The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-02-25

Elk MOUNTAIN PIL0Y.
Crested Butte, Colo.
CHAS. L. ROSS. Proprietor.
A telescoped train is also an often
sive kind of railway merger.
The only chance the Indian has to
avoid hair cut is to learn to play
football or the piano.
II the sale of lecture notes at Har-
ward is stopped some Harvard stu
dents will have to get to work.
In some OF the remote mining camps
of the Northwest a sack of -four is al
most equivalent to sack of gold
Chicago man shot five times at his
wife, wounding her slightly. He is
probably French duelist in disguise
A Chicago woman has told her sor-
rows in song. and in consequence her
friends are always saddest when she
sings.
When the country is in danger the
country yells for a strong president.
AT other times the temptation is TO
yell at him.
One of the good signs of the times
t. tha ctr f.ta d..
prize fights. or rather in the men who
talk prize fight.
No thrifty ghost will be tempted to
place himself on exhibition before the
French academy of science for the
paltry prize of $4,000.
Fitzjames turns out to be another of
Sybil Sanderson's misflts. Perhaps all
Sybil's affections went overheard on
that very rough passage to Europe.
A new form of reciprocity has been
developed in New York. where the
women threaten to close the churches
unless the men shall c,ose the saloons
A man of Wooster, Ohio. is mourn
Ing the death of a parrot that he has
had for siXty-one years. II is to be
hoped that Polly was prepared to die.
When he gets right down to business
there is more provocation in one
square inch of Kipling's rhyme than
in square mile of anybody's else's
prose-
New York fixed the responsibility for
the tunnel disaster with promptness
that has pleased everybody excepting
o1e directors on whom the burden has
been placed.
Miss Susan b. Anthony says women
will quit getting married as they be-
come more intelligent. AS we can draw
on Europe for population it doesn't
matter much.
Partisan women are boycotting Eng
lish governesses because the English
women are too stupid to see the print
tive humor of the ribald anti-English
political cartoon
In Paris "The Love Letters of an
Englishwoman are considered in
fammatory. The love letters of the
Frenchwoman of the French novel are
a devouring conflagration.
China is to employ modern business
methods. This will make it necessary
to materially increase the size of the
typewriting machines or abolish some
OF the Chinese characters.
AS the meetings of the trustees of
the Carnegie institution are likely to
come in the midst of the hunting sea-
son, Mr.. Cleveland has declined to
serve as a member of the board.
It Is thought that the revised esti-
mate now being prepared of the tenn
perature of the sun will place it close
TO II 900 degrees Fahrenheit. No one
will care to see the exact figures.
John F. Dryden. who has won in the
long contest for election as United
States senator from New Jersey. is a
Pennington, Ne, man. New England
men have faculty for getting there.
1t does not seem to have occurred to
th5. committee of arrangements in
charge of Prince Henry's visit to this
country that he might not like the
rapid pace they have scheduled for
him.
Senator Tillman should institute an
Investigation of the czar for his das-
.erdly conduct in eXiling a Russian ed
stor who uncorked violent philippe
AGAINST the house of Alexander and