Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-12-23
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It is only the mistakes Of other
people, chirps the Boston Post, that
are funny.
In time there may be booms
enough, shouts the Dallas News, for
every person, male or female, to have,
one.
Stand by your colors, advises the
Dallas News, provided they are not
blue or yellow.
"A dairyman's daughter in Illinois
was drowned in a tank of milk in
tended for the market. Did the To-
cal papers say she found a watery
grave?" inquiries the Louisville Cou-
| rier-Journal
"a heap o. sadness in dis world"
said Uncle Eben, in the Washington
Star, "is due to folks disposition to
talk about de roses dat done faded,
'sted o. gettin' busy plantin' crops
fob mex season"
South Carolina dealers in bird hats
have been fined, doubtless to the cost
of customers, notes the Philadelphia
Ledger, who will observe the fine
tackled on to the regular price.
Every monthly magazine carries as
many as two continued stories in it.:
When a man takes six, suggests the
Oil City Derrick, it means that his
wife is carrying twelve continued
stories in her head in addition to do
ing the cooking and trying to find
out how much the new hat cost worn
by the woman next door.
The Pacific is to be covered with
stations for the wireless telegraph
system, announces the Baltimore
American So will the ocean be
brought into subsection to human
enterprises and no more roll
chasm to be bridged for news only
In short, it will probably be only
matter of comparatively short time
when the Sultan of Sulu will be call
ing up the White House on his wire
less phone.
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Europe is worrying about why the
| Americans are not coming across with
the usual supply Of ready money
which helps so much. Confidentially,
answers the Buffalo Express. Europe
| Should know that the very rich are
saving to meet their tire bills, the
| middle class are trying to get enough
ahead to pay the first instalment or
the price of one, and the poor, well,
the poor are the ones who haven't
yet been lucky enough to get over
here from Europe.
In just what way the flying ma
chine will prove itself useful we can
not say, admits the Chicago Record
Herald, but more certainly than the
old automobile it has a record on
| which to base high hopes. With that
record and the enthusiasm and the
competition that are inspired by u
rapid progress must come as mat
ter of course.
MAN is naturally one of the most
unadorned OF animals, says DIR. W. l.
Thomas in the American Magazine.
But man has hands. and consequently
"the power of collecting brilliant Oh
jects and attaching them to his per-
SON." The ornamental instinct is per-
sistent. and universal, comments the
New York Mail. It's qualification has
become woman's sphere, but in adol-
escence man yields to it himself, and
at all periods he foots the bills.
Farmers in the vicinity of Law
renceburg, Indiana. have found that
a herd of goats will clear the under
brush from farm in few months,
and do good job at moderate cost,
relates the New York Tribune. For
the last five years herd OF forty
| goats has been eating and working
there, and in that time the animals
have changed owners ten times As
soon as their owner discovers that
there is nothing left on the farm Tor
the goats to feed on but good grass
they are lent or sold to another farm
er for a similar purpose.
Many people like to see a horse
race Time was when more people
would go to see Maud S. trot than
would attend a baseball game. Speed
and records were matters ct general
conversation, as baseball scores are
now. AYERS the New York World. This