The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-17
NOTES AND COMMENT.

NOTES AND COMMENT.
Congress, burning to rebuke the
President, quotes Eugene Field. III
| dast, but l dasn't!''
The New Jersey gentleman with
debts of s2,132,50 and assets of 500
seems to have set mark in finance.
The Clinton Herald suggests that
Helie and Boni should meet in a duel
and both shoot at the same time with
fatal effect.
1t is related that when Stevenson
was told of the death of Matthew
Arnold he paused; then said, dubious
ly, He won't like God!'
According TO the Cedar Rapids Ga
gress may be expected about 1859 a.
m. March fourth.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil thinks
the names of the new Haitian cabinet
look like the product of a typesetting
machine that is out OF repair.
THE fool is not the only individual
who is soon separated from his
money" says the Cedar Rapids Ca
zette The Christmas shopper, for
instance. And the Christmas shopper
is no fool
The Iowa City Republican says it
/ is frightful confession of personal
! weakness and inefficiency of their
i personal and organized efforts, when
ministers have to invite Billy Sunday
to get an interest started in religious
matters
! Austere are the official morals of
/ Oklahoma. At Enid, that state, the
/ school board has called for the resig
nations of five young schoolma ans be-
cause they frivolously went to a dance
and danced. The board disapproves
4 of dancing and few weeks ago made
a rule against it.
1t is a mammoth petition that the
suffragists propose to submit 20 con-
4 gress and will contain more than a
million names. 1t is said, indeed, it
will be the largest document of the
kind ever carried to the capitol and
that it will be necessary to provide an
f especial train to take it to Washing
ton.
At Altoona, Pa telephones have
been installed in the homes of SIT
trainmen of the Pennsylvania railroad,
and ali of the trainmen and yardmen
OF the Middle Division are now called
+ to service by telephone instead of by
messenger. as formerly Fifteen call
ers have been appointed to other posi-
tons.
The Philadelphia North American
prints a quiet satire to the effect that
4 President Roosevelt sent letter to
the historical society denying that the
sawfish and the hammer shark are tbs
i carpenters of the sea The editor OF
the local paper who made the asser
ton was thereupon expelled from the
society and the family requested tc
/ leave town.
People whose homes lie close t.
highways much Travelled by automo
/ biles should be prepared to believe the
statement made by A. S. Cushman o
, Washington, assistant director o
public roads, that the whole bulk o
dust thrown from the roads upol
Z abutting property over the whole coun
try in a year cannot be represented
! by much less than 5O,oo0,00o tons o
material.
THE use of gold for teeth filing i
+ doomed" according to a salesman 70
large dental supply house, quote
i by the Philadelphia Record. Mos
of US can remember when nearl
e every one carried about in his mout
more or less precious metal" say
tIllS dulilOIilS- NJ one do dSHduie
Of displaying cleaning yellow whe
I he smiled. We formerly sold thou:
:, ands Of dollars worth of special
prepared gold to dentists. But that
all changed. The new porcelain fl
ngs have been so far perfected thu
5 nearly all dentists use them, to tn
almost total exclusion of gold