
The new IS national bank notes
bear the vignette of Benjamin Harri-
son and the new Sos that of William
Mckinley. To the acquisitive taste
the Sos are the more attractive.
Sultan Abdul Hamid has stopped the
pensions that had been allowed to sew
eral Turkish students in Paris. Nat
urally the sultan looks with suspicion
on any one who can read and write.
Yet another stem in the disappear
ance of gold lace from British officers
uniforms. Brigade orders of the Foot
Guards announce that gold-striped
trousers and overalls must be worn no
longer.
You are led to believe from the va
rious pronunciamentos of the great
powers that henceforth it is going to
be SO quiet in the far east that you
can hear q pin drop anywhere there
abouts.
Miss Susan M. Hallowell, professor
of botany for the last twenty seven
years at Wellesley college, has ten