The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-02

 supreme court of Missouri stands up to the issue unfiinchingly the fiippant MT. Rogers will resume his seat as a witness later on under circumstances not so favorable to a development of his powers as a wit and satirist.
 
 Nick Longworth stole from Romeo the romantic phrase that he applied to Miss Alice when he said she was the sun of his life. But all are licensed to steal from that source An Arkansas state senator was arrest ed for bribery before his bride. She had her sight restored remarkably short time after the wedding.
  Now Jacob Riis wants Roosevelt to be Mayor of New York. It Is about time for him to let MT. Roosevelt do some os the talking.
 Castro Is a headliner in the inter national show. but his place Is insecure, and he may be super or the hind legs of a COW yet.
  Be the Marshall Field large or small, it bears no taint of monopoly or robbng. It is America's big estate honestly ob- tained.
  Charles Loclshart, a Standard oil man, left fortune of slSO,OOOOO. and yet he did not make much noise in the world.
  Watch the sun shine and imagine you see the groundhog coming out today from his winter quarters to look at 1t also.
  Kansas is going to have an exposition in 1911. Senator Burton would do all right for the graft exhibit.
  Mrs. Yerkes' denial of her marriage is one of those denlals that nobody but a woman could make. Miss Alce's trosseau holds the atten- ton of half of the country at any rate the better half. Castro has run away from the French, and Rockefeller is a fugative from Missouri courts. Grover Cleveland and Tom" Grady buried the hatchet and great was the re- joicing thereat. rTT,a PussIan elections are coming on just as the British elections are going off the stage. -------.s.------ The Philippine junket proved matri- monial in many directions It Is warm sunny land.
 Great excitement was caused in New York by the discovery of polite bicycle policeman.
 Castro and Rockefeller have disappear ed and they may be touring the Andes together
 King Alfonso Is about to hitch him self onto the Guelph family of Great Britain --------.---- When the Czar goes undynamited over night he considers Russia calm and peace ful.
 Never risk all your family on one ship, and certainly not on one automobile.
  January's reputation as a winter month has received fracture or two. The new King of Denmark Is 62 years old and he has eight children.
  Happy the bride whose wedding gifts are posted round the world
  Mir Bryan is drifting around the world filling in time before 1908
  The Russians seem to be taking to jpoli- ties like duck to water
  Medicine Hat Is a forgotten and neg lected weather breeder.
  Nobody is ever going to try to invest- gate Miss Ida Tarbell.
  Francis Joseph is now the grand old man with a crown on. --,------- ->----- The Senate is at any rate the country s vermiform appendix.
  Our Alabama senators are each eighty odd years young. Mrs Yerkes does not seem to know where she is at. Poutney Bigelow's bet is still without taker.
 
 THEY ARE RULING NOW. From the Memphis News -Scimitar. A college professor says the women will be ruling the country fifty years from today. Of course why should they abdicate?
 JOKE ON JokEsMlTH. From the New York Times. Burglars entered the home of Joseph Keppier. editor and proprietor of Puck, at Smith terrace and Richmond road, Stapleton. s. l., on Monday night. After carrying off $lOO0 worth of valuable they left a note saying: We appreciate a good joke. but we think the joke is on you"
 ---..--------------------'----- REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press. You could always trust a girl if she wasn't one.
 Mighty few men have the reason to