Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-10-28
SIDE LIGHTS.

Once again Sir Thomas will at
tempt to lift the cup. thanks to the
constantly increasing habit OF the
world to lift the cup that cheers but
not inebriates. Drink .rn Upton S
teas"
Perhaps it was in anticipation of
his graceful surrender to Colonel
Roosevelt that Henri Watterson re-
pudiated his military title.
That Hearst appeal for campaign
funds is either a bluff or a wall of
disappointment.
1t was innate modesty that i'm
PEELED Governor Hoclr to- say that
Kansas was 1.-The only perfect state
in the union when he might have
said with equal truth that it had the
only perfect governor.
Count White is made minister of
finance, showing that his bluff work
ed at home, whether 1t did abroad
or not.
Australia pays a state journalist"
$4,000 a year to boom the country,
but The Mutual LIES press agent
costs an $4,000 salary and 81 a line
for every puff.
After all, DR.. Osler may be right.
An Omaha man who lost his job be-
cause of old age tried to commit
suicide by jumping into the Mis-
souri, river. He is 104~years old. If
he had been chloroformed forty-four
years ago~but what's the use?
The Mikado gives the credit to the
spirits of his ancestors, while the
Gar throws the blame on the AL
mighty.
Dowie is paralyzed again. For a
prophet who processes healing power
he is certainly having a hard time
with his own ailments.
Nicholas is to get a loan of $780,
000, 900. He ought to invest some
of it in a Grand Duke-proof safe de-
post vault.
Philadelphia appears to consider
Senator Penrose one of the worst of
bad Boies.
Convinced that East Orange can
not afford the expense of an increase
in the police force, the East Orange
councilmen have voted themselves
$500 salaries.
If that deal with Prince Charles of
Denmark should fail Norway may
try our want ads.
Ziba Nickerson, of Chatham. Mass,
who has just turned his e%ighty-sec-
ond year, probably Is the oldest
working telegraph operator in the
world. Just fifty years ago a tele-
graph office vas established in his
store, and Mr.. Nickerson has been
at the keky daily ever since. He is
an expert operator, and W. now a
3,000-word press dispatch does not
worry him. A year ago. when send
ing an account of a shipwreck off
Chatham. the old mans wife died.
He was relieved by his son at the
key and the press dispatch suffered
only a moments interruption.
Several leading society women in
eastern cities have adopted the Eu-
ropean idea of giving servants
dances. The difference is that the
American social lights get up such
entertainments for their servants as
make similar affairs abroad look
commonplace. Mrs. Seward Webb
gives an annual servants ball and
always writes the invitations her
self. Mrs. Clarence Mackay's enter
tainments of this kind are also of
elaborate character.
Emperor William a short time ago
received an unusual present. pair
of scissors, but so exquisitely made
as to be valued at nearly $500. A
steel merchant was the giver. He
had the emperor's portrait and some
celebrated historical buildings en-
graved on the scissors. The engrav-
er is said TO have worked five years
at his taskt
There - suggestion that the
government y take the baths at
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