Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-12-31
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Wanting what you can't get, to the
Chicago News, is about as much fun
as getting what you don't want.
The tailor displays fashion plates,
thinks the Louisville CourierJournal,
to show us what he might have done
to US.
Cooks dash to the lecture platform,
suggests the Baltimore Sun, Is what
hurts Peary worse than his dash TO
the Pole.
A college boy of Lake Placid has
rescued three girls from drowning.
Lots, proposes the New York World
might be drawn by the girls to de-
eide which shall have him.
Caruso says stage fright gives him
his fine voice. According to that,
claims the Atlanta Journal. every
high school orator has the making OF
tenor in him.
A woman's mo" means mo" all
right, admits the Pittsburg Dispatch,
but like the peoples mo-" there are
ways Of overruling it.
According to the New York Ameri-
can, a chewometer is the latest de-
vice invented by a Fletcherite. 1t IS
machine which, when fastened to
the lower jaw, rings bell when the
requisite number Of "chews" have
been performed.
We are old enough, confesses the
Christian Register, to remember with
regret the days when American clip
per ships were seen in all waters
and the American flag floated over
American ships in every seaport IN
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Whose mocketh married man.
breaches Smart Set, let him take
heed. for a fool Is born ever minute
and the mocker himself falieth by the
wayside.
Mrs Annie Besant says there VIII
not be a poor man in the country q
600 years from now. Cheer up! It's a
long time to wait, but it will roll
around.
The Florida Times-Union has 1t
down right, when 1t says: Money
put into good roads is an investment
not an expense"
The Young woman who wanted ST.
OOO for each pound of her weight she
lost as a result of being Tilted was
probably merely taking her tickle low
er at his word, surmises the New
York Tribune. Doubtless he often told
her that she was worth many times
her weight in gold. -.-r rr-~
Americans are given overmuch to
stressing the fact that this Is a young
mans age. The call is, not for youth
but everywhere for ability, fidelity and
endurance, moralizes the Atlanta Con
stitution. If the candidate for occu'
patton or promotion fits these qualif'
cations, it is rather immaterial wheth'
err he is twenty-five or twice that age
A fairly significant fact is that few
men occupy high responsibilities In
government, business or the profes
sions until their hair is tinged with
gray. And, in England, especially
they do not think a man is mature un
til he climbs into his fourth decade.
Insists the Indianapolis News: Coco
roads must come because we neet
them for other purposes than speed
ing automobiles. There are farm pro
ducts to be hauled in and building
material, coal and other supplies Il
be hauled out and over them, and the
peoples time is too valuable to spent
twice the time on half the load haul
ed over a poor road when a good one
will make SO vast saving. Life !!
not all Joy riding; more of it is heavy
hauling, and as heavy hauling needs
the good roads even more than the
joy riding, the chances are that VIC
shall get them in spite OF prejudice
bad manners and arrogance.
At Munich the museum authorize!
are engage in forming an aeronauti
cal department. According to the
Frankfort Gazette, the museum al
ready possesses some exhibits OF very
great interest, such as the first flying
apparatus of Lilienthal, model o
Zeppelin's dirigibles, those Of Parse
val, and others. The department viii
be divided into several sections. Th'
first will contain examples Of the bal
loon proper. with examples OF the
Montgolfiers' inventions. Anothel
section will be devoted to balloon!
used fer scientific purposes and thos'
designed for use in warfare. A section
Is to be allotted to the heavier thar
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