Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-01-07
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In an argument It's wonderful. Il
tho New York Times, how obstinate
the other fellow is.
Words fail the average woman, re
marks the Boston Posts cynic, only
when she Is shout to attend her owl
funeral.
A girl must, indeed, be mean. signs
the Philadelphia Record. when she
wants to keep o hammock all to her
self.
When q mans business becomes
dull. as a result of his own shift
lessness, muses. the Atchison Globe
he is pretty apt to lay It on the town
There are men looking for their
ships to come in who never in their
lives built one or sent one of. Ia
ments the Boston Transcript.
Let not your right hand know what
you left hand eiveth-a reporter. sug.
gests the Pittsburg Dispatch, can
write 1t up better.
It would be unfair, insists the Com
moner. to Judge womankind by the
"wman's page" OF the average Sun.
day newspaper.
The insurance CON 9any, warns the
Louisville Courier-JouInal. agrees to
pay a certain amount to one widow.
"A headline says Greece Is blazing
with a revolution. Everybody knows,
puns the Atlanta Journal, that there
win be only a spot left, II that keeps
up.
There Is such thing as the money
germ" admits the Atlanta Constitu.
ton, but It has never caused the
slightest alarm In the Rockefeller
breast.
l. Mr.: Taft's Endorsement OF the ir.
risation projects and his cordially to
both Ballinger and Pinchot suggest
the suspicion, to the Dallas News,
that he is trying to carry water on
both shoulders.
From Cloverdale. Ind, comes the
startling news that a lawyer-editor
there has been shot while In com.
mission OF burglary. Any Journalist
readily perceives, comments the
Philadelphia Ledger. that the legal
end of the Indlanian's dual equipment
was IN the ascendency during the
painful episode.
The application to flying machines
of q principle similar to that used
in submarines would avoid q great
part Of the dangers Of aerial navt'
cation. believes the New York World.
A small, well protected gas chamber
would give buoyancy and help the
motors IN rising from the ground.
Likewise, by greatly lowering the
specific gravity Of the whole appa'
ratus. It would diminish the speed In
a fall. The combination would en-.
able an aerial journey Of . weeks
duration.
Editor Buckley Of the Christian
Advocate uses Boswelrs Life Of John
son incidentally. when We expert
ence the pangs or the depressions OF
q tired BRAIN" he says. I'VE take
down volume and in less than twen-
ty minutes usually find ourselves 20
much interested in his (Dr. Johnson's)
conversation and in weighing his
ideas in our own ecales-when they
are large enough-that the brain do
preston Is entirely COMO"
- Colombia, South-America, observes
the New York American. controls the
worlds market for emeralds as com.
pletely Is the South African syndicate
does for diamonds. II Is from the
mines high up in the Colombian An
des that most Of the emeralds come.
The Colombian government has leas'
ed its most valuable mines to an Eng
fish syndicate, with the understand.
ing that It is to sell at least 1,260, 900
In cmeralds year for twenty years,
giving the government a percentage.
The largest and most valuable EN-.
eseM IN the world belongs to the duke
q DsYonshire> 1t Is a perfect six.
sided crystal and weighs nearly nine
1unces.