The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-04-10
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Tomorrow, warns the Boston Post
is the stone over which many bust
ness man has stumbled.
Thinks the Toledo Blake: In view
of the high cost of living, this would
be a good time to test the efficacy Of
getting up from the table hungry.
At forty a man may regret that he
married. At sixty, muses. the Paris
Figaro, a bachelor regrets bitterly
that he did not take a wife.
The reason girl wants to get mar.
ried and go away, suggests the New
York Press, is she could be happy at
home if she wasn't
A man will believe It's only his
hard luck even when he is going to
Jail for stealing, observes the New
York Press.
The more indignant man can get
over the bad morals play would ex..
pose his family to, asserts the New
York Press, the more he will go to
it himself.
The manufacture of paper out of
okra offers interesting possibilities,
and as far as we are concerned,
chirps the Atlanta Journal, that is |
about the only thing that okra would
be good for.
Testimony in the governments suit
against the American Sugar Refining
Company suggests to the New York
Press. that, with properly rugged set
Of scales, rebates are superf1uous.
very often bad man finds a loop
1ole in good law, but the good man
ieeking loophole in bad law, con.
esses the Philadelphia Ledger, gen.
orally "is up against it,
The Government is appropriating
arge sums for the testing of struc.
ural material for the benefit of
uilders and contractors When will
make endurance tests of textile
abrics for the enlightenment Of
7eary mothers? asks the Boston
Transcript
Is it any wonder that the Ameri-
an exporter so frequently falls asks
lr. Holt of the Tangier consulate
when he sends sewing ma ,
hines to the other end of the world
18th rag wrapped around them, or Z,
ends breakfast foods in pasteboard
artoon to the Red Sea-"
One eminent scientist puts the maxi
UNI age of the earth at 1OO,OOO,0oO
'ars; another at 100000. But
en-, objects the Pittsburg Dispatch,
ter you have passed the first hun
ed millions little matter of a.
o 100000 more is not hard to swal- =
W.
There is good reason for urging leg
lation to restrain the traffic in
caine, morphine and other Grazing
ugs, observes the Pittsburg Dis -
tch. Many good people are OBJ NJ
ssed by the idea that alcoholic bev- NJ r
ages should be prohibited, but they Ne
l to appreciate the much greater
rm of the drug habits. ag
Mrs. Carrie Nation has been a dis. :,
pointment to the English nation. -.
e New York Herald learns that she Pil
distinctly failed to live up to her
'utation as a saloon smasher, ac-
red by long and assiduous service -
the United States. It is a good
nmentary on her thirst for noto- MIR
y that she should be hopeless of tee
English magistrates because she
told by one of them that she
5 wasting her time. "
!. tina
here arrived at Bagdad recently ter
first postal automobile, and it ma
d the minds of the natives with coll
der and awe. The car carried the
Is, hitherto borne on camels'
Ks. from Aleppo, distance of 625 r.
IS, in sixty hours. This can hard Go
re called a speed record, remarks d
New York Tribune, but when 1t
remembered that the roads are ar
n camel tracks leading through &c,
deep sands Of the Syrian desert ..,t
the stony plains of Mesopotamia, 90
journey at the rate of little more
ten miles an hour appears credit. For
WI
Nery
Its
;amei Steaks SIPS Pound. s,sls
e latest food delicacy in Paris.
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