Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-03-01
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Neither to-day nor tomorrow will
be an eight-hour day in political work.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Slime and slu1h are two suggestions
for the proper pronunciation OF "Sa-
lome."--New York Mail.
The Governor of Jamaica didn't have
to explain that he was funny. Every
! Sdy saw he was.-Philadelphia Press.
The Governor of Jamaica seems to
AVE been troubled with a rush of Inn
portance to the head.-Washington
Post.
Texas oil wells are said to be run
ming dry, but the stock in them holds
as much water as ever.-Philadelphia
Ledger.
Senator Tillman Is willing to admit
that he is more Of an artist with Inc
pitchfork than with the cap and bells.-
New York Tribune.
The latest freak of this topsy-turvy
winter is to freeze Italy. This years
carnival Of Venice is likely to be on
skates.-New York Mail.
The trouble is that many OF those
folks who feel that they must 'think
for the President only think they
think.-New York Herald.
II a woman can't brag about her hus-
band for anything else it will be about
how near he came to going into the min
istry when he was young.-New York
Press.
What an imbecile giant is a railroad
without coal. And what imbecile man
ageIaent not to provide against pos
sible coal famine.-Philadelphia In
quirer.
Five Spanish ministries have gone to
pieces in the past eighteen months At
this rate even the Panama canal COM
mission is a bad second.-New York
World.
Carnegie hero commission surely
| overlooked a bet when it failed to
award a medal to the armless man who
| married a Providence widow.-New
York Herald.
The San Francisco judge who has
| sustained the earthquake clause of In
surance policies doubtless Is experience
Ing a little earthquake Of his own right
now.-Philadeiphia Ledger.
Andrew Carnegie is driving the water
| wagon for the universities. Having pre-
scented Princeton with a lake, he has
| now bestowed a swimming pool upon
Yale.-Philadelphia Record.
Since the price Of Swiss watches has
| beer advanced Is per cent the workmen
| should also demand an increase on the
| plausible ground that their time Is more
/ valuable.-Kansas City Star.
| Delaware has one advantage over
| some larger States. Its newly elected
| Senator can give a dinner to the whole
Legislature without bankrupting him
self.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Ice Trust must think that the
weather man is lacking in business
sense to send a cold snap along after
all excuses had been prepared for q
short ice supply.-New York World.
Houses are not the only things that
| tumbled with the Jamaica earthquake.
A reputation or two went down. though
they don't seem to have been any great
loss.-Philadelphia North American.
OF course, the insurance companies
that refuse to pay losses at Kingston
will return the premiums collected to
the people who did not recognize the
policies as jokes.-Philadelphfa Ledger.
The American peanut crop is esti-
mated to be but SO per cent of the yield
of 1905. But we will probably manage
to get along, since there will be very
little doing in politics this year.-Wash-
ington Post.
An American who is s%ojourning in
Cuba writes to Governor Magoon to
look out for another rebellion in the
island. He won't have to look out for
1t. Rebellions in Cuba come around
without knocking.-New York Globe.