The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-17

careful consideration. Dr. Petuford 9nd his associates are deserving men, and they will do their utmost to make the proposed institution useful if the legislature concludes to grant it a charter and start it off with a reason able appropriation.
  Mime. Patti will not only receive a guaranty of 5000 a concert, but also 30 per cent of the net receipts above S1s00. Nine of the concerts have al. rec. cen sold at high figures.
 
 Nobody is the favorlte ct pres ent of a majority of the democratic members of congress for President in 1904. Lines are as yet uniformed. 
 The men who had to walk up seven- teen flights of stairs in Chicago quick y surrendered to the striking ele- vator boys and begged for terms.
 
 Few or no farmers contributed to the capital of the bunco schemers in St. Louis. It was the slick and wise town man that clipped in.
 
 The speculations in Wall street on the wrong side of John D. Rockefeller, Jr, are not believed, because oil has not been marked Up. Dowie and Dr. Parkhurst will re- form New York on parallel lines, each employing a large assortment of Ian guage.
 ---.s-- The Springfield Republican considers Camp Hardee's endorsement of the exslave pension bill as joke on MT Eanna.
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 Senator Clark of Montana is also buyi rugs and other bric-a-brac, and he has a worthy rival in J. P. Morgan.
 
 After lodging a battalion of deputy sheriffs Mascagni is going home, where he is honored and remunerated.
  Speaker Henderson will soon try oblivion as a balm to his bruised spirit. He will got plenty of 1t.
 ---s'-------------- The theatre-crazed town will this week resume its customary calmness and proceed to make pig iron. The Sultan is not so sick or so bankrupt that he cannot mobilize a quarter of a million of men. The lot of the candidate for rail road commissioner is not happy one, and his term will be short.
 
 Senator Morgan will present but thirty of his stock of objections to the Panama canal treaty.
  MT Quay is still at least three fourths of the senate and MT. Bever- idge is the remainder.
 ------~ ----~- In the last days of February in this town look out for stormy weather and political roorbacks.
  Snow, rain and sleet cover the land, and winter is resuming business at the cid stand.
 The Kaiser Is growing gray and elderly looking, although he is only A years old
 The Frisco is a giant in the south west, and it will yet have an Atlantic outlet.
 The country is safe, for General Miles and his uniform are in our midst again.
 The horse population of the country is increasing despite the canned beef industry
 Mme. Patti will try to outdo the Ben Hur get-rich-quick aggregation.
 
 Ex-Presidential candidates as well as ex-slaves should be pensioned.
 
 Dr. Crum left no ripples as he went down.
 
 A PUTTING PEOPLE. From the Boston Globe The cigar bill of the American people last year was $346,000000. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902. according to the report recently issued by the commissioner of internal revenue 6,9O5, ,749, 96S cigars were consumed in the United States. That was very nearly 19,- OoO,OO0 cigars for every day of the 365 in the year.
 This does not include the 265S, ,176 130 cigarettes we blow in nor the upward of 3l5,ooo,00O pounds of snuff and tobacco we consume.