Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-04

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If explanations were victories, Kuro-
patkin would be in Toxic by this time.
Detroit News.
1t viii take more thah a light touch
of frost TO knock King Corn out Of the
rox.-0inaha Bee
Instead of following the price OF sill
yer. wheat is seraping speaking ac-
qualntance with radlum.-B altrmors
Sun.
Joe Jefferson may. retire from the
stage. but ne never can from the
hearts of the people.-New York Com
mercial.
Naturally enough Admiral Schley is
being criticised for telling some more
truth about the naval battle.-The
Commoner.
The girl who is wearing the summer
engagement ring should remember
alum is often mistaken for genuine
diamond. Newark Advertiser
Joaquin Miller has drowned his
muse with $l.0o0.0O0 worth of oil. His
retirement comes high but maybe it is
worth Washington Times.
There is a school in Philadelphia
which teaches brides the chatting dish
habit. And still we wonder at the in
crease of divorces.-Chicago Journal
Just as the death list in the Orient
let down, the football season opened
in the Occident A boy at Likens. Pa,
was the first victim.-Galyeston News.
KurOpatkin has conducted a master
ly retreat and it is not impossible that
he may yet eat his Christmas dinner
in st. Petersburg. Birmingham News
1t is a good idea for every father to
walk in order that he may save enough
money for his children 20 buy an auto
mobile after he has gone.-New Haven
Union
Nine. President Dressmaker urges
all ladies to make their belts dippy,
the dippier the better" At last we
have heard the worst.-Chicago Rec
ord Herald
Ellis H. Roberts, United States
Treasurer, says gold is our national
bulwark- Probably is, but many pat
riodc citizens can't get behind it
New York Herald
Canada is so swelled by the predlc-
tlon of future greatness made by for
mer Secretary Root that her next win
ter's mantle of snow may not fit her.
-PittsDurg Press.
The Sultan of Turkey will undoubt-
edly prick mp his ears and assume a
grateful smile every time Japan talks
of collecting indemnity from Russia
Washington Evening Star.
a Pennsylvania offers $50 reward
for the return of his wife. Some Of
these Pennsylvanians mink as much
of their wives as they would of hui
man beings.-Wa Post.
College students who are rushing to
Kansas to help harvest the crops may
not have the hay fever, though it must
be admitted that appearances are
against them.-Atlanta Journal
The Russians are able to transport
troops to the seat of war at the rate
of only one corps a month. This is
hardly fast enough to keep the Japan
csc busy.-Topeka State Journal.
when the frost is on the pumpkin
and the folders in the shock" the
pumpkin should be saved by convert
ing it into one of those palatable disks
like grandma used to make-Minne-
apolis Times.
So Carnegie Is going into a project to
promote Canadian independence.
That's a more promising way to die
poor than promoting free libraries and
church organs, at any rate.--Philadel
phia Inquirer.
4 Boston man says the kiss was
originally the noble Romans method
tampering with the wine jug during
hUbby's absence. Shoes on the other
foot now.-New York Herald.
There have been only "a murders,
felonious assaults in this city since
Aug. l. But, Of course. the robberies
do not include financial operations in
Wall street-New York Herald.
A Bostonian has been arrested for
expressing his opinion of John d.
Rockefeller on a postal card How he
managed to do it within so small a
space is what is mystifying most peo-
ple.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Madame Patti said no more farewells
to America than the Baltic fleet to the
shores of Russia. For the forty-seyenth
time, at least, Admiral Umtyumpsky,
or whoever he is, has weighed anchor,
hOlsted the blue peter and set off for
the Far East-New York Press.
Boston is still seat of learning to
such an extent that few or none of the
hundred thousand school children who
assemble this week will have to be en-
rolled in part-time classes. And that's
no inconsideraL. e achievement in
raf idly growing COMMUNICATION
Transcript.
For goodness sake do not let the
coal barons hear of this theory that
breathing coal dust is a cure for con-
sumption" or they will require the
consumer to pay them for conducting
a health cure.-Chicago News.
The University of Michigan athlete
who was credited with a desire to
thrash Ieffries denies that he has any
aspirations toward the prize ring. Cur
rent news shows that there are plenty
of opportunities for smuggling in col
lege.-New York Work.
Scientific men have been examining
a learned horse in Berlin and have
found that he comprehends handwrit-
ing. has color and musical dlscrlmina-
ton. and can do mathematical work.
All this is something that no automo
bile Is equal to.-Spokane Statesman
The lessons learned through the war