Evening journal., 1907-08-16
Personal and Pertinent

Mark Twain says that all lazy; some are able to
fight IL down. while others fail lie knew a
batant this class when boy in Hannibal His name
Jim Black, and morning he was lying
under tree beside the river listening 70 the birds and
watching the steamboats, glide up and down the great
well what are you here forg" Mark asked him.
I'm here, said Jim, for 10 pile them bales onto the
wharf"
"ohl And now you are resting. are your"
mo- said jim; Il amt resting, because amt tired
I'm just waiting for the sink down behind that
there hill, SOS can knock off work-Kansas City Star
group New brokers were talking about John
w Gatess rooms in the New Plaza Hotel rooms for
which he pays $4,000 year.
"Wel" said elderly bachelor Mr. Gates's busi-
ness had all been conducted with women much of
mine is he wouldn't be living in such rooms those
Mr. Gates was discussing womens ideas about bust
ness the other night He said woman whom he knew
mailed her broker this
Please buy for my account 1000 shares OF p. d. &
c. at 75 Sell at 100, and be TO send the profits
by noon tomorrow, as am going out OF town"-Pits
burg Chronice-Teegraph
Alexander Graham Bell whose experiments promise to
give him as wonderful success with the flying m0chine
he had with the telephone used to teach the deaf
and dumbit in fact his work the deaf and
dumb that led TO the telephones inventon-and at "A
dinner In Washington he told deaf and dumb story
This story illustrates he began, "the necessity for
carrying aeropane experiments secretly. they
carried publicly interference would Ignorance
always causes interference. Many .an aged
friend o mine visited a church IN Maine one Sunday
morning Is soon as the sermon began my friend who
very deaf, took from his pocket trumpet in
two arts and proceeded TO screw the parts together
While he engaged in this work he noticed that the
sexton from his seat near the pulpit Kept frowning and
shaking his head at him. Finally. just my friend got
his trumpet joined and made II put his ear. the
sexton FASTENED to him and whispered nercelyi
Ye can't play that here If ye do I'll put ye out -
San Antonio Express
After seven years Of litigation the Shay VS.
Floyd has last been disposed Of at Butler. This is
the known the dog and colt and up
from Cortland. Shay alleged that a dog belonging
Floyd had scared colt of his and in caused
the death OF the colt He at once brought suit for 500
the value of the colt While the suit pending Floyd
died The three times in the Probate Court
Some time the parties in the suit agreed to coppro
mise, each side paying its costs. The Floyd land
sold recently and Wednesday the balance of the
costs paid to the Circuit clerk. The in the
several cases aggregated S54O.-Kansas City star.
District Attorney Jerome Of New York said one day
OF a piece of suspicious evidence;
Il" is evidence that has been tampered with. colored
It is like the adys report of her physicians prescription
"A lady day in July visited her physician. The
man examined her and said.
Madam, YOU only little run down You need
frequent baths and plenty of fresh air, and advise
you TO dress in the coolest, most comfortable clothes
nothing stin formal.
when she got home her husband asked her what the
physician had said. The lady replied;
He said must 20 the seashore, do plenty auto
mobing and get some summer gowns"
Lieutenant Fra TX Lahm. who now the worlds cham
pon baloonist, said in New orl is a
Young man with muscular figure and a resoute face
He is remarkable in aeronautcs for his skill and his
prudence.
Il heard describing to him a rather
poor invention in the way OF a safety anchor
"A safety anchor, ehr said Lahm Well, with that
anchor should be about frightened the old lady
In the skyscraper hotel.
ION being assigned to the nineteenth hoor
she asked the bell hop nervousy II the proprietor had
tesaa cay precautions against Oro.
- snaam, said the bell hoC, he has The place ia
insured for three times its real value"