St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1905-09-01
A Few Thorns.

diamonds frcc'
Market reports quote butter
"frm. Different from wha, we
} have theirs mus, have i,ccn on
ice
J Mrs. Taggart says she is worn
out. II all her husband says
about her is true we should think
she would be.
II is claimed that the official pace
at Washington kills-bu, there are
very few IN any position Of life who
} are no, willing TO try IL.
Admiral Dewey is to have a
day" at the Portland fair. II is
TO be hoped that his performance at
Manila bay will not I've repeated.
just why Oregon women desire
equal suffrage is difficult. Two
thirds of EN- now stand up in the
street cars and no one ever offers to
hold 'em!
When girl gets to be about 40
she no longer looks for her ideal.
She looks for almost anyone who
will make good-and who has the
price of a permit.
Bricklayers in New York who
received SiL2o for twelve hours
work have struck for more pay.
They evidently do not consider IL a
crime to die wealthy.
A Los Angeles woman says she
will spend $40, 900 but what she II
get back her husband. We know
where she can get a secondhand
one cheaper than that.
II is always understood that
man who stops his paper" never
ceases to be a reader of the same
paper. After he quits paying for
II he merely borrows IL.
And now President Roosevelt
knows how MGinty felt when he
went down. Roosevelt went down
III a submarine--to practise getting
away from oiiice-seekers.
John l.. Sullivan has been writ.
ing some recollec,ions. They are
not many. When John does any.
thing brilliant he gets so beastly
drunk that he cant remember
anything.
II a local paper should print the
personal stuff about a small town
which a city publishes il would lose
many subscribers. A city paper
can do as Il pleascs aud still the
people buy H.
AZ Butte, Montana. las, Saturday
a saloon-keepcr tried to mix into
scrap going on in his booze foundry
and was shot dead. Evidently he
had forgotten that his butt.in
license had just expired.
When man buys a sIs suit of
clothes and next week finds the
same goods marked down 10 60 he
always gives one good look at his
purchase and then wonders how
much the clothes really COS, the
dealer.
When man pays sI7S for his
ins,allment OF life insurance he
wonders whether he is laying up
treasures in heaven OF merely fitting
out a nice looking widow To catch a
better man than he has been.
AZ Portland recently thief stole
a s,ump-pulllng outfit weighing a
hall ton then went back after a lo,
more of the chain, Good deal like
the fellows who stole the city-and
then back for the Tanner Creek
sewer.
Strange how antagonistic those
eastern people are towards the
western citizen There was a total
eclipse OF the sun Wednesday, but. {
through eastern prejudice. il was :
not visible west OF Chicago. No l
wonder hogs are quoted as firm"
,ack there 4
Gar Alexander Dowie has issued
IN order-and, apparently, he
means business, In his holy city
is illegal for couple To do any
poonlng-even though they be en- 1
aged; and after marriage every u
ouple must have at least one kid il
very year To offer for baptism. u
Ohm evidently realizes the excel l.
'nce of Illinois climate. c,
Since Our beauty suggestion last "
ieek We have received MANY q,
ueries. Elsie" wishes to know s.
ow to make cucumber cream. We 3.
hould consider that feeding the old :,
ow cucumbers and then carefully =
the yield would do the - -
uslness. II there's a better way -
e haven't tumbled to il vet. y
Bessie desires to know what will ;,
II out the hollow of her back -
xcelsior or curled hair is good for q,
his 1--WE presume Bessie is sort of :" "
'ddle-baek), or she might use the ="
adding from the shoulders of her .u
nbby's best coat. As a last resort :
he OF those wire bustles might be ~
rapped in place, :"