The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-01-08
WORTH QU6TNGli


4S?1s4Ia9SS IS
In an argument It's w5ndercul. to
the New York Times. howl obstinate
the other fellow Is.
Words fail the average woman. re-
marks the Boston Posts cyn1c. only
when she is about to attend her own
funeral.
A girl must, indeed, be mean. siEhs
the Philadelphia Record, when she
wants to keep a hammock all tolher-
self.
When q mans business bec9mes
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, la
ments the Boston Transcript
Let not your right h{nd know what
you left hand giveth-a reporter. hus-
gests the Pittsburg Dispatch, can
write it up better.
It would be unfair, insists the Com.
moner, to Judge womankind by the
"womans page OF the averages Sun.
day newspaper.
The insurance company, warns the
Louisville Cou1ier-Jomrnal. agrees toj
pay certain amount to ones widow
A headline says Greece is blazing
with a revolution. Everybody; knows,
puns the Atlanta Journal, that there
will be only spot left, II that keeps
up.
There is such a thing as the money
germ" admits the AtlFnta Constitu'
ton, but 1t has never caused theaA
slightest alarm in the Rockefeller
breast.
Mr.. Taft's endorsement OF the If.
rigation 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
Philadetuhia Ledger, that the legal
end OF thu Indianian's dual equipment
was in the ascendency during the
painful episode.
The application to flying machines
of a principle similar to that used
in submarines would avoid great
part of the dangers Of aerial naT'
CATION, believes the New York World. I
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 Boswells Life Of John.
son incidentally. when we expert |
ence the pangs or the depressions OF
tired BRAIN" he says, 1--WE take
down a volume and In less than TWEEN. |
tv minutes usually find ourselves so |
much interested In his (Dr. Johnson's) |
conversation and in weighing his
ideas IN our own scales-when theyel
are large enoush-that the brain del
preston is entirely como" 4
Colombia, South America. observes
the New York American. controls thel
worlds market for emeralds as COM
pletely as the South, African syndicate
does for diamonds. 1t 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 81, Csc, 600
In emeralds year for twenty years,
giving the government percentage.
The largest and most valuable en-
esaM In the world belongs to the duke
II Devonshire. It is a perfect SIX
sided crystal and weighs nearly nine