The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-12-29


It's better 10 have loved and lost
than never to have enjoyed her moth
er's good cooking.
The science OF navigating the air Is
of slow growth. II IS a century old
and sim In It's infancy.
The colleges OF the country turn out
$4,000 new lawyers every year, but
then the trust demand is also big.
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The Clyde shipbuilding yards pro
duced 500 vessels during 1907, as com
pared with 372 the previous year.
Hudson bay is reported to be al
ready almost frozen over. The hay
fever season must be very short in
that region.
King Edward is absolutely free from
personal debt This will seem almost
unprofessional to a number of neigh
boring rulers.
II that Yellowstone park highway
man who held up II coaches has
head for business he will incorporate
in New Jersey.
That report about flies carrying
typhoid germs is true enough, though
some revengeful baldheaded man may
have started Il.
New York slipper makers are about
10 go on strike, but the small boy will
no doubt be happy so long as the slip
per wearer doesn't.
II man tells a woman she is pref.
~, she believes him II he tells her
the same thing about another woman,
she thinks he's imaginative
Chewing gum, II is said, will prevent
seasickness. On the other hand, sea
sickness often serves the useful pur
pose OF preventing gum chewing.
The government is going to conduct
a sham battle for submarines. this
being one set OF maneuvers that won't
interfere with the farmers fences.
Speaking OF Standard Oil politics.
Bryan's campaign treasurer appears
20 be fairly we'll creased himself, from
the days OF Calvin S. Brice down to
date.
Now comes student of criminology
who asserts that blonde criminals
largely outnumber the criminal bru
nettes. This puts an entirely different
face on the matter.
II would be interesting TO know the
feelings of the men who make battle
ships and big guns as they read OF the
honors heaped upon the Wright broth
ers In the sacred name of peace.
Prussian women are to have better
opportunities for higher education
The suspicion is spreading over there
that the three ks" are not of neces
sity quite all of woman's sphere.
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The greatest heat is never found on
the equator, but some ten degrees to
the north. while more severe cold has
been registered in northern Siberia
than has been found near the pole.
Somebody has made the interesting
discovery that the blonde criminals
outnumber the brunettes who &c
wrong. II may be. however that the
brunettes who bleach are counted as
blondes.
a 15-year,old bride In Washington.
after week of married life. wants a
divorce. II IS no wonder that mar
riage is a failure when children are
allowed to make playthings OF the ob
legations held most sacred by church
and state. Needless to say the mar.
riage IN question was romantic"
one, the kind OF romance which gener.
ally fails TO outlive its novelty.
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American flying machines have
beaten records made I'm the air, and
American submarines are SURPRISING
the achievements OF all others under
the water II turns out that a vessel
OF this type tested in Buzzard's bay
was Unanswered for an hour and a
half at depth which at no time was
less than 100 feet, something which
had not been done before.
German interests In Argentina and
Brazil are so great that German cap
italists have decided 1t Is worth while
investing $G.5OO,OOO in new tele
graph cable connecting the fatherland
with South America The imperial
government will protect the investors
from loss. This is one OF the ways by
which the ties between the Germans
abroad and those at home are pre-.
served, as we'll as one OF the methods
adopted for fostering the expansion Of
German commerce.
A great deal Of sympathy is going
out to the scientist at Des Moiues.
who was bitten by a rat which he had
poisoned Still. nobody has been mar
row-minded enough to find much fault