The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04

generally wears wig, went to a con-
cert the other night without it and
took cold.
Conductors on Nebraska trains have
got their eyes full of passes during the
past few days. Everybody's making
the best of the last chance.
1t may have been a happy new year
for some-but the newspaper editors
babe goodbye to their mileage books
Monday night at IL with tears in their
eyes.
There are two annual events in Nor
folk that the whole town bears in
mind. They are the annual ball of
the railway trainmen and the annual
ball of the Eagles. One comes Christ
mas night and the other on New Years
eve.
Norfolk telephone wires burned on
Tuesday with this query
Hello. Is this 1907"
mo, this is No."
"The calendar says it's 1907"
~:$-&-??!!-!!*-
mob has been formed and any
drastic action may be expected.
Norfolk drummers and railroad boys
who come in from late trains at night
and leave in the early mornings, would
sleep better when they go to bed and
would feel better leaving town, if they
were saved the annoyance of STUN
bling over dark streets. All night
lights, they say, would relieve the sit
uation.
'rhe spirit of New Year and Christ
mas greetings is all for the other fell
low-self is forgotten. Il wish you a
merry Christmas and a happy new
year." the greeting goes-and so it
should. A little correspondence school
course in the "follow-up system" keep
ing the same spirit going all through
the year, would reduce the wishes to
a more exact science and, like scien-
tific advertising-get results.
These story writer's are not always
accurate in regard to detail A Satur-
day Evening Post writer tells of a
Cyclone" coming down a railroad
track-a tall, funnel-shaped twister.
He meant, of course tornado. Cy-
clones are generally several hundred
miles in diameter, and are never felt
at given point except as a straight
wind Tornadoes are the small local
tNyi Uinlnnnn
and spend themselves.
ATCHlSON GLOBE SIGHTS.
We always dislike a cigar with a
band around it.
The impudence of some people is
the only great thing about them.
When a woman burns anything in
the oven, she says, 81 got it too
brown"
Farmers have an idea that town men
seldom get up in time to do good
days work.
The poorest dressed people you meet
plC usually IlC OuCo WIZ nave
in the bank
Some women are so afraid they are
going to be flirted with, that it is al
most dangerous for a man to treat
them politely.
Careful investigation fails to reveal
that any of the great fortunes were
started by tip received from mail
order broker.
Another part of town dogs bust
ness, especially a young one, is to try
to beat you to the evening paper and
scatter it all over the block.
Some men not only feel that the
world owes them living, but are sore
because there are no collection agen-
cies to collect for them.
Almost any boy is glad to skate with
a girl who knows how, but it is true
devotion when he volunteers to teach
her to skate: that's work.
Don't let a smooth stranger coax
you into catching driftwood in the
river on shares. You are entitled to
all the driftwood you catch in the
river.
A lot of women who are finicky about
their hats and the brand of perfume
they use, seem to go it blind when it
comes to the selection of a man.
One picnic year, and one rabbit
year, is about all we can stand. We
intend to eat our rabbit for 1906 this
evening
When a man can't find a certain
thing around the house, he begins to
suspect that his women folks have
hidden it,