Evening journal., 1904-09-01
CAUGHT AT RANDOM

~ TANLEY SPENCER recently
made two airship ascents from
- Hanley Flower Show, and His
Majesty the King paid a flying visit to
Sandringham.
"A this height" said the guide, as
they paused on the mountain side, to
look at the valley far below, people
with weak hearts often die"
How often" asked a deeply interest
ed listener do they have to die before
they stay dead2"
He-I thought you looked delightful
last night.
she-come, did you really?
He-Yesi could hardly realize that
1T was you.
(Which is the lucliest day to be mar
ried, Uncle Joe?"
"Matrimony knows no lucky day"
Noggs-My little girl is two years
old, and cannot talk yet.
Boggs-Don't he at all alarmed. Ny
wife was three years old before she
could say a word, and now
Yes said the editor, my paper is
the organ OF the smoking tobacco in
dus.ry."
sort Of pipe organ, eh?" caskled
the Cheerful idiot
Right OIL Arizona's drought-stricken
plains a flood has tied up the trains Of
every railroad operating in the Terri
tory, and this just when the United
States is spending Sl,OoO,ooO there on ir-
rigation.
The Massachusetts, man who was
fined for kicking cat SHOULD rather
have been commended fer his athelt,c
skill and quickness of action In hqv-
ing accomplished such remarkable
feat.
child dn berth OF night stsamer) -
Mother, I'm so slscpy. / want To 20 to
bed.
Mother-But you are in bed, Gear.
Chnd-No, I'm not. I'm in chest
OF drawers.
"Has she any bad habits?"
Il should say 50; she's got ths worst
dressmaker in town.
Chicago University is to nave a class
In matrimonial institutions.
The Russian soldier earns the munif-
cent salary of $3.50 a year.
Ainu girls of Japan spoil their good
looks by tattooing moustachcs on their
faces.
In England a person can be sent from
one part of the kingdom to another by
mail, attended by messenger boy, just
as il he were nothing more than a spe-
cial delivery letter.
II the entire production Of coal in
the United States during 1908 were
loaded on freight cars with a capacity
of thirty tons each the trains contain
ing II would encircle the globe at the
equator about three and one-third
times.
The Painted Desert" OF Arizona is
so named on account OF the bright col
ors of the sandstones. shales and clays
the rocks being eroded into fantastic
shapes, and being colored blue yellow,
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feet in sunlight is brilliant.
The Earl OF Wemyss. now 81. sat in
the House OF Commons forty-two years
and has been a member Of the House
Of Peers since 1888.
Joseph Chamberlain, England's ex-
Colonial Secretary, was once an actor,
and II was then-as an amateur in Bir-
mingham-that he acquired the mono
Gle habit.
Captain Frank Parker, u. $. A., has
been granted permission by the French
military authorities to spend month
with the Fifteenth Regiment OF mount
ed chasseurs to study their methods
and maneuvers.
Albert sonnichsen, the author of sea
stories, has left New York, where he
has been for a little less than a year
occupied with literary work. He is
bound for Bulgaria and for the scene
OF the Macedonian uprisings.
NJ. Combes, the French Premier. is a
doctor by profession, and still retains
his old copper name-plate Doctor
Combes" on the front door Of his
house at Pons. Occasionally his medi-
cal services are asked by his old towns
/ people, and he says he experiences
more satisfaction in relieving their pain
than in winning a political victory.
Diphtheria, sore throat, Group. In
slant relief, permanent cure. DR.
Thomas Eclectric Oil At any drug
etOro