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a ban on Mother Goose reads Homer
to her little lap dog.-Philadelphia
Telegraph.
When the Kaiser has completed his
task of looking after other peoples
business he might go home and spend
a few months building his own fences.
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The popular contempt Of warfare
against the mosquito proves the ca
pacity of the American public for
s%training at a gnat and swallowing an
epidemic.-New York Mail.
A man is largely determined by his
environments. Christopher Columbus
might have been a New York police
man for twenty years without discov-
ering even a poolroom.-Puck.
If old man Sherman had only waited
around long enough to see the peace
ENJOYS start for Portsmouth he might
not have emitted such a ~cantankerous
opinion about ar.&Philadelphia Tele-
graph.
Another plot has been discovered in
Constantinople the purpose of which
was the removal of the Sultan. The
Sultan's time is all filed lodging
bombs when he is not lodging bills
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Turkey has ordered in France a tor
pedo boat destroyer, three gunboats,
two transports and artillery fittings,
and it is rumored that as soon as these
are delivered the Sultan intends TO put
out his tongue at tNc Uzar.-Lcndon
Punch.
The Lingo" of the yellow fever re-
ports might be applied to the daily
news from the Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington. New "foci" and
'sub-foci" are constantly appearing I'M
der Secretary Wilson's nose.-Spring-
field Republican.
Portland, Me-, is securing the coun-
try for subscriptions TO its Thomas B.
Reed memorial fund. They want $780,
600 and have on hand about $4,000.
Tom wouldn't have approved this dun
ming his friends for such a purpose
Boston Herald.
Our old friend, WI Ting Fang, is
said to have been commissioned by the
Pekin court for the task of forcing this
country to a fair course of treatment
Of Chinese subjects. The childlike Mr..
WI knows us well, and how to pinch
where it will hurt us the worst.-Buf-
falo Courier.
The Russian government, according
o a st. Petersburg dispatch, has Dr.
:ided to issue a second internal loan.
rhe amount is said to be $780, 600. 900.
The Russian internal loan of $1O0,0 00,-
100 last March came like pulling teeth;
his one, it is fair to presume, will be
ike killing the nerve.-Hartford Cou-
ant.
The dirt at Panama isn't flying, and
he government has at last decided
that it won't fly until sanitary condi-
lions are SO improved that a sufficient
lumber of workmen can be attracted
% the Isthmus. The original idea that
he only thing needed to insure the
canal was the money has been sub
,tantially modifed.-Buffalo Courier.
So many subjects of his majesty Ed
ward VII. fear that Americas future
Is threatened by China and Japan, the
yellow peril, that there m an ire
sistible temptation to remind them
that the United States has managed
to- increase some 100000 in popula-
ton in the last century without an orr
antal market. We can probably play
along.-Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Senator Mitchell, CT Oregon, has
oeen tried, convicted and sentenced to
six months Imprisonment and to pay a
ane of $4,000; but still holds on to his
seat as a Senator from Oregon. The
salary, mileage and ~perquisites of Sen
ator Mitchell for a year will about pay
his fine, but this is a new way to use
the office of United States Senator,
and will probably be very unpopular
Louisville Post.
The suggestion that there be a ma
tional celebration of the two hundredth
anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's
birthday next January was to be ex-
pected about this time. The day will
surely be observed in various places.
and one of them should be Boston,
which Franklin ran away from at an
early age. A truly national celebra-
ton, however, might be difficult to
manage.-Springfeld Republican.
It would be interesting to know how
much money has been spent, first and
last, on the search for the north pole.
When the imposing total has been as
c%ertained, the question may be asked
whether me- profitable results would
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