Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-24

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thing coming off-Dallas (Texas)
! News.
1t is to be hoped that the govern
ment assault on the paper trust will
not be a mere fight on paper-Phila-
delphia Ledger.
The discomfort due to the Asiatic
war compels the Car to realize that
nothing fails like failure.-Washing-
ton Evening Star.
Mrs. Dodge-M Morse has reversed the
Mormon plan and is struggling with
few surplus Acknowledgment
News Times-Herald.
Young Tiffany says he can't live on
$4,000 a year. Wen. why doesn't he
shuttle off and give some one else a
chance to try?-AIemphis News.
When Bathhouse John is elected
Mayor Of Chicago we .c""sume that
Dead Horse Jake will become Chief of
Pchce.--Memphis Commerclal-App
DR.. Chadwick now threatens to
write a book He had better begin
on check book and keep his family
| together.-Newport News Times-H Her
| aid.
The Mormon idea of marrying a
man to a dead woman would certainly
seem to indicate that the Mormons
take matrimony Richmond
| News Leader.
The political CRATER Is always on
| tho fo,. ,,o,,r ,,,n,,l,l, - .onr,,a,.
so it is not surprising that he is now
after the irrigation system. -Colorado
Springs Gazette.
A distinguished contributor to the
Medical Record announces that govt
is getting less common. The boarding
habit must be getting more COMMON
Columbia Is. CO State.
The unpopularity in Russia of the
Asiatic war causes but little anxiety
! in st. Petersburg. The war is only
one item in long list of unpopular
things.-Washingto Evening Star.
A New Jersey preacher advises
young women never to marry a man
| until they know his past. What most
concerns young women who marry is
the young mans future.-New York
| Press.
| 1t turns out that the people of Fort
Gaines burned only one bale of cot
ton. Which isn't such a very expen-
sive Christmas jag, after all, with
cotton at cents a pounG.-Augusta
Chronicle.
One Mormon has been discovered
who has been sealed for eternity to
forty wives. If he gets all that he is
sealed Tor, there will be no need after
his death to ask where he went.-At~
lanta Journal.
The man who wishes to evolve 81
coreless apple will destroy all the
pleasures of childhood if he succeeds.
For then there will be nothing for the
small boy to give to his smaller sister.
Atlanta journal.
The Russian reformers are not max
ing conspicuous progress, but they
have allies in far-away Japan who
may help to persuade the Gar that
the freer a people are the better they
will fight-Pittsburg Times.
Apropos to the Bishop Talbot scrap.
when the gentlemen of the cloth get
their fingers in each others locks they
| sometimes resort TO tactics that would
not be tolerated in any prize ring i'm
the Notwithstanding CIV. Va.) Regis,
ter.
The elaborate preparation the Japs
are making to rebuild Port Arthur in
dicates a come to-stay attitude which
is not going to yield easily to the kind
of diplomacy that was handed out to
them ten years ago.-Indianapolis
| News.
The Moscow peasants who say that
they would rather be shot at home
for resisting mobilization orders than
slaughtered needlessly in Manehurie
have proper sense of economy. They
expect to save the government their
travelling expenses.--Boston Globe.
A Boston paper says: I'VE were
eating better bread because OF the
Philadelphia fair in 1876" Maybe; but
| Chicago associates its Worlds Fair
with cold-storage turkeys and hem
fruit handed down from those halcyon
days.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
1t is said that the number of wom-
en- who are doing mems work has
been 40 per cent in the last ten years.
| From which the inference follows that
| a good many women are fitting them
| selves for the practical responsible
| ties of neutrality-suspicious. Constitu-
| ton.
The increase in the number of
| deaths of passengers on trains in 1904
| was 641a per cent over 1903. The rail-
| road presidents who say that they
| alone can run the American roads will
| see in these figures a tribute TO their
! increasing efiiciency.-San Francisco
| Examiner.
Cotton is now 80 per cent cheaper
| than this time a year ago, because Of
| a supposed production increase of 20
per cent. II you are good In the equa-
| lions of commercial economy, find the
logical basis for this price-fxing. It's
too hard for us down here.--AtlantD
! Constitution.
According to all the rules Of war,
Russia ought to plead for peace, hav-
! ing been whipped on land and sea,
but the trouble with Russia is that
! she is so big and so dense that IL
takes her a long time to find out she.
is whipped, and a still longer time to
acknowledge it.-Louisville Post
Don G. Q. x Y. Y. Quesada, Cuban
minister, resents the charge that the
Cubans are neglecting their sanitary
duties. Still the fact remains that
the average Cuban's idea Of santa
ton is to shine his boots. starch his
Panama hat and put Oh a diamond
finger ring.-Macon Telegraph.
Admiral Dewey could give Admiral
Togo some valuable counsel at this
rarfnH 81 his hone so..s..S.