Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-18

ark News
Divorce has become a luxury that
even the poorest can enjoy -Birming-
ham Age Herald.
A corset trust is one of the latest de-
vices for squeezing people-AIont-
gomery Advertiser
Most men are unable TO ride in the
head carriage of the procession until
they die-Atchison Globe.
The hardest work on the Panama
canal is being done on The typewriter.
Newport News Times-Herald.
The Russians are headed for Har-
bin by the Tie Pass rout1 The walk
ing is good.-Atlanta Constitution.
]. Pierpont Morgans money is go
ing to the dogs at the rate of $4,000
for four eollies.-Rochester Post Ex-
press.
A Chicago woman can whistle like a
fife and her husband cackles about it
like a speckled hen.-Macon Tele-
graph.
Naturally enough, Admiral Schley is
being criticised for telling some more
truth about the naval battle.-The
Commoner.
1t seems the only really safe place
for the poor, prosecuted automobiles
is in the British diplomatic service
Atlanta Journal
1.-Two talanbo,,o ,,i,.i.. ,.oe;,r,,o1 =,
Pittsburg in order to marry. The rush
for their places was Notwithstanding
ham Age-Herald.
Carnegie is writing a book. but his
greatest fame arises from what he has
written in his chcckbook.- Newport
News Times-Heraid.
Joaquin Miller has drowned his muse
with $1,0000o0 worth of oil. His re-
tirement comes high, but may be it is
worth Washington Times.
New York has boy who is not
happy unless he is whipped every
day" He ought to join the Russian
Richmond News-Leader.
DR.. Dowie will have a hard time 20
find II fakirs as adroit as himself 10
complete the roster of his new apos-
tles.-Birmingham. Age-Herald.
Dowager Queen Margherita, of Italy,
Las a lace handkerchief worth $10-
600. Very few ladies. can afford to
blow in that much.-Nyack Star.
An accordion player in New York
complains that woman beat him
with a broomstick. She should have
taken an ;x-Augusta Chronicle.
"Why do the Japanese VIM" asks
the London Times We'll, one reason
is because the Russians lose; but there
may be others Washington Post.
There is a school in Philadelphia
which teaches brides the chatting dish
habit. And still we wonder at the
increase of divorces.-Chicago Jour
nal.
There are SO many new fashions this
fall that it will take three or four
meetings of the missionary society to
try out all of them.-Bristol (Va.) Cou-
rier.
Dowie may claim to be an apostle,
but he will have to offer better secu-
rity than that at bank if he wants
to borrow mOney,-New York Com
me1-cial-
Mime. President DreSSmakers urge
all ladies to make their belts dippy,
1.-The dippier the better" AT last we
have heard the worst.-Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
A Mexican worth $300,0O0,0O0 is Wis
iting the United States, and it never
occurs to any of us to think that the
Mexican dollar is below par.-Atlanta
Constitution.
A contemporary asks Does spell
binding pay?" There is quite a preva-
lent impression that in a good many
cases it pays the spellbinder.-Rich-
mond News Leader.
The missionaries have been killed by
the natives in German New Guinea
and with this sacrifice civilization viii
probably take another step forward.
Indianapolis News.
A new use for trading stamps has
been found in Philadelphia. A Sunday
school in that city gives them out for
regularity of attendance This is put
ting premium on godliness.-Proyi-
dence Journal.
The Mayor of Baltimore complains
because he has to sign about 800
checks a day. How much worse ii
would be, though, if they were all
against his private bank accoGnt.--Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
Can it be that this General Corbin
whS speaks out against the marriage
of young officers is the same General
Corbin whom the country a short time
ago felicitated as a bridegroom? If SO,
Philadelphia Press.
Canadian train robbers are begin
ming to take refuge in the United
States. How many American swind-
lers and bank breakers have found IN
asylum in Canada. 1t is but the law
of compensation that is now working.
-Deseret Evening News.
Nav Irwin has two new songs
Nothing But Talk" and faint No
Use in Lovin' That Tay"-either one
of which seems - be a sufficient an
swer to the story that she is going to
marry David B. Hill.-Kansas City
Star.
The increasing number Of fatal ac-
cidents upon our railways calls for
more than passing comment. Nobody
to blame is a plea that should not be
accepted. for in nearly all cases these
catastrophes are preventable. II New
York Herald.
1t is no reflection upon Yale UniYer-
sity that fellow who last year playeu
guard on its varsity eleven is now in
Jail for keeping a gambling house,
while his wife has pleaded guilty to
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