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Al last we have found one thing.
confesses the Baltimore Sun, that is
more uncertain than a mule. Its
! flying machine.
Seasickness and Appendicitis are
no longer fashionable To be strictly
| up to date, explains the Philadelphia
| Record, one must have ''air-sickness."
The American Eagle is triumphant
| in the East This time, boasts the
! Wall Street Journal, it is not the
eagle militant, but the eagle golden.
Advises the Omaha Bee: A sure
way to get rid of the billboards is to
erect substantial buildings in all the
vacant lots which they now disfigure.
"Absence on vacation does not
mean rest" says a philosopher. Not
by a good deal, signs the Louisville
Courier-Journal 1t often means
fired"
Laments the St. Louis Star: Man
proposes, heaven disposes, but the
burned proof reader apologies to the
p. r. who reads this) sometimes
transposes.
Biologists say that Italy Is one OF
the newest portions of the earths
surface. That may be, admits the
Detroit Free Press, but it's certainly
no Improvement.
The Atchison Globe complains:
After a man listens to the "jokes"
offered during day and all the ca
lamity talk, he has little time to at
tend to his work.
II the Indian had to go from the
cent piece no other head could SO ap'
propriate,v be substituted as LIN
coins, contends the New York World.
Yet the most modest Of Presidents
would have been the first to protest
against the removal of the traditional
likeness of the noble red man from
the American coinage. t..'
A contemporary thinks that Ken
lucky Judge who sentenced man to
the penitentiary "for life and ten
years" did silly thing, averring that
mo such sentence is possible OF ex-
ecution." We, comments the Wash
ington Herald, are not SO sure Oh
that. the man might be required 10
serve the ten years first.
"Tea," says the London Chronicle,
Gin the garden is one of the best es'
tablished of our mid-Victorian lnstl-
buttons. Mr.. E. V. Lucas, who is
connoisseur of the caddy, recalls IN
his essay, "The Divine Leaf story
OF the late Arthur Cecil, who once
encountered the following inscription
in a garden at Kew: "Tea, plain, I'd;
Tea, with shrimps, Cd; Tea, with
children, Is" -,
IQTOuSu udlul oCASSeAOA
race has developed and risen, preach
es the New York Journal The hui
man being is incomplete, he sees IN
another that which he thinks will
make his life more nearly complete,
and that other he is determind to
have. Nature gives relentless poWc:
to this impulse, because the resul, 81
marriage based upon powerful attrac'
ton is a child better than either OF
the parents.
"Biscuit," was until the eighteenth
century spelled "bisket,' as still pro-
nounced, the current spelling being
merely senseless adoption OF the MOD
ern French spelling without its pro-
"Bisket" originally meant
a twice-baked bread of the kind al
luded to by Shakespeare in "As You
Like It," where the melancholy Jac-
mes informs the duke that his brain
is as drie as the remainder bisket
after voyage.
The various anti-tuberculosis asso-
Citations have done splendid work III
preaching this gospel of prevention,
argues the New York Press, but the
urgency of the need and the difficulty
Of waking up the public to reform de-
nand that every possible agency OF
publicity be utilized. Heretofore pop
Mar anti-tubercular literature has
come in waves, with intervals of re-
ative uuiescence. It should be ground
,ut by magazines and newspapers
with regularity.