Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-20
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The prices Of the new winter hats
almost make them deserve the name of
millionery.-ohio State Journal.
No more fights now for John L. Sui
Ivan. He has disabled his right arm
hgning temperance pledges-New
York Mail.
Another New York woman has lost
100000 necklace, They all seem 20
have them to lose down there-Chi-
eago Record-H Herald
Business in Wall street is picking
up. That is, part of the participants
ere picking up what the others are
lroppine.-Chicago News.
1t looks as if the final charge against
the officers Of the Baltic fleet would be
me ramlllar one. drunk aud disorder
View York Evening sun
We know an excellent old lady who
is good mother, womanly and deserv-
ing in every way. But she lies ten
years about her age.-Atchison Globe.
Germany is spending $A00oo0O0 to
put down an insurrection in German
Southwest Africa. And sts!l Emperor
William covets more colonies.
City Star.
Somebody defines true American
as one who works his way up from
the bottom. This would appear to bar
the late George Washington.-Clev
land Plain Dealer.
1t is difficult to imagine the extent
Of the disaster which would ensue il
one-half of the Russian navy should
unexpectedly meet the other half on a
dark night--New York Sun.
Russia is very sensitive about her
prestige, but there is nothing that will
send it zeroward faster than a panicky
fleet on the high seas, with all the
wocld watching Boston Transcript.
There are some very economical
people in North Carolina. The Kins-
ton Free Press tells of a man who has
been wearing the same shirt for TWEEN
ty years.-Raleigh News and Observer.
The dispatches tell us that a man
with a beard yard long was hung in
Indiana TIE other day. Then men with
boards yard long should get shaved.
No use to run any unnecessary risks
Raleigh On. CD Post
HAS the cost of living increased?'
Is question that stares one in tho
face from many different directions,
but it is not half so important to lot
of people as rs the hired girl salts
fed !"-Syracuse Herald.
The terrible slaughter of soldiers in
Manchuria is causing a revolt against
war among all civilized people. The
telegraphic accounts, far short of real
lstic description, are enough to dismay
readers Herald.
Reformists are hunting a cure" for
divorces. We know of no cure but
good preventive might be discovered
in raising boys and girls with less tenn
per, higher ideals and aspirations that
look beyond having "a good time
Wilmington On co Star
Regardless of the loudest canon of
bishops or laymen, the New York di-
vorce mill turns faster and faster. One
judges grist in three days was fifty
six cases. But one trouble in New
York is it's so easy to get married IN
haste.-Boston Transcript.
And now comes the edict that bow
legged men must be barred from the
navy. IL this harsh rule had been en-
forced in 'the rare old, fair old, gold
en- days" many Of the names that have
made us famous would be missing
from our roll of nautical heroes.-New
York Herald.
Out in South Dakota the farmers are
selling their best beef to the Beef
Trust for 2 cents a pound-a record
low price. In New York the trust has
so fixed prices that you must pay from
20 to 81 cents for your beef Beef was
never lower when the farmer has it
to sell, and never higher to the man
who pays the retail butcher bilI.-New
York American.