The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-23
NOTES AND COMMENT.

power of the laborers.
NOTES AND COMMENT.
Bets in nearly all large cities hold
Taft favorite at Odds of two to one or
higher.
The Omaha Bee notices that the
base ball fans are learning to talk !!
English again.
A Missouri man is saving water
melon weighing 1876 pounds, to cut
election night.
The Britt Tribune says that Major
Lacey is .leir to the Allison vote and is
going to get it solid.
1t has been remarked that many
young man has made himself bad by
trying to be a good fellow"
"The visit of Mr.. Taft to the state
was WORTH more than regiment of
political orators" says the Sac Sun.
The paramount issue in Ohio seems
to George Fitch to be not The full
dinner pail" but The full GROWER
New York theaters are starting
with larger average audiences this
opening season than they had one
year ago.
The Dubuque Times-Tournal says
all signs continue to favor Taft, ex-
cept that Tom Lawson predicts his
election.
The bachelor of the New York Press
has learned that you can tell when
girl isn't really in love by the way she
! acts as if she were.
Tie Washington Democrat has
noticed that when the children get into
trouble mother always figures out
how it was her fault
Inside of twelve years New York
promises to be the largest city on the
earth. 1t is now growing more than
six times as fast as London.
| Replying to the query Are mar
riages made in heaven?" the Valley
Junction Express declares: Some OF
them are; others are made IN haste. =
With a record of seventeen uncon.
scious players in one foot ball game
the claim that the sport had taken on
ping-pong simplicity seems to lack con
firmation
The Burlington Hawk-Eye ventures
the opinion that the fact that the deputy
sheriff found Mr. Hearst in his bath
disproves the charge that he is {
dirty" liar.
1t is the observation of George Fitch
in the Peoria HeraldTranscript, tina
after long practice man gets SO skill
full that ne can use cuss words in plac.
of ideas right along.
1t is the observation of the Washing
ton Democrat that when the member
, of a family come to divide up thei
. parents estate each one thinks he di,
[ most of the taking care of the old folks
The Chicago Tribune points out tina
If Mr.. Bryan wrote to the Presiden
Let Mr.. Taft and fight it out alone,
he owes an apology to the shade G
Lindley Murray.
! Mrs. Grace Snell-Coffin-Cof
, r-Layman-Love is seeking d
:. vorce for the purpose of marrying NJ
a Layman again. why doesn't sh
;. marry Nat Goodwin" inquiries tn
6 Omaha Bee.
It A bull in Massachusetts stopped
v fox hunt Irritated by the red coat
of the hunters, he chased the maste
= of the hounds up tree and when h
4 fell down caught and tossed him. TIL
l. hunt was great sport, but it was a
y the bulls.
, Dealer-Let me sell you some o. o,
# new patent bait, sir.
d Fisherman-Is it effective?
e. Dealer-Effective? Way. / sold
ID man some of it last week, and he e,
S turned out of church for telling Il
- truth about the fish he caught.-Clev
n land Leader.
n
IN George Fitch thus tells in the Poor
O. Herald-Transcript when football W
r come in for a share of attentions:
at When the baseball gossips ended,
ly When there's no more golf to pla,
When The Devil I've attended;
And we've passed election day.
IN When the other WRIGHT ctonc ayip