Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-16

Isn't It annoying that now, just in
the finest time of the whole year, the
charity people tip of the fact that
there are Jobs for everybody?
In France. as in this country, It is
the Weather families that are
Stunned by the stork. Maybe the
naughty footman scares the timid bird. .
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Now that canned fresh air is to be in.
troduccd into mines as a safety de-
vice, the canning idea appears to have
reached its height-or, to speak cor
rectly in this case. its depth.
A man in st. Louis has invented a
vice which he claims will make air
flights safe. But this will detract
largely from the excitements Of seeing
them If curious crowds are assured
nobody will be hurt.
A girl in Pennsylvania who aimed
at a rat with a rifle shot her mother
II is time that feminine shaTpshooters
should learn something by experience.
II the girl in question had aimed at
her mother. she would have stood
better chance OF shooting the rat
Women ought 10 know by this time
that they go by cOntraries.
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A man in New York brought his
wife into court because she had such
a mania for hard work that he could
not restrain her from doing ii all the
time. This one remarkable case is
enough TO balance the many which
women bring against their husbands
because the latter compel them to do
hard work all the time
The Turks nave started to fight the
Greeks with the boycott-that blood
less weapon of modern warfare which
causes more devastation and brings
speedier results than all others in the
array Of improved ornaments, and
whose victories are caused by the un-
endurable agony it infiicts upon that
most sensitive OF all organisms, the
pocket nerve.
Uruguay is joining the prOgressives
IN South America. That country is
now in the market for loan Of Sc
100000 for public works purposes, and
like other countries in that quarter
turns TO the United States to get the
money. Another indication of the
strengthening ties between this and
the South American nations, a rela.
tionship that eventually must be high.
ly advantageous all round.
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Aeroplanes having shown capacity
for going swiftly and for long dis
tances, the problem next to be at
tackled is how TO make them fly high
1t is obvious that an airship to be OF
generally practical use must be capa
BILE OF ascending to a considerable dis
lance, One OF the inventors says
good motors and nerve" will NEE
the difficulty. And who can doub
that these requisites will be forth
coming?
Curiosity is not confined to any on,
nation. The phlegmatic English ap
pear to have their full share. Tn,
daughters of the car landed a
Cowes and went on foot for a shop
ping expedition, but the crowd whicl
gathered about to gaze at them be
came so much of a mob that the DC
lice came to the rescue and induces
the little grand duchesses to take caI
riages in order TO avoid the annoy
ance.
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II is no "cinch' to be a suspecte
sympathizer with fallen monarchy O
even a relative of the down and out
nowadays. News comes from Tehera
that Zill-es-Sultan, an uncle of the d,
posed Shah OF Persia, has been fine
100000 in favor of the state treal
ury and expelled from the countr,
And military escort will see that h
goes. He might exchange coincidence
with Abdul Hamid of Turkey, now a
eX-sultan, who also had to give ND
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Partisan scientific enterprise bf
evolved the germ kiss. A fair p
risienne allowed herself to be kisse
by smooth-shaven man and then /
a bearded one; and the conseoueI
microbes were collected by a steri
ized brush. II was found that II
beardless man had deposited only n
sweet germs of affection upon h,
lips. while the other had left besid,
bacilli Of tuberculosis, diphtheri
pneumonia and a few other addend