The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-02-01

George Must Be Careful - George
called at Mrs. Warmers home Monday.
We will have to keep an eye on that
C h ap, Ell, Elmer. - Correspondent.
Creighton News.
Norfolk bellies who had new gowns
made for the Elks annual ball have
had a taste from the cup of disappoint-
ment that is favored with the real
sting, now that the ball has been given
up.
The fellow who claims he saw Alber-
ia Gallatin in Dorothy Vernon of Had
dan Hail." for fifty cents at Grand
Island, made only one mistake. Alber-
Ia Gallatin never stopped five minutes
in Grand Island in all her life.
Lincoln Star: Norfolk deserves
praise. Local advertisements have
been painted off the theatre drop cur
tain there and new curtain installed,
with a scene painted by scenic artists.
The theatre floors have been carpeted.
Mineral spring people tell you to
drink water every little while because
it's great stuff. A Norfolk physician
says to drink it never, because it
makes the bones and tissues flabby.
Nature, after all, is pretty good
guage. Nature gave us a thirst that
ought to tell us what to drink and
when to drink it,
When you lose your watch at night
and find it in the street next morning,
you hardly know whether to feel I'M
lucky for losing it, or lucky for find
ing it, Perhaps the philosophical way
of looking at it would be to consider
careless for having a hole in
your pocket and lucky to have learned
the lesson with only the mental an
guish as fee.
First nights experience:
Total receipts from sale
of tickets to the pub
lie ................. $46S.OO
Paid Alberta Gallatin
company ........... 5OO.OU
Lights, orchestra, stage
hands, fuel and other
expenses of opening
Auditorium ... $3.50
Deficit .............. 1850
$52S.5O $52S5O
ATCHIsoN GLOBE SIGHTS.
To most men all whisky tastes alike
bad.
Many day seems to be a failure up
to noon, and then turns out all right
There always seems more excuse for
a man to beat mule than to whip a
horse.
If a man abuses the authority he has
he is pretty apt to think he should
have more power.
A man who is a connoisseur in the
matter of cigarettes, never knows
much about anything else.
timely polite if he is that way in talk
ing over the telephone.
A woman has this way of Judging
whether looking glass is good glass.
If she looks pretty in it, she concludes
it is good glass.
Women come nearer enjoying sick
ness than anyone else, but they will
never be thoroughly satisfied in the
role of the invalid until doctors have
bargain days.
The only reason some men care to
succeed is to be able to show their
superiority to their enemies.
Almost any married man can make
his friends smile by saying he is per-
fectly free to do as he pleases.
plain girl who carries a large line
or smiles hasn't much to fear from the
pretty girl with the solemn face.
Physical culture would become more
popular if there were exercises that
could be taken while sitting in a chair
before the fire.
The girl who takes a weeks time to
consider proposal of marriage, is an
other creature for whom we are large
ly indebted to fiction.
When a man is sick his women folks
say confidently to those who inquire:
"Oh, all that's the matter with him is
that he's been eating too much"
When anyone attempts something
difficult, or unusual, and fails, people
say: That will teach him a lesson"
Are there no lessons in success?