Okolona messenger., 1902-06-18

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Il looks now as though the sthmian canal will be
built over the panama route il at all.
For a man who has bid farewell to politics sena-
tor Quay is leading rather strenuous political life
To the long list of lost causes recorded in the
worlds history will now De added that OF indepen-
dence iu South Africa.
Senator Vest was the Ouly Democrat in the SEN
ate who voted against the resolution for the popular
election Of senator's.
The campagner who fears to discuss matters in
which the people are interested avoid it this
year by talking about the Philippines.
Even George WashiugtOu's autograph is not so
attractive as that of ]. PierpOnt Morgan when the
latter is signed to large check.
The movement in creeds says the Brooklyn Eagle,
is towards love, mercy and tenderness and away
from vengeance, rancOr, revenge and tyranny.
Mr.. Edison has invented an automobile which
goes so fast as to take ones breath away It should
prove popular to persons addicted to the onion eat
ing habit.
A number of Viennese women have started a
dress reform league with the object of suppress sing
the corset and introducing a new kind Of
divided skirt.
A crisis is predicted in Russia The demand for
parliamentary government is said to be permeat-
ing the army, upon which despOtism must always
rely for its maintanence.
A cablegram says that there is great laugh all
continental Europe over President Roosevelt "send-
ing by an official ambassador complete set of his
literary works as present to the Pope"
King Edward is giving whitelaw Reid Prince
Henry sort OF a time. The entente cordiale between
Great Britain aud the United States was never in a
better state of preservation than at the present
time.
It seems now reasonably to expect that canal
bill will be passed at this session. and that il will
be neither Nicaragua nor Panama canal bill, but
simply canal bill, with the president authorized
to build such canal as will best serve the interests
OF the American people.
This is from Connecticut woman's diary, dated
1890: eve had roasted pork for dinner, and DR.. S.,
who carved, held up rib on his fork and said:
Here, ladies, is what Mother Eve was made Of
Yes said Sister Patty, and it's from very much
the same kink of cTitter.' -
One of the most remarkable curiosities Of ltera
tuTe is description written by Daniel DefOe, the
author II Robinson CrusOe, in 171S and published
in journal of that day, Of the terrible volcano and
tidal wave that destroyed the Island OF Martinique
a few weeks ago. He almost exactly located the
Tennessee now has 1,445 names on its state pen
sion roll of old Ex Confederate soldiers and the total
amount paid to them in the last year was S149,22O.
No more names be added unless the legislature
increases the appropriation. The pensioners are
devided into three classes-the first receive $500
year each, the second 5000 and the third 800.
Where have the children gOne-the boys and
girls of ten, twelve and fourteen yearsf Has the
Pied Piper of Hamlin risen again after all these
years from his crypt in the businesses Of the German
mountains and called them away from us.-Mem-
phis Scimitar.
The little girls ''al present or accounted for
As to the boys, you will probably find them ''rat-
thing the bones" in crap game somewhere about
the wood shed, barn, or fence corners Lack Of
public libraries, reading rOOms gymnasiums, base
ball eames etc., established and encouraged for
their benefit by their parents forces them into lines
generally condemned. You can't tie down safety
valve without danger to the bOiler.-AbeTdeen Ex-
aminer.
: The Illinois Central Railroad Company has lust
completed the work Of equppng all Of the principal
stations between Memphis and New Orleans with
long distance telephones The connections we're
made Monday for the entire system. These phOnes
are designed to relieve the telegraph wires OF all
business save that OF train dispatching work.
''This year." said Philadelphia young man who
haunts the theaters, 'there doesn't seem to be any
popular song that has caught on to the exclusion
of Others. This condition OF affairs is really remark
able, when you come to think of it. OF course the
summer is young yet, and it may still come, bat
the conditions are against it. In previous years,
wherever you would go, you would be sure to hear
the popular song of the day. PLAYED by bands In the