Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-04


Leap year is an Old World institu-
ton, American girls are too pretty to
need it.-New York American.
Happily there is no requirement yet
that army men must be able TO ride
bareback and standing. Philadelphia
Ledger.
1t is not clear why ice mem should
object to an open winter. They are not
the ones who win have to pay for it
Philadelphia Ledger.
A Chicago physician advises girls to
marry round-faced men. 1t it also well
to dodge the fat pocketbook man.
New York American.
Guests of the Duke of Westminster
recently burglarized his house as a
joke, the English joke being proverbial-
" bad.-Philadelphia Ledger.
If little thing like Sunday closing
so agitates New York what would
that city do with well-developed pro-
hibition wave:- Washington Star.
After all the criticism that has been
made on the new gold coins, we have
heard of no one refusing them-espe-
cially as gifts.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
The woman who brought over from
Europe a wedding trousseau and a
mourning outfit may have been contem-
plating the double life.-Philadelphi
Ledger.
Is it tc be understood hereafter that
when a man wants to make the race
for President he must take a running
start clear around the earth New
York Mail.
The Brooklyn bigamist who kept his
second wife in Baltimore was unusual
stall the other family in the next street
New York Sun.
The constituents of some of the
brand-new Congressman who went to
Washington to run things must begin to
wonder why nothing has yet happened
Philadelphia Press
A Massachusetts woman tied her hus-
band TO the kitchen door so he would
not bother her in her housework Here's
subject for debate at women's clubs
Philadelphia Ledger.
The eagle on the new $50 gold piece
is represented in flight. 1t will be
agreed that this is fittingly emblematic
of moneys most pronounced character
Washington Herald.
If the constable who came near put
ting the Earl of Yarmouth in Jail the
day of the wedding had but carried out
his intentions much trouble would have
been avoided.-Philadelphia Ledger
A scientist contends that man is
merely ain evolution of the fish. Ger
tainly one has to be careful or some
body in the neighborhood will throw
the hooks into him.-Washington Her
aid.
Don't cut wages says Mr.. Com
pers. Nor the price of stocks, the cost
of living, nor the length of after-din.
ner speeches. This is too big a coun-
try to cut anything even its eyeteeth.-
New York Mail.
Baltimore wants to hold a worlds
fair in 1914 on the centennial of the
publication of THE Star Spangled Ban
ner" Have Norfolk and ST. Louis suf-
fered and accumulated experience in
Chicago News.
Santa Claus. assisted by Mrs. Luck,
presented William Luck of Roanoke,
Va, with four babies on Christmas eve
and Mr.. Luck seems fully entitled to
his name. But what kind of luck was
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Many 2 ten-twenty- thirty-cen states
man, used to playing week stands at
home, has found, after his first per-
Torrance in Congress, that he isn't
even one-night success in Washing
Washington Herald.
NCNldl VI MIS-. IsOSt dSltI
Stokes that she thinks more of the red
flag than the Stars and Stripes is calcu-
lated to evoke a heretofore unenter-
tanned suspicion that she is an auction
fiend-Pittsburg Dispatch
Mark Twain suggests that we get
Mr.. Carnegie to reform the alphabet
1t is dangerous to make such q sugges-
ton to a man who needs so many drec-
tions into which to bend his energies
and his pocketbook.-New York Sun.
The item is going the rounds that
John D. Rockefeller is to sell one of
his automobiles Is this to be taken as
a storm signal of coming hard times,
or is the Standard Oil Company getting
ready to pay that fine?-Portland
Argus
The Omaha Bee defines the term
banks reserve" as a thing discoverable
only when a loan is WANT without
gilt-edge security. But the real reserve
of the banks Is found in the coldness of
the cashier and his ability to say no.