Mexico Missouri message., 1910-02-17

Like all well-regulated great fairs
the Berlin exposition Of 1911 is prepar-
ing to ask for a postponement
Now a French warship has gone on
the rocks. Some of the navies Of the
world do not seriously miss war.
Pigs are suggested as pets for chill
dren. They are particularly charming
in the form Of breakfast bacon.
Prof. Lowell has not told us wheth.
er Halley's comet was looking pleas.
ant when he took its picture the other
day.
II the monorail car is to be a COM
mercial success II should hurry to the
task before the airship pre-empts the
field.
From a rough description Of its
operations. we conclude that the gyro-
scope train is safe from spreading OF
the rails.
Wall street reports a brisk demand
for money. Sometimes Wall street
news has a wonderfully human and
universal note.
New York wants to make Fifth av-
enue the greatest highway in the
world. Broadway, 1t is claimed, is
the greatest buyway.
You can hardly blame the man who
turned to the sporting page expecting
to find there the news of the British
political campaign.
Very likely the St Louis judge who
wept when he sent two embezzling
bank clerks to prison did not have
any money in that bank.
For the leading nations of the world
to go bankrupt on Dreadnoughts is a
costly way of providing themselves
with a worlds peace court.
A cargo of silk valued at 100000
was recently shipped from Japan to
this country. The cost of living is
likely to go on increasing.
Emperor William would like to stop
the people from deseTting the farms.
He might establish some rural FIVE
pfennig moving-picture shows.
A Missouri professor claims that
Shakespeare used slang. But he never
interpolated a "Then-to-his-old-moth
he-did-say" song in any OF his produc-
tions.
Then, again, if $2O,OOO,OOO was sent
down into Central America to secure
peace, think of the fighting there
would be for each man to get his
share of 1t!
A ST. Louis man is seeking a di.
vorce because his wife has not spoken
to him for five years. Wait Perhaps
he has reason to believe she intends
to break her long silence.
Scranton, Pa, wants special men.
ton because Of a hen that lays eggs
worth $500 a dozen. Out west they
merely give such news a line in the
miscellaneous market reports.
Holland is a little hamlet in Yir
ginia which does not amount to much
in itself. But it is a sort of store
house and shipping point for the croI
Of peanuts which is one of the prin
cipal sources Of wealth in that local
fly. So when fire destroyed most OF
the town and $4,000 worth of peanuts
went up in smoke, it was a calamity
of considerable proportions. Ant
doubtless the attendants at the cir
Gus and the habitues of the "peanut
gallery" will have cause to mourn.
An esthetic couple in New York are
in trouble because they insist OF
dressing themselves and their younf
son in ancient Greek costume and Sc
going abroad in modern American win
ter weather. This shows what diff
culties attend the attempt at practica
study Of the classics and classic cos
tunes in these days Of what thC
ancient Greeks themselves would like
ly call foolish fashions.
Once again some western doctor
arises to say that the use Of apples
as a diet win eliminate the desire foI
liquor and tobacco. But think Of tn,
awful apple habit that would be ere
ated in place of the othersi
A Peoria Judge has decided that I
man has right to punish his wife
she refuses to have his breakfas
ready for him at four a. m. Forum
ateIy, the rest of the world does no
follow the Peoria example in tn
matter Of wives. husbands. breakfas
hours Or judges