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There is nothing sinister in the Kaiser's
edict against decolletes on the square.
Indiana opens the tornado season this
year, but no envy is felt throughout the
tornado belt.
Figuratiyely, it was the traditional
birch rod that brought the Madison high
school strike to an end.
The proposed wireless news bureau is
a reversion to time-worn newspaper prac
tees without an abandonment of the
telegraph.
The discovery of Ratchet in the cell
ing of house once occupied by the
mother Of George Washington IS Of no
significance, because of the absence Of
the favoritc cherry tree.
Shamrock III. continues to sail very
fast in comparison with the perform
ances Of the first Shamrock, but it is
recalled that every challenger that ever
started for the Americas cup has been
a phenomenon in her home waters.
The intrepidity and address which the
bulIet-headed King Alexander is display
ing in his contest with the legislative
branch of the Seryian government are
the growth of experience. He had long
practice in fighting with his wife.
Reduced to it's basis, Terry McGoyern's
complaint against Young COrbett amounts
10 a declaration that if the referee had
stopped counting until he recovered his
equilibrium, he would have gone on with
the fight Terry is an amusing philoso-
pher.
A story from Scranton, Pennsylvania,
to the effect that champion pugilist JEFF
fries is going at n fast pace foreshadows
the coming of a new champion. Men
who depend for success upon conditions
of wind and muscle can't travel with the
fast set and win.
The German professors and students
who are to tour the United States of
fcially to examine into agricultural
methods will find in Wisconsin many
practical schools in advanced dairy
methods. Wisconsin is now one of the
most successful dairy sections Of the
world.
1t is evident, from the fact that the
Reliance is to be launched lin skirts"
to defeat the snapshot artists that
Herreshoff has made wide departure
from the lines of the Constitution and
Columbia in shaping her hull. The
Lawson incident" and the perform
ances of the Independence probably
taught the designer Il new trick.
Emperor Francis Joseph Of Austria, re-
Gently, in accordance with ancient Gus
tom, performed Il friendly Office for
twelve aged men. lie washed their feet.
For some Of the Austrian grand dukes
the Emperor would be performing a
friendly Office if he could get them to soak
their heads.
The dedication of the Indiana monu-
ments on the battlefield of Shiloh gave
Gen. Lew Wallace another opportunity
10 reiterate his contention that the Union
army was needlessly surprised on the
day of the battle. This question: will
probably never be settled; but one thing
was settled before the armies got through
lighting and that was that Grants forces
were masters of the field, despite any al
legged surprise.
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L0NDoN'S SONG OF THE HOUR.
"Sail Away" is the Most Popular Dirty
in England.
At last England has topical song
which is all her own. For several years
the ditties which have held. each for it's
little day, the warmest place in the
Brit0n's heart have been of American
birth and parentage. The song, which
for four months has been on the top
wave of success in the London music
halls, is Sail Away" which was writ
ten by Bennett Scott, an Englishman,
and sung into popularity by Tom Cos
tello. Dolly Gray" the Boer war song
of Englishmen. from London to the
veldt, where Tommy Atkins fought and